MSSQL Advanced Join Statements

Advanced Join Statements in MS SQL Management Studio.

There are several different Join types in here I will discuss them:
Cross Join Statement
Full Join Statement

Joining tables is one of the most useful operations we have. Large data should be divided to several tables (see Normalization Rules) for maximum flexibility and minimum resources usage.

Cross Join Statement:

In the Cross Join statement, based on the two tables within the Join, a Cartesian product is created if a 'Where' statement filter the rows.  The size of the Cartesian product is based on multyplying the number of rows from the left table by the number of rows from the right one.
Be careful when using the Cross Join.  it might cause more damage than good.

Example:
    SELECT  TOP 100 P.ProductID,
        P.Name,
        P.ListPrice,
        P.Size,
        SOD.UnitPrice,
        SOD.UnitPriceDiscount,
        SOD.LineTotal
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail SOD
    CROSS JOIN Production.Product P
        WHERE SOD.UnitPrice > 3500
    ORDER BY SOD.UnitPrice DESC

Full Outer Join Statement:

As you remember, the Left Join and Right Join statements where basically the same Select with different Join statements.  In this example, the result is the same as the Left Join, with mile changes.

Example:
    SELECT C.ContactID,
        C.FirstName,
        C.LastName,
        SP.SalesPersonID,
        SP.Bonus,
        ST.TerritoryID,
        ST.Name
    FROM Person.Contact C
    INNER JOIN Sales.SalesPerson SP
        ON C.ContactID = SP.SalesPersonID
    FULL OUTER JOIN Sales.SalesTerritory ST
        ON ST.TerritoryID = SP.TerritoryID
    ORDER BY ST.TerritoryID, C.LastName

Good luck,
Elad Shalom,
CTO at ITweetLive.com