JOINs confuse a lot of those new to Structured Query Language (SQL). If you read the various web forums popularly used to ask questions then you know that using JOINs is pretty scary for a lot of folks. The sheer number of the 'how do I use JOIN to link two tables together?' questions is staggering. Not just because the JOIN itself is often obfuscated with relational algebra, Venn Diagrams, and the syntactical oddities of SQL -- and that is when you do find an online resource that tries to help. Plus adding to the frustration on top of all that are that the various options for using JSON can be downright perplexing.
Example 1
Let us start with an example of customers and their orders. There is one table named customer for the information pertaining to the customer. There is another table with order information named orders holding the details of any orders from those folks in the customer table. …
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