I have two tables, one with settingIDs and values of those settings for each userID and another with userIDs, their emails and user names.
I am trying to join the values of specific settings, the problem is that not all users have this specific setting tied to their ID, so I end up with less rows than I actually need.
Table 1
userID settingID settingValue
Table 2
userID userDOB userEmail userName
My query looks like this:
SELECT u.userID, u.userEmail, s.settingValue
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN userSettings s ON u.userID = s.userID
WHERE s.settingID = 1
What do I need to do to get all of the users in the list?
Your where clause turns you left join into an inner join. Put the condition in the JOIN
SELECT u.userID, u.userEmail, s.settingValue
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN userSettings s ON u.userID = s.userID
AND s.settingID = 1
you can use UNION ALL clause to combine two JOINS
SELECT u.userID, u.userEmail, s.settingValue
FROM users u
LEFT userSettings s
ON u.userID = s.userID
UNION ALL
SELECT u.userID, u.userEmail, s.settingValue
FROM users u
RIGHT userSettings s
ON u.userID = s.userID
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I have 2 tables.
users(id,username) and links(id,usernameORid).
Example of rows: users{ [1,test] , [2,stack] } and links{ [1,overflow] , [2, 1] }
So, table links may contain username or id from table users. As you can see in the example,
usernameORid from links may not contain the id or username from users.
I hope you understood my example.
Now, i have this query:
SELECT l.usernameORid, u.username, u.id
FROM links l
LEFT JOIN users u
ON l.usernameORid= u.id
LEFT JOIN user_roles ur
ON ur.userID = u.id
WHERE ur.roleID < 4
group by u.id
But this query does not return rows from links if usernameORid is not an actual username or id from users.
In the previous example, will not return row [1,overflow]. I want that row too.
How can i achieve that?
EDIT: The problem is partialy related to
LEFT JOIN user_roles ur
ON ur.userID = u.id
WHERE ur.roleID < 4
but still, how can i achieve that?
user_roles ( id,userID,roleID)
Change your final WHERE condition to:
WHERE ur.roleID < 4 OR u.id IS NULL
This will allow it to return rows that didn't have a match in users. Normally a LEFT JOIN does that by itself, but since you're doing an additional join on that table, the WHERE clause is filtering those non-matching rows out because they don't have a roleID.
You can use an OR statement in your join between links and users. This will allow you to pick up users records where the link.usernameORid is equal to either the users.id or the users.username
SELECT l.usernameORid,
u.username,
u.id
FROM links l
LEFT JOIN users u ON
l.usernameORid = u.id OR
lusernameORid = u.username
LEFT JOIN user_roles ur
ON ur.userID = u.id
WHERE ur.roleID < 4
GROUP BY u.id
This will still cause records to drop if the found users->user_roles.roleID is less than 4. If you wanted to have link records maintained regardless of whether of a user was found by username or ID then you would need to subquery the users and user_roles table joins and apply your WHERE statement there instead. This query is below:
SELECT
l.usernameORid,
u.username,
u.id
FROM links l
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
users.username,
users.idusers
FROM
users
LEFT JOIN user_roles ON
user_roles.userID = users.id
WHERE
user_roles.roleID < 4
) u ON
l.usernameORid= u.id OR
l.usernameORid = u.username
group by u.id
Furthermore, if you wish the 2nd or 3rd column of your return to hold the value that is in l.usernameORid when the users table lacks a match... if your users.id is always numeric you could do some trickery with a CASE statement:
SELECT
l.usernameORid,
Coalesce(u.username, CASE WHEN .lusernameORid REGEXP '^[0-9]+$' THEN NULL ELSE l.usernameORid END) as username,
Coalesce(u.username, CASE WHEN .lusernameORid REGEXP '^[0-9]+$' THEN l.usernameORid ELSE NULL END) as userid
FROM links l
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
users.username,
users.idusers
FROM
users
LEFT JOIN user_roles ON
user_roles.userID = users.id
WHERE
user_roles.roleID < 4
) u ON
l.usernameORid= u.id OR
l.usernameORid = u.username
group by u.id
Keep in mind though, that if the users table doesn't have a match for the links.usernameORid then only the username OR the id could be determined, so you will have a NULL in one of the two fields.
I have two table, users and comments.
In the users table, there're columns id and username.
In the comments table I have user_id and his message.
And I wanted to create a table that select the username and his comment count when I search a particular username.
How do I write this?
my testing attempt:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS comment_count
FROM song_comments
RIGHT JOIN users
WHERE user_id = 7 AND comments.user_id = users.id
Try this:
SELECT U.Username, COUNT(SC.message) AS comment_count
FROM song_comments SC JOIN
users U ON U.id=SC.user_id
WHERE U.user_id = 7
GROUP BY U.Username
This gives you users and count
select u.username, count(c.user_id) as comment_count
from users u
join comments c on u.id = c.user_id
group by u.username
You can add a where to get one user's count
select u.username, count(c.user_id) as comment_count
from users u
join comments c on u.id = c.user_id
where u.username = 'Hogan'
group by u.username
I have 2 tables in my database. Table users and table profile.
users(user_id, surname, email)
profile(profile_id, country, user_id)
user_id in table profile, is FK (comes from users table). I have the following query in order to select all surnames "smith" from my database, that are from country "USA". This is my query:
SELECT u.name,
u.surname,
u.email,
u.user_id,
p.user_id
FROM users u
INNER JOIN profile p ON p.country = 'USA'
WHERE u.surname = 'smith' AND u.user_id = p.user_id
this query works fine, but the problem is that returns only 1 result and not all results from my database (people with surname smith that are from USA). Any idea where it might be the wrong and how to correct it?
You should put the u.user_id = p.user_id condition with ON condition because you want to apply JOIN on 'user_id' field. And where clause should have the remaining condition.
SELECT u.name,
u.surname,
u.email,
u.user_id,
p.user_id
FROM users u
INNER JOIN profile p ON u.user_id = p.user_id
WHERE u.surname = 'smith' And p.country = 'USA'
You can read about INNER JOINS
Use only the columns in your join on condition that are relevant for the join. The columns that link 2 tables together. And put the rest in the where clause. That should work:
SELECT u.name,
u.surname,
u.email,
u.user_id,
p.user_id
FROM users u
INNER JOIN profile p ON u.user_id = p.user_id
WHERE p.country = 'USA'
AND u.surname = 'smith'
This is also better for readability. You can read it like this:
SELECT these columns from table users. JOIN also table profile ON this 2 columns. After that filter the data and return only the records WHERE these conditions are met.
I have 3 MySQL tables namely chat_comments, chat_friends and user_details and I want to display a friend list.
My tables:
chat_comments(comment_id,comment,user_id,user_id2,date_added)
chat_friends(user_id,user_id2,approved)
user_details(user_id, mainimage_id, fullname)
To do this, I need a query that will return the needed fields (u.mainimage_id, u.fullname, b.comment, b.user_id) so I can loop through the list to display a table.
SQL so far (help from #Andriy M):
SELECT
cc.comment,
cc.date_added,
u.fullname,
u.mainimage_id
FROM
user_details u
LEFT JOIN
chat_comments cc
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
user_id,
MAX(comment_id) AS maxcomment
FROM chat_comments WHERE user_id=2020 OR user_id2=2020
GROUP BY user_id
) a ON a.user_id = cc.user_id
AND a.maxcomment = cc.comment_id
ON a.user_id = u.user_id
WHERE u.user_id IN (
SELECT user_id2
FROM chat_friends
WHERE user_id = 2020
AND approved = 1
)
The above query returns the last comment made by the logged-in user's friends in conversation not the last comment between the logged-in user and his/her friend regardless of who made it.
I would like it to return the last comment between the logged-in user and their friend individually regardless of who made it. In the chat_messages table, user_id is the sender and user_id2 is the receiver. Hope it makes sense?
Like #imm said in a comment, you need to use an outer join. In case of a left join, the user_details table should become the left side of the join, the right side being the result of your inner join of chat_comments with your a derived table. You'll also need to remove the user_id IN (…) condition from inside the a subselect and re-apply it to the user_details table. Here:
SELECT
cc.comment,
cc.date_added,
u.fullname,
u.mainimage_id
FROM
user_details u
LEFT JOIN
chat_comments cc
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
user_id,
MAX(comment_id) AS maxcomment
FROM chat_comments
GROUP BY user_id
) a ON a.user_id = cc.user_id
AND a.maxcomment = cc.comment_id
ON a.user_id = u.user_id
WHERE u.user_id IN (
SELECT user_id2
FROM chat_friends
WHERE user_id = 2020
AND approved = 1
)
;
Alternatively, you could use a right join. In this case you would just need to move the user_id IN (…) condition, similarly to the LEFT JOIN solution above, and replace the second INNER JOIN with RIGHT JOIN:
SELECT
cc.comment, cc.date_added, u.fullname, u.mainimage_id
FROM
(
SELECT user_id, MAX(comment_id) AS maxcomment
FROM chat_comments
GROUP BY user_id
) a
INNER JOIN
chat_comments cc ON
a.user_id = cc.user_id AND
a.maxcomment = cc.comment_id
RIGHT JOIN
user_details u ON
a.user_id = u.user_id
WHERE u.user_id IN (select user_id2 from chat_friends where user_id=2020 AND approved=1)
Tables:
users: id, name
usersFacebookFriends: id, uid, friendUid, name
I need a query to search for friends (name), and check if they exists in the users table, so then they are also on the website registered.
Is this possible with a left join, and if so how?
Thanks.
SELECT ff.id, ff.uid, ff.friendUid, ff.name, u.id, u.name
FROM usersFacebookFriends ff
LEFT JOIN users u
ON ff.name = u.name;
If you want only those that exist:
SELECT ff.id, ff.uid, ff.friendUid, ff.name, u.id, u.name
FROM usersFacebookFriends ff
INNER JOIN users u
ON ff.name = u.name;
If you want only those that don't exist:
SELECT ff.id, ff.uid, ff.friendUid, ff.name, u.id, u.name
FROM usersFacebookFriends ff
LEFT JOIN users u
ON ff.name = u.name
WHERE u.id IS NULL;
I guess this should make a job. If facebook friend is not registered with your site corrsponding joined User table fields will be NULL.
SELECT f.name, u.* FROM usersFacebookFriends AS f
LEFT JOIN users AS u
ON f.friendUid = u.id
WHERE f.uid = 123
Change LEFT JOIN to INNER JOIN if you need to find only those who exist.