SQL INNER JOIN

SQL INNER JOIN clause is used to select data from 2 (or more) tables, at least one
match in both tables.

SQL INNER JOIN Clause Syntax

SELECT Table1.Column1, Table1.Column2, ... , 
Table2.Column1, Table2.Column2, ...  

FROM Table1  

INNER JOIN Table2  

ON Table1.ColumnName = Table2.ColumnName  

Note: SQL INNER JOIN is the default type of SQL JOIN. “JOIN” = “INNER JOIN”

SQL INNER JOIN Clause Example

Table: Employees

EmployeeId FirstName LastName Department Salary

203 Mazojys Fxoj Finance 78000
204 Jozzh Lnanyo Finance 45800
205 Syllauu Dfaafk Finance 57000
206 Gecrrcc Srlkrt Finance 62000

Table: Tickets

TicketID TicketNo EmployeeId

1 2349 203
2 2400 204
3 2438 205

Select all the employees with any tickets:

SELECT Employees.EmployeeId  
           , Employees.FirstName  
           , Employees.LastName  
           , Tickets.TicketNo  

FROM Employees  
 INNER JOIN Tickets  

ON Employees.EmployeeId = Tickets.EmployeeId  
The result will look like:

EmployeeId FirstName LastName TicketNo

203 Mazojys Fxoj 2349
204 Jozzh Lnanyo 2400
205 Syllauu Dfaafk 2438

Note: The employee whose EmployeeId is 206 doesn’t have any records matched in the
table Tickets, so this employee will not in the result.

As mentioned above, “JOIN” = “INNER JOIN”, so, the following statement has the same
result:

SELECT Employees.EmployeeId  
           , Employees.FirstName  
           , Employees.LastName  
           , Tickets.TicketNo  

FROM Employees  

JOIN Tickets  

ON Employees.EmployeeId = Tickets.EmployeeId  

In most database systems, we can even write it shorter:

SELECT Employees.EmployeeId  
           , Employees.FirstName  
           , Employees.LastName  
           , Tickets.TicketNo  

FROM Employees, Tickets  

WHERE Employees.EmployeeId = Tickets.EmployeeId  

Ref: http://www.sql-statements.com/sql-inner-join.html

SQL INNER JOIN