How do i use DISTINCT command in a SQL query to show the supplier id, company name, and the number of distinct products from that supplier that were ordered prior to a specific date? I ran the code in Access but it doesn't translate over to SQL efficiently. The table appears.
[Supplier ID Company Name Product Name Order Date
1 Exotic Liquids Chang 17-Aug-94
1 Exotic Liquids Chang 22-Nov-94
1 Exotic Liquids Aniseed Syrup 26-Sep-94]
The code I have so far is the following. Where I get confused is where to put the DISTINCT statement. Should it be immediately after the Select? Should it go in Parentheses in addition to the SELECT? Excuse my lack of knowledge on this subject in advance.
SELECT Suppliers.SupplierID, Customers.CompanyName, Products.ProductName,
Orders.OrderDate
FROM Suppliers INNER JOIN
Products ON Suppliers.SupplierID = Products.SupplierID CROSS JOIN
Customers INNER JOIN
Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
WHERE Orders.OrderDate <='1/1/1999'
ORDER BY Suppliers.SupplierID
You can either distinct by all columns selected :
SELECT DISTINCT
Suppliers.SupplierID, Customers.CompanyName, Products.ProductName,
Orders.OrderDate
FROM
Suppliers INNER JOIN
Products ON Suppliers.SupplierID = Products.SupplierID CROSS JOIN
Customers INNER JOIN
Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
WHERE
Orders.OrderDate <='1/1/1999'
ORDER BY
Suppliers.SupplierID
or use group by instead if you need to distinct only by SupplierID. DISTINCT is not a function, hence DISTINCT(Suppliers.SupplierID) means the same as simply put DISTINCT word after SELECT in this case (see the 2nd reference below).
For Reference :
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/12/20/sql-server-distinct-keyword-usage-and-common-discussion/
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2007/10/12/sql-distinct-group-by.aspx
I'm pretty sure it's this:
SELECT DISTINCT(Suppliers.SupplierID), Customers.CompanyName, Products.ProductName,Orders.OrderDate
FROM Suppliers INNER JOIN
Products ON Suppliers.SupplierID = Products.SupplierID CROSS JOIN
Customers INNER JOIN
Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
WHERE Orders.OrderDate <='1/1/1999'
ORDER BY Suppliers.SupplierID
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since I am a bit rusty, I was practicing SQL on this link and was trying to replace the LEFT JOIN completly with WHERE. How can i do this so it does the same thing as the premade function in the website?
What I tried so far is:
SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID
FROM Customers, Orders
WHERE Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID OR Customers.CustomerID != Orders.CustomerID
Order by Customers.CustomerName;
Thanks in advance for your help.
You are trying to replace
SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID
FROM Customers
LEFT JOIN Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
with
SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID
FROM Customers, Orders
WHERE ???
this is doomed to failure. Consider Customers has two rows and Orders has zero. The outer join will return two rows.
The cross join (FROM Customers, Orders) will return zero rows.
In standard SQL a WHERE clause can only reduce the rows from that - not increase them so there is nothing you can put for ??? that will give your desired results.
Before ANSI-92 joins were introduced some systems used to have proprietary operators for this, such as *= in SQL Server but this was removed from the product.
This may work for you.
SELECT
c.CustomerName,
o.OrderID
FROM Customers c
LEFT JOIN Orders o
on c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID
Order by c.CustomerName;
If you are trying to replace this:
SELECT c.CustomerName, o.OrderID
FROM Customers c LEFT JOIN
Orders o
ON c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID
ORDER BY c.CustomerName;
Then you can use UNION ALL:
SELECT c.CustomerName, o.OrderID
FROM Customers c JOIN
Orders o
ON c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID
UNION ALL
SELECT c.CustomerName, o.OrderID
FROM Customers c
WHERE NOT EXIST (SELECT 1 FROM Orders o WHERE c.CustomerID = o.CustomerID)
ORDER BY CustomerName
However, the LEFT JOIN is really a much better way to go.
I'm having trouble with a really simple left join statement that's driving me nuts
I wanted to count the numbers of orders from each customer, that's fine, but I want to display the name, and I'm joining with the customers table and trying to select the name and it says that CustomerName is not part of an aggregate function, it's really weird.
SELECT Customers.CustomerName as 'Name',
COUNT(*) AS 'Order Count'
FROM Orders
LEFT JOIN Customers
ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID
GROUP BY Customers.CustomerID
Thanks for any tips.
You need to count the rows from the orders table, and the left join should be in the other direction:
SELECT c.customerid,
c.CustomerName as "Name",
COUNT(o.customerid) AS "Order Count"
FROM Customers c
LEFT JOIN Orders o ON o.CustomerID = cs.CustomerID
GROUP BY c.CustomerID, c.customername;
count() will ignore NULL values that come into the result due to the outer join so it will count the number of orders for each customers. Customers without orders will be show with a zero count.
Include CustomerName in Group BY instead of CustomerID
SELECT Customers.CustomerName as 'Name', COUNT(*) AS 'Order Count'
FROM Orders LEFT JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID
GROUP BY Customers.CustomerName
If you are using SQL Server then try using OVER() without Group BY
SELECT Customers.CustomerName as 'Name', COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY Customers.CustomerName ORDER BY Customers.CustomerName)AS 'Order Count'
FROM Orders LEFT JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID
Modify as below. column used in group by clause should be in column queried in select clause
SELECT Customers.CustomerName as 'Name',
COUNT(*) AS 'Order Count'
FROM Orders
LEFT JOIN Customers
ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID
GROUP BY Customers.CustomerName
I have just reordered your query,please try this it will definitely work for you.
SELECT Customers.CustomerName as 'Name',
COUNT(*) AS 'Order Count'
FROM Customers
LEFT JOIN Orders
ON Customers.CustomerID=Orders.CustomerID
GROUP BY Customers.CustomerID
A simple approach to get all the columns in the customers table is to use a correlated subquery:
select c.*, -- or whatever columns you want
(select count(*)
from orders o
where o.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
) as order_count
from customers c;
Because this avoids the outer GROUP BY, this also has the advantage of having better performance in most databases, particularly with an index on orders(CustomerId). Plus, it returns 0 if the customer has no orders. And, it allows you to choose any or all of the columns from Customers.
The correct way to get the counts you want is to count a column from Orders:
SELECT c.CustomerName, c.CustomerID,
COUNT(o.CustomerId) AS Order_Count
FROM Customers c LEFT JOIN
Orders o
ON o.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
GROUP BY c.CustomerID, c.CustomerName;
Notes:
The Customers table goes first in the LEFT JOIN because presumably you want all rows in Customers.
Table aliases make the query easier to write and to read.
Do not use single quotes for column aliases, even if your database supports it. The best method is to choose aliases that do not need to be supported.
Include the CustomerId in the logic, just in case two customers have the same name.
Count a column from Orders so you get a count of 0 for customers with no orders.
Here is a simple query:
SELECT orders.id, customers.name, COUNT(order_product.id)
FROM orders
INNER JOIN order_product ON orders.id = order_product.order_id
INNER JOIN customers ON orders.customer_id = customers.id
GROUP BY orders.id;
In other words, I want:
The ID of an order.
The number of products (count) in each order.
The customer name of the order.
The problem is about selecting customers.name. I cannot select it directly because it's not in aggregate function nor group by. But there is only one, so I d'ont know why I have to aggregate it. I can do a trick like this to select its name:
SELECT MAX(customers.name)
But I think it's dirty, because I don't want the "max name of a customer for an order" but "the name of the customer for an order". What is the elegant way to do such a thing?
Hope it's clear and not a duplicate.
EDIT: an order have only one customer identified by orders.customer_id. That's why I asking why I have to do such a trick.
Add customers.name to the GROUP BY clause:
SELECT orders.id, customers.name, COUNT(order_product.id)
FROM orders
INNER JOIN order_product ON orders.id = order_product.order_id
INNER JOIN customers ON orders.customer_id = customers.id
GROUP BY orders.id, customers.name
Usually you can simply group by all selected columns that are not arguments to set functions!
Alternatively, you could use window functions
SELECT DISTINCT orders.id, customers.name, COUNT(order_product.id) OVER ( PARTITION BY orders.id)
FROM orders
INNER JOIN products ON orders.id = order_product.order_id
INNER JOIN customers ON orders.customer_id = customers.id;
Okay, this is related to database given on http://www.w3schools.com/sql/trysql.asp?filename=trysql_select_all
I need to find list of Customers,OrderID, ProductID for orders from Spain.
The table 'Orders' has OrderID and table 'Products' consists of ProductID whereas the table 'OrderDetails' consists of OrderID and ProductID. I use the following code but I get an error message 'Error: 1 ambiguous column: OrderID'
Here is my code
SELECT CustomerName, Country, OrderID, ProductID
FROM Customers, Orders, Products, OrderDetails
WHERE Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
AND Orders.OrderID = OrderDetails.OrderID
AND Products.ProductID = OrderDetails.ProductID AND Country = 'Spain'
Can someone correct any mistake?
You need to use the alias names like this:
SELECT Customers.CustomerName,
Customers.Country, --Specify the correct table in which you have Country column
Orders.OrderID,
Products.ProductID
FROM Customers
inner join Orders ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
inner join OrderDetails on Orders.OrderID = OrderDetails.OrderID
inner join Products on Products.ProductID = OrderDetails.ProductID
where Customers.Country = 'Spain'
Also try to avoid comma seperated JOINS. A good read: Bad habits to kick : using old-style JOINs
I'm trying to find the revenue from customers in an country (United States).
The relevant tables are:
Order Details: Order ID, Unit price, quantity,
Orders: Order ID, customerID
Customers: customerID, country.
I'm not sure how to do this. I was thinking multiple inner join but it doesn't work.
The error message is "Syntax error (missing operator) in query expession 'ORDER DETAILS].ORDERID = ORDER.ORDERID
INNER JOIN CUSTOMERS ON CUSTOMERS.CUSTOMERID = ORDERS.CUSTOMERID'
MS online said Error 3075
Here is what I have:
SELECT SUM(QUANTITY*UNITPRICE) AS Result
FROM [ORDER DETAILS]
INNER JOIN ORDERS ON [ORDER DETAILS].ORDERID = ORDER.ORDERID
INNER JOIN CUSTOMERS ON CUSTOMERS.CUSTOMERID = ORDERS.CUSTOMERID
WHERE COUNTRY = 'Argentina'
Thanks in advance.
Edit: table structure
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In Access if you are JOINing more than two tables together then it requires parenthesis. Try the following:
SELECT SUM(QUANTITY * UNITPRICE) AS Result
FROM ([ORDER DETAILS]
INNER JOIN ORDERS ON [ORDER DETAILS].ORDERID = ORDERS.ORDERID)
INNER JOIN CUSTOMERS ON CUSTOMERS.CUSTOMERID = ORDERS.CUSTOMERID
WHERE COUNTRY = 'Argentina'