题目:查找所有员工自入职以来的薪水涨幅情况,给出员工编号emp_no以及其对应的薪水涨幅growth,并按照growth进行升序
解题要领:构建现在的工资表和入职的工资表,然后做差
隐含题意:现在对应的时间是to_date=‘9999-01-01’,入职则需要利用employees表的hire_date字段

方法1:利用左外连接创建Scurrent表和Sstart表
SELECT sCurrent.emp_no, (sCurrent.salary-sStart.salary) AS growth
FROM (SELECT e.emp_no, s.salary
FROM employees AS e
LEFT JOIN salaries AS s
ON e.emp_no=s.emp_no
WHERE s.to_date='9999-01-01') AS sCurrent
INNER JOIN (SELECT e.emp_no, s.salary
FROM employees AS e
LEFT JOIN salaries AS s
ON e.emp_no=s.emp_no
AND s.from_date=e.hire_date) AS sStart
ON sCurrent.emp_no=sStart.emp_no
ORDER BY growth ASC;

注意:方法1中红色的WHERE不能改成AND(这个问题本质上是将过滤条件放在ON和WHERE是否一致的问题)
当我们使用关联操作时,关联两张表或多张表来返回记录时,数据库就会生成一张临时表,最后将这张临时表返回给用户。以LEFT JOIN为例:在使用LEFT JOIN时,ON和WHERE的过滤条件的区别如下:
ON条件是在生成临时表时使用的条件,它不管ON中的条件是否为真,都会返回左边表中的记录
WHERE条件是在临时表已经生成后,对临时表进行的过滤条件。如果WHERE条件不为真的记录就会被过滤掉。
由于LEFT JOIN(以及RIGHT JOIN,FULL JOIN)的特殊性,不管ON条件是否为真,数据库都会返回左侧(或右侧、左右两侧)表中的全部记录。由于INNER JOIN没有这样的特殊性,所以过滤条件放在ON中或WHERE中,其返回的结果是一样的。
这是使用的是LEFT JOIN,而s.to_date=‘9999-01-01’是连接表之后需要进行的过滤条件,所以必须放在WHERE里面。
参考资料:SQL中的ON和WHERE的区别:https://blog.csdn.net/liitdar/article/details/80817957
补充:内层求工资表的时候,用的左外连接,是考虑有些新员工没有工资的实际情况。如果认为所有员工都有工资,则可以改成INNER JOIN。
补充:因为内连接也可以改成查两表+WHERE的形式,所以代码也可以改成:
SELECT sCurrent.emp_no, (sCurrent.salary-sStart.salary) AS growth
FROM (SELECT e.emp_no, s.salary
FROM employees AS e
INNER JOIN salaries AS s
ON e.emp_no=s.emp_no
WHERE s.to_date='9999-01-01') AS sCurrent,
(SELECT e.emp_no, s.salary
FROM employees AS e
INNER JOIN salaries AS s
ON e.emp_no=s.emp_no
AND s.from_date=e.hire_date) AS sStart
WHERE sCurrent.emp_no=sStart.emp_no
ORDER BY growth ASC;
补充:工资表的构建甚至不需要用到employees表
SELECT sCurrent.emp_no, (sCurrent.salary-sStart.salary) AS growth
FROM (SELECT emp_no, salary
FROM salaries
WHERE to_date='9999-01-01') AS sCurrent,
(SELECT s.emp_no, s.salary
FROM salaries AS s
WHERE s.from_date=(SELECT from_date
FROM salaries
WHERE emp_no=s.emp_no
ORDER BY from_date ASC LIMIT 1)
) AS sStart
WHERE sCurrent.emp_no=sStart.emp_no
ORDER BY growth ASC;
疑惑:不知道为什么,改成下面这个样子,代码会错误,我想可能是测试数据有点问题。
SELECT sCurrent.emp_no, (sCurrent.salary-sStart.salary) AS growth
FROM (SELECT s.emp_no, s.salary
FROM salaries AS s
WHERE s.to_date=(SELECT to_date
FROM salaries
WHERE emp_no=s.emp_no
ORDER BY to_date DESC LIMIT 1)
) AS sCurrent,
(SELECT s.emp_no, s.salary
FROM salaries AS s
WHERE s.from_date=(SELECT from_date
FROM salaries
WHERE emp_no=s.emp_no
ORDER BY from_date ASC LIMIT 1)
) AS sStart
WHERE sCurrent.emp_no=sStart.emp_no
ORDER BY growth ASC;

方法2:连续内连接
SELECT sCurrent.emp_no, (sCurrent.salary-sStart.salary) AS growth
FROM (employees AS e
INNER JOIN salaries AS sCurrent
ON e.emp_no=sCurrent.emp_no
AND sCurrent.to_date='9999-01-01'
INNER JOIN salaries AS sStart
ON e.emp_no=sStart.emp_no
AND sStart.from_date=e.hire_date
)
ORDER BY growth ASC;
注意:方法中标红的两个AND都不可以被替换成WHERE,即这两个AND都是ON意义下的,虽然在INNER JOIN中ON和WHERE的意义相同,但是在连续内连接中,不能出现WHERE(原因推测而只用ON的话,相当于只是生成临时表?)
注意:这种写法并不常见,不是很建议

错误示范:错误点:连续内连接不是这样写的。这样写第一个SELECT到WHERE查出来一个表和第二个表内连接,什么都没查出来(语法报错)
SELECT sCurrent.emp_no, (sCurrent.salary-sStart.salary) AS growth
FROM employees AS e
INNER JOIN salaries AS sCurrent
ON e.emp_no=sCurrent.emp_no
WHERE sCurrent.to_date='9999-01-01'
INNER JOIN salaries AS sStart
ON e.emp_no=sStart.emp_no
WHERE sStart.from_date=e.hire_date
ORDER BY growth ASC;

错误示范:错误点:在非相关子查询的情况下引用外部表
SELECT a.emp_no, (b.salary - c.salary) AS growth
FROM employees AS a,
(SELECT emp_no, salary
FROM salaries
WHERE to_date ='9999-01-01') AS b,
(SELECT emp_no, salary
FROM salaries
WHERE from_date =a.hire_date) AS c
WHERE a.emp_no=b.emp_no
AND a.emp_no=c.emp_no
ORDER BY growth ASC;
注意:要引用外部查询的表,多数情况下是在WHERE里面进行的相关子查询,或者SELECT子句里(可见23题方法2)
补充:
SQL相关子查询和非相关子查询:参考资料:https://blog.csdn.net/shiyong1949/article/details/80923083
非相关子查询的执行不依赖与外部的查询:
执行过程为:
(1):执行子查询:其结果不被显示,而是传递给外部查询,作为外部查询的条件使用。
(2):执行外部查询,并显示整个结果
相关子查询的执行依赖于外部查询:多数情况下是子查询的WHERE子句中引用了外部查询的表。
执行过程:
(1):从外层查询中取出一个元祖,将元祖相关的值传给内层查询。
(2):执行内层查询,得到子查询操作的值。
(3):外查询根据子查询返回的结果或者结果集得到满足条件的行
(4):然后外层查询取出下一个元祖重复做步骤1-3,直到外层的元祖全部处理完毕。
总结:
非相关子查询是独立于外部查询的子查询,子查询总共执行一次,执行完毕之后将值传递给外部查询。
相关子查询的执行依赖于外部查询的数据,外部查询执行一行,子查询就执行一次。
所以非相关子查询比相关子查询效率高。

下面是我认为正确的利用子查询两种写法,虽然无法通过,但在mysql的部分测试中通过了?
SELECT DISTINCT a.emp_no, (a.salary - b.salary) AS growth
FROM salaries AS a, salaries AS b
WHERE a.salary=(SELECT salary
FROM salaries AS s
WHERE s.emp_no=a.emp_no
ORDER BY to_date DESC LIMIT 1)
AND b.salary=(SELECT salary
FROM salaries AS s
WHERE s.emp_no=a.emp_no
ORDER BY to_date ASC LIMIT 1)
AND a.emp_no=b.emp_no
ORDER BY growth ASC;
在mysql和部分测试数据中的结果:

SELECT DISTINCT emp_no,
(SELECT salary
FROM salaries
WHERE emp_no=a.emp_no
ORDER BY to_date DESC LIMIT 1)
-
(SELECT salary
FROM salaries
WHERE emp_no=a.emp_no
ORDER BY to_date ASC LIMIT 1) AS growth
FROM salaries as a
ORDER BY growth;
在mysql和部分测试数据中的结果:

我认为是因为有些员工在employees表的hire_date不等于他在salaries表中的from_date。