How to select all rows from group, until occurrence of a value - mysql

Question

I'm trying to extract all rows from same Group until I hit breakpoint value B. The example data below is ordered virtual table:
+----+--------+------------+
| ID | Group | Breakpoint |
+----+--------+------------+
| 1 | 1 | A |
| 2 | 1 | A |
| 3 | 1 | B |
| 4 | 1 | A |
| 5 | 2 | A |
| 6 | 2 | A |
| 7 | 2 | A |
| 8 | 3 | A |
| 9 | 3 | B |
+----+--------+------------+
This would be my result.
+----+--------+------------+
| ID | Group | Breakpoint |
+----+--------+------------+
| 1 | 1 | A |
| 2 | 1 | A |
| 5 | 2 | A |
| 6 | 2 | A |
| 7 | 2 | A |
| 8 | 3 | A |
+----+--------+------------+
Notice that when there are both A and B breakpoint values within a group, I want to have the rows until the first A value in this order. If there are only A values for a group like in group 2, I want to have all of the items in the group.

Answer 1

Here's a simple solution that uses no subqueries or GROUP BY logic.
SELECT t1.ID, t1.Group, t1.Breakpoint
FROM MyTable AS t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN MyTable AS t2
ON t1.ID >= t2.ID AND t1.`Group` = t2.`Group` AND t2.Breakpoint = 'B'
WHERE t2.ID IS NULL
For each row t1, try to find another row t2 with 'B', in the same Group, with an earlier ID. If none is found, the OUTER JOIN guarantees that t2.ID is NULL. That will be true only up until the desired breakpoint.

Answer 2

From you example above, you are not really grouping the results. you just need to display the records where Breakpoint is A:
Select * From Table
Where Breakpint ='A'

Answer 3

You may use NOT EXISTS
select *
from your_table t1
where not exists (
select 1
from your_table t2
where t1.group = t2.group and t2.id <= t1.id and t2.breakpoint = 'B'
)
or ALL can work as well if you never have NULL in id
select *
from your_table t1
where t1.id < ALL(
select t2.id
from your_table t2
where t1.group = t2.group and t2.breakpoint = 'B'
)

Answer 4

Assuming that we are ordering by ID column, we could do something like this:
SELECT d.*
FROM mytable d
LEFT
JOIN ( SELECT bp.group
, MIN(bp.id) AS bp_id
FROM mytable bp
WHERE bp.breakpoint = 'B'
GROUP BY bp.group
) b
ON b.group = d.group
WHERE b.bp_id > d.id OR b.bp_id IS NULL
ORDER BY d.group, d.id
This takes into account cases where there is no breakpoint='B' row for a given group, and returns all of the rows for that group.
Note that the inline view b gets us the lowest id value from rows with breakpoint='B' for each group. We can outer join that to original table (matching on group), and then conditional tests in the WHERE clause to exclude rows that follow the first breakpoint='B' for each group.

Answer 5

SQL tables represent unordered sets. Hence, there is no "before" or "after" a particular row.
Let me assume that you have some column that specifies the ordering. I'll call it id. You can then do what you want with:
select t.*
from t
where t.id < (select min(t2.id) from t t2 where t2.group = t.group and t2.breakpoint = 'B');
To get all rows when if there are no 'B':
select t.*
from t
where t.id < (select coalesce(min(t2.id), t.id + 1) from t t2 where t2.group = t.group and t2.breakpoint = 'B');