I decided to practice SQL today. This is a common question encountered during interviews.
The problem:
Table: Person
+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+---------+
| personId | int |
| lastName | varchar |
| firstName | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
personId is the primary key column for this table.
This table contains information about the ID of some persons and their first and last names.
Table: Address
+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+---------+
| addressId | int |
| personId | int |
| city | varchar |
| state | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
addressId is the primary key column for this table.
Each row of this table contains information about the city and state of one person with ID = PersonId.
Write an SQL query to report the first name, last name, city, and state of each person in the Person table. If the address of a personId is not present in the Address table, report null instead.
Return the result table in any order.
The query result format is in the following example.
Example 1:
Input:
Person table:
+----------+----------+-----------+
| personId | lastName | firstName |
+----------+----------+-----------+
| 1 | Wang | Allen |
| 2 | Alice | Bob |
+----------+----------+-----------+
Address table:
+-----------+----------+---------------+------------+
| addressId | personId | city | state |
+-----------+----------+---------------+------------+
| 1 | 2 | New York City | New York |
| 2 | 3 | Leetcode | California |
+-----------+----------+---------------+------------+
Output:
+-----------+----------+---------------+----------+
| firstName | lastName | city | state |
+-----------+----------+---------------+----------+
| Allen | Wang | Null | Null |
| Bob | Alice | New York City | New York |
+-----------+----------+---------------+----------+
Explanation:
There is no address in the address table for the personId = 1 so we return null in their city and state.
addressId = 1 contains information about the address of personId = 2.
The solution:
To solve this problem, we can use a LEFT JOIN. This will returns all rows from the left table, and the matching rows from the right table. NULL will be returned if there are no matches.
The code:
select FirstName, LastName, City, State from Person p left join Address a on p.PersonId = a.PersonId;
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