How to merge tables in MySQL, although not just an outright merge? - mysql

Question

I have three tables titled 'artist', 'album', and 'track' in MySQL, each containing information pertaining to my music library. 'artist' has the name of 4 artists, 'album' has the titles of 5 albums from those artists, and 'track' has the name of all tracks on said albums. I would like to combine the tables so the each track name has beside it the correct album title and artist name. Here are my tables:
artist
+-----------+-----------------+
| artist_id | artist_name |
+-----------+-----------------+
| 1 | Kacey Musgraves |
| 2 | The Lone Bellow |
| 3 | Ed Sheeran |
| 4 | The Civil Wars |
+-----------+-----------------+
album
+-----------+----------+-----------------------+
| artist_id | album_id | album_name |
+-----------+----------+-----------------------+
| 1 | 1 | Pageant Material |
| 2 | 1 | Then Came the Morning |
| 3 | 1 | + |
| 3 | 2 | x |
| 4 | 1 | The Civil Wars |
+-----------+----------+-----------------------+
track
+-----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------+------------+
| artist_id | album_id | track_id | track_name | track_time |
+-----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------+------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Makin' Music for Money | 2.97 |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | Dime Store Cowgirl | 3.58 |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | Late to the Party | 3.63 |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | Pageant Material | 3.90 |
| 1 | 1 | 5 | This Town | 2.95 |
| 1 | 1 | 6 | Biscuits | 3.28 |
| 1 | 1 | 7 | Somebody to Love | 3.22 |
| 1 | 1 | 8 | Miserable | 3.00 |
| 1 | 1 | 9 | Die Fun | 3.47 |
| 1 | 1 | 10 | Family is Family | 2.53 |
| 1 | 1 | 11 | Good Ol' Boys Club | 3.27 |
| 1 | 1 | 12 | Cup of Tea | 2.67 |
| 1 | 1 | 13 | Fine | 7.88 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Then Came the Morning | 4.01 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | Fake Roses | 3.57 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | Marietta | 3.57 |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Take My Love | 3.25 |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Call to War | 3.47 |
| 2 | 1 | 6 | Watch Over Us | 3.57 |
| 2 | 1 | 7 | Diners | 4.40 |
| 2 | 1 | 8 | Heaven Don't Call Me Home | 2.60 |
| 2 | 1 | 9 | If You Don't Love Me | 3.23 |
| 2 | 1 | 10 | Telluride | 4.28 |
| 2 | 1 | 11 | To the Woods | 2.00 |
| 2 | 1 | 12 | Cold As It Is | 2.93 |
| 2 | 1 | 13 | I Let You Go | 3.42 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | The A Team | 4.66 |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | Drunk | 4.32 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | U.N.I. | 3.82 |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Grade 8 | 3.00 |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Wake Me Up | 3.83 |
| 3 | 1 | 6 | Small Bump | 4.32 |
| 3 | 1 | 7 | This | 3.27 |
| 3 | 1 | 8 | The City | 3.90 |
| 3 | 1 | 9 | Lego House | 3.08 |
| 3 | 1 | 10 | You Need Me, I Don't Need You | 3.67 |
| 3 | 1 | 11 | Kiss Me | 4.68 |
| 3 | 1 | 12 | Give Me Love | 8.77 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | One | 4.22 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | I'm A Mess | 4.08 |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | Sing | 3.92 |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Don't | 3.67 |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Nina | 3.77 |
| 3 | 2 | 6 | Photograph | 4.32 |
| 3 | 2 | 7 | Bloodstream | 5.00 |
| 3 | 2 | 8 | Tenerife Sea | 4.02 |
| 3 | 2 | 9 | Runaway | 3.42 |
| 3 | 2 | 10 | The Man | 4.17 |
| 3 | 2 | 11 | Thinking Out Loud | 4.70 |
| 3 | 2 | 12 | Afire Love | 5.23 |
| 3 | 2 | 13 | Take It BAck | 3.47 |
| 3 | 2 | 14 | Shirtsleeves | 3.17 |
| 3 | 2 | 15 | Even My Dad Does Sometimes | 3.82 |
| 3 | 2 | 16 | I See Fire | 4.98 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | The One That Got Away | 3.55 |
| 4 | 1 | 2 | I Had Me a Girl | 3.75 |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | Same Old Same Old | 3.80 |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Dust to Dust | 3.83 |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Eavesdrop | 3.58 |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | Devil's Backbone | 2.48 |
| 4 | 1 | 7 | From This Valley | 3.55 |
| 4 | 1 | 8 | Tell Mama | 3.80 |
| 4 | 1 | 9 | Oh Henry | 3.55 |
| 4 | 1 | 10 | Disarm | 4.70 |
| 4 | 1 | 11 | Sacred Heart | 3.32 |
| 4 | 1 | 12 | D'Arline | 3.10 |
+-----------+----------+----------+-------------------------------+------------+
In 'track' each number under artist_id corresponds to the same numbered entry in 'artist', and the same goes for album_id and 'album'. Basically, I want to create a new table with every track in 'track', along with its respective album and artist.Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Use JOIN in your SELECT query, like,
select * from track_name
join artist_name on track_name.artist_id = artist_name.artist_id
join album_name on track_name.album_id = album_name.album_id;
Now if you want this in new table you can insert this records in that table, or better if you want to run above query multiple time then you can create a VIEW.
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Answer 2

That sounds like a very basic join
select *
from track_name
join artist_name using (artist_id)
join album_name using (album_id)

Answer 3

I am writing this query by hoping there would be columns album_id and artist_id in the respective tables.
I also suggest you to change the column name track_name so to avoid conflict between table name and column name.
SELECT *
FROM `track_name` t1
LEFT JOIN `artist_name` a1 ON t1.`artist_id`=a1.`artist_id`
LEFT JOIN `album_name` a2 ON t1.`album_name`=a2.`album_name`
GROUP BY t1.`track_name`;