SQL INNER JOIN
Keyword
SQL INNER JOIN Keyword
The INNER JOIN keyword returns rows when there is at least one match in both tables.
SQL INNER JOIN Syntax
Or:
Note: INNER JOIN is the same as JOIN.
Demo Database
In this tutorial, we will use the tutorialpro sample database.
Below is the data from the "Websites" table:
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| id | name | url | alexa | country |
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| 1 | Google | https://www.google.cm/ | 1 | USA |
| 2 | Taobao | https://www.taobao.com/ | 13 | CN |
| 3 | tutorialpro.org | http://www.tutorialpro.org/ | 4689 | CN |
| 4 | Weibo | http://weibo.com/ | 20 | CN |
| 5 | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3 | USA |
| 7 | Stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ | 0 | IND |
+----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
Below is the data from the "access_log" website access record table:
mysql> SELECT * FROM access_log;
+-----+---------+-------+------------+
| aid | site_id | count | date |
+-----+---------+-------+------------+
| 1 | 1 | 45 | 2016-05-10 |
| 2 | 3 | 100 | 2016-05-13 |
| 3 | 1 | 230 | 2016-05-14 |
| 4 | 2 | 10 | 2016-05-14 |
| 5 | 5 | 205 | 2016-05-14 |
| 6 | 4 | 13 | 2016-05-15 |
| 7 | 3 | 220 | 2016-05-15 |
| 8 | 5 | 545 | 2016-05-16 |
| 9 | 3 | 201 | 2016-05-17 |
+-----+---------+-------+------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
SQL INNER JOIN Example
The following SQL statement will return all access records for the websites:
Example
SELECT Websites.name, access_log.count, access_log.date
FROM Websites
INNER JOIN access_log
ON Websites.id=access_log.site_id
ORDER BY access_log.count;
Executing the above SQL outputs the following results:
Note: The INNER JOIN keyword returns rows when there is at least one match in both tables. If there is no match for a row in the "Websites" table in the "access_log" table, those rows will not be listed.