Sybase 12.4.2 User Manual
CHAPTER 4 Adaptive Server IQ Indexes
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If the join column is made up of more than one column, the combination of the
values must be unique on the “one” side. For example, in the
values must be unique on the “one” side. For example, in the
asiqdemo
database, the
id
in the
customer
table and the
cust_id
in the
sales_order
table
each contain a customer ID. The
customer
table contains one row for each
customer and, therefore, has a unique value in the
id
column in each row. The
sales_order
table contains one row for each transaction a customer has made.
Presumably, there are many transactions for each customer, so there are
multiple rows in the
multiple rows in the
sales_order
table with the same value in the
cust_id
column.
So, if you join
customer.id
to
sales_order.cust_id
, the join relationship is one-
to-many. As you can see in the following example, for every row in
customer
,
there are potentially many matching rows in
sales_order
.
select sales_order.id, sales_order.cust_id,
customer.lname
from sales_order, customer
where sales_order.cust_id = customer
id cust_id id lname
2583,101,101,’Devlin’
2001,101,101,’Devlin’
2005,101,101,’Devlin’
2125,101,101,’Devlin’
2206,101,101,’Devlin’
2279,101,101,’Devlin’
2295,101,101,’Devlin’
2002,102,102,’Reiser’
2142,102,102,’Reiser’
2318,102,102,’Reiser’
2338,102,102,’Reiser’
2449,102,102,’Reiser’
2562,102,102,’Reiser’
2585,102,102,’Reiser’
2340,103,103,’Niedringhaus’
2451,103,103,’Niedringhaus’
2564,103,103,’Niedringhaus’
2587,103,103,’Niedringhaus’
2003,103,103,’Niedringhaus’
2178,103,103,’Niedringhaus’
2207,103,103,’Niedringhaus’