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175. Combine Two Tables

Table: Person

±------------±--------+
| Column Name | Type |
±------------±--------+
| personId | int |
| lastName | varchar |
| firstName | varchar |
±------------±--------+
personId is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
This table contains information about the ID of some persons and their first and last names.

Table: Address

±------------±--------+
| Column Name | Type |
±------------±--------+
| addressId | int |
| personId | int |
| city | varchar |
| state | varchar |
±------------±--------+
addressId is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
Each row of this table contains information about the city and state of one person with ID = PersonId.

Write a solution to report the first name, last name, city, and state of each person in the Person table. If the address of a personId is not present in the Address table, report null instead.

Return the result table in any order.

The result format is in the following example.
 

Example 1:

Input:
Person table:
±---------±---------±----------+
| personId | lastName | firstName |
±---------±---------±----------+
| 1 | Wang | Allen |
| 2 | Alice | Bob |
±---------±---------±----------+
Address table:
±----------±---------±--------------±-----------+
| addressId | personId | city | state |
±----------±---------±--------------±-----------+
| 1 | 2 | New York City | New York |
| 2 | 3 | Leetcode | California |
±----------±---------±--------------±-----------+
Output:
±----------±---------±--------------±---------+
| firstName | lastName | city | state |
±----------±---------±--------------±---------+
| Allen | Wang | Null | Null |
| Bob | Alice | New York City | New York |
±----------±---------±--------------±---------+
Explanation:
There is no address in the address table for the personId = 1 so we return null in their city and state.
addressId = 1 contains information about the address of personId = 2.

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Solution:

Ideas:

To achieve this in MySQL, you can use a LEFT JOIN to combine the Person and Address tables. The LEFT JOIN will ensure that all records from the Person table are included in the result, even if there is no corresponding record in the Address table. If there is no match, the result will contain NULL for the city and state fields.

Code:

SELECT 
    p.firstName, 
    p.lastName, 
    a.city, 
    a.state
FROM 
    Person p
LEFT JOIN 
    Address a
ON 
    p.personId = a.personId;