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How to query more than one table
3. Multiple tables in the clause FROM
Creating JOINs
Referencing columns
Let's practice

Instruction

We know who directed a specific movie because there is a column director_id in the table movie. If you take a look at "Midnight in Paris", its director_id is 3. So we can now look into the director table to find out that id 3 is assigned to Woody Allen. And that's how we know he is the director. Did you get that right?

There are quite a few ways of getting information from multiple tables at the same time. We're going to start with the easiest one.

SELECT *
FROM person, car;

You already know how SELECT * FROM works, don't you? Now we just name two tables instead of one, and we separate them with a comma (,). Piece of cake! The result, however, might be a tiny bit of a surprise to you. Let's check that out.

Exercise

Get all the data from two tables: movie and director.

If there are 8 movies and 5 directors, how many rows will we get in our result? Think about it before you click Run and check code.

Note that you won't see all rows returned by the query – our platform displays only a limited number of rows due to readability restrictions.

Stuck? Here's a hint!

Type:

SELECT *
FROM movie, director;