How to join 3 table and perform union in a subquery? - mysql

Question

There are four table Bill_entry,Customer,Chit,Cash. I want to join table Customer with table Bill_entry in following query where they have common column customer_id. Goal here is by using customer_id i want to print customer_name too in one query.
i have tried but couldn't get correct syntax
Initial code before including Customer table :
SELECT Bill_entry.*
FROM (SELECT * FROM Chit UNION SELECT * FROM Cash) as t1 RIGHT JOIN
entry
ON (Bill_entry.bill_no = t1.bill_no)
WHERE t1.bill_no IS NULL
MY tries :
SELECT Bill_entry.*, Customer.customer_name
FROM ((SELECT * FROM Chit UNION SELECT * FROM Cash) as t1 RIGHT JOIN entry ON (Bill_entry.bill_no = t1.bill_no) WHERE t1.bill_no IS NULL)customer where Bill_entry.customer_id = Customer.Customer_id

Answer 1

Just add in another JOIN:
SELECT e.*, cu.customer_name
FROM bill_entry e LEFT JOIN
(SELECT * FROM Chit
UNION ALL -- assume you don't want to remove duplicates
SELECT * FROM Cash
) c
entry e
ON e.bill_no = c.bill_no LEFT JOIN
Customer cu
ON cu.customer_id = e.Customer_id
WHERE c.bill_no IS NULL;
Note some changes.
The UNION --> UNION ALL. I assume you don't want to remove duplicates or incur the overhead for trying to remove them.
RIGHT JOIN --> LEFT JOIN. It is usually much simpler to think about LEFT JOINs -- keep all the rows in the first table and then matching rows in the others.
The JOIN conditions are all in ON clauses, not the WHERE clause.