INNER JOIN

In this lesson, we will study the INNER JOIN in SQL.

We'll cover the following

INNER JOIN

The INNER JOIN keyword selects records that have matching values in both tables.

Syntax

The basic syntax of the INNER JOIN is as follows:

SELECT table1.column1, table2.column2 ... 

FROM table1

INNER JOIN table2

ON table1.common_field = table2.common_field;

Example

We will be using the CUSTOMERS and ORDERS tables as defined in the previous lesson.

Let’s say we want to retrieve the information of only those customers that have placed an order. This can be done by joining the two tables:

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