Two right joins - mysql

Question

I am trying to select all records in TABLEC and its equivalent value in TABLEA or TABLEB using right join. I am using MYSQL 5.5.47.
--Table data as follows
TABLEA TABLEB TABLEC
ID FNAME ID MNAME ID LNAME
0 ANOOP 0 N 0 SINGH
1 BIMA 2 SITA 3 RAJ
4 CIMI 4 B 5 KUMAR
6 RAVI 5 A 6 D
--Using below query and trying to select all records in TABLEC and its equivalent value in TABLEA or TABLEB
SELECT A.FNAME, B.MNAME, C.LNAME
FROM TABLEA AS A
RIGHT JOIN TABLEB AS B ON A.ID = B.ID
RIGHT JOIN TABLEC AS C ON C.ID = B.ID
--I am getting the following result
ANOOP N SINGH
NULL NULL RAJ
NULL A KUMAR
***NULL*** NULL D
The highlighted value doesn’t show the value as 'RAVI' instead it shows NULL in MYSQL 5.5.47. I tried to modify the '=' condition in second join related to C & A but still no luck. What am I doing wrong here? How do I get the value 'RAVI' in place of NULL? Any suggestion would be highly helpful.

Answer 1

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS table_a;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS table_b;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS table_c;
CREATE TABLE table_a
(id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
,fname VARCHAR(12) NULL
);
INSERT INTO table_a VALUES
(0,'ANOOP'),
(1,'BIMA'),
(4,'CIMI'),
(6,'RAVI');
CREATE TABLE table_b
(id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
,mname VARCHAR(12) NULL
);
INSERT INTO table_b VALUES
(0,'N'),
(2,'SITA'),
(4,'B'),
(5,'A');
CREATE TABLE table_c
(id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
,lname VARCHAR(12) NULL
);
INSERT INTO table_c VALUES
(0,'SINGH'),
(3,'RAJ'),
(5,'KUMAR'),
(6,'D');
SELECT a.fname
, b.mname
, c.lname
FROM table_c c
LEFT
JOIN table_a a
ON a.id = c.id
LEFT
JOIN table_b b
ON b.id = c.id;
+-------+-------+-------+
| fname | mname | lname |
+-------+-------+-------+
| ANOOP | N | SINGH |
| NULL | NULL | RAJ |
| NULL | A | KUMAR |
| RAVI | NULL | D |
+-------+-------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.02 sec)

Answer 2

You are trying to select all records in TABLEC and its equivalent value in TABLEA or TABLEB using right join. So Table A and B is joined to Table c records. So we need to use Left join(you will get all records of Table C and common records of Table A and B). More info please ref this link
SELECT
ifnull(A.FNAME,""),
ifnull(B.MNAME,""),
ifnull(C.LNAME,"")
FROM
TABLEA AS A
LEFT JOIN
TABLEB AS B
ON
A.ID = B.ID
LEFT JOIN
TABLEC AS C
ON
C.ID = B.ID

Answer 3

The problem is you don't have a table that contains all the ids. So you have to make one. Then you can join from that.
Get all the ids with this query
SELECT ID FROM TABLEA
UNION
SELECT ID FROM TABLEB
UNION
SELECT ID FROM TABLEC
Now we can use this query/table of ids to join the others
SELECT A.FNAME, B.MNAME, C.LNAME
FROM (
SELECT ID FROM TABLEA
UNION
SELECT ID FROM TABLEB
UNION
SELECT ID FROM TABLEC
) I
LEFT JOIN TABLEA A ON I.ID = A.ID
LEFT JOIN TABLEB B ON I.ID = B.ID
LEFT JOIN TABLEC C ON I.ID = C.ID
Of course if you had another table (TABLEID) that had a list of all IDs you could use that instead of the sub-query above. It might be your model has such a table, but we won't know unless you tell us.

Answer 4

As you said "select all records in TABLEC and its equivalent value in TABLEA or TABLEB", so you need to join the C with A and C with B. So your need to update your query as :
SELECT A.FNAME, B.MNAME, C.LNAME
FROM TABLEC AS C RIGHT JOIN TABLEB AS B
ON B.ID = C.ID
RIGHT JOIN TABLEA AS A
ON C.ID = A.ID
If you want all the record that exist in A, B and C. The NULL value will shown for the record which doesn't have the value,
SELECT A.FNAME, B.MNAME, C.LNAME
FROM (
TABLEA AS A
LEFT JOIN TABLEB AS B ON B.ID = A.ID
)
RIGHT JOIN TABLEC AS C ON ( C.ID = B.ID
OR B.ID = NULL
OR A.ID = C.ID )
WHERE 1

Answer 5

Use this works perfectly
SELECT A.FNAME, B.MNAME, C.LNAME
FROM TABLEC AS C
LEFT JOIN TABLEA AS A ON (A.ID = C.ID)
LEFT JOIN TABLEB AS B ON (B.ID = C.ID)