Mysql - How to make this work? - mysql

I have a mysql table Products.
It contains the Columns "id,product_name,product_seller,price"
I am trying to create a PHP script to Insert/Update data in the table Products using the seller name (product_seller).
The issue
I don't know what mysql query to use in order to get: A list with All the products NO matter if the seller has it or not and if the seller has the products to give me the details (id,product_name,product_seller,price).
EXAMPLE of what i want to get:
1 - apples - seller A - 12
2 - banana - -
3 - oil - -
4 - dvd - seller A - 25
The product_name must be DISTINCT
Thanks in advance!
* Query must be something like "SELECT DISTINCT product_name FROM Products and let me know where Seller A has the product, at what price, what id what product WHERE seller_name = 'seller A'...yet, show me all products, n matter if seller has it"

Seems to be a straight forward subquery to get a unique list of products then an outer join to get the seller info.
SELECT A.ID, A.Product_name, B.product_Seller, B.Price
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT ID, Product_Name FROM products) A
LEFT JOIN Products B
on A.ID = B.ID
and B.product_Seller = 'seller A'
The LEFT JOIN will ensure you return all the products and only seller information related to the items for 'SELLER A'
SQL generally operates best on data SETS. So I first generate a set of unique IDs and products and then LEFT JOIN this to the sellers product data you desire. The left join ensures we keep all the items. The filtering of the seller MUST be on the JOIN itself and not in the where clause. Otherwise the left join in essence becomes an inner as the NULLS generated from the outer join are removed.
SELECT A.ID, A.Product_name, B.product_Seller, B.Price
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT ID, Product_Name FROM products) A
LEFT JOIN Products B
on A.ID = B.ID
WHERE B.product_Seller = 'seller A'
Wouldn't get the desired result. This is because the where clause is applied after the join so the items that are not associated to the seller would be excluded. Since you want those records, you must use a left join and apply the limit on the JOIN so the items not associated to the seller are returned.
When I initially started with SQL I had trouble with this type of logic. It wasn't until I considered data in terms of "SETS" and how those sets related, that how to solve these questions became easier.

try to use the
SELECT * FROM Products_Table ;
this will obtain all the table values

Related

Join Two Tables based on a third table's data

I have 3 tables, for the sake of this exercise we'll call them: Products, Price, and Discount. I'm trying to join Products and Price tables, only if the ProductID is found in Discount.ProductID (ProductID column within the Discount table).
Products:
ProductID
Size
Color
Ref#
A1234
Small
Blu
0C94
B5678
Med
Red
1D96
Price:
Ref#
Base
Tax
0C94
3.48
0.96
Discount:
ProductID
List
Site
A1234
Two
Three
I'm familiar with joins, so my code starts off as:
SELECT * FROM Product as a
left join Price as b
on a.Ref# = b.Ref#
but I've never nested a constraints within a where clause (if that's even the correct approach) based on a third table. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The end result would be a new products table that only shows the one product, because ProductID B5678 is not in the Discount table.
Just do a 3-table join.
SELECT DISTINCT a.*, b.*
FROM Product AS a
JOIN Price AS b ON a.`Ref#` = b.`Ref#`
JOIN Discount AS c ON a.ProductID = c.ProductID
If you don't need any of the contents of the Discount table, use the exists() funtion to execute a sub query in the where clause. This will give you the fastest results.
SELECT *
FROM Product as a
left join Price as b on a.Ref# = b.Ref#
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM Discount as c
WHERE c.ProductID = a.ProductID
)
If however you do need one or more of the columns of Discount, do an inner join between Product and Discount, joining them on the ProductID. This will result in only the products that have discount, and then do another left join to Price to get the columns from Price into the resultset too. Do be aware though that in case multiple rows exist in Discount for the one Product row, this will result in the same product shown on multiple rows.
SELECT *
FROM Product as a
inner join Discount as c on c.ProductID = a.ProductID
left join Price as b on a.Ref# = b.Ref#

MySQL inner join query select from same table multiple times

I believe I have formed this question title correctly because I wasn't sure how to form it. As an example, I have summarized my query below.
I have an order table which saves order details like customer id, address and product ids and quantity ordered for each order in a row. So multiple inventory/product ids are saved in a single row.
so my query looks like: this is a summarized query for an easier explanation I have omitted various other fields.
SELECT customer.name,customer.address,tbl_order.order_date,tbl_order.product1_id,tbl_order.product2_id,inventory.product1_name,inventory.product2_name
FROM tbl_order
INNER JOIN customer ON tbl_order.customer_id = customer.id
INNER JOIN inventory on tbl_order.product1_id = inventory.id
INNER JOIN inventory on tbl_order.product2_id = inventory.id
where YEAR(tbl_order.order_date)='$year'
So my question is how to get the inventory details from the inventory table based on each product id from tbl_order. I am running a while loop to show all data for a year
while($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($sql1))
I can divide this query into 2 and run the inventory query individually but then how to combine the while loop, as sometimes there could also be empty query when some products are not in order table (depending on order to order, not all products are ordered) so this doesn't work
while($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($sql1)) and ($row1=mysqli_fetch_assoc($inv1)) and ($row2=mysqli_fetch_assoc($inv2))
and so one for 10 products
First, of all you have bad DB design and I kindly advice to normalize your DB.
Second, if you can not re-design the DB you can use multiple joins with aliases like:
SELECT
customer.name, customer.address, tbl_order.order_date,
tbl_order.product1_id, inv1.product1_name,
tbl_order.product2_id, inv2.product2_name
FROM tbl_order
INNER JOIN customer ON tbl_order.customer_id = customer.id
INNER JOIN inventory AS inv1 ON tbl_order.product1_id = inv1.id
INNER JOIN inventory AS inv2 ON tbl_order.product2_id = inv2.id
WHERE YEAR(tbl_order.order_date)='$year'

How to do mysql join to get result form 3 tables

I want to get category id and name from company category table which do not exists in company category cross table. For example the company with id 3 has already category 1 and category 2 and i want the sql result to get category 3
I tried following statement but not getting expected result
SELECT `wp_bmg_company_category`.id, `wp_bmg_company_category`.name
FROM `wp_bmg_company_category`
INNER JOIN `wp_bmg_company_category_cross`
ON `wp_bmg_company_category`.id != `wp_bmg_company_category_cross`.categoryid
if I understood correctly you search category which is now unused.
Select all company data with category ID (return only category ID)
Select all data from category where category id NOT IN (use 1. select data)
And if you find the only unused category for each company separately. Use something like this (ADD company_id for search each company separately, to search unused categories):
SELECT *
FROM category ca
WHERE category_id NOT IN
(SELECT category_id
FROM category c1
JOIN category_cross cc ON c1.id = cc.category_id
WHERE company_id = 1)
What you need is an outer join (left or right) that can retrieve all records from a table, regardless whether it is present in the other table. (You may use not in() or not exists() in place of the outer join).
The other technique you need is called Cartesian join, whereby you match all records from one table with all records from another table. In this case, match all records from the companies table with all records in the categories, to get the complete list of company - category combinations. Then subtract from this the list of categories you have.
select co.id, co.name, ca.id, ca.name
from (wp_bmg_company co join wp_bmg_company_category ca) --this creates the Cartesian join
left join wp_bmg_company_category_cross cr on co.id=cr.companyid and ca.id=cr.categoryid
where cr.id is null --only the non-matched pairs should remain

SQL Join, right ? left ? inner?

working with mySql I would like to list all purchases that customers made on a specific cathegory of products.
So, I had 3 tables: customers (idCustomer, Name) , cathegories (idCategory, CategoryName) and orders (idOrder, idCustomer, idCathegory, Qty, Price)
But I want a listing with ALL of the customers.
Not only the one who bought that specific idCategory
I thought something like:
select sum(Orders.Qty), Customers.Name
from Orders
right join Customers on Orders.idCustomer = Customer.idCustomer
where Orders.idCategory = 'Notebooks'
group by Orders.idCategory
but this statement only lists the records for customers who exists in Orders table.
And I want all of them ( the one who didnt buy, with qty =0 )
thanks in advance
Most people find left join easier to follow than right join. The logic for left join is to keep all rows in the first table, plus additional information from the remaining tables. So, if you want all customers, then that should be the first table.
You will then have a condition on the second table. Conditions on all but the first table should be in the on clause rather than a where. The reason is simple: when there is no match, then the value will be NULL and the where condition will fail.
So, try something like this:
select sum(o.Qty) as sumqty, c.Name
from Customers c left join
Orders o
on o.idCustomer = c.idCustomer and
o.idCategory = 'Notebooks'
group by c.Name;
Finally, the group by should have a relationship to the select clause.
Try this query
select sum(Orders.Qty), Customers.Name
from Customers
right join Orders on Customer.idCustomer = Orders.idCustomer and Orders.idCategory = 'Notebooks'
group by Customers.Name

SQL join with complicated condition

3 tables in database:
Supplier(id, name, address)
Product(id, name, detail)
Product_Supplier(id, productId, supplierId, quantity)
Now I want to get all products (which are supplied by all suppliers) and their quantity if they are supplied by supplier 1 (supplierId = 1). How can I do that in a single sql query?
Update: I can do that if use multiple queries: first I get product information from Product table then query Product_Supplier table with productId and supplierId. Do all in one query is shorter, but is it more efficient?
Using a LEFT OUTER JOIN will allow you to list all products, but only get the quantity for the products supplied by supplier one. You just need to use the supplierId constraint in the join condition.
SELECT Product.*,
Product_Supplier.quantity
FROM Product
LEFT OUTER JOIN Product_Supplier ON Product.id = Product_Supplier.productId
AND Product_Supplier.supplierId = 1