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SQL Simple Subquery


Here we are going to use 3 Tables "Employees", "Department" and "Designation".

Below is shown the "Employees" table:

EmployeeID EmployeeName DateOfBirth DesignationID DeptID PhoneNo City Salary
1 Richard Hughes 4/23/1945 12:00:00 AM 1 1 343-123-2002 New Orleans 950.00
2 Taryn Sinclair 3/22/1980 12:00:00 AM 2 2 232-344-8755 San Francisco 800.00
3 Ted Horowitz 3/31/1960 12:00:00 AM 3 4 435-657-9068 New York 700.00
4 Jonathan Douglas 7/7/1971 12:00:00 AM 3 4 323-454-7656 Salt Lake City 600.00
5 Miranda Leigh 7/19/1983 12:00:00 AM 7 3 634-465-8046 New York 500.00
6 Jana Rae 9/23/1976 12:00:00 AM 8 2 434-434-1254 Houston 400.00
7 Lita Rosanna 9/14/1982 12:00:00 AM 4 6 565-782-1223 Long Island 650.00
8 Colin Flooks 12/29/1988 12:00:00 AM 4 2 954-652-2111 Salt Lake City 600.00
9 Anthony Frank 2/22/1988 12:00:00 AM 9 3 323-243-1249 San Francisco 750.00
10 Stephanie Lynn 7/30/1979 12:00:00 AM 8 2 543-765-4653 Salt Lake City 450.00
11 Jack Martin 8/25/1985 12:00:00 AM NULL NULL 443-324-6522 Austin 500.00

Show Below is the "Department" table:

DeptID DeptName
1 Finance
2 Development
3 Testing
4 Delivery
5 Human Resources
6 Administration

Below is shown the "Designation" table:

DesignationId Designation
1 CEO
2 CTO
3 Program Manager
4 Project Lead
5 System Analyst
6 Senior Software Engineer
7 Test Manager
8 Software Engineer
9 Trainee Engineer
10 Test Engineer

SQL Using INNER JOIN


In the "Employees" table EmployeeID is the Primary Key. DeptID and DesignationID are Foreign Keys.
In the "Department" table DeptID is the Primary Key.
In the "Designation" table DesignationID is the Primary Key.

To display the Employee details along with Department Name and Designation. Need to use the DeptID and DesignationID columns that are Foreign Keys in "Employees" table.

Text Editor below has the SQL Query, click the "View Result" button, to see the result.

Select Emp.EmployeeID, Emp.EmployeeName, Emp.DeptID,
(Select DeptName From Department where DeptID = Emp.DeptID) as DeptName,
Emp.DesignationId,
(Select Designation from Designation where Designation.DesignationID = Emp.DesignationID) as Designation
From Employees Emp;

Note: Emp.DeptID and Emp.DesignationID are passed as the arguments to the Subquery.

SQL in Text Editor: