How to make LEFT JOIN with row having max date? - sql

Question

I have two tables in Oracle DB
Person (
id
)
Bill (
id,
date,
amount,
person_id
)
I need to get person and amount from last bill if exist.
I trying to do it this way
SELECT
p.id,
b.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN Bill b
ON b.person_id = p.id AND b.date = (SELECT MAX(date) FROM Bill WHERE person_id = 1)
WHERE p.id = 1;
But this query works only with INNER JOIN. In case of LEFT JOIN it throws ORA-01799 a column may not be outer-joined to a subquery
How can I get amoun from the last bill using left join?

Answer 1

Please try the below avoiding sub query to be outer joined
SELECT
p.id,
b.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN(select * from Bill where date =
(SELECT MAX(date) FROM Bill b1 WHERE person_id = 1)) b ON b.person_id = p.id
WHERE p.id = 1;

Answer 2

What you are looking for is a way to tell in bills, for each person, what is the latest record, and that one is the one to join with. One way is to use row_number:
select * from person p
left join (select b.*,
row_number() over (partition by person_id order by date desc) as seq_num
from bills b) b
on p.id = b.person_id
and seq_num = 1

Answer 3

You cannot have a subquery inside an ON statement.
Instead you need to convert your LEFT JOIN statement into a whole subquery.
Not tested but this should work.
SELECT
p.id,
b.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT id FROM Bill
WHERE person_id = p.id
AND date = (SELECT date FROM Bill WHERE person_id = 1)) b
WHERE p.id = 1;
I'm not quite sure why you would want to filter for the date though.
Simply filtering for the person_id should do the trick

Answer 4

you should join Person and Bill to the result for max date in bill related to person_id
select Person.id, bill.amount
from Person
left join bill on bill.person_id = person.id
left join (
select person_id, max(date) as max_date
from bill
group by person_id ) t on t.person_id = Person.id and b.date = t.max_date

Answer 5

Hey you can do like this
SELECT
p.id,
b.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN Bill b
ON b.person_id = p.id AND b.date = (SELECT max(date) FROM Bill WHERE person_id = 1)
WHERE p.id = 1

Answer 6

SELECT
p.id,
b.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN Bill b
ON b.person_id = p.id
WHERE (SELECT max(date) FROM bill AS sb WHERE sb.person_id=p.id LIMIT 1)=b.date;

Answer 7

SELECT
p.id,
c.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN (select b.person_id as personid,b.amount as amount from Bill b where b.date1= (select max(date1) from Bill where person_id=1)) c
ON c.personid = p.id
WHERE p.id = 1;

Answer 8

try this
select * from person p
left join (select MAX(id) KEEP (DENSE_RANK FIRST ORDER BY date DESC)
from bills b) b
on p.id = b.person_id

Answer 9

I use GREATEST() function in join condition:
SELECT
p.id,
b.amount
FROM Person p
LEFT JOIN Bill b
ON b.person_id = p.id
AND b.date = GREATEST(b.date)
WHERE p.id = 1

Answer 10

This allows you to grab the whole row if necessary and grab the top x rows
SELECT p.id
,b.amount
FROM person p
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT date
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY person_id ORDER BY date DESC) AS row_num
FROM bill
)
WHERE row_num = 1
) b ON p.id = b.person_id
WHERE p.id = 1
;