Select rows base on Subset - sql

Question

I've a scenario where I need to write sql query base on result of other query.
Consider the table data:
id attribute
1 a
1 b
2 a
3 a
3 b
3 c
I want to write query to select id base on attribute set.
I mean first I need to check attribute of id 1 using this query:
select attribute from table where id = 1
then base on this result I need to select subset of attribute. like in our case 1(a,b) is the subset of 3(a,b,c). My query should return 3 on that case.
And if I want to check base on 2(a) which is the subset of 1(a,b) and 3(a,b,c), it should return 1 and 3.
I hope, it's understandable. :)

Answer 1

You could use this query.
Logic is simple: If there isn't any item in A and isn't in B --> A is subset of B.
DECLARE #SampleData AS TABLE
(
Id int, attribute varchar(5)
)
INSERT INTO #SampleData
VALUES (1,'a'), (1,'b'),
(2,'a'),
(3,'a'),(3,'b'),(3,'c')
DECLARE #FilterId int = 1
;WITH temp AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT sd.Id FROM #SampleData sd
)
SELECT * FROM temp t
WHERE t.Id <> #FilterId
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT sd2.attribute FROM #SampleData sd2
WHERE sd2.Id = #FilterId
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM #SampleData sd WHERE sd.Id = t.Id AND sd.attribute = sd2.attribute)
)
Demo link: Rextester

Answer 2

I would compose a query for that in three steps: first I'd get the attributes of the desired id, and this is the query you wrote
select attribute from table where id = 1
Then I would get the number of attributes for the required id
select count(distinct attribute) from table where id = 1
Finally I would use the above results as filters
select id
from table
where id <> 1 and
attribute in (
select attribute from table where id = 1 /* Step 1 */
)
group by id
having count(distinct attribute) = (
select count(distinct attribute) from table where id = 1 /* Step 2 */
)
This will get you all the id's that have a number of attributes among those of the initially provided id equal to the number the initial id has.