Getting all the current effective records from a ORACLE table - sql

Question

I have two tables in oracle database
Table 1 say table1 with fields (id, name)
Records e.g.
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id | name
1 | Chair
2 | Table
3 | Bed
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and Table 2 say table2 with fields (id, table1_id, date, price)
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id |table1_id| date | price
1 | 1 | 2013-09-09 | 500
2 | 1 | 2013-08-09 | 300
3 | 2 | 2013-09-09 | 5100
4 | 2 | 2013-08-09 | 5000
5 | 3 | 2013-09-09 | 10500
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What I want to achieve is to retrieve all the latest price of items from table 2
Result of SQL should be like
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id |table1_id| date | price
1 | 1 | 2013-09-09 | 500
3 | 2 | 2013-09-09 | 5100
5 | 3 | 2013-09-09 | 10500
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I am able to run in mysql by following query
SELECT t2.id, t1.id, t1.name, t2.date, t2.price
FROM table1 t1 JOIN table2 t2
ON (t1.id = t2.table1_id
AND t2.id = (
SELECT id
FROM table2
WHERE table1_id = t1.id
ORDER BY table2.date DESC
LIMIT 1
));
but it's not working in ORACLE, Here i Need a query which can run on both server with minor modification

Answer 1

You may try this (shoud work in both MySQL and Oracle):
select t2.id, t2.table1_id, t2.dat, t2.price
from table1 t1 join table2 t2 on (t1.id = t2.table1_id)
join (select table1_id, max(dat) max_date
from table2 group by table1_id) tmax
on (tmax.table1_id = t2.table1_id and tmax.max_date = t2.dat);
This query may return several rows for the same table1_id and date if there are several prices in table2, like this:
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id |table1_id| date | price
1 | 1 | 2013-09-09 | 500
2 | 1 | 2013-09-09 | 300
It's possible to change the query to retrieve only 1 row for each table1_id, but there should be some additional requirements (which row to choose in the above example)
if it doesn't matter then you may try this:
select max(t2.id) as id, t2.table1_id, t2.dat, max(t2.price) as price
from table1 t1 join table2 t2 on (t1.id = t2.table1_id)
join (select table1_id, max(dat) max_date
from table2 group by table1_id) tmax
on (tmax.table1_id = t2.table1_id and tmax.max_date = t2.dat)
group by t2.table1_id, t2.dat;

Answer 2

You can try this using GROUP BY instead, since you're not retrieving the product name from table1 except the product id (which is already in table2)
SELECT id,table1_id,max(date),price
FROM table2
GROUP BY id,table1_id,price

Answer 3

this is what you want :
select t2.id,t2.table1_id,t1.name,t2.pricedate,t2.price
from table1 t1
join
(
select id,table1_id, pricedate,price, row_number() over (partition by table1_id order by pricedate desc) rn
from table2
) t2
on t1.id = t2.table1_id
where t2.rn = 1