This Transact-SQL query is an example of an inner join: USE pubs SELECT * FROM authors AS a INNER JOIN publishers AS p ON a.city = p.city ORDER BY a.au_lname DESC This inner join is known as an equi-join. It returns all the columns in both tables, and returns only the rows for which there is an equal value in the join column. ====== Sub Queries That Return No Rows … When creating tables, it can be very useful to write the SQL to use a sub query which will not return any rows – when just the table structure is required and not any of the data. In the…