Join 4 separate tables where a foreign key isn't shared between all of them

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I'm trying to Join 4 separate tables together using the Adventureworks 2014 database. The output I'm looking for is a table containing the bike sales (Product category) per territoryID (country)

These two tables don't contain a foreign key so I've managed to find a connection in the database tables between 4 tables that I think might work.I'm not sure as these are linked with 3 foreign keys

The [Sales].[SalesOrderHeader] table and the[Sales].[SalesTerritory] tables both contain the TerritoryID foreign key they can be joined together

https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCnLo.png[^]

Then theres the SalesOrderDetail table which contains the foreign key 'SalesOrderID' which can also be linked to the SalesOrderHeader table

https://i.stack.imgur.com/uvZr9.png[^]

and then theres the Product ID table with the Product ID key that can be linked to the SalesOrderDetail table

https://i.stack.imgur.com/rlG9o.png[^]

Does anyone know a query that can run this. Any help would be appreciated

What I have tried:

I have tried doing singular joins

Posted 19-May-20 8:09am

yegnele46

Updated 19-May-20 8:18am

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[no name] 19-May-20 14:16pm

1. Joining tables in an SQL does not require that foreign keys are available
2. What you mean with " singular joins"?

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W∴ Balboos, *GHB* · Answer 1 · 2020-05-19T08:19:00

The existence (or lack thereof) of foreign keys has nothing directly to do with JOINs. If you have one it MAY be a field to join the two tables but not necessarily.

What you need to do is determine the proper fields for JOINing the tables. This may be all three to a single central field, a daisy chain form table to table, and mixtures in-between. So solve this puzzle to give you the data groupings you require.

You are JOINing data in columns - that's it.