JOIN 按照功能大致分为如下三类：
INNER JOIN（内连接,或等值连接）：获取两个表中字段匹配关系的记录。
LEFT JOIN（左连接）：获取左表所有记录，即使右表没有对应匹配的记录。
RIGHT JOIN（右连接）： 与 LEFT JOIN 相反，用于获取右表所有记录，即使左表没有对应匹配的记录。
mysql> use RUNOOB;
Database changed
mysql> SELECT * FROM tcount_tbl;
+---------------+--------------+
| runoob_author | runoob_count |
+---------------+--------------+
| aaa | 10 |
| RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| Google | 22 |
+---------------+--------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT * from runoob_tbl;
+-----------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| runoob_id | runoob_title | runoob_author | submission_date |
+-----------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| 1 | 学习 PHP | aaa | 2017-04-12 |
| 2 | 学习 MySQL | aaa | 2017-04-12 |
| 3 | 学习 Java | RUNOOB.COM | 2015-05-01 |
| 4 | 学习 Python | RUNOOB.COM | 2016-03-06 |
| 5 | 学习 C | FK | 2017-04-05 |
+-----------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count FROM runoob_tbl a INNER JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| a.runoob_id | a.runoob_author | b.runoob_count |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| 1 | aaa | 10 |
| 2 | aaa | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
以上 SQL 语句等价于：
WHERE 子句
mysql> SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count FROM runoob_tbl a, tcount_tbl b WHERE a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| a.runoob_id | a.runoob_author | b.runoob_count |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| 1 | aaa | 10 |
| 2 | aaa | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count FROM runoob_tbl a LEFT JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| a.runoob_id | a.runoob_author | b.runoob_count |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 5 | FK | NULL |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count FROM runoob_tbl a LEFT JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| a.runoob_id | a.runoob_author | b.runoob_count |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 5 | FK | NULL |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT a.runoob_id, a.runoob_author, b.runoob_count FROM runoob_tbl a RIGHT JOIN tcount_tbl b ON a.runoob_author = b.runoob_author;
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| a.runoob_id | a.runoob_author | b.runoob_count |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
| 1 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 2 | 菜鸟教程 | 10 |
| 3 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| 4 | RUNOOB.COM | 20 |
| NULL | NULL | 22 |
+-------------+-----------------+----------------+
5 rows in set (0.01 sec)