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Joins

Each of the queries up to now has just returned data from a single table in the database. This final query combines our "students" and "programs" tables using the INNER JOIN and ON clause:

-- SHOW ALL THE RECORDS FOR STUDENTS WITH 
-- INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR RESPECTIVE PROGRAMS

SELECT *
FROM students INNER JOIN programs
ON students.id_program = programs.id;

This query should return what you see below:

This query demonstrates the power of relational databases by using the foreign key in the "students" table to coordinating data with the "programs" table.

Challenge

Write a query that returns only the name of each student and their respective program level.

Solution

SELECT student, program_level
FROM students INNER JOIN programs
ON students.id_program = programs.id;

Challenge

Write a query that returns the name of each student, their program name, and their GPA with results sorted by GPA from low to high.

Solution

SELECT student, program_name, gpa
FROM students INNER JOIN gpas
ON gpas.id_student = students.id
INNER JOIN programs
ON programs.id = students.id_program
ORDER BY gpas.gpa ASC;

How can you make sure that the data from 'gpas', 'students', and 'programs' is aligning correctly?

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