WHERE/GROUP By Condition - One Name but multiple values - mysql

Question

I have the following table:
Name Product
Bob Car
Bob Apples
Bob Pears
Bob Car
John Apples
John Pears
Whoever has bought a Product Car, I want to keep separate from everyone else. So, I create a flag:
Name Product Flag
Bob Car 1
Bob Apples 0
Bob Pears 0
Bob Car 1
John Apples 0
John Pears 0
But the problem with my flag is that even if I do a where condition and say, show me the consumer WHERE flag !=1, it'll pick Bob. Which is incorrect as Bob owns a car.
I would still like to GROUP by Product.
How do I separate the above table into two groups?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Use below query :-
select name from table where flag!=1
and name not in (select name from table where flag = 1)
group by name

Answer 2

"show me the consumer WHERE flag !=1, it'll pick Bob" that is because you are asking for rows where flag != 1. Instead you'll need something a little more complicated, like:
SELECT DISTINCT Name
FROM tableTable
WHERE Name NOT IN (SELECT Name FROM theTable WHERE Product = 'Car')
alternatively, you can do a LEFT JOIN, which may or may not be faster depending on the amount of data you have and how its values are distributed.
SELECT DISTINCT a.Name
FROM theTable a
LEFT JOIN theTable b ON a.Name = b.Name AND b.Product = 'Car'
WHERE a.Product != 'Car' AND b.Product IS NULL
;
This gets all the rows with products other than cars, and then uses the LEFT JOIN in conjunction with the IS NULL condition to find which did not also have a 'Car' row.

Answer 3

I think you want your table's data displayed, just with "People who bought cars" partitioned (not grouped) separately somehow - this could be done with an ORDER BY OwnsACar clause, for example.
Step 1: Identify the people who have bought cars:
SELECT DISTINCT
Name
FROM
yourTable
WHERE
Product = 'Car'
Step 2: Join on this data to generate a calculated "OwnsACar" column:
SELECT
yourTable.Name,
yourTable.Product,
ISNULL( carowners.Name ) AS OwnsACar
FROM
yourTable
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
SELECT DISTINCT
Name
FROM
yourTable
WHERE
Product = 'Car'
) AS carowners ON carowners.Name = yourTable.Name
ORDER BY
OwnsACar ASC,
yourTable.Name ASC

Answer 4

You can use these two queries. The additional Flag column is not required.
-- do not have Car
SELECT *
FROM products
WHERE Name not in (SELECT DISTINCT Name
FROM products
WHERE Product='Car');
-- have Car
SELECT *
FROM products
WHERE Name in (SELECT DISTINCT Name
FROM products
WHERE Product='Car');
Illustration:
-- table
SELECT * FROM products;
+------+---------+
| Name | Product |
+------+---------+
| Bob | Car |
| Bob | Apples |
| Bob | Pears |
| Bob | Car |
| John | Apples |
| John | Pears |
+------+---------+
-- query for people that do not have Car
+------+---------+
| Name | Product |
+------+---------+
| John | Apples |
| John | Pears |
+------+---------+
-- query for people having 'Car'
+------+---------+
| Name | Product |
+------+---------+
| Bob | Car |
| Bob | Apples |
| Bob | Pears |
| Bob | Car |
+------+---------+

Answer 5

Try with :
SELECT `t`.`Name`, `t`.`Product`, SUM(`t`.`Flag`) as hasCar
FROM your_table t
GROUP BY `t`.`Name`
HAVING `t`.`hasCar` = 0;
Although you can go without the flag column by going :
SELECT `t`.`Name`, `t`.`Product`, SUM(IF(`t`.`Product` = 'Car', 1, 0)) as hasCar
FROM your_table t
GROUP BY `t`.`Name`
HAVING `t`.`hasCar` = 0;