If you are writing a SELECT statement to join three tables, what is the minimum number of join conditions needed? code example

Example 1: join multiple tables sql

SELECT TableA.*, TableB.*, TableC.*, TableD.*
FROM TableA
    JOIN TableB
        ON TableB.aID = TableA.aID
    JOIN TableC
        ON TableC.cID = TableB.cID
    JOIN TableD
        ON TableD.dID = TableA.dID
WHERE DATE(TableC.date)=date(now())

Example 2: join three tables sql

Suppose we are having three table named as 
Student_details
Attendance_details
Batch_details
And we have to apply join these three tables for fetching records

Example query:
select column_names
from Student_detail as s join Attendance_details as a on
s.s_id = a.s_id join Batch_details as b on 
s.s_id = b.s_id;

Here in the above example we implemented simple join but you change it with own join requirements.