Getting info through 3 tables - mysql

Question

I'm following the SQL tutorial from w3schools.
I want to get the value of all orders delivered by a shipper. I don't have any idea about how I can get these details as the info are in different tables and the INNER JOIN didn't worked for me.
Database: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/trysql.asp?filename=trysql_select_groupby
By now, I managed to get the number of orders by each shipper.
SELECT Shippers.ShipperName,COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders FROM Orders
LEFT JOIN Shippers
ON Orders.ShipperID=Shippers.ShipperID
GROUP BY ShipperName;
How could I get the value of those?

Answer 1

To bring the Price of a Product into your query you will need to join in tables OrderDetails to the Order table on the Orders.Id and then join in the Products table to the OrderDetail table on ProductID
SELECT Shippers.ShipperName,
COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders,
Sum(Products.price * OrderDetails.Quantity) AS SumOfPrice
FROM Orders
LEFT JOIN Shippers ON Orders.ShipperID = Shippers.ShipperID
LEFT JOIN OrderDetails ON ORders.OrderID = OrderDetails.OrderID
LEFT JOIN Products ON OrderDetails.ProductID = Products.ProductID
GROUP BY ShipperName;
I just stuck with LEFT JOIN here as your example used, but an INNER JOIN would work just as well and be more efficient.
The FROM clause of the SQL statement is one of the first parts of the SQL to run against your database. It establishes which tables we are grabbing information from and the relationship between those tables (using the ON keyword). So here we bring in 4 tables, and use the ON keyword to show the relationship between all of them using their respective IDs. Then we can add their fields to the SELECT portion of the SQL statement and aggregate where needed.

Answer 2

If you want the "sum" of the product prices, that would be very similar to what you already have. Note how you currently use the COUNT() function to get the count, you can use the SUM() function to get the total of any numeric column.
Something like this:
SELECT
Shippers.ShipperName,
COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders,
SUM(Products.Price) AS PriceOfOrders
FROM
Orders
INNER JOIN Shippers ON Orders.ShipperID = Shippers.ShipperID
INNER JOIN OrderDetails ON Orders.OrderID = OrderDetails.OrderID
INNER JOIN Products ON OrderDetails.ProductID = Products.ProductID
GROUP BY
ShipperName
Or perhaps the price also needs to be multiplied by the quantity in this calculation? Something like this:
SELECT
Shippers.ShipperName,
COUNT(Orders.OrderID) AS NumberOfOrders,
SUM(Products.Price * OrderDetails.Quantity) AS PriceOfOrders
FROM
Orders
INNER JOIN Shippers ON Orders.ShipperID = Shippers.ShipperID
INNER JOIN OrderDetails ON Orders.OrderID = OrderDetails.OrderID
INNER JOIN Products ON OrderDetails.ProductID = Products.ProductID
GROUP BY
ShipperName
It's up to your understanding of the table structure and the data, really. But the concept is the same, grouping by a value and applying a calculation to the grouped values (count or sum).