MySQL Correlated sub query table name out of scope - mysql

This form of my correlated sub query comes up with the error message "Unknown column 'Invoices.TranDate' in 'where clause'"
select InvoiceID, TranDate
, ifnull(TotPayments,0) TotPayments, ifnull(CountPayments,0) CountPayments
from Invoices
left join (select DebtorID, sum(TranAmount) TotPayments, count(*) CountPayments
from CashTrans
where CashTrans.TranDate >= Invoices.TranDate
group by DebtorID) PY on PY.DebtorID = Invoices.DebtorID
Yet this version works
select InvoiceID, TranDate
, (select sum(TranAmount) from CashTrans
where CashTrans.TranDate >= Invoices.TranDate
and CashTrans.DebtorID = Invoices.DebtorID) TotPayments
, (select count(*) from CashTrans
where CashTrans.TranDate >= Invoices.TranDate
and CashTrans.DebtorID = Invoices.DebtorID) CountPayments
from Invoices;
What is wrong with the first query? The only thing I can think of is that on my Windows system I have configured lower_case_table_names=2 as I want to preserve mixed case names. Perhaps that has something to do with the first query not seeing Invoice.TranDate in scope? MySQL Documentation and internet searches have not thrown any light on the matter.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/lateral-derived-tables.html says:
A derived table cannot normally refer to (depend on) columns of preceding tables in the same FROM clause. As of MySQL 8.0.14, a derived table may be defined as a lateral derived table to specify that such references are permitted.
In SQL:1999, the query becomes legal if the derived tables are preceded by the LATERAL keyword (which means “this derived table depends on previous tables on its left side”):
I have not tested it, but I believe your query could be written this way:
SELECT InvoiceID, TranDate,
IFNULL(TotPayments,0) AS TotPayments,
ifnull(CountPayments,0) AS CountPayments
FROM Invoices
LEFT JOIN LATERAL (
SELECT DebtorID,
SUM(TranAmount) AS TotPayments,
COUNT(*) AS CountPayments
FROM CashTrans
WHERE CashTrans.TranDate >= Invoices.TranDate
GROUP BY DebtorID
) AS PY ON PY.DebtorID = Invoices.DebtorID;
Also be aware this requires you to use at least MySQL 8.0.14.

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Need assistance with SQL Query with error message Operand should contain 1 column(s)

Good Day
I have the following query but I'm getting an error message 'Operand should contain 1 column(s)'
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
UPDATE expenditure
SET BP = (
SELECT * ,
SUM(balance_provision - actual_amt_voucher) over (partition by voteid order by expenditureid) AS BalanceProvision
FROM expenditure
)
It looks like you want to update column bp with a window sum.
Your query fails because you are trying to assign a resultset (that has multiple columns) to a single column.
But even you were returning a scalar value from the subquery, this would not work, since MySQL does not allow reusing the target table of the update in a subquery.
Instead, yo can use the update ... join syntax. Assuming that expenditureid is the primary key of the table, as its name suggests, that would be:
update expenditure e
inner join (
select
expenditureid,
sum(balance_provision - actual_amt_voucher) over (partition by voteid order by expenditureid) bp
from expenditure
group by expenditureid
) e1 on e.expenditureid = e1.expenditureid
set e.bp = e1.bp

MySQL - inner join on select query error 1052

Im trying to do a select query on a table along with an inner join afterwards to link data from the owner to the cats
the ownercat is using a foreign key on the id linking to the ownerinfo id
USE CATTERY;
SELECT
OWNERINFO.ID, OWNERINFO.First_Name, OWNERINFO.Last_Name, OWNERINFO.Phone, OWNERINFO.AddrL1, OWNERINFO.AddrL2, OWNERINFO.AddrL3, OWNERINFO.PostCode,
GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT OWNERCAT.Chip_ID)
FROM OWNERINFO
INNER JOIN OWNERCAT ON OWNERINFO.ID = OWNERCAT.ID
WHERE ID = 1;
I get returned the following error:
Error Code: 1052. Column 'ID' in where clause is ambiguous 0.0014 sec
removing the concat distinct statement still produces the same error, im not sure how to get around this issue
You need to define from which table the ID on WHERE-clause come from (you can use aliases). Secondly, as you are using GROUP_CONCAT, you should have GROUP BY in the query:
SELECT
oi.ID,
oi.First_Name,
oi.Last_Name,
oi.Phone,
oi.AddrL1,
oi.AddrL2,
oi.AddrL3,
oi.PostCode,
GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT oc.Chip_ID)
FROM OWNERINFO oi
INNER JOIN OWNERCAT oc ON oc.ID=oi.ID
WHERE oi.ID = 1
GROUP BY oi.ID
The problem is in the WHERE clause: ID is ambiguous, because that column is available in both tables.
You may think that, since you are joining the tables on ID, the database is able to tell that it has the same value, but that's not actually the case.
So just qualify the column in the WHERE clause, ie change this:
WHERE ID = 1
To either:
WHERE OWNERINFO.ID = 1
Or the equivalent:
WHERE OWNERCAT.ID = 1
Also please note that your query uses GROUP_CONCAT(), which is an aggregate function. This implies that you need a GROUP BY clause, that should list all non-aggregated column (ie all columns other than the one that is within GROUP_CONCAT()).

Unknown Column in Where Clause When Using the Variable Created with AS

The question is about using a column (which is created in query) as where clause criteria.
There are 2 tables named transactions and transactionmovements.
In transaction, there are unique info for transaction like date, counterparty etc.
In transactionmovements, there are articles which is used in transaction. Such as product, quantity, price, etc. And transactionmovements has a 'transaction' column which references to transactions.id shows which transaction the movement belongs.
In the query, I created a totalPrice value with sum of quantity*price of each movement that belongs to a transaction.
Everything works perfectly but the last parameter of WHERE clause. If I delete "AND
totalPrice > 10" part, it gives me everything including totalPrice and totalQuantity of a transaction.
But if I place "AND totalPrice > 10" to the end, it returns following error:
-#1054 - Unknown column 'totalPrice' in 'where clause'
SELECT
`transactions`.id,
`transactions`.type,
`transactions`.date,
`transactions`.VAT,
`transactions`.currency,
`companies`.name AS counterparty,
COALESCE
(sum(`transactionmovements`.price*`transactionmovements`.quantity)
+(`transactions`.shippingQuantity*`transactions`.shippingPrice)) as totalPrice,
COALESCE
(sum(`transactionmovements`.quantity)) as totalQuantity
FROM
`transactions`
LEFT JOIN `companies` ON `transactions`.counterparty = `companies`.id
LEFT JOIN `transactionmovements` ON `transactions`.id=`transactionmovements`.transaction
WHERE ( `transactions`.type = 'p' OR `transactions`.type = 'r' OR `transactions`.type = 's' OR `transactions`.type = 't')
AND
(`transactions`.date BETWEEN IFNULL('','1900-01-01') AND IFNULL('2020-02-14',NOW()))
AND
totalPrice > 10
GROUP BY `transactions`.id
ORDER BY id desc
LIMIT 10
I tried using the whole math operation in WHERE clause, but no gains. I tried to use HAVING with WHERE but couldn't manage it.
The last solution I have is running it without filtering by totalPrice and store it into a php array. Then filter in array, but there I can't use LIMIT so array will be very big.
As per how SQL query are executed in the order that dictate SELECT is executed after WHERE, you can't use ALIAS in WHERE since it is unknown at the moment. Therefor, you should change every alias uses outside of SELECT to its definition.
As Thomas Jeriko suggested in comments, creating a view was exactly what I need.
First I create a virtual table with Create View.
CREATE VIEW transactionreportview
AS SELECT
transactions.id id,
transactions.type type,
transactions.date date,
transactions.VAT VAT,
transactions.currency currency,
transactions.counterparty counterparty,
(SUM(transactionmovements.price*transactionmovements.quantity)+transactions.shippingQuantity*transactions.shippingPrice) totalPrice,
SUM(transactionmovements.quantity) totalQuantity
FROM transactions transactions, transactionmovements transactionmovements
WHERE transactions.id = transactionmovements.transaction
GROUP BY transactions.id;
While the virtual table acts like a simple mysql table, I ran a new query in the table
SELECT * FROM transactionReportView WHERE ..."
Then after finishing my work with the virtual table, drop it
DROP VIEW transactionreportview

SQL - Nested query optimization

How can I optimize this query SQL?
CREATE TABLE table1 AS
SELECT * FROM temp
WHERE Birth_Place IN
(SELECT c.DES_COM
FROM tableCom AS c
WHERE c.COD_PROV IS NULL)
ORDER BY Cod, Birth_Date
I think that the problem is the IN clause
First of all it's not quite valid SQL, since you are selecting and sorting by columns that are not part of the group. What you want to do is called "select top N in group", check out Select first row in each GROUP BY group?
Your query doesn't make sense, because you have SELECT * with GROUP BY. Ignoring that, I would recommend writing the query as:
SELECT t.*
FROM temp t
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM tableCom c
WHERE t.Birth_Place = c.DES_COM AND
c.COD_PROV IS NULL
)
ORDER BY Cod, Birth_Date;
For this, I recommend an index on tableCom(desc_com, cod_prov). Your database might also be able to use an an index on temp(cod, birth_date, birthplace).

CTE recursive query in select statement

I have two MySQL server version 8.0, one for local development and another on an Heroku Instance, more precisely on Heroku i'm using a service called JAWSDB.
For my project I have to use the following CTE query, because the structure of the table tree_structure is hierarchical.
The purpose of the query is that for every row in tree_structure I have to get all of its child, and then count how many user in user_roles table are present in that particular row and its child.
SELECT mtr.id,
mtr.parent_id,
mtr.name,
mtr.manager_id,
CONCAT(users.nome, ' ', users.cognome) as resp_name,
(
with recursive cte (id, name, parent_id) as (
select id,
name,
parent_id
from tree_structure as tr_rec
where tr_rec.parent_id = mtr.id
and tr_rec.session_id = '2018'
union all
select tr.id,
tr.name,
tr.parent_id
from tree_structure as tr
inner join cte
on tr.parent_id = cte.id
WHERE tr.session_id = '2018'
)
select count(distinct (user_id))
from user_roles as ur_count
where ur_count.structure_id in (select distinct(id) from cte)
) as utenti
FROM tree_structure as mtr
LEFT JOIN users ON mtr.manager_id = users.id
WHERE level = 0
The problems is that on my local server it works whereas on the heroku instance it gaves me the following error:
unknow columns mtr.id in where clause.
Has someone any ideas of what is causing this error?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english.
You have an ambiguous table reference in the CTE:
SELECT
....
(with recursive cte (id, name, parent_id) as (
....
from tree_structure as tr_rec -- here you have aliased the table
where tr_rec.id = tree_structure.id -- here you refer to the table and its alias
and tr_rec.session_id = '2018'
union all
....
)
....
) as utenti
....
Table tree_structure is used in the subselect and in the outermost select. The good practice is to make an unique alias for every table reference you have used.
Also you have a typo in the condition that should check self-referencing of the hierarcy root node:
where tr_rec.id = tr_rec.parent_id
and tr_rec.session_id = '2018'
OK guys I found out why the query was wrong. Apparently since MySQL version 8.0.14 they introduced support for using external parameters within subqueries.
My local version was 8.0.16 but the online version was 8.0.11 so because of this my query didn't work.