SQL query - Return 0 for the column if no record found

Question

I will like to see the specific fields returns with 0 value when there is no record found. Below are my SQL queries that I have tried so far.

SELECT Customer, Address, Number of lines, Date 
FROM table_name 
WHERE Date = '30-5-2022' AND Customer IN (A, B, C)

What it returns is only 1 row as below.

Customer	Address	Number of Lines	Date
A	3	RF	30-5-2022

But what I expected to see is:

Customer	Address	Number of Lines	Date
A	UK	33	30-5-2022
B	0	0	30-5-2022
C	0	0	30-5-2022

The customer B and C has no record on 30-5-2022 but I will still need to see the rows but certain columns can be 0. Please advise if anything that I have missed out? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Assuming customers are in one table (cust) and other stuff in another table (table_name) and they are connected with an id called custid, you need some sweet, sweet left join action, such as:

SELECT c.Customer, c.Address, isnull([Number of lines],0), d.Date 
FROM cust c left join  table_name d on c.custid = d.custid and 
d.Date = '30-5-2022' where 
c.Customer IN ('A', 'B', 'C')

Answer 2

You need to put A, B, C in a table and left-join the main table to it. All other conditions must then go in the ON clause not the WHERE .

You can use a virtual VALUES clause for this

SELECT Customer, Address, Number of lines, Date 
FROM (VALUES
 ('A'),
 ('B'),
 ('C')
) v(Customer)
LEFT JOIN table_name tn ON tn.Customer = v.Customer
                        AND tn.Date = '30-5-2022';

Alternatively you can pass in a Table Valued Parameter, or use a table variable. Don't forget to add a primary key.

DECLARE @tmp TABLE (Customer varchar(100) PRIMARY KEY);
INSERT @tmp(Customer) VALUES
 ('A'),
 ('B'),
 ('C');

SELECT Customer, Address, Number of lines, Date 
FROM @tmp v
LEFT JOIN table_name tn ON tn.Customer = v.Customer
                        AND tn.Date = '30-5-2022';

Answer 3

Try below query:

SELECT A.Customer, ISNULL(B.Address, 0), 
ISNULL(B.[Number of lines],0), ISNULL(B.Date, '30-05-2022') Date
FROM
(
 SELECT DISTINCT Customer 
 FROM table_name
) A
LEFT JOIN table_name B
ON A.Customer = B.Customer
AND B.Date = '30-5-2022'

This will output all the customers present in the table. You can filter the customers with WHERE clause in the end of the above query based on your requirement.

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