Subquery "Finding customer who has the most purchases" - sql

Question

I'm having trouble creating a query with a sub query to find the one customer in my DB who has made the most purchases. I need to list his/her full name, product name, price and quantity. Here is what I have so far
select first_name ||' '|| last_name "FullName", pt.name p.price, sum(ps.quantity)
from customers c
join purchases ps on c.customer_id = ps.customer_id
join products p on p.product_id = ps.product_id
join product_types pt on p.product_type_id = pt.product_type_id;
I need to use these three tables
Customers Table
Customer_ID
First_Name
Last_Name
DOB
Phone
Purchases Table
Product_ID
Customer_ID
Quantity
Products Table
Product_ID
Product_Type_ID
Name
Description
Price
Product Types Table
Product_Type_ID
Name
I am confused as where I should place the sub query (in the select row, from, having or where clause), if the arithmetic function should be placed in the select outer query or sub query. I know there are Nested subqueries, Correlated subqueries, Multiple-column subqueries, Multiple-row subqueries, Single-row subqueries. By the way, I am trying to do this in Oracle.
Here is an image with my result, except I removed sum from quantity column. Also, updated link.
(http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b618/uRsh3RRaYm0nD/Capture100_zps1f951b07.jpg)
I'm sorry, I forgot to include a fourth table, as you can see there are two name columns, in products table and product type table. The difference is that in products table "Name" is the specific name of the product, as shown in my link. The product type "Name" column is the more general name of the product, such as books, dvds, cds, etc. I need to include the product type "Name column in my query not product's name column. Therefore, the end result should look something like this
FullName ProductTypeName Price Quantity
John Brown Book Sumof4books 4
John Brown DVD Sumof2DVDs 2
John Brown Magazine Sumof1Mag 1

Answer 1

Here's one way to do it. It uses an analytic function to order customers by the total quantity of purchases: row_number() over (order by sum(quantity) desc). If there's more than one person with the same quantity, this will pick out only one.
It then takes this customer id and joins the rest of the tables in the obvious way to get the break down by product type.
Select
c.FullName,
pt.name,
Sum(p.price * ps.quantity) price,
sum(ps.quantity) quantity
From (
Select
c.Customer_ID,
c.first_name ||' '|| c.last_name FullName,
row_number() over (order by Sum(Quantity) desc) r
From
Purchases ps
Inner Join
Customers c
On ps.Customer_ID = c.Customer_ID
Group By
c.Customer_ID,
c.first_name ||' '|| c.last_name
) c
Inner Join
Purchases ps
On c.Customer_ID = ps.Customer_ID
Inner Join
Products p
On ps.Product_ID = p.Product_ID
Inner Join
Product_Types pt
On p.Product_Type_ID = pt.Product_Type_ID
Where
c.r = 1
Group By
c.FullName,
pt.name
Example Fiddle
For the second problem (show the customer who has the highest quantity for each product type, together with what they've spent on that product type)
Select
c.FullName,
c.name,
c.price,
c.quantity
From (
Select
c.first_name ||' '|| c.last_name FullName,
pt.name,
sum(p.price * ps.quantity) price,
sum(ps.quantity) quantity,
row_number() over (partition by pt.name order by Sum(Quantity) desc) r
From
Purchases ps
Inner Join
Customers c
On ps.Customer_ID = c.Customer_ID
Inner Join
Products p
On ps.Product_ID = p.Product_ID
Inner Join
Product_Types pt
On p.Product_Type_ID = pt.Product_Type_ID
Group By
c.first_name ||' '|| c.last_name,
pt.name
) c
Where
c.r = 1
Example Fiddle

Answer 2

Here is the general idea. You can adapt it for your database tables.
select fred, barney, maxwilma
from bedrock join
(select max(wilma) maxwilma
from bedrock
group by fred ) flinstone on wilma = maxwilma

Answer 3

SELECT CLIENT.CLIENTNO, CLIENT.CNAME, SUM(PURCHASE.AMOUNT) AS AMOUNT
FROM CLIENT
INNER JOIN PURCHASE
ON CLIENT.CLIENTNO = PURCHASE.CLIENTNO
WHERE CLIENT.CLIENTNO IN (
SELECT CLIENTNO
FROM (
SELECT PURCHASE.CLIENTNO, SUM(PURCHASE.AMOUNT) AS AMOUNT
FROM PURCHASE
GROUP BY PURCHASE.CLIENTNO
ORDER BY AMOUNT DESC
)
WHERE ROWNUM = 1)
GROUP BY CLIENT.CLIENTNO, CLIENT.CNAME;

Answer 4

select first_name ||' '|| last_name "FullName",name,quantity from customers,purchases,products where products.product_id = purchases.product_id and purchases.customer_id = customers.customer_id order by quantity;
This is the query you want