I have a query I need to perform to show search results for a project. What needs to happen, I need to sort the results by the "horsesActiveDate" and this applies to all of them except for any ad with the adtypesID=7. Those results are sorted by date but they must always result after all other ads.
So I will have all my ads in the result set be ordered by the Active Date AND adtypesID != 7. After that, I need all adtypesID=7 to be sorted by Active Date and appended at the bottom of all the results.
I'm hoping to put this in one query instead of two and appending them together in PHP. The way the code is written, I have to find a way to get it all in one query.
So here is my original query which has worked great until I had to ad the adtypesID=7 which has different sorting requirements.
This is the query that exists now that doesn't take into account the adtypesID for sorting.
SELECT
horses.horsesID,
horsesDescription,
horsesActiveDate,
adtypesID,
states.statesName,
horses_images.himagesPath
FROM horses
LEFT JOIN states ON horses.statesID = states.statesID
LEFT JOIN horses_images ON horses_images.himagesDefault = 1 AND horses_images.horsesID = horses.horsesID AND horses_images.himagesPath != ''
WHERE
horses.horsesStud = 0
AND horses.horsesSold = 0
AND horses.horsesID IN
(
SELECT DISTINCT horses.horsesID
FROM horses
LEFT JOIN horses_featured ON horses_featured.horsesID = horses.horsesID
WHERE horses.horsesActive = 1
)
ORDER BY adtypesID, horses.horsesActiveDate DESC
My first thought was to do two queries where one looked for all the ads that did not contain adtypesID=7 and sort those as the query does, then run a second query to find only those ads with adtypesID=7 and sort those by date. Then take those two results and append them to each other. Since I need to get this all into one query, I can't use a php function to do that.
Is there a way to merge the two query results one after the other in mysql? Is there a better way to run this query that will accomplish this sorting?
The Ideal Results would be as below (I modified the column names so they would be shorter):
ID | Description | ActiveDate | adtypesID | statesName | himagesPath
___________________________________________________________________________
3 | Ad Text | 06-01-2010 | 3 | OK | image.jpg
2 | Ad Text | 05-31-2010 | 2 | LA | image1.jpg
9 | Ad Text | 03-01-2010 | 4 | OK | image3.jpg
6 | Ad Text | 06-01-2010 | 7 | OK | image5.jpg
6 | Ad Text | 05-01-2010 | 7 | OK | image5.jpg
6 | Ad Text | 04-01-2010 | 7 | OK | image5.jpg
Any help that can be provided will be greatly appreciated!
I am not sure about the exact syntax in MySQL, but something like
ORDER BY case when adtypesID = 7 then 2 else 1 end ASC, horses.horsesActiveDate DESC
would work in many other SQL dielects.
Note that most SQL dialects allow the order by to not only be a column, but an expression.
This should work:
ORDER BY (adtypesID = 7) ASC, horses.horsesActiveDate DESC
Use a Union to append two queries together, like this:
SELECT whatever FROM wherever ORDER BY something AND adtypesID!=7
UNION
SELECT another FROM somewhere ORDER BY whocares AND adtypesID=7
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/union.html
I re-wrote your query as:
SELECT h.horsesID,
h.horsesDescription,
h.horsesActiveDate,
adtypesID,
s.statesName,
hi.himagesPath
FROM HORSES h
LEFT JOIN STATES s ON s.stateid = h.statesID
LEFT JOIN HORSES_IMAGES hi ON hi.horsesID = h.horsesID
AND hi.himagesDefault = 1
AND hi.himagesPath != ''
LEFT JOIN HORSES_FEATURED hf ON hf.horsesID = h.horsesID
WHERE h.horsesStud = 0
AND h.horsesSold = 0
AND h.horsesActive = 1
ORDER BY (adtypesID = 7) ASC, h.horsesActiveDate DESC
The IN subquery, using a LEFT JOIN and such, will mean that any horse record whose horsesActive value is 1 will be returned - regardless if they have an associated HORSES_FEATURED record. I leave it to you for checking your data to decide if it should really be an INNER JOIN. Likewise for the STATES table relationship...
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I have the following SQL query:
SELECT TOP 3 accounts.username
,COUNT(accounts.username) AS count
FROM relationships
JOIN accounts ON relationships.account = accounts.id
WHERE relationships.following = 4
AND relationships.account IN (
SELECT relationships.following
FROM relationships
WHERE relationships.account = 8
);
I want to return the total count of accounts.username and the first 3 accounts.username (in no particular order). Unfortunately accounts.username and COUNT(accounts.username) cannot coexist. The query works fine removing one of the them. I don't want to send the request twice with different select bodies. The count column could span to 1000+ so I would prefer to calculate it in SQL rather in code.
The current query returns the error Column 'accounts.username' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause. which has not led me anywhere and this is different to other questions as I do not want to use the 'group by' clause. Is there a way to do this with FOR JSON AUTO?
The desired output could be:
+-------+----------+
| count | username |
+-------+----------+
| 1551 | simon1 |
| 1551 | simon2 |
| 1551 | simon3 |
+-------+----------+
or
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| JSON_F52E2B61-18A1-11d1-B105-00805F49916B |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| [{"count": 1551, "usernames": ["simon1", "simon2", "simon3"]}] |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
If you want to display the total count of rows that satisfy the filter conditions (and where username is not null) in an additional column in your resultset, then you could use window functions:
SELECT TOP 3
a.username,
COUNT(a.username) OVER() AS cnt
FROM relationships r
JOIN accounts a ON r.account = a.id
WHERE
r.following = 4
AND EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM relationships t1 WHERE r1.account = 8 AND r1.following = r.account
)
;
Side notes:
if username is not nullable, use COUNT(*) rather than COUNT(a.username): this is more efficient since it does not require the database to check every value for nullity
table aliases make the query easier to write, read and maintain
I usually prefer EXISTS over IN (but here this is mostly a matter of taste, as both techniques should work fine for your use case)
I am working on a query that will fetch multipart messages from 2 tables. However, it only works IF there are multiple parts. If there is only a one part message then the the join condition won't be true anymore. How could I make it to work for both single and multipart messages?
Right now it fails if there is an entry in outbox and nothing in outbox_multipart.
My first table is "outbox" that looks like this.
TextDecoded | ID | CreatorID
Helllo, m.. | 123 | Martin
Yes, I wi.. | 124 | Martin
My second table is "outbox_multipart" that looks very similar.
TextDecoded | ID | SequencePosition
my name i.. | 123 | 2
s Martin. | 123 | 3
ll do tha.. | 124 | 2
t tomorrow. | 124 | 3
My query so far
SELECT
CONCAT(ob.TextDecoded,
GROUP_CONCAT(obm.TextDecoded
ORDER BY obm.SequencePosition ASC
SEPARATOR ''
)
) AS TextDecoded,
ob.ID,
ob.creatorID
FROM outbox AS ob
JOIN outbox_multipart AS obm ON obm.ID = ob.ID
GROUP BY
ob.ID,
ob.creatorID
Use a left join instead of an (implicit) inner join. Then, also use COALESCE on the TextDecoded alias to make sure that empty string (and not NULL) appears in the expected output.
SELECT
CONCAT(ob.TextDecoded,
COALESCE(GROUP_CONCAT(obm.TextDecoded
ORDER BY obm.SequencePosition
SEPARATOR ''), '')) AS TextDecoded,
ob.ID,
ob.creatorID
FROM outbox AS ob
LEFT JOIN outbox_multipart AS obm
ON obm.ID = ob.ID
GROUP BY
ob.ID,
ob.creatorID,
ob.TextDecoded;
Note: Strictly speaking, outbox.TextDecoded should also appear in the GROUP BY clause, since it is not an aggregate. I have made this change in the query.
I'm working on a filter where the user can choose different conditions for the end output. Right now I'm doing the construction of the SQL query, but whenever more conditions are selected, it doesn't work.
Example of the advalues table.
+----+-----------+---------------+------------+
| id | listingId | value | identifier |
+----+-----------+---------------+------------+
| 1 | 1a | Alaskan Husky | race |
+----+-----------+---------------+------------+
| 2 | 1a | Højt | activity |
+----+-----------+---------------+------------+
| 3 | 1c | Akita | race |
+----+-----------+---------------+------------+
| 4 | 1c | Mellem | activity |
+----+-----------+---------------+------------+
As you can see, there's a different row for each advalue.
The outcome I expect
Let's say the user has checked/ticked the checkbox for the race where it says "Alaskan Husky", then it should return the listingId for the match (once). If the user has selected both "Alaskan Husky" and activity level to "Low" then it should return nothing, if the activity level is either "Mellem" or "Højt" (medium, high), then it should return the listingId for where the race is "Alaskan Husky" only, not "Akita". I hope you understand what I'm trying to accomplish.
I tried something like this, which returns nothing.
SELECT * FROM advalues WHERE (identifier="activity" AND value IN("Mellem","Højt")) AND (identifier="race" AND value IN("Alaskan Husky"))
By the way, I want to select distinct listingId as well, so it only returns unique listingId's.
I will continue to search around for solutions, which I've been doing for the past few hours, but wanted to post here too, since I haven't been able to find anything that helped me yet. Thanks!
You can split the restictions on identifier in two tables for each type. Then you join on listingid to obtain the listingId wich have the two type of identifier.
SELECT ad.listingId
FROM advalues ad
JOIN advalues ad2
ON ad.listingId = ad2.listingId
WHERE ( ad.identifier = 'activity' AND ad.value IN( 'Mellem', 'Højt' ) )
AND ( ad2.identifier = 'race' AND ad2.value IN( 'Alaskan Husky' ) )
The question isn't exactly clear, but I think you want this:
WHERE (identifier="activity" AND value IN("Mellem","Højt")) OR (identifier="race" AND value IN("Alaskan Husky"))
If I got you right you are trying to fetch data with different "filters".
Your Query
SELECT listingId FROM advalues
WHERE identifier="activity"
AND value IN("Mellem","Højt")
AND identifier="race"
AND value IN("Alaskan Husky")
Will always return 0 results as you are asking for identifier = "activity" AND identifier = "race"
I think you wanted to do something like this instead:
SELECT listingId FROM advalues
WHERE
(identifier="activity" AND value IN("Mellem","Højt"))
OR
(identifier="race" AND value IN("Alaskan Husky"))
I'm a little stuck here. I'm trying to modify a returned View based on a condition. I'm fairly green on SQL and am having a bit of difficultly with the returned result. Heres a partial component of the view I wrote:
WITH A AS (
SELECT
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY fkidContract,fkidTemplateItem ORDER BY bStdActive DESC, dtdateplanned ASC) AS RANK,
tblWorkItems.fkidContract AS ContractNo,
....
FROM tblWorkItems
WHERE fkidTemplateItem IN
(2895,2905,2915,2907,2908,
2909,3047,2930,2923,2969,
2968,2919,2935,2936,2927,
2970,2979)
AND ...
)
SELECT * FROM A WHERE RANK = 1
The return result is similar to the following:
ContractNo| ItemNumber | Planned | Complete
001 | 100 | 01/01/1900 | 02/01/1900
001 | 101 | 03/04/1900 | 02/01/1901
001 | 102 | 03/06/1901 | 02/08/1900
002 | 100 | 01/03/1911 | 02/08/1913
This gives me the results I expect, but due a nightmare crystal report I need to alter this view slightly. I want to take this returned result set and modify an existing column with a value pulled from the same table and the same Contract relationship, something like the following:
UPDATE A
SET A.Completed = ( SELECT R.Completed
FROM myTable R
INNER JOIN A
ON A.ContractNo = R.ContractNo
WHERE A.ItemNumber = 100 AND R.ItemNumber = 101
)
What I'm trying to do is modify the "Completed Date" of one task and make it the complete date of another task if they both share the same ContractNo field value.
I'm not sure about the ItemNumber relationships between A and R (perhaps it was just for testing...), but it seems like you don't really want to UPDATE anything, but you want to use a different value under some circumstances. So, maybe you just want to change the non-cte part of your query to something like:
SELECT A.ContractNo, A.ItemNumber, A.Planned,
COALESCE(R.Completed,A.Completed) as Completed
FROM A
LEFT OUTER JOIN myTable R
ON A.ContractNo = R.ContractNo
AND A.ItemNumber = 100 AND R.ItemNumber = 101 -- I'm not sure about this part
WHERE A.Rank = 1
So it turns out that actually reading the vendor documentation helps :)
SELECT
column1,
column2 =
case
when date > 1999 then 'some value'
when date < 1999 then 'other value'
else 'back to the future'
end
FROM ....
For reference, the total query did a triple inner join over ~5 million records and this case statement was surprisingly performant.
I suggest that this gets closed as a duplicate.
I have two tables in an Access database, tblProducts and tblProductGroups.
I am trying to run a query that joins both of these tables, and brings back a single record for each product. The problem is that the current design allows for a product to be listed in the tblProductGroups table more than 1 - i.e. a product can be a member of more than one group (i didnt design this!)
The query is this:
select tblProducts.intID, tblProducts.strTitle, tblProductGroups.intGroup
from tblProducts
inner join tblProductGroups on tblProducts.intID = tblProductGroups.intProduct
where tblProductGroups.intGroup = 56
and tblProducts.blnActive
order by tblProducts.intSort asc, tblProducts.curPrice asc
At the moment this returns results such as:
intID | strTitle | intGroup
1 | Product 1 | 1
1 | Product 1 | 2
2 | Product 2 | 1
2 | Product 2 | 2
Whereas I only want the join to be based on the first matching record, so that would return:
intID | strTitle | intGroup
1 | Product 1 | 1
2 | Product 2 | 1
Is this possible in Access?
Thanks in advance
Al
This option runs a subquery to find the minimum intGoup for each tblProducts.intID.
SELECT tblProducts.intID
, tblProducts.strTitle
, (SELECT TOP 1 intGroup
FROM tblProductGroups
WHERE intProduct=tblProducts.intID
ORDER BY intGroup ASC) AS intGroup
FROM tblProducts
WHERE tblProducts.blnActive
ORDER BY tblProducts.intSort ASC, tblProducts.curPrice ASC
This works for me. Maybe this helps someone:
SELECT
a.Lagerort_ID,
FIRST(a.Regal) AS frstRegal,
FIRST(a.Fachboden) AS frstFachboden,
FIRST(a.xOffset) AS frstxOffset,
FIRST(a.yOffset) AS frstyOffset,
FIRST(a.xSize) AS frstxSize,
FIRST(a.ySize) AS frstySize,
FIRST(a.Platzgr) AS frstyPlatzgr,
FIRST(b.Artikel_ID) AS frstArtikel_ID,
FIRST(b.Menge) AS frstMenge,
FIRST(c.Breite) AS frstBreite,
FIRST(c.Tiefe) AS frstTiefe,
FIRST(a.Fachboden_ID) AS frstFachboden_ID,
FIRST(b.BewegungsDatum) AS frstBewegungsDatum,
FIRST(b.ErzeugungsDatum) AS frstErzeugungsDatum
FROM ((Lagerort AS a)
LEFT JOIN LO_zu_ART AS b ON a.Lagerort_ID = b.Lagerort_ID)
LEFT JOIN Regal AS c ON a.Regal = c.Regal
GROUP BY a.Lagerort_ID
ORDER BY FIRST(a.Regal), FIRST(a.Fachboden), FIRST(a.xOffset), FIRST(a.yOffset);
I have non unique entries for Lagerort_ID on the table LO_zu_ART. My goal was to only use the first found entry from LO_zu_ART to match into Lagerort.
The trick is to use FIRST() an any column but the grouped one. This may also work with MIN() or MAX(), but I have not tested it.
Also make sure to call the Fields with the "AS" statement different than the original field. I used frstFIELDNAME. This is important, otherwise I got errors.
Create a new query, qryFirstGroupPerProduct:
SELECT intProduct, Min(intGroup) AS lowest_group
FROM tblProductGroups
GROUP BY intProduct;
Then JOIN qryFirstGroupPerProduct (instead of tblProductsGroups) to tblProducts.
Or you could do it as a subquery instead of a separate saved query, if you prefer.
It's not very optimal, but if you're bringing in a few thousand records this will work:
Create a query that gets the max of tblProducts.intID from one table and call it qry_Temp.
Create another query and join qry_temp to the table you are trying to join against, and you should get your results.