MySQL query based on results of another query - mysql

I have a table in MySQL which looks like this.
+---------+------------+--------------+
| user_id | key | value |
+---------+------------+--------------+
| 1 | full_name | John Smith |
+---------+------------+--------------+
| 1 | is_active | 1 |
+---------+------------+--------------+
| 1 | user_level |Administrator |
+---------+------------+--------------+
I need to get value of key full_name where user_id is 1, but only if value of key is_active is 1. I can do it with 2 separate queries, but I would like to know if it is possible to do it in a single query.
Note: I cannot change the structure of the table.

One method is to use joins:
select tn.value
from t tn join
t ta
on tn.user_id = ta.user_id and ta.key = 'active'
where tn.key = 'fullname';

i think you need below query by using exists
select t.value from your_table t where
exists ( select 1 from your_table t1
where t1.user_id=t.user_id
and t1.key='is_active'
) and t.key='full_name'
DEMO IN MYSQL 8
value
john smith

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Mysql IN function

class_table
+----+-------+--------------+
| id |teac_id| student_id |
+----+-------+--------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1,2,3,4 |
+----+-------+--------------+
student_mark
+----+----------+--------+
| id |student_id| marks |
+----+----------+--------+
| 1 | 1 | 12 |
+----+----------+--------+
| 2 | 2 | 80 |
+----+----------+--------+
| 3 | 3 | 20 |
+----+----------+--------+
I have these two tables and i want to calculate the total marks of student and my sql is:
SELECT SUM(`marks`)
FROM `student_mark`
WHERE `student_id` IN
(SELECT `student_id` FROM `class_table` WHERE `teac_id` = '1')
But this will return null, please help!!
DB fiddle
Firstly, you should never store comma separated data in your column. You should really normalize your data. So basically, you could have a many-to-many table mapping teacher_to_student, which will have teac_id and student_id columns.
In this particular case, you can utilize Find_in_set() function.
From your current query, it seems that you are trying to getting total marks for a teacher (summing up marks of all his/her students).
Try:
SELECT SUM(sm.`marks`)
FROM `student_mark` AS sm
JOIN `class_table` AS ct
ON FIND_IN_SET(sm.`student_id`, ct.`student_id`) > 0
WHERE ct.`teac_id` = '1'
In case, you want to get total marks per student, you would need to add a Group By. The query would look like:
SELECT sm.`student_id`,
SUM(sm.`marks`)
FROM `student_mark` AS sm
JOIN `class_table` AS ct
ON FIND_IN_SET(sm.`student_id`, ct.`student_id`) > 0
WHERE ct.`teac_id` = '1'
GROUP BY sm.`student_id`
Just in case you want to know why, The reason it returned null is because the subquery returned as '1,2,3,4' as a whole. What you need is to make it returned 1,2,3,4 separately.
What your query returned
SELECT SUM(`marks`)
FROM `student_mark`
WHERE `student_id` IN ('1,2,3,4')
What you expect is
SELECT SUM(`marks`)
FROM `student_mark`
WHERE `student_id` IN (1,2,3,4)
The best way is it normalize as #madhur said. In your case you need to make the teacher and student as one to many link
+----+-------+--------------+
| id |teac_id| student_id |
+----+-------+--------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
+----+-------+--------------+
| 2 | 1 | 2 |
+----+-------+--------------+
| 3 | 1 | 3 |
+----+-------+--------------+
| 4 | 1 | 4 |
+----+-------+--------------+
If you want to filter your table based on a comma separated list with ID, my approach is to
append extra commas at the beginning and at the end of a list as well as at the beginning and at the end of an ID, eg.
1 becomes ,1, and list would become ,1,2,3,4,. The reason for that is to avoid ambigious matches like 1 matches 21 or 12 in a list.
Also, EXISTS is well-suited in that situation, which together with INSTR function should work:
SELECT SUM(`marks`)
FROM `student_mark` sm
WHERE EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM `class_table`
WHERE `teac_id` = '1' AND
INSTR(CONCAT(',', student_id, ','), CONCAT(',', sm.student_id, ',')) > 0)
Demo
BUT you shouldn't store related IDs in one cell as comma separated list - it should be foreign key column to form proper relation. Joins would become trivial then.

Select only latest record for every employees and for specific employee in MySQL

I have a MySQL DB and in it there's a table with activity logs of employees.
+-------------------------------------------------+
| log_id | employee_id | date_time | action_type |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| 1 | 1 | 2015/02/03 | action1 |
| 2 | 2 | 2015/02/01 | action1 |
| 3 | 2 | 2017/01/02 | action2 |
| 4 | 3 | 2016/02/12 | action1 |
| 5 | 1 | 2016/10/12 | action2 |
+-------------------------------------------------+
And I would need 2 queries. First, to get for every employee his last action. So from this example table I would need to get row 3,4 and 5 with all columns. And second, get the latest action only for specified employee.
Any ideas how to achieve this? I'm using Spring Data JPA, but raw SQL Query would be also great.
Thank you in advance.
Ready for a fred ed...
SELECT x.*
FROM my_table x
JOIN
( SELECT employee_id
, MAX(date_time) date_time
FROM my_table
GROUP
BY employee_id
) y
ON y.employee_id = x.employee_id
AND y.date_time = x.date_time;
For your first query. Simply
SELECT t1.*
FROM tableName t1
WHERE t1.log_id = (SELECT MAX(t2.log_id)
FROM tableName t2
WHERE t2.employee_id = t1.employee_id)
For the second one
SELECT t1.*
FROM tableName t1
WHERE t1.employee_id=X and t1.log_id = (SELECT MAX(t2.log_id)
FROM tableName t2
WHERE t2.employee_id = t1.employee_id);
You can get the expected output by doing a self join
select a.*
from demo a
left join demo b on a.employee_id = b.employee_id
and a.date_time < b.date_time
where b.employee_id is null
Note it may return multiple rows for single employee if there are rows with same date_time you might need a CASE statement and another attribute to decide which row should be picked to handle this kind of situation
Demo

How to SELECT top different value using order by matrics

i have a table like this
i want to get the row of each table that have min responsetime
i have tried this query :
select tablename,
index1,
index2,
min(responsetime)
from tableconf
group by tablename
order by responsetime asc
but it doesn't give what i want
the output that i want is
+------------------+------------------+--------+--------------+
| tablename | index1 | index2 | responsetime |
+------------------+------------------+--------+--------------+
| salesorderheader | TotalDue | NULL | 6.1555 |
| salesterritory | Name | NULL | 11.66667 |
| store | BusinessEntityId | Name | 3.6222 |
| previous | previous | NULL | 5.03333 |
| NONE | NONE | NULL | 5.6 |
+------------------+------------------+--------+--------------+
what query i should use for get the output that i want
Select the minimum date per table name. Use an IN clause on these to get the rows:
select *
from tableconf
where (tablename, responsetime) in
(
select tablename, min(responsetime)
from tableconf
group by tablename
);
(Edited from previous answer)
I don't know if all SQL syntax accept a comma separated where parameter. Another option building off of the highest voted answer right now utilizes a join:
select *
from tableconf t
inner join (
select tablename, min(responsetime) min_rt
from tableconf t2
group by tablename
) t3 on t.tablename = t2.tablename and t.responsetime = t2.min_rt

Update MySQL table with another table's data

I read this and this, but I need to make a GROUP BY query to set another table.
logintable is like this:
id | name | login_date
------------------------
1 | michael | 2013-01-04
2 | michael | 2013-01-08
3 | mary | 2013-01-11
4 | john | 2013-01-15
5 | michael | 2013-01-19
6 | mary | 2013-01-22
7 | john | 2013-01-26
I make a query like this:
SELECT * FROM logintable GROUP BY name ORDER BY id ASC
This gives me first login date of the users:
1 | michael | 2013-01-04
3 | mary | 2013-01-11
4 | john | 2013-01-15
I have another table called userstable like this:
id | name | last_seen_date | first_login_date
------------------------------------------------
1 | michael | 2013-02-02 |
2 | john | 2013-02-04 |
3 | mary | 2013-02-16 |
I need to update userstable's first_login_date column, with the first result. How can I do this ?
(I have 75k records in logintable and 10k records in userstable)
UPDATE userstable a
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT name, min(login_date) min_date
FROM logintable
GROUP BY name
) b ON a.name = b.Name
SET a.first_login_table = b.min_date
for faster performance, you need to add an INDEX on column Name for both tables. This will prevent from performing full table scan which is very slow in large databases.
Adding INDEX on table userstable:
ALTER TABLE usersTable ADD INDEX (Name);
for referential integrity, make table logintable dependent on table userstable by defining FOREIGN KEY constraint:
ALTER TABLE loginTable ADD CONSTRAINT tb_fk
FOREIGN KEY (Name) REFRENCES usersTable (Name)
UPDATE userstable AS u
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT MIN(login_date) AS MinLoginDate, Name
FROM logintable
GROUP BY name
) AS l ON u.name = l.name
SET u.first_login_date = l.MinLoginDate
I don't know MySql...but in SQL Server you would write something like this:
UPDATE userstable set first_login_date = (SELECT MIN(login_date) FROM logintable where name = userstable.name)
UPDATE userstable a
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT name, min(login_date) min_date
FROM logintable
GROUP BY name
) b ON a.name = b.Name
SET a.first_login_table = b.min_date
This will definitely show your output.

How to query a table (which has multiple rows pertaining to a single entity) and return GROUPED result but only where all conditionals have been met?

Firstly, pardon the incredibly vague/long question, I'm really not sure how to summarise my query without the full explanation.
Ok, I have a single MySQL table with the format like so
some_table
user_id
some_key
some_value
If you imagine that, for each user, there are multiple rows, for example:
1 | skill | html
1 | skill | php
1 | foo | bar
2 | skill | html
3 | skill | php
4 | foo | bar
If I want to find all the users who have listed HTML as a skill I can simply do:
SELECT user_id
FROM some_table
WHERE some_key = 'skill' AND some_value='html'
GROUP BY user_id
Easy enough. This would give me user ID's 1 and 2.
If I want to find all users who have listed HTML or PHP as a skill then I can do:
SELECT user_id
FROM some_table
WHERE (some_key = 'skill' AND some_value='html') OR (some_key = 'skill' AND some_value='php')
GROUP BY user_id
This would give me use ID's 1, 2 and 3.
Now, what I'm struggling to work out is how I can query the same table but this time say "give me all the users who have listed both HTML and PHP as a skill", i.e: just user ID 1.
Any advice, guidance or links to docs massively appreciated.
Thanks.
Here's one way:
SELECT user_id
FROM some_table
WHERE user_id IN (SELECT user_id FROM some_table where (some_key = 'skill' AND some_value='html'))
AND user_id IN (SELECT user_id FROM some_table where (some_key = 'skill' AND some_value='php'))
you need to use a nested query (or a self join, which is different)
I set up the following table.
+-------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| id | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
| type | char(10) | YES | | NULL | |
| value | char(10) | YES | | NULL | |
+-------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
inserted the following values
+------+-------+-------+
| id | type | value |
+------+-------+-------+
| 1 | skill | html |
| 1 | skill | php |
| 2 | skill | html |
| 3 | skill | php |
| 2 | skill | php |
+------+-------+-------+
ran this query
select id
from test
where type = 'skill'
and value = 'html'
and id in (
select id
from test
where type = 'skill'
and value = 'php');
and got
+------+
| id |
+------+
| 1 |
| 2 |
+------+
a self join would be as follows
select e1.id
from test e1, test e2
where e1.id = e2.id
and e2.type = 'skill'
and e2.value = 'html'
and e1.type = 'skill'
and e1.value = 'php'
;
and produce the same result.
so there you have two ways to try it in your code.
I don't know if this is valid for mysql, but should be (works for other db engines):
SELECT php.user_id
FROM some_table php, some_table html
WHERE php.user_id = html.user_id
AND php.some_key = 'skill'
AND html.some_key = 'skill'
AND php.some_value = 'php'
AND html.some_value = 'html';
And alternative, by using HAVING statement:
SELECT user_id, count(*)
FROM some_table
WHERE some_key = 'skill'
AND some_value in ('php','html')
GROUP BY user_id
HAVING count(*) = 2;
And a third option is to use inner selects. A slight alternative approach to David's approach:
SELECT user_id FROM some_table
WHERE
some_key = 'skill' AND
some_value = 'html' AND
user_id IN (
SELECT user_id FROM some_table
WHERE
some_key = 'skill' AND
some_value = 'php' AND
user_id IN (
SELECT user_id FROM some_table
WHERE
some_key = 'skill' AND
some_value = 'js' -- AND user_id IN ... for next level, etc.
)
);
... idea is that you can "pipe" the inner selects. With each new property you add new inner select to the most inner one.