Query returning false PHP - mysql

I am having trouble with a MySQL query. The query is as follows:
SET #catlocation = (SELECT id FROM categories WHERE url_name='hexcode');
SELECT
subs.display_name AS display,
subs.url_name AS url,
(
SELECT title
FROM threads
WHERE location = subs.id
ORDER BY time_submitted DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS title,
(
SELECT username
FROM users
WHERE uid = (
SELECT uid
FROM threads
WHERE location = subs.id
ORDER BY time_submitted DESC
LIMIT 1
)
LIMIT 1
) AS author,
(
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM threads
WHERE location = subs.id
ORDER BY time_submitted DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS thread_count
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE parent_id = #catlocation
) AS subs
When I try to run this through PHP I get a false result and an error of:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT subs.display_name AS display, subs.url_name AS url, ( SELECT threads.' at line 7
I have no idea what the syntax error could be, if someone could point it out to me that would be wonderful.
EDIT: Could this be caused by having two select statements (The one that sets #catlocation and the main query?)

You can refactor your request with joins to increase performance.
SELECT s.display_name display, s.url_name url,
t1.title, u.username author,
COUNT(t2.title) total
FROM categories s
LEFT JOIN threads t1 ON t1.id = (SELECT id FROM threads
WHERE location = s.id
ORDER BY time_submitted DESC
LIMIT 1)
LEFT JOIN users u ON u.uid = t1.uid
LEFT JOIN threads t2 ON t2.location = s.id
WHERE s.parent_id = #catlocation
GROUP BY s.display_name, s.url_name, t1.title, u.username

In a ansi SQL you need to declare a tag for each table or omit it if there is only one. Try taking out the "threads." everywhere, it is not needed

It appears the first SELECT statement which set #catlocation was causing the problem. I moved it into a subquery and the query executed successfully
The new query is as follows:
SELECT categories.display_name display,
categories.url_name url,
threads.title title,
users.username author,
( SELECT COUNT(title)
FROM threads
WHERE location = categories.id
) total
FROM categories
LEFT JOIN threads
ON threads.tid = ( SELECT tid
FROM `threads`
WHERE location = categories.id
ORDER BY time_submitted DESC
LIMIT 1 )
LEFT JOIN users ON users.uid = threads.uid
WHERE categories.parent_id = ( SELECT id
FROM `categories`
WHERE url_name='hexcode'
LIMIT 1 );
I will continue to refactor the query by using JOINs (once I learn how to use them). Thanks to all that suggested fixes, I didn't understand the JOIN answer and still couldn't get it to run without error.

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order by and group by both at time not working

My query is below
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT
usr.*,
messages.message_text, messages.message_id
FROM
`user` as usr
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
message.*
FROM
message AS message
ORDER BY
message.updated_at
DESC
) AS messages
ON
`usr`.`user_id` = `messages`.`sender_id` OR `usr`.`user_id` = `messages`.`receiver_id`
WHERE
`usr`.`is_delete` = 0 AND `usr`.`is_active` = 1
ORDER BY
messages.updated_at
DESC
) AS result
GROUP BY
result.user_id
if i remove the group by then it work well , but i want the result with group by Please Help.
I have one message table in that i have saved the sender id and receiver id, both id have foreign key with user table and i want the recent message send by user and user details
So for latest message i am using order by desc and after getting all the messages with descending order i am using group by but it is not working.
It was very hard making the table schemas and the data insert in them which would act like your scenario. So next time, please provide a fiddle link to your schema/situation.
Here were the issues in your query:
You dont need a subquery after LEFT JOIN
ORDER BY clause is always after GROUP BY
You must mention all the columns that you are SELECTing in the GROUP BY clause.
Tweaked your query a bit:
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT
usr.*,
messages.message_text, messages.message_id, messages.updated_at
FROM
user as usr
LEFT JOIN message messages
--(
-- SELECT
-- message.*
-- FROM
-- message AS message
-- ORDER BY
-- message.updated_at
-- DESC
--) AS messages
ON
usr.user_id = messages.sender_id OR usr.user_id = messages.receiver_id
WHERE
usr.is_delete = 0 AND usr.is_active = 1
--ORDER BY
--messages.updated_at
--DESC
) AS result
GROUP BY
result.user_id,result.name,result.is_delete,result.is_active,result.message_text,result.message_id,updated_at
ORDER BY
result.updated_at
DESC
Hope it helps :)

Left join sql query

I want to get all the data from the users table & the last record associated with him from my connection_history table , it's working only when i don't add at the end of my query
ORDER BY contributions DESC
( When i add it , i have only the record wich come from users and not the last connection_history record)
My question is : how i can get the entires data ordered by contributions DESC
SELECT * FROM users LEFT JOIN connections_history ch ON users.id = ch.guid
AND EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM connections_history ch1
WHERE ch.guid = ch1.guid
HAVING Max(ch1.date) = ch.date)
The order by should not affect the results that are returned. It only changes the ordering. You are probably getting what you want, just in an unexpected order. For instance, your query interface might be returning a fixed number of rows. Changing the order of the rows could make it look like the result set is different.
I will say that I find = to be more intuitive than EXISTS for this purpose:
SELECT *
FROM users u LEFT JOIN
connections_history ch
ON u.id = ch.guid AND
ch.date = (SELECT Max(ch1.date)
FROM connections_history ch1
WHERE ch.guid = ch1.guid
)
ORDER BY contributions DESC;
The reason is that the = is directly in the ON clause, so it is clear what the relationship between the tables is.
For your casual consideration, a different formatting of the original code. Note in particular the indented AND suggests the clause is part of the LEFT JOIN, which it is.
SELECT * FROM users
LEFT JOIN connections_history ch ON
users.id = ch.guid
AND EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM connections_history ch1
WHERE ch.guid = ch1.guid
HAVING Max(ch1.date) = ch.date
)
We can use nested queries to first check for max_date for a given user and pass the list of guid to the nested query assuming all the users has at least one record in the connection history table otherwise you could use Left Join instead.
select B.*,X.* from users B JOIN (
select A.* from connection_history A
where A.guid = B.guid and A.date = (
select max(date) from connection_history where guid = B.guid) )X on
X.guid = B.guid
order by B.contributions DESC;

SQL query that limits the results to one when using count inside count

I am trying to select the count of likes on a specific project. The idea i came up with is
CAST(count(uploads.ID in (SELECT uploadID from votes)) as decimal) as numberoflikes
this works but the query then only returns one thing.
Entire query
SELECT DISTINCT users.NAME AS username
,users.ID AS userID
,subjects.NAME AS subjectname
,uploads.TIME
,uploads.description
,uploads.NAME
,uploads.ID
,CASE
WHEN uploads.ID IN (
SELECT uploadID
FROM votes
WHERE userID = 2
)
THEN CAST(1 AS DECIMAL)
ELSE CAST(0 AS DECIMAL)
END AS liked
,CASE
WHEN uploads.ID IN (
SELECT uploadID
FROM bookmarks
WHERE userID = 2
)
THEN CAST(1 AS DECIMAL)
ELSE CAST(0 AS DECIMAL)
END AS bookmarked
,CAST(count(uploads.ID IN (
SELECT uploadID
FROM votes
)) AS DECIMAL) AS numberoflikes
FROM uploads
INNER JOIN subjects ON (subjects.ID = uploads.subjectID)
INNER JOIN users ON (users.ID = uploads.userID)
INNER JOIN uploadGrades ON (uploads.ID = uploadGrades.uploadID)
INNER JOIN grades ON (grades.ID = uploadGrades.gradeID)
WHERE uploads.active = 1
AND subjects.ID IN (
SELECT subjectID
FROM userSubjects
INNER JOIN users ON (users.ID = userSubjects.userID)
WHERE userSubjects.userID = 2
)
AND grades.ID IN (
SELECT userGrades.gradeID
FROM uploadGrades
INNER JOIN userGrades ON (uploadGrades.gradeID = userGrades.gradeID)
WHERE userGrades.userID = 2
)
ORDER BY uploads.trueRating DESC;
Lets try a reduce version of your query, That is the base to get better answers
I reduce the initial query to user and upload to start. Also remove the fields you already know how to calculate.
.
SELECT DISTINCT users.NAME AS username
,users.ID AS userID
,uploads.NAME
,uploads.ID
,CAST(count(uploads.ID IN (
SELECT uploadID
FROM votes
)) AS DECIMAL) AS numberoflikes
FROM uploads
INNER JOIN users ON (users.ID = uploads.userID)
WHERE uploads.active = 1
ORDER BY uploads.trueRating DESC;
Then add votes with LEFT JOIN to replace the SELECT in the COUNT that way if not match you will get NULL and as I say in my comment COUNT doesnt count NULL's
.
SELECT DISTINCT users.NAME AS username
,users.ID AS userID
,uploads.NAME
,uploads.ID
,CAST(count(votes.uploadID)) AS DECIMAL) AS numberoflikes
FROM uploads
INNER JOIN users ON (users.ID = uploads.userID)
LEFT JOIN votes ON (uploads.ID = votes.uploadID)
WHERE uploads.active = 1
ORDER BY uploads.trueRating DESC;
Try something like this...
SELECT users.name as username, users.ID as userID, subjects.name as subjectname,
uploads.time, uploads.description, uploads.name, uploads.ID,
count(userVotes.userId), count(bookmarksMade.userId),
FROM uploads
join subjects on(subjects.ID = uploads.subjectID)
join users on(users.ID = uploads.userID)
join uploadGrades on(uploads.ID = uploadGrades.uploadID)
join grades on(grades.ID = uploadGrades.gradeID)
left join (select userId, uploadId from votes where userId = 2) as userVotes on uploads.id = userVotes.uploadId
left join (select userId, uploadId from bookmarks where userId = 2) as bookmarksMade on uploads.id = bookmarksMade.uploadId
join userSubjects on subjects.id = userSubjects.subjectID
WHERE uploads.active = 1 AND
userSubjects.userID = 2
ORDER BY uploads.trueRating DESC;
But, I am leaving out the userGrades thing, because you are doing a funky join there that I don't really understand (joining two tables on something that looks like it is not the whole primary key on either table).
Anyway, you really need to go to something more like this or what Oropeza suggests in his answer. Get more direct about what you want. This query looks like a monster that has been growing and getting things added in with "IN" clauses, as you needed them. Time to go back to the drawing board and think about what you want and how to get at it directly.
count(uploads.ID in (SELECT uploadID from votes)) as numberoflikes
group by uploads.Id ORDER BY uploads.trueRating DESC
I managed to do it like this. If i added the group by then it split the numberoflikes into rows and returned more then one row. Thanks for the help!

MySQL group by twice and COUNT

Some sql query gives me the following result:
As you can see, it already has GROUP BY.
So what I need? I need to group it again (by treatment_name) and count rows for each group. See more details on screenshot.
Here is full query:
SELECT
treatment_summaries.*
FROM `treatment_summaries`
INNER JOIN
`treatments`
ON
`treatments`.`treatment_summary_id` = `treatment_summaries`.`id`
AND
(treatment <> '' and treatment is not null)
INNER JOIN
`treatment_reviews`
ON
`treatment_reviews`.`treatment_id` = `treatments`.`id`
INNER JOIN
`conditions_treatment_reviews`
ON
`conditions_treatment_reviews`.`treatment_review_id` = `treatment_reviews`.`id`
INNER JOIN
`conditions` ON `conditions`.`id` = `conditions_treatment_reviews`.`condition_id`
INNER JOIN `conditions_treatment_summaries` `conditions_treatment_summaries_join`
ON
`conditions_treatment_summaries_join`.`treatment_summary_id` = `treatment_summaries`.`id`
INNER JOIN `conditions` `conditions_treatment_summaries`
ON `conditions_treatment_summaries`.`id` = `conditions_treatment_summaries_join`.`condition_id`
WHERE
`conditions`.`id` = 9
AND `conditions`.`id` IN (9)
AND (latest_review_id is not null)
GROUP BY
treatment_reviews.id
ORDER BY
treatment_summaries.reviews_count desc
LIMIT 20 OFFSET 0
Maybe there is another issue, cause GROUP BY should not leave same lines (for given column), but anyway you can wrap it like this:
SELECT * FROM ( YOUR_SQL_SELECT_WITH_EVERYTHING ) GROUP BY id
So the result you get will behave as another table and you can do all operations like GROUP BY again.

MySQL Inner Join with where clause sorting and limit, subquery?

Everything in the following query results in one line for each invBlueprintTypes row with the correct information. But I'm trying to add something to it. See below the codeblock.
Select
blueprintType.typeID,
blueprintType.typeName Blueprint,
productType.typeID,
productType.typeName Item,
productType.portionSize,
blueprintType.basePrice * 0.9 As bpoPrice,
productGroup.groupName ItemGroup,
productCategory.categoryName ItemCategory,
blueprints.productionTime,
blueprints.techLevel,
blueprints.researchProductivityTime,
blueprints.researchMaterialTime,
blueprints.researchCopyTime,
blueprints.researchTechTime,
blueprints.productivityModifier,
blueprints.materialModifier,
blueprints.wasteFactor,
blueprints.maxProductionLimit,
blueprints.blueprintTypeID
From
invBlueprintTypes As blueprints
Inner Join invTypes As blueprintType On blueprints.blueprintTypeID = blueprintType.typeID
Inner Join invTypes As productType On blueprints.productTypeID = productType.typeID
Inner Join invGroups As productGroup On productType.groupID = productGroup.groupID
Inner Join invCategories As productCategory On productGroup.categoryID = productCategory.categoryID
Where
blueprints.techLevel = 1 And
blueprintType.published = 1 And
productType.marketGroupID Is Not Null And
blueprintType.basePrice > 0
So what I need to get in here is the following table with the columns below it so I can use the values timestamp and sort the entire result by profitHour
tablename: invBlueprintTypesPrices
columns: blueprintTypeID, timestamp, profitHour
I need this information with the following select in mind. Using a select to show my intention of the JOIN/in-query select or whatever that can do this.
SELECT * FROM invBlueprintTypesPrices
WHERE blueprintTypeID = blueprintType.typeID
ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1
And I need the main row from table invBlueprintTypes to still show even if there is no result from the invBlueprintTypesPrices. The LIMIT 1 is because I want the newest row possible, but deleting the older data is not a option since history is needed.
If I've understood correctly I think I need a subquery select, but how to do that? I've tired adding the exact query that is above with a AS blueprintPrices after the query's closing ), but did not work with a error with the
WHERE blueprintTypeID = blueprintType.typeID
part being the focus of the error. I have no idea why. Anyone who can solve this?
You'll need to use a LEFT JOIN to check for NULL values in invBlueprintTypesPrices. To mimic the LIMIT 1 per TypeId, you can use the MAX() or to truly make sure you only return a single record, use a row number -- this depends on whether you can have multiple max time stamps for each type id. Assuming not, then this should be close:
Select
...
From
invBlueprintTypes As blueprints
Inner Join invTypes As blueprintType On blueprints.blueprintTypeID = blueprintType.typeID
Inner Join invTypes As productType On blueprints.productTypeID = productType.typeID
Inner Join invGroups As productGroup On productType.groupID = productGroup.groupID
Inner Join invCategories As productCategory On productGroup.categoryID = productCategory.categoryID
Left Join (
SELECT MAX(TimeStamp) MaxTime, TypeId
FROM invBlueprintTypesPrices
GROUP BY TypeId
) blueprintTypePrice On blueprints.blueprintTypeID = blueprintTypePrice.typeID
Left Join invBlueprintTypesPrices blueprintTypePrices On
blueprintTypePrice.TypeId = blueprintTypePrices.TypeId AND
blueprintTypePrice.MaxTime = blueprintTypePrices.TimeStamp
Where
blueprints.techLevel = 1 And
blueprintType.published = 1 And
productType.marketGroupID Is Not Null And
blueprintType.basePrice > 0
Order By
blueprintTypePrices.profitHour
Assuming you might have the same max time stamp with 2 different records, replace the 2 left joins above with something similar to this getting the row number:
Left Join (
SELECT #rn:=IF(#prevTypeId=TypeId,#rn+1,1) rn,
TimeStamp,
TypeId,
profitHour,
#prevTypeId:=TypeId
FROM (SELECT *
FROM invBlueprintTypesPrices
ORDER BY TypeId, TimeStamp DESC) t
JOIN (SELECT #rn:=0) t2
) blueprintTypePrices On blueprints.blueprintTypeID = blueprintTypePrices.typeID AND blueprintTypePrices.rn=1
You don't say where you are putting the subquery. If in the select clause, then you have a problem because you are returning more than one value.
You can't put this into the from clause directly, because you have a correlated subquery (not allowed).
Instead, you can put it in like this:
from . . .
(select *
from invBLueprintTypesPrices ibptp
where ibtp.timestamp = (select ibptp2.timestamp
from invBLueprintTypesPrices ibptp2
where ibptp.blueprintTypeId = ibptp2.blueprintTypeId
order by timestamp desc
limit 1
)
) ibptp
on ibptp.blueprintTypeId = blueprintType.TypeID
This identifies the most recent records for all the blueprintTypeids in the subquery. It then joins in the one that matches.