Join two table without like primary key
I have a clients table and a address table that do not share a common primary key. How do I join these? See attached photo.
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Either you are missing a joining table, the Address table has a ClientID, or the Client table has an AddressID. Otherwise you're SOL
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Sounds like I need a table that has a field from the other two.
It depends on the relationship you want between the two tables?
If you want a client to be able to have one or more addresses then place the ClientID in the Address table.
If you want multiple clients to be able to share the same address then place the AddressID in the Client table (unlikely).
If you want a many-to-many relationship where a single address could be shared by multiple clients and clients can have multiple address then Yes, you will need to create an intermediary join table.
CREATE TABLE ClientAddress
(
ClientAddressID INT IDENTITY(1,1) --optional
ClientID INT NOT NULL,
AddressID INT NOT NULL,
Label VARCHAR(100) --optional
)
If you want a client to be able to have one or more addresses then place the ClientID in the Address table.
If you want multiple clients to be able to share the same address then place the AddressID in the Client table (unlikely).
If you want a many-to-many relationship where a single address could be shared by multiple clients and clients can have multiple address then Yes, you will need to create an intermediary join table.
CREATE TABLE ClientAddress
(
ClientAddressID INT IDENTITY(1,1) --optional
ClientID INT NOT NULL,
AddressID INT NOT NULL,
Label VARCHAR(100) --optional
)
ASKER
Okay perhaps I'm not describing this clearly, this is only a select where we are trying to pull information out of two tables since the client table does not contain the client's address and the address table does not contain the same primary key.
If this is an existing system and you are sure that there is a relationship between the two tables then yes you are missing something. Based on the information you provided there is no relationship between the tables.
It would help if you would provide the actual table definitions instead of incomplete screenshots.
It would help if you would provide the actual table definitions instead of incomplete screenshots.
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Seriously, there are no columns these two tables have in common, at least in the image, so I don't see how you can pull this off.