I'm practicing some SQL (new to this),
I have the next tables:
screening_occapancy(idscreening,row,col,idclient)
screening(screeningid,idmovie,idtheater,screening_time)
Im trying to creating a query to search which clients watched all the movies in the "screening" table and show their ID(idclient).
this is what I written(which doesn't work):
select idclient from screening_occapancy p where not exists
(select screeningid from screening where screeningid=p.idscreening)
I know it's probably not that good so please try to explain also what am I doing wrong.
P.S My mission is to use not/exists while doing it...
Thanks!
Your query is basically fine, although the select distinct is unnecessary in the subquery:
select p.idclient
from screening_occapancy p
where not exists (select 1
from screening s
where s.screeningid = p.idscreening
);
Notes:
You can select anything in the exists subquery. Selecting a column is misleading.
Use table aliases and use them for all column references, particularly in a correlated subquery.
If you are designing the tables, I would advise you to give the primary key and foreign key the same name (screeningid or idscreening, but not both).
EDIT:
If you want clients who watched all movies, then I would approach this as:
select p.idclient
from screening_occapancy p
group by p.idclient
having count(distinct p.screening_occapancy p) = (select count(*) from screening);
Why don't you count the number of movies in the screening_table, load it into a variable and check the results of your query results against the variable?
load number of movies into variable (identified by idmovie):
SELECT count(DISTINCT(idmovie)) FROM screening INTO #number_of_movies;
check the results of your query against the variable:
SELECT A.idclient,
count(DISTINCT(idmovie)) AS number_of_movies_watched,
FROM screening_occapancy A
INNER JOIN screening B
ON(A.idscreening = B.screeningid)
GROUP BY A.idclient
HAVING number_of_movies_watched = #number_of_movies ;
If you want to find all clients, that attended all screenings, replace idmovie with screeningid.
Even someone relatively new to MySQL can get his head around this query. The "not exists"-approach is more difficult to understand.
Related
I've got a problem with MySQL select statement.
I have a table with different Department and statuses, there are 4 statuses for every department, but for each month there are not always every single status but I would like to show it in the analytics graph that there is '0'.
I have a problem with select statement that it shows only existing statuses ( of course :D ).
Is it possible to create temporary table with all of the Departments , Statuses and amount of statuses as 0, then update it by values from other select?
Select statement and screen how it looks in perfect situation, and how it looks in bad situation :
SELECT utd.Departament,uts.statusDef as statusoforder,Count(uts.statusDef) as Ilosc_Statusow
FROM ur_tasks_details utd
INNER JOIN ur_tasks_status uts on utd.StatusOfOrder = uts.statusNR
WHERE month = 'Sierpien'
GROUP BY uts.statusDef,utd.Departament
Perfect scenario, now bad scenario :
I've tried with "union" statements but i don't know if there is a possibility to take only "the highest value" for every department.
example :
I've also heard about
With CTE tables, but I don't really get how to use it. Would love to get some tips on it!
Thanks for your help.
Use a cross join to generate the rows you want. Then use a left join and aggregation to bring in the data:
select d.Departament, uts.statusDef as statusoforder,
Count(uts.statusDef) as Ilosc_Statusow
from (select distinct utd.Departament
from ur_tasks_details utd
) d cross join
ur_tasks_status uts left join
ur_tasks_details utd
on utd.Departament = d.Departament and
utd.StatusOfOrder = uts.statusNR and
utd.month = 'Sierpien'
group by uts.statusDef, d.Departament;
The first subquery should be your source of all the departments.
I also suspect that month is in the details table, so that should be part of the on clause.
Situation Overview
The current question is a problem about selecting values from two tables table A (material) and table B (MaterialRevision). However, The PK of table A might or Might not exist in Table B. When it doesnt exists, the query described in this question wont return the values of table A, but IT SHOULD. So basically here's whats happening :
The query is only returning values when A.id exists in B.id, when In fact, I need it to return values from A when A.id ALSO dont exist in B.id.
Problem:
Suppose two tables. Table Material and Table Material Revision.
Notice that the PK idMaterial is a FK in MaterialRevision.
Current "Mock" Tables
Query Objective
Obs: remember these two tables are a simplification of the real
tables.
For each Material, print the material variables and the last(MAX) RevisionDate from MaterialRevision. In case theres no RevisionDate, print BLANK ("") for the "last revision date".
What is wrongly happening
For each Material, print the material variables and the last(MAX) RevisionDate from MaterialRevision. In case theres no Revision for the Material, doesnt print the Material (SKIP).
Current Code
SELECT
Material.idMaterial,
Material.nextRevisionDate,
Material.obsolete,
lastRevisionDate
FROM Material,
(SELECT MaterialRevision.idMaterial, max(MaterialRevision.revisionDate) as "revisionDate" from MaterialRevision
GROUP BY MaterialRevision.idMaterial
) AS Revision
WHERE (Material.idMaterial = Revision.idMaterial AND Material.obsolete = 0)
References and Links used to reach the state described in this question
Why is MAX() 100 times slower than ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1?
MySQL get last date records from multiple
MySQL - How to SELECT based on value of another SELECT
MySQL Query Select where id does not exist in the JOIN table
PS I hope this question is correctly understood since it took me a lot of time to build it. I researched a lot in stackoverflow and after
several failed attempts I had no option but to ask for help.
You should use JOIN :
SELECT m.idMaterial, m.nextRevisionDate, mr.revisionDate AS "lastRevisionDate"
FROM Material m
LEFT JOIN MaterialRevision AS mr ON mr.idMaterial = m.idMaterial AND mr.revisionDate = (
SELECT MAX(ch.revisionDate) from MaterialRevision ch
WHERE mr.idMaterial = ch.idMaterial)
WHERE m.obsolete = 0
Here is an explanation of what INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN are. (You will love them if you often cross tables in your queries)
As m.obsolete will always be true, I ommited it in the SELECT clause
You should use the left outer join instead of using the cross product.
You're query should be something like this:
SELECT idMaterial, nextRevisionableDate, obsolete,
revisionDate AS lastRevisionDate
FROM Material
LEFT OUTER JOIN MaterialRevision AS mr On
Material.idMaterial = MaterialRevision.id
AND mr.revisionDate = (SELECT MAX(ch.revisionDate) from MaterialRevision ch
WHERE mr.idMaterial = ch.idMaterial)
WHERE obsolete = 0;
Here you can find some documentation about types of join.
My query is:
"SELECT GameTitle,YearDev From GameRental, Console WHERE GameRental.RentedBy=
"Ryan" AND EXISTS (SELECT GameTitle, YearDev FROM Console WHERE
Console.YearDev="2004");
This just lists the one game that fulfills that query, as expected, but then lists all the development years of all the consoles. How is this properly done? I need to use a subquery.
SELECT g.GameTitle, c.YearDev
FROM GameRental g
JOIN Console c
ON g.console_id = c.id -- or some other key
WHERE c.YearDev="2004"
AND g.renter = "Ryan";
You need to join your games on the console that they were made for.
Carson's code will work, but if you need to use a sub-query all you have to do is supplement your EXISTS in his query:
SELECT g.GameTitle, c.YearDev
FROM GameRental g
JOIN Console c
ON g.console_id = c.id -- This is the foreign key or how you'll link the tables
WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM Console WHERE YearDev = "2004" )
AND g.renter = "Ryan";
Notice the table aliases of 'g' and 'c'. They will help you be explicit when determining which tables to pull columns from should the tables contain similarly named columns.
Since this is an assignment I'd suggest some further study on joins and sub-queries. Here's a helpful link on the sub-queries:
Sub-Queries
The specific problem is listing the names of the teachers that never graded.
I have 'teachers' table with the columns 'Name' and 'ID'.
And 'grades' table with the column 'IDTeacher' and 'Grade'.
Don't get why this doesn't work:
Select Name from teachers where not exists(Select * from grades, teachers)
You can just join it with the grades table and use the ones where the join returns "null" for the right side:
SELECT
name
from
teachers t
LEFT JOIN
grades g
on
t.teacher = g.teacher
WHERE
ISNULL(g.teacher)
edit: Thought about a right join instead, but no, the right join might not work, if the teacher has no entry in the grades table. (Then you would miss him completely, even if he is in the teacher table)
You could also use WHERE IN for this:
SELECT
name
FROM
teachers
WHERE
name
NOT IN (SELECT name from grades)
BUT the MySQL Optimizer will rewrite this to exactly the correlated subquery #Gordon Linoff has written. Using WHERE NOT IN is just easier to read imho.
Your query does work, it just doesn't do what you think it should. The subquery creates a cartesian product between the two tables. If both tables have rows, then the cartesian product has rows and the where clause will always be true.
You can take this approach, but you need a correlated subquery:
Select Name
from teachers t
where not exists (Select 1 from grades g where g.idteacherid = t.id);
Note that this query only has one table in the subquery.
There are other ways to write this query, but this seems to be the approach you are heading in. And, not exists is a very reasonable approach.
I need to gather posts from two mysql tables that have different columns and provide a WHERE clause to each set of tables. I appreciate the help, thanks in advance.
This is what I have tried...
SELECT
blabbing.id,
blabbing.mem_id,
blabbing.the_blab,
blabbing.blab_date,
blabbing.blab_type,
blabbing.device,
blabbing.fromid,
team_blabbing.team_id
FROM
blabbing
LEFT OUTER JOIN
team_blabbing
ON team_blabbing.id = blabbing.id
WHERE
team_id IN ($team_array) ||
mem_id='$id' ||
fromid='$logOptions_id'
ORDER BY
blab_date DESC
LIMIT 20
I know that this is messy, but i'll admit, I am no mysql veteran. I'm a beginner at best... Any suggestions?
You could put the where-clauses in subqueries:
select
*
from
(select * from ... where ...) as alias1 -- this is a subquery
left outer join
(select * from ... where ...) as alias2 -- this is also a subquery
on
....
order by
....
Note that you can't use subqueries like this in a view definition.
You could also combine the where-clauses, as in your example. Use table aliases to distinguish between columns of different tables (it's a good idea to use aliases even when you don't have to, just because it makes things easier to read). Example:
select
*
from
<table> as alias1
left outer join
<othertable> as alias2
on
....
where
alias1.id = ... and alias2.id = ... -- aliases distinguish between ids!!
order by
....
Two suggestions for you since a relative newbie in SQL. Use "aliases" for your tables to help reduce SuperLongTableNameReferencesForColumns, and always qualify the column names in a query. It can help your life go easier, and anyone AFTER you to better know which columns come from what table, especially if same column name in different tables. Prevents ambiguity in the query. Your left join, I think, from the sample, may be ambigous, but confirm the join of B.ID to TB.ID? Typically a "Team_ID" would appear once in a teams table, and each blabbing entry could have the "Team_ID" that such posting was from, in addition to its OWN "ID" for the blabbing table's unique key indicator.
SELECT
B.id,
B.mem_id,
B.the_blab,
B.blab_date,
B.blab_type,
B.device,
B.fromid,
TB.team_id
FROM
blabbing B
LEFT JOIN team_blabbing TB
ON B.ID = TB.ID
WHERE
TB.Team_ID IN ( you can't do a direct $team_array here )
OR B.mem_id = SomeParameter
OR b.FromID = AnotherParameter
ORDER BY
B.blab_date DESC
LIMIT 20
Where you were trying the $team_array, you would have to build out the full list as expected, such as
TB.Team_ID IN ( 1, 4, 18, 23, 58 )
Also, not logical "||" or, but SQL "OR"
EDIT -- per your comment
This could be done in a variety of ways, such as dynamic SQL building and executing, calling multiple times, once for each ID and merging the results, or additionally, by doing a join to yet another temp table that gets cleaned out say... daily.
If you have another table such as "TeamJoins", and it has say... 3 columns: a date, a sessionid and team_id, you could daily purge anything from a day old of queries, and/or keep clearing each time a new query by the same session ID (as it appears coming from PHP). Have two indexes, one on the date (to simplify any daily purging), and second on (sessionID, team_id) for the join.
Then, loop through to do inserts into the "TempJoins" table with the simple elements identified.
THEN, instead of a hard-coded list IN, you could change that part to
...
FROM
blabbing B
LEFT JOIN team_blabbing TB
ON B.ID = TB.ID
LEFT JOIN TeamJoins TJ
on TB.Team_ID = TJ.Team_ID
WHERE
TB.Team_ID IN NOT NULL
OR B.mem_id ... rest of query
What I ended up doing is;
I added an extra column to my blabbing table called team_id and set it to null as well as another field in my team_blabbing table called mem_id
Then I changed the insert script to also insert a value to the mem_id in team_blabbing.
After doing this I did a simple UNION ALL in the query:
SELECT
*
FROM
blabbing
WHERE
mem_id='$id' OR
fromid='$logOptions_id'
UNION ALL
SELECT
*
FROM
team_blabbing
WHERE
team_id
IN
($team_array)
ORDER BY
blab_date DESC
LIMIT 20
I am open to any thought on what I did. Try not to be too harsh though:) Thanks again for all the info.