How to merge two select queries resulting one table
Hi
I have two select queries and I wanna merge them into a single table having 5 columns as Id, ClientId, Height, EyeColor, HairColor
Queries are:
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id
, ClientCharacteristic.ClientId
, ClientCharacteristic.Height
, GeneralLookup.LookupItem as EyeColor
FROM dbo.ClientCharacteristic
INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup
ON GeneralLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glEyeColorId
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id
, ClientCharacteristic.ClientId
, ClientCharacteristic.Height
, GeneralLookup.LookupItem as HairColor
FROM dbo.ClientCharacteristic
INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup
ON GeneralLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glHairColorId
Generally, you'd use UNION
to "merge" queries. However, in this particular case that would result in a single column containing both EyeColor
and HairColor
across otherwise duplicated rows. I doubt that's what you want. A better approach would likely be to alias your joined table so that you can join it twice:
SELECT
ClientCharacteristic.Id,
ClientCharacteristic.ClientId,
ClientCharacteristic.Height,
EyeLookup.LookupItem as EyeColor,
HairLookup.LookupItem as HairColor
FROM
dbo.ClientCharacteristic
INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup AS EyeLookup
ON EyeLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glEyeColorId
INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup AS HairLookup
ON HairLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glHairColorId
The key thing to notice here is the AS
clause in the INNER JOIN
clauses, which aliases the joined table for the purpose of the rest of the query. This allows you to join the same table multiple times on different keys so that it can be referenced for different purposes.
union
or union all
should do it as long as the columns line up and are the same type (or can be implicitly converted)
Following Davids Advice and re-reading the question 5 columns would be
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id,
ClientCharacteristic.ClientId,
ClientCharacteristic.Height,
Eye.LookupItem as EyeColor
Hair.LookupItem AS HairColor
FROM
dbo.ClientCharacteristic
INNER JOIN
dbo.GeneralLookup Eye
ON Eye.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glEyeColorId
INNER JOIN
dbo.GeneralLookup Hair
ON Hair.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glHairColorId
You can use UNION to merge two queries into one.
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id, ClientCharacteristic.ClientId, ClientCharacteristic.Height, GeneralLookup.LookupItem as EyeColor, '' as HairColor
FROM dbo.ClientCharacteristic INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup ON GeneralLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glEyeColorId
UNION
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id, ClientCharacteristic.ClientId, ClientCharacteristic.Height, '' as EyeColor, GeneralLookup.LookupItem as HairColor
FROM dbo.ClientCharacteristic INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup ON GeneralLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glHairColorId
You can use de UNION
operator like this:
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id, ClientCharacteristic.ClientId, ClientCharacteristic.Height, GeneralLookup.LookupItem as EyeColor
FROM dbo.ClientCharacteristic INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup ON GeneralLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glEyeColorId
UNION
SELECT ClientCharacteristic.Id, ClientCharacteristic.ClientId, ClientCharacteristic.Height, GeneralLookup.LookupItem as HairColor
FROM dbo.ClientCharacteristic INNER JOIN dbo.GeneralLookup ON GeneralLookup.Id=ClientCharacteristic.glHairColorId
Note that UNION
operator discards duplicate tuples. To keep duplicate values in the resulting table, use UNION ALL
.
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