Lab 3: More SQL Commands

In this lab you get experience using SQL junction tables.

Setting up

Start with this SQL interpreter (clear out the default SQL supplied). Throughout this exercise, test your SQL commands in the interpreter, but keep a copy of all of your working commands in your text document. You can also work with a local copy of SQLite if you prefer.

Database design

We want a database that implements the following entity-relationship-diagram, where each author has written one or more books, and each book is written by one or more authors:



The trouble is there isn't any clean way to implement this with just two database tables. If each book only had one author, then the Books table could just have AuthorID as a foreign key. But then how would you indicate multiple authors? Instead, we will use a junction table to resolve this difficulty:



Every element of the Authors_Books junction table represents a single author being on a single book. We would represent 4 authors on a single book by having 4 entries in the junction table: each with a different AuthorID but the same BookID. We could determine which books someone has authored by looking at all the BookIDs for that given AuthorID.

Create tables for Authors and Books, being sure to declare the primary key of each. Then create the junction table as follows. (By the way, "junction table" is only one of many different terms people use for this pattern.)

CREATE TABLE Authors_Books(
	AuthorID INTEGER NOT NULL,
	BookID INTEGER NOT NULL,
	PRIMARY KEY (AuthorID, BookID),
	FOREIGN KEY(AuthorID) REFERENCES Authors(AuthorID),
	FOREIGN KEY(BookID) REFERENCES Books(BookID)
);

We say NOT NULL because it only makes sense to have an entry in our junction table with both an author and a book; the pair of IDs together is the unique association we care about between authors and books, so we defined the primary key where each pair of IDs is unique. We are still free to have authors and books appear multiple times, as long as a given (AuthorID,BookID) pair only appears once. The FOREIGN KEY constraints ensure that we don't end up in a situation where a book or author gets deleted but there is still a reference to it in the Authors_Books table.

Populate it

Use insert commands to put in the following data.

Authors

Name
Tolkien
Gamma
Helm
Johnson
Vlissides

Books

Title	Authors
The Lord of the Rings	Tolkien
The Hobbit	Tolkien
Design Patterns	Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
Refactoring	Gamma
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory	Johnson
Pattern Hatching	Vlissides

Queries

• Write a SELECT command that shows all author names, together with all books authored by them. Note that you will have to use more than one JOIN clause to pull this off. It should look something like this: SELECT ___ FROM ___ JOIN ___ ON ___ JOIN ___ ON ___;

• Add a WHERE clause to your SELECT statement so that the results are restricted to whichever AuthorID you choose. You may need to use the full Authors.AuthorID syntax to make the column name unambiguous.

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When you are done, show me your work to get credit for it.

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