This tutorial introduces the notion of a join. The database consists of three tables movie , actor and casting .
movie | actor | casting |
|---|---|---|
| id | id | movieid |
| title | name | actorid |
| yr | ord | |
| director | ||
| budget | ||
| gross | ||
movie
| Field name | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| id | INTEGER | An arbitrary unique identifier |
| title | CHAR(70) | The name of the film - usually in the language of the first release. |
| yr | DECIMAL(4) | Year of first release. |
| director | INT | A reference to the actor table. |
| budget | INTEGER | How much the movie cost to make (in a variety of currencies unfortunately). |
| gross | INTEGER | How much the movie made at the box office. |
Example
| id | title | yr | director | budget | gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10003 | "Crocodile" Dundee II | 1988 | 38 | 15800000 | 239606210 |
| 10004 | 'Til There Was You | 1997 | 49 | 10000000 |
actor
| Field name | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| id | INTEGER | An arbitrary unique identifier |
| name | CHAR(36) | The name of the actor (the term actor is used to refer to both male and female thesps.) |
Example
| id | name |
|---|---|
| 20 | Paul Hogan |
| 50 | Jeanne Tripplehorn |
casting
| Field name | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| movieid | INTEGER | A reference to the movie table. |
| actorid | INTEGER | A reference to the actor table. |
| ord | INTEGER | The ordinal position of the actor in the cast list. The
star of the movie will have ord value 1 the co-star will have value 2, ... |
Example
| movieid | actorid | ord |
|---|---|---|
| 10003 | 20 | 4 |
| 10004 | 50 | 1 |
