CHAPTER 4
Querying from Multiple Tables
It is the rare database that has all its data in a single table. Data tends to be spread over multiple tables in ways that optimize storage and ensure consistency and integrity. Part of your job when writing a query is to deploy and link together T-SQL operations that can operate across tables in order to generate needed business results.
Building blocks at your disposal include:
- Joins. Imagine holding two spreadsheets side by side. A join takes two rowsets and combines the rows from each to create a single rowset having the combined columns. Look towards a join when you want to correlate ...
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