I'm trying to join two tables together in MySQL. I need to join based on the full string from one field (Table a:ID) and the sub-string from the other table (Table b:caseID). A mock-up of the table structure can be seen at the bottom of this post. ID and caseID are defined as unique.
The output I'm looking for is similar to:
|-------------|--------------|------------|
| ID | name | age |
|-------------|--------------|------------|
| 1 | Bob | 22 |
| 2 | Bill | 23 |
| 3 | Ben | 24 |
|-------------|--------------|------------|
I know how to extract a substring based on a delimiter:
SELECT SUBSTRING(caseID, LOCATE('-', caseID)+1, LENGTH(caseID)) AS ExtractString FROM b
but I'm unclear how to combine this with the usual SQL JOIN statement to return all joined records. I keep getting error like 'returns more than one row'.
Any help much appreciated.
Table a:
|-------------|--------------|
| ID | name |
|-------------|--------------|
| 1 | Bob |
| 2 | Bill |
| 3 | Ben |
|-------------|--------------|
Table b:
|-------------|--------------|
| caseID | age |
|-------------|--------------|
| 24-1 | 22 |
| 24-2 | 23 |
| 24-3 | 24 |
|-------------|--------------|
SELECT *
FROM a
LEFT JOIN b ON a.ID = SUBSTRING(b.caseID, LOCATE('-', b.caseID)+1, LENGTH(b.caseID))
SELECT *
FROM a
JOIN b ON a.ID = SUBSTRING_INDEX(b.caseID, '-', -1)
Typical, as soon as I ask the question I work out the answer!
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM a
JOIN b
ON b.id = SUBSTRING(a.caseID, LOCATE('-', a.caseID)+1, LENGTH(a.caseID))
Related
I got working code from three queries but I would like to combine them into one or two. Basically I am checking if a provided phone number exists in table contacts or leads as well as if it exists as a secondary number in customfieldsvalues (not all leads have a customfield value though). I am using a CRM system based on CodeIgniter.
What I want to do (non-correct/hypothetical query):
SELECT * FROM contacts OR leads WHERE phonenumber = replace(X, '-', '')
OR leads.id = customvaluefields.relid AND cfields.fieldid = 41 AND cfields.value = X
Tables
table : contacts
+-------+----------------+----------------+
| id | firstname | phonenumber |
+-------+----------------+----------------+
| 1 | John | 214-444-1234 |
| 2 | Mary | 555-111-1234 |
+-------+----------------+----------------+
table : leads
+-------+-----------+---------------------+
| id | name | phonenumber |
+-------+-----------+---------------------+
| 1 | John | 214-444-1234 |
| 2 | Mary | 555-111-1234 |
+-------+-----------+---------------------+
table : customvaluefields
+-------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
| id | relid | fieldid | value |
+-------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
| 1 | 1 | 41 | 222333444 |
| 2 | 1 | 20 | Management|
| 3 | 2 | 41 | 333444555 |
+-------+-----------+-------------+-----------+
If I understand what you are trying to, maybe UNION ALL would work. This is something to get you started:
SELECT C.ID, C.FirstName, C.Phonenumber
FROM Contacts C
JOIN CustomValueField CVF
ON c.ID = CVF.RelID AND
CVF.ID = 41
AND REPLACE(Phonenumber,'-','') = cvf.Value
UNION ALL
SELECT L.ID, L.FirstName, L.Phonenumber
FROM Leads L
JOIN CustomValueField CVF
ON L.ID = CVF.RelID AND
CVF.ID = 41
AND REPLACE(Phonenumber,'-','') = cvf.Value
I'm joining the contacts and leads tables to CustomeValueField in each query and then UNION them together along with the WHERE clause in each. I'm sure it's not 100% correct for what you need, but should get you headed to a solution. Here is more information: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/union.html
I need to retrieve rows from a mysql database as follows: I have a contract table, a contract line item table, and another table called udac. I need all contracts which DO NOT have a line item record with criteria based on a relationship between contract line item and udac. If there is a better way to state this question, let me know.
Table Structures
----contract--------------------- ---contractlineitem-----------
| id | customer_id | entry_date | | id | contract_id | udac_id |
--------------------------------- ------------------------------
| 1 | 1234 | 2010-01-01 | | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 2345 | 2016-01-31 | | 2 | 1 | 2 |
--------------------------------- | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 |
------------------------------
---udac----------
| id | udaccode |
-----------------
| 1 | SWBL/R |
| 2 | SWBL |
| 3 | ABL/R |
| 4 | ABL |
| 5 | XRS/F |
-----------------
Given the above data, contract 2 would show up but contract 1 would not, because it has contractlineitems that point to udacs that end in /F or /R.
Here's what i have so far, but it's not correct.
SELECT c.*
FROM contract c
JOIN contractlineitem cli
ON c.id = cli.contract_id
WHERE c.entry_timestamp > '2016-01-01 00:00:00'
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT cli.id
FROM contractlineitem cli_i
JOIN udac u
ON cli_i.udac_id = u.id
WHERE u.udaccode LIKE '%/F' OR u.udaccode LIKE '%/R'
AND cli_i.contract_id = cli.contract_id);
Tom's comment that your WHERE clause is wrong may be the problem you are chasing. Plus, using a correlated subquery may be problematic for performance if the optimizer can't figure out a better way to do it.
Here is the better way to do it using an OUTER JOIN:
SELECT c.*
FROM contract c
JOIN contractlineitem cli
ON c.id = cli.contract_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN udac u
ON ( u.id = cli.udac_id
AND ( u.udaccode LIKE '%/F' OR u.udaccode LIKE '%/R' ) )
WHERE c.entry_timestamp > '2016-01-01 00:00:00'
AND u.id IS NULL
Try that out and see if it does what you want. The query essentially does what you stated: It tries to join to udac where the code ends in '/F' or '/R', but then it only accepts the ones where it can't find a match (u.id IS NULL).
If the same row is returned multiple times incorrectly, throw a distinct on the front.
I'm having BookTable in database (with foregin hey LibID):
| BookID | BookName | BookPrice | LibID |
-------------------------------------------
| 1 | Book_1 | 200 | 1 |
| 2 | Book_2 | 100 | 1 |
| 3 | Book_3 | 300 | 2 |
| 4 | Book_4 | 150 | 4 |
and also LibraryTable:
| LibID | LibName | LibLocation |
-----------------------------------
| 1 | Lib_1 | Loc_1 |
| 2 | Lib_2 | Loc_2 |
| 3 | Lib_3 | Loc_3 |
| 4 | Lib_4 | Loc_4 |
I need to write SQL query that will return be the info about the library and number of books for that library:
| LibID | LibName | NumberOfBooks|
------------------------------------
| 1 | Lib_1 | 2 |
| 2 | Lib_2 | 1 |
| 3 | Lib_3 | 0 |
| 4 | Lib_4 | 1 |
It should be one SQL query, probably with nested queries or joins.. Not sure how the query should look like:
SELECT L.LibID AS LibID, L.LibName AS LibName, COUNT(B) AS NumberOfBooks
FROM LibraryTable L, BookTable B
WHERE L.LibID = B.LibID
Will that work?
No, this query will not work. COUNT aggregates data, so you must explicitely tell the DBMS for which group of data you want the count. In your case this is the library (you want one result record per library).
COUNT's parameter is a column, not a table, so change this to * (i.e. count records) or a certain column (e.g. LibID).
The join syntax you are using is valid, but deprecated. Use explicit joins instead. In your case an outer join would even show libraries that have no books at all, if such is possible.
select l.libid, l.libname, count(b.libid) as numberofbooks
from librarytable l
left outer join booktable b on b.libid = l.libid
group by l.libid;
You could also do all this without a join at all and get the book count in a subquery instead. Then you wouldn't have to aggregate. That's way simpler and more readable in my opinion.
select
l.libid,
l.libname,
(select count(*) booktable b where b.libid = l.libid) as numberofbooks
from librarytable l;
SELECT lt.LibID AS LibID, lt.LibName AS LibName, count(*) AS NumberOfBooks
FROM BookTable AS bt
LEFT JOIN LibraryTable AS lt ON bt.LibID = lt.LibID
GROUP BY bt.LibID
I am trying to join two tables and only select the dealers that did not have their promo code used on any order.
How can I do this?
I'm trying this below, but it's not working right. In the example I want to get just Bob, since his promo_code hasn't been used in any orders.
SELECT d.`name`
FROM z_dealer d
LEFT OUTER JOIN z_order o ON (d.promo_code = o.promo_code)
AND o.promo_code IS NULL
Here are my tables...
mysql> select * from z_dealer;
+----+------+------------+
| id | name | promo_code |
+----+------+------------+
| 1 | John | holiday |
| 2 | Suzy | special |
| 3 | Bob | laborday |
+----+------+------------+
mysql> Select * from z_order;
+----+-------+------------+
| id | total | promo_code |
+----+-------+------------+
| 1 | 10 | holiday |
| 2 | 20 | special |
| 3 | 15 | holiday |
| 4 | 45 | special |
+----+-------+------------+
SELECT d.`name` FROM z_dealer d LEFT JOIN z_order o ON (d.promo_code = o.promo_code) WHERE o.promo_code IS NULL
Have you tried INNER JOIN? or You can try IN like this :
SELECT d.name
FROM z_dealer d
WHERE d.promo_code not in( SELECT promo_code FROM z_order)
I'm not entirely sure why it's not working in your example code. I've created the same tables locally and when I run the script you provided I get the single 'Bob' answer.
SELECT d.name
FROM z_dealer d
LEFT OUTER JOIN z_order o ON (d.promo_code = o.promo_code)
AND o.promo_code IS NULL
What results are you seeing exactly?
I have some MySQL results like this:
---------------------------
| name | something_random |
---------------------------
| john | ekjalsdjalfjkldd |
| alex | akjsldfjaekallee |
| alex | jkjlkjslakjfjflj |
| alex | kajslejajejjaddd |
| bob | ekakdie33kkd93ld |
| bob | 33kd993kakakl3ll |
| paul | 3k309dki595k3lkd |
| paul | 3k399kkfkg93lk3l |
etc...
This goes on for 1000's of rows of results. I need to limit the number of results to the first 50 unique names. I think there is a simple solution to this but I'm not sure.
I've tried using derived tables and variables but can't quite get there. If I could figure out how to increment a variable once every time a name is different I think I could say WHERE variable <= 50.
UPDATED
I've tried the Inner Join approach(es) suggested below. The problem is this:
The subselect SELECT DISTINCT name FROM testTable LIMIT 50 grabs the first 50 distinct names. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my original post, but this limits my query too much. In my query, not every name in the table is returned in the result. Let me modify my original example:
----------------------------------
| id | name | something_random |
----------------------------------
| 1 | john | ekjalsdjalfjkldd |
| 4 | alex | akjsldfjaekallee |
| 4 | alex | jkjlkjslakjfjflj |
| 4 | alex | kajslejajejjaddd |
| 6 | bob | ekakdie33kkd93ld |
| 6 | bob | 33kd993kakakl3ll |
| 12 | paul | 3k309dki595k3lkd |
| 12 | paul | 3k399kkfkg93lk3l |
etc...
So I added in some id numbers here. These ID numbers pertain to the people's names in the tables. So you can see in the results, not every single person/name in the table is necessarily in the result (due to some WHERE condition). So the 50th distinct name in the list will always have an ID number higher than 49. The 50th person could be id 79, 234, 4954 etc...
So back to the problem. The subselect SELECT DISTINCT name FROM testTable LIMIT 50 selects the first 50 names in the table. That means that my search results will be limited to names that have ID <=50, which is too constricting. If there are certain names that don't show up in the query (due to some WHERE condition), then they are still counted as one of the 50 distinct names. So you end up with too few results.
UPDATE 2
To #trapper: This is a basic simplification of what my query looks like:
SELECT
t1.id,
t1.name,
t2.details
FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.id = t2.some_id
INNER JOIN
(SELECT DISTINCT name FROM t1 ORDER BY id LIMIT 0,50) s ON s.name = t1.name
WHERE
SOME CONDITIONS
ORDER BY
t1.id,
t1.name
And my results look like this:
----------------------------------
| id | name | details |
----------------------------------
| 1 | john | ekjalsdjalfjkldd |
| 3 | alex | akjsldfjaekallee |
| 3 | alex | jkjlkjslakjfjflj |
| 4 | alex | kajslejajejjaddd |
| 6 | bob | ekakdie33kkd93ld |
| 6 | bob | 33kd993kakakl3ll |
| 12 | paul | 3k309dki595k3lkd |
| 12 | paul | 3k399kkfkg93lk3l |
...
| 37 | bill | kajslejajejjaddd |
| 37 | bill | ekakdie33kkd93ld |
| 41 | matt | 33kd993kakakl3ll |
| 50 | jake | 3k309dki595k3lkd |
| 50 | jake | 3k399kkfkg93lk3l |
----------------------------------
The results stop at id=50. There are NOT 50 distinct names in the list. There are only roughly 23 distinct names.
My MySql syntax may be rusty, but the idea is to use a query to select the top 50 distinct names, then do a self-join on name and select the name and other information from the join.
select a.name, b.something_random
from Table b
inner join (select distinct name from Table order by RAND() limit 0,50) a
on a.name = b.name
SELECT DISTINCT name FROM table LIMIT 0,50
Edited: Ahh yes I misread question first time, this should do the trick though :)
SELECT a.name, b.something_random
FROM `table` b
INNER JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT name FROM `table` ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,50) a
ON a.name = b.name ORDER BY a.name
How this work is the (SELECT DISTINCT name FROMtableORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,50) part is what pulls out the names to include in the join. So here I am taking 50 unique names at random, but you can change this to any other selection criteria if you want.
Then you join those results back into your table. This links each of those 50 selected names back to all of the rows with a matching name for your final results. Finally ORDER BY a.name just to be sure all the rows for each name end up grouped together.
This should do it:
SELECT tA.*
FROM
testTable tA
INNER JOIN
(SELECT distinct name FROM testTable LIMIT 50) tB ON tA.name = tB.name
;