Merge pull request #3717 from Apoorva-Atre/newbranch

Added SQL-Left-Join.md in SQL under docs

Author: ajay-dhangar

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+---
+id: sql-left-join
+title: Left Join in SQL
+sidebar_label: Left Join
+sidebar_position: 13
+tags: [sql, database, operation]
+description: In this tutorial, we will learn about left joins in sql.
+---
+
+## What is a left join?
+A left join of two tables, say table 1 and table 2, would return all the rows from the left table and matched values from table 2. If for a particular row in table 1 there is no matching entry in table 2, 'null' is returned.
+
+## Syntax
+
+```sql
+select * 
+from table_1 left join table_2
+on table_1.col=table_2.col;
+```
+
+##### Note that the columns of table_1 and table_2 in the on clause must be the same attribute.
+
+## Example
+
+Consider the following tables:
+
+```sql
+select * from students;
++---------+-----------+
+| stud_id | stud_name |
++---------+-----------+
+|     101 | Shreeya   |
+|     102 | Aakash    |
+|     103 | Mansi     |
+|     104 | Aditya    |
++---------+-----------+
+
+ select * from grades;
++---------+-------+
+| stud_id | grade |
++---------+-------+
+|     101 | A     |
+|     104 | A+    |
++---------+-------+
+```
+
+Now , lets try to obtain a result using left join.
+
+```sql
+select s.stud_id, s.stud_name, g.grade 
+from students s left outer join grades g 
+on s.stud_id=g.stud_id;
+
+Output:
++---------+-----------+-------+
+| stud_id | stud_name | grade |
++---------+-----------+-------+
+|     101 | Shreeya   | A     |
+|     102 | Aakash    | NULL  |
+|     103 | Mansi     | NULL  |
+|     104 | Aditya    | A+    |
++---------+-----------+-------+
+```
+Here we can see that the output contains the entry of student id's 102 and 103 even though they are not assigned any grade, i.e., they are not present in the 'grades' table.
+
+## Conclusion
+In this tutorial, we learnt how to use the left outer join with an example.
+Left outer joins are used when we want to retrieve all the rows from the left(1st) table, irrespective of it being in the right(2nd) table.