WHERE clause with INNER JOIN and Sub Query - mysql

Question

I have achieved my desired query but I want to know how this one worked. I have multiple tables on my database and my requirements was to take the id from table called product and using this id, I want to retrieve some data from multiple tables and product id is a foreign key to the other tables. The query below works fine (by the way I was just experimenting and luckily got this query).
SELECT ponsfdp.*, product.pName, product.pImage, product.productSizes FROM product
INNER JOIN priceOnSizesForDigitalPrinting AS ponsfdp ON ponsfdp.pId_fk =
(SELECT pId FROM product WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%")
WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%";
But when I tried this query,
SELECT ponsfdp.*, product.pName, product.pImage, product.productSizes FROM product
INNER JOIN priceOnSizesForDigitalPrinting AS ponsfdp ON ponsfdp.pId_fk =
(SELECT pId FROM product WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%");
It contains all the data even with null fields too. Can someone explain to me how it works? My personal opinion is both query should return same data because on the second query, I am using a subquery and it returns only one id, on the other hand, first query has a WHERE clause which generates the same id but by the help of name. How does the first query returns very specific columns and second return all columns even null columns too? I need an explanation for both queries.

Answer 1

Your first query also returning all rows as returned from your second query. But, when you are adding the last filter-
WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%"
It's just keeping one single row from all rows where pName is like 'booklet'. You can consider the output from your second query as a single table and your logic working as below-
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT ponsfdp.*, product.pName, product.pImage, product.productSizes
FROM product
INNER JOIN priceOnSizesForDigitalPrinting AS ponsfdp
ON ponsfdp.pId_fk = (SELECT pId FROM product WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%")
)A
WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%"
Hope this will at least give you some insight of your query.

Answer 2

I don't see any need for a subquery here. You should be using the where condition to select rows from your FROM table, then use the ON clause of your join to find the right record(s) in your joined table for each row of the FROM table:
SELECT ponsfdp.*, product.pName, product.pImage, product.productSizes
FROM product
INNER JOIN priceOnSizesForDigitalPrinting AS ponsfdp
ON ponsfdp.pId_fk = pId
WHERE pName LIKE "%booklet%";