SQL MAX() value across 2 or more queries - sql

This seems like a basic action in SQL, but it has me stumped.
I have about 2 different subqueries, each grouped by LOCATION_ID that contain a date column. For example, one query includes a listing of WORKORDER records while another query pulls records from the NOTE table. Both of these queries includes a join to the LOCATION table allowing me to group by LOCATION_ID.
My goal is to pull the latest date of contact at that particular location and that can be in the form of a workorder, note date, followup date, etc. which are stored in different tables. So ideally I would have a query grouped by LOCATION_ID that shows the latest date of contact for that location.
I would post SQL but I don't have anything that is currently working for me. Any ideas on how to approach this type of scenario?
Thanks!
SELECT
L.LOCATION_ID, Max(MaxDate)
FROM
LOCATION AS L
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT
LOCATION_ID, Max(dbo.LeadNote.NoteDate) AS MaxDate
FROM
LeadNote
INNER JOIN
LOCATION ON LeadNote.LOCATION_ID = LOCATION.LOCATION_ID
GROUP BY
LOCATION_ID) T1 ON L.LOCATION_ID = T1.CONTACTLOCATION_LOCATION_ID
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT
LOCATION_ID, Max(dbo.WORKORDER.WORKORDER_DATECREATED) AS MaxDate
FROM
WORKORDER
INNER JOIN
LOCATION ON LOCATION_ID = WORKORDER_LOCATION_ID
GROUP BY
LOCATION_ID) T2 ON L.LOCATION_ID = T2.CONTACTLOCATION_LOCATION_ID`

Perhaps you could try using UNION to get a single sql result, then wrap it and give it an alias, and then apply a MAX on the field you wish, which both queries return. Keep in mind that to use UNION both queries must return the same set of field names.
Ex:
Query A:
Select a, b, c from T1 where....
Query B:
Select a, f, e from T2 where...
you would have:
SELECT MAX(e)
FROM
(
(Select a, b, c, NULL as f, NULL as e from T1 where....)
UNION
(Select a, NULL as b, NULL as c, f, e from T2 where...)
) t

If you need to use a join you can use a case statement to fetch the larger date.
SELECT
L.LOCATION_ID,
(CASE WHEN(T2.MaxDate IS NULL OR T1.MaxDate > T2.MaxDate)
THEN T1.MaxDate
ELSE T2.MaxDate
END) MaxDate
...

Try:
SELECT
L.LOCATION_ID, Max(MaxDate)
FROM
(
(
SELECT
LOCATION_ID, Max(LeadNote.NoteDate) AS MaxDate
FROM
LeadNote
JOIN
LOCATION
ON
LeadNote.LOCATION_ID = LOCATION.LOCATION_ID
GROUP BY
LOCATION_ID
)
UNION
(
SELECT
LOCATION_ID, Max(WORKORDER.WORKORDER_DATECREATED) AS MaxDate
FROM
WORKORDER
JOIN
LOCATION ON LOCATION_ID = WORKORDER_LOCATION_ID
GROUP BY
LOCATION_ID
)
)
It may need a little tweaking...but kudos to the comment by #DrCopyPaste if this works :)

You can do this with a simple join and a case statement:
SELECT
L.LOCATION_ID,
CASE WHEN(Max(LeadNote.NoteDate) IS NULL OR Max(LeadNote.NoteDate) > Max(WORKORDER.WORKORDER_DATECREATED)
THEN Max(LeadNote.NoteDate)
ELSE Max(WORKORDER.WORKORDER_DATECREATED) end AS maxDate
FROM
LOCATION AS L
LEFT JOIN LeadNote ON LeadNote.LOCATION_ID = LOCATION.LOCATION_ID
LEFT JOIN WORKORDER ON L.LOCATION_ID = WORKORDER_LOCATION_ID
GROUP BY L.LOCATION_ID

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SUM(SALARY) when ID is distinct

I am having trouble trying to solve this problem, I would like to only add a salary up if the
employee's id is distinct. I thought I could do this using the decode() function but I am having trouble defining an expression suitable. I was aiming for something like
SUM(DECODE(S.ID,IS DISTINCT,S.SALARY))
But this isn't going to work!
So the full query looks like
SELECT B.ID, SUM(S.SALARY), COUNT(DISTINCT S.ID), COUNT(DISTINCT RM.MEMBER_ID)
FROM BRANCH B
INNER JOIN STAFF S ON S.BRANCH_ID = B.ID
INNER JOIN RECRUIT_MEMBER RM ON RM.BRANCH_ID = B.ID
GROUP BY B.ID;
But the problem is with SUM(S.SALARY) it's adding up salaries from duplicate ID's
I don't know about DECODE, but this should work:
SELECT
SUM(S.SALARY)
FROM <table> S
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT ID FROM <table> WHERE ID=S.ID GROUP BY ID HAVING COUNT(*)>1
)
Perhaps something like this...
SELECT E.ID, SUM(E.Salary)
FROM Employers E
WHERE E.ID IN (SELECT DISTINCT E2.ID FROM Employers E2)
GROUP BY E.ID
If not, perhaps you could post some sample data so that I can understand better
The joins are introducing duplicate rows. One way to fix this is by adding a row number to sequentially identify different ids. The real way would be to fix the joins so this doesn't happen, but here is the first way:
SELECT B.ID, SUM(CASE WHEN SEQNUM = 1 THEN S.SALARY END),
COUNT(DISTINCT S.ID), COUNT(DISTINCT RM.MEMBER_ID)
FROM (SELECT B.ID, S.ID, RM.MEMBER_ID,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY S.ID ORDER BY S.ID) as seqnum
FROM BRANCH B
INNER JOIN STAFF S ON S.BRANCH_ID = B.ID
INNER JOIN RECRUIT_MEMBER RM ON RM.BRANCH_ID = B.ID
) t
GROUP BY B.ID
You can create a virtual table with only one salary per ID like this...
SELECT
...whatever fields you've already got...
s.Salary
FROM
...whatever tables and joins you've already got...
LEFT JOIN (SELECT ID, MAX(SALARY) as "Salary" FROM SALARY_TABLE GROUP BY ID) s
ON whatevertable.ID = s.ID

Can I use more than one column in subquery?

I want to show the names of all employees from the EMPLOYEES table who are working on more than three projects from the PROJECT table.
PROJECTS.PersonID is a a foreign key referencing EMPLOYEES.ID:
SELECT NAME, ID
FROM EMPLOYEES
WHERE ID IN
(
SELECT PersonID, COUNT(*)
FROM PROJECTS
GROUP BY PersonID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 3
)
Can I have both PersonID, COUNT(*) in that subquery, or there must be only one column?
Not in an IN clause (or at least not the way you are trying to use it. Some RDBMSs allow tuples with more than one column in the IN clause but it wouldn't help your case here)
You just need to remove the COUNT(*) from the SELECT list to achieve your desired result.
SELECT NAME, ID
FROM EMPLOYEES
WHERE ID IN
(
SELECT PersonID
FROM PROJECTS
GROUP BY PersonID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 3
)
If you wanted to also return the count you could join onto a derived table or common table expression with more than one column though.
SELECT E.NAME,
E.ID,
P.Cnt
FROM EMPLOYEES E
JOIN (SELECT PersonID,
Count(*) AS Cnt
FROM PROJECTS
GROUP BY PersonID
HAVING Count(*) > 3) P
ON E.ID = P.PersonID
To answer your question, you can only have 1 column for the IN subquery. You could get your results using the query below:
SELECT e.ID
,e.Name
FROM dbo.Projects p
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.Employees e
ON p.PersonID = e.ID
GROUP BY e.ID
,e.Name
HAVING COUNT(*) > 3

SQL Inner join division

I have issue with my inner join division below. From my oracle, it keep prompt me missing right parenthesis when I have already close it. I'll need to get the names of the patient who have collected all items.
Select P.name
From ((((Select Patientid From Patient) As P
Inner Join (Select Accountno, Patientid From Account) As A1
on P.PatientID = A1.PatientID)
Inner Join (Select Accountno, Itemno From AccountType) As Al
On A1.Accountno = Al.Accountno)
Inner Join (Select Itemno From Item) As I
On Al.Itemno = I.Itemno)
Group By Al.Itemno
Having Count(*) >= (Select Count(*) FROM AccountType);
Here's a simpler approach that I believe is essentially equivalent:
select a.name
from Patient a
inner join Account b on a.PatientID = b.PatientID
inner join AccountType c on b.Accountno = c.Accountno
inner join Item d on c.Itemno = d.Itemno
group by c.Accountno, a.name
having Count(*) >= (Select Count(*) FROM AccountType);
This approach is a bit simpler. It has the added benefit of being much more likely to use indexes on the tables -- if you do joins between what are essentially 'join tables' in memory, you don't get the benefit of the indexes that exist for the physical tables in memory.
I also usually alias table names using sequential letters -- 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' as you can see. I find that when I'm writing complicated queries it makes it easier for me to follow. 'a' is the first table in the join, 'b' is the second, etc.
It sounds like you just want
SELECT p.name
FROM patient p
INNER JOIN account a ON (a.patientID = p.patientID)
INNER JOIN accountType accTyp ON (accTyp.accountNo = a.accountNo)
INNER JOIN item i ON (i.itemNo = accTyp.itemNo)
GROUP BY accTyp.itemNo
HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM accountType);
Note that having an alias of A1 and an alias of Al is quite confusing. You want to pick more meaningful and more distinguishing aliases.

mysql left join question

I've got two tables, one holds reservations for a room, and the other is a "mid" table to hold the dates that the room is reserved on (since a reservation could have multiple non-sequential dates).
It looks something like:
Res_table:
id, room_id, owner_id
Res_table_mid:
id, res_id, date
The res_id column in the res_table_mid references the id of the res_table. I need to get the start and end date of the reservation.
So the query looks something like this:
SELECT * FROM res_table a
LEFT JOIN (SELECT min(date) as start_date, res_id FROM res_table_mid) AS min ON a.id = min.res_id
LEFT JOIN (SELECT max(date) as end_date, res_id FROM res_table_mid) AS max ON a.id = max.res_id
This works as expected, unless the tables are empty or there are no results, in which case it errors with
#1048 - Column 'res_id' cannot be null
Is there a way to write this so that I get the data I need but if there's no results there's also no error?
Thanks!
Select id, room_id, owner_id
From Res_table
Left Join (
Select R2.res_id, Min(R2.Date), Max(R2.Date)
From Res_table_mid As R2
Group By R2.res_id
) As MinMax
On MinMax.res_Id = Res_table.Id
In your original query, neither derived table indicates the Group By column. Instead, you are relying on MySQL to guess that it should group by res_id. If I had to wager a guess, I'd say that this might be the source of the problem.
SELECT a.id,
a.room_id,
a.owner_id,
MAX(m.date) AS end_date ,
MIN(m.date) AS start_date
FROM res_table a
LEFT JOIN res_table_mid m
ON a.id = m.res_id
GROUP BY a.id,
a.room_id,
a.owner_id;
SELECT min(date) AS start_date FROM (
SELECT * FROM res_table a
LEFT JOIN res_table_mid AS b
ON a.id = b.res_id
WHERE a.id = #reservation)
SELECT max(date) AS end_date FROM (
SELECT * FROM res_table a
LEFT JOIN res_table_mid AS b
ON a.id = b.res_id
WHERE a.id = #reservation)

SQL Return only where more than one join

Not sure how to ask this as I'm a bit of a database noob,
What I want to do is the following.
table tb_Company
table tb_Division
I want to return companies that have more than one division and I don't know how to do the where clause.
SELECT dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID, dbo.tb_Company.CompanyName,
dbo.tb_Division.DivisionName FROM dbo.tb_Company INNER JOIN dbo.tb_Division ON
dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID = dbo.tb_Division.DivisionCompanyID
Any help or links much appreciated.
You'll need another JOIN where you only return companies having more than one division by using a GROUP BYand a HAVINGclause.
You can read up on grouping here
Groups a selected set of rows into a
set of summary rows by the values of
one or morecolumns or expressions. One
row is returned for each group.
Aggregate functions in the SELECT
clause list provide
information about each group instead
of individual rows.
SELECT dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID
, dbo.tb_Company.CompanyName
, dbo.tb_Division.DivisionName
FROM dbo.tb_Company
INNER JOIN dbo.tb_Division ON dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID = dbo.tb_Division.DivisionCompanyID
INNER JOIN (
SELECT DivisionCompanyID
FROM dbo.tb_Division
GROUP BY
DivisionCompanyID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
) d ON d.DivisionCompanyID = dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID
another alternative...
SELECT c.CompanyId, c.CompanyName, d.DivisionName
FROM tbl_Company c
INNER JOIN tbl_Division d ON c.CompanyId=d.DivisionCompanyId
GROUP BY c.CompanyId, c.CompanyName, d.DivisionName
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
How about?
WITH COUNTED AS
(
SELECT C.CompanyID, C.CompanyName, D.DivisionName,
COUNT() OVER(PARTITION BY C.CompanyID) AS Cnt
FROM dbo.tb_Company C
INNER JOIN dbo.tb_Division D ON C.CompanyID = D.DivisionCompanyID
)
SELECT *
FROM COUNTED
WHERE Cnt > 1
With the other solutions (that join onto Division table twice), a single company/division can be returned under a heavy insert load.
If a row is inserted into the Division table between the time the first join occurs and the time the second join (with the group by/having) is evaluated, the first Division join will return a single row. However, the second one will return a count of 2.
How about...
SELECT dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID,
dbo.tb_Company.CompanyName,
FROM dbo.tb_Company
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dbo.tb_Division
WHERE dbo.tb_Company.CompanyID =
dbo.tb_Division.DivisionCompanyID) > 1;