I need a SQL query for comparing column values against rows in the same table - sql

Question

I have a table called BB_BOATBKG which holds passengers travel details with columns Z_ID, BK_KEY and PAXSUM where:
Z_ID = BookingNumber* LegNumber
BK_KEY = BookingNumber
PAXSUM = Total number passengers travelled in each leg for a particular booking
For Example:
Z_ID BK_KEY PAXSUM
001234*01 001234 2
001234*02 001234 3
001287*01 001287 5
001287*02 001287 5
002323*01 002323 7
002323*02 002323 6
I would like to get a list of all Booking Numbers BK_KEY from BB_BOATBKG where the total number of passengers PAXSUM is different in each leg for the same booking
Example, For Booking number A, A*Leg01 might have 2 Passengers, A* Leg02 might have 3 passengers

Answer 1

Dependent of your RDBMs there might be several options availible. A solution that should work for most is:
SELECT A.Z_ID, A.BK_KEY, A.PAXSUM
FROM BB_BOATBKG A
JOIN (
SELECT BK_KEY
FBB_BOATBKGROM BB_BBK_KEY
GROUP BY BK_KEY
HAVING COUNT( DISTINCT PAXSUM ) > 1
) B
ON A.BK_KEY = B.BK_KEY
If your DBMS support OLAP functions, have a look at RANK() OVER (...)

Answer 2

It's a little counterintuitive, but you could join the table to itself on {BK_KEY, PAXSUM} and pull out only the records whose joined result is null.
I think this does it:
SELECT
a.BK_KEY
FROM
BB_BOATBKG a
LEFT OUTER JOIN BB_BOATBKG b ON a.BK_KEY = b.BK_KEY AND a.PAXSUM = b.PAXSUM
WHERE
b.Z_ID IS NULL
GROUP BY
a.BK_KEY
Edit: I think I missed anything beyond the trivial case. I think you can do it with some really nasty subselecting though, a la:
SELECT
b.BK_KEY
FROM
(
SELECT
a.BK_KEY,
Count = COUNT(*)
FROM
(
SELECT
a.BK_KEY,
a.PAXSUM
FROM
BB_BOATBKG a
GROUP BY
a.BK_KEY,
a.PAXSUM
HAVING
COUNT(*) = 1
) a
GROUP BY
a.BK_KEY
) b
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT
c.BK_KEY,
Count = COUNT(*)
FROM
BB_BOATBKG c
GROUP BY
c.BK_KEY
) c ON b.BK_KEY = c.BK_KEY AND b.Count = c.Count