SQL newbie here.
So we have 3 tables:
categories(cat_id,name);
products(prod_id,name);
relationships(prod_id,cat_id);
It is a one-to-many relationship.
So, given a category name say "Books". How do I find all the products that come under books?
As an example,
categories(1,Books);
categories(2,Phones);
products(302,Sherlock Holmes);
relationships(302,1);
You need to JOIN the three tables.
SELECT p.*
FROM relationships r
INNER JOIN products p
ON p.prod_id = r.prod_id
INNER JOIN categories c
ON c.cat_d = r.cat_id
WHERE c.name = 'Books'
You have to join tables on related columns and specify WHERE clause to select all records where category name = 'Books'
SELECT p.*
FROM categories c
JOIN relationships r ON c.cat_id = r.cat_id
JOIN products p ON r.prod_id = p.prod_id
WHERE c.name = 'Books' -- or specify parameter like #Books
In SQL you often join related tables and beginners tend to join, whatever the situation. I would not recommend this. In your case you want to select products. If you only want to show products data, select from products only. You want to select products that are in the category 'Books' (or for which exists an entry in category 'Books'). Hence use an IN or EXISTS clause in order to find them:
select * from products
where prod_id in
(
select prod_id
from relationships
where cat_id = (select cat_id from categories where name = 'Books')
);
Thus you get a well structured query that tells the reader easily how the tables are related and what data you are actually interested in. Later, with different tables and data to select, this may keep you from duplicate result rows that you must get rid of by using DISTINCT or from getting wrong aggregates (sums, counts, etc.), because of mistakenly considering records multifold.
try this:
select p.Prod_id,p.name
from products p inner join relationships r on
p.prod_id = r.prod_id
where r.cat_id = (select cat_id from categories where name = 'books')
or
select p.Prod_id,p.name
from products p inner join relationships r on
p.prod_id = r.prod_id inner join categories c on c.cat_id = r.cat_id
where c.name = 'books'
Related
Running the following SELECT query gives unexpectedly two times the same record while there is only 1 product in the database. The are however multiple subcategories linked to the same category, but I still don't understand why this would give two results.
The ERD:
The full contents of the DB:
SELECT p.id AS productId, p.name AS productName FROM product p
INNER JOIN product_base AS pb ON pb.id = p.product_base_id
INNER JOIN product_category AS pc ON pc.id = pb.product_category_id
INNER JOIN product_subcategory AS psc ON psc.product_category_id = pc.id;
Returns:
Why is this product returned two times?
Appending WHERE psc.id = 2 will still give one product as a result, while the intention is that this product should only be found when psc.id = 1.
What am I missing here? Is there something wrong with the structure? How would I get all products that have a certain subcategory?
Would I need to store product_category_id and product_subcategory_id directly in product as well?
#barmar made me realize I am simply missing a direct FK from product to product_subcategory. Otherwise there is of course a missing link between the product and subcategory.
DISTINCT will filter out the duplicates.
SELECT DISTINCT p.id AS productId, p.name AS productName
FROM product p
INNER JOIN product_base AS pb ON pb.id = p.product_base_id
INNER JOIN product_category AS pc ON pc.id = pb.product_category_id
INNER JOIN product_subcategory AS psc ON psc.product_category_id = pc.id;
I have three tables as below, each product may belong to multiple categories.
PRODUCT TABLE AS P
1. ID
2. NAME
CATEGORY TABLE AS C
1. ID
2. NAME
RELATION TABLE AS R
1. ID
2. P_ID
3. C_ID
Now I want to get a list of all products in product table, and with their belonging category name display as well.
How do I write this query?
I can get the category ids pulled from the same query, but don't know how to get all the name pulled as well. Here's what I tried.
select p.*,y.*
from p
left join (select p_id,group_concat(c_id) as category_ids
from relation group by p_id) as y on p.id=y.p_id
Do both JOIN operations (to the relation table, and from there to the table containing the category names) and feed the result to your aggregation function (GROUP_CONCAT)
SELECT P.Name, GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT C.Name ORDER BY C.Name SEPARATOR '|') categories
FROM Product P
LEFT JOIN Relation R ON P.ID = R.P_ID
LEFT JOIN Category C ON R.C_ID = C.ID
GROUP BY P.ID, P.Name
This will give you one row per product with the categories separated by |.
This uses LEFT JOIN operations so it won't suppress products that have no categories.
Select P.Name, C.Name
From RELATION R Inner Join PRODUCT P
On R.P_ID=P.Id
Inner Join Category C
On C.Id=R.C_ID
This query will get you all the products, with their corresponding category.
I want to give you a small explanation about the difference between Inner Join and Left Join.
If we take as an example 2 tables :
TA(idA, description) and TB(idB, idA, description).
Select TA.description, TB.description
From TA Inner Join TB On TA.IdA = TB.IdA
will get only the rows in TA, that have a corresponding one in TB.
On the other side,
Select TA.description, TB.description
From TA Left Join TB On TA.IdA = TB.IdA
will get all the rows of TA and if the row in TA doesn't have a corresponding one in TB, TB.description for this row will be NULL.
Hope this helps!
I have a DB of 3 tables: categories, items, relation. categories contain categories. Goods are stored in items and relation is a binding table, it stores the product id and category id or categories.
How can I for a given list of items, get the names of all categories?
Just join them:
SELECT *
FROM relation r
INNER JOIN items i ON r.id_items = i.id
INNER JOIN categories c ON r.id_cat = c.id
Note that an INNER JOIN will only select the records that show up in both tables. The * here selects all columns. If don't want all of them, you can select the ones you want like this: i.id, i.name, c.id, c.name, etc.
You can try simply LEFT JOIN like this.
SELECT
*
FROM
items AS i
LEFT JOIN relation AS r ON i.id = r.id_items
LEFT JOIN categories AS c ON r.id_cat = c.id
Hope this helps.
Above query will give you all the items which are note even mapped in the relation table While below query will give you only those items which has defined the relation in table relation
SELECT
*
FROM
items AS i
RIGHT JOIN relation AS r ON i.id = r.id_items
LEFT JOIN categories AS c ON r.id_cat = c.id
Let me know if you get any error.
SELECT distinct(c.name) from categories c
JOIN relation as r on c.id = r.id_cat
JOIN items as c on i.id = r.id_items
WHERE i.id in (8, x, y, z, ...etc)
I am new to MySQL, trying to understand how join works.
I have two tables: categories and products each with id and name fields.
Third table is product_to_category (many to many) with category_id and product_id.
I wanted to list all categories containing specified product (with id = 5).
To do this, I made a following query:
SELECT `categories`.`id`, `categories`.`name`
FROM `categories`
LEFT JOIN `product_to_category`
ON `categories`.`id` = `product_to_category`.`category_id`
WHERE `product_to_category`.`product_id` = 5
I am wondering if it is possible to something opposite: to list all categories which does not contains specified product?
Many thanks!
I'd use the not exists operator for this:
SELECT c.`id`, c.`name`
FROM `categories` c
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM `product_to_category` ptc
WHERE c.`id` = ptc.`category_id` AND
ptc.`product_id` = 5)
SELECT *
FROM
productinfo as p ,
category as c
WHERE
c.id IN (p.category) AND
p.pid='T3'
WHERE p.category will return (1,2,3,4,5) from product info table which the id of the category.
Now i need category name used for T3 [product Id] ,but i am getting only the first category name.
Your base query is the following
SELECT * FROM productinfo as p WHERE p.pid = 'T3';
Now you need to pull in categories, per product. This is a many to one relationship, so you need a LEFT JOIN.
SELECT * FROM productinfo as p
LEFT JOIN category as c ON c.id = p.category
WHERE p.id = 'T3'
You need to learn the different types of joins and how they are used. Whenever I see someone use 'FROM table1, table2' 90% of the times it means they don't understand joins and they need a LEFT JOIN instead.
Edit based on your comment
Your datamodel is flawed. Since a product can contain multiple categories, this is really a many-to-many relationship. You should create a product_category table that connects product id's with category id's.