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The SQL SELF JOIN is used to join a table to itself, as if the table were two tables, temporarily renaming at least one table in the SQL statement.
The basic syntax of SELF JOIN is as follows:
SELECT a.column_name, b.column_name... FROM table1 a, table1 b WHERE a.common_filed = b.common_field; |
Here WHERE clause could be any given expression based on your requirement.
Consider following two tables, (a) CUSTOMERS table is as follows:
+----+----------+-----+-----------+----------+ | ID | NAME | AGE | ADDRESS | SALARY | +----+----------+-----+-----------+----------+ | 1 | Ramesh | 32 | Ahmedabad | 2000.00 | | 2 | Khilan | 25 | Delhi | 1500.00 | | 3 | kaushik | 23 | Kota | 2000.00 | | 4 | Chaitali | 25 | Mumbai | 6500.00 | | 5 | Hardik | 27 | Bhopal | 8500.00 | | 6 | Komal | 22 | MP | 4500.00 | | 7 | Muffy | 24 | Indore | 10000.00 | +----+----------+-----+-----------+----------+ |
Now let us join this table using SELF JOIN as follows:
SQL> SELECT a.ID, b.NAME, a.SALARY FROM CUSTOMERS a, CUSTOMERS b WHERE a.SALARY < b.SALARY; |
This would produce following result:
+----+---------+---------+ | ID | NAME | SALARY | +----+---------+---------+ | 2 | Ramesh | 1500.00 | | 2 | kaushik | 1500.00 | | 1 | kaushik | 2000.00 | | 2 | kaushik | 1500.00 | | 3 | kaushik | 2000.00 | | 6 | kaushik | 4500.00 | | 1 | Hardik | 2000.00 | | 2 | Hardik | 1500.00 | | 3 | Hardik | 2000.00 | | 4 | Hardik | 6500.00 | | 6 | Hardik | 4500.00 | | 1 | Komal | 2000.00 | | 2 | Komal | 1500.00 | | 3 | Komal | 2000.00 | | 1 | Muffy | 2000.00 | | 2 | Muffy | 1500.00 | | 3 | Muffy | 2000.00 | | 4 | Muffy | 6500.00 | | 5 | Muffy | 8500.00 | | 6 | Muffy | 4500.00 | +----+---------+---------+ |
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