SELECT submissions.created_at, guests.accepted
FROM submission
INNER JOIN guests
ON guests.event_id = 1
ORDER BY submissions.created_at ASC;
Currently this query is taking a long time to run (may not even return everything).
What I am trying to accomplish:
Grab the field submissions.created at and guests.accepted (the two are linked by a submission_id)
given a certain event_id (event 1 for example).
What is wrong with my query?
You forgot to give the JOIN condition in your query. Try this:
SELECT submissions.created_at, guests.accepted
FROM submission s
INNER JOIN guests g on g.event_id = s.submissions_id
where guests.event_id = 1
ORDER BY submissions.created_at ASC;
SELECT submissions.created_at, guests.accepted
FROM submission
INNER JOIN guests
ON guests.(column to match against) = submissions.(column to match on)
where guests.event_id=1
ORDER BY submissions.created_at ASC;
As many others here have already said, your join is a little goofed. It's attempting to join the one row that matches in the guests table against every single row in the submission column.
You would need to do your join like this :
Inner join guest on guest.event_id = submissions_id
where guest.event_id = 1
When you join you need to join on two columns from different table (most of the time id columns)
You can read the MySQL example for more explanation. And here is the link to the MySQL reference manual
Related
Basically, I have a table which contains two fields: [id, other] which have user tokens stored in them. The goal of my query is to select a random user that has not been selected before. Once the user is selected it is stored in the table shown above. So if Jack selects Jim randomly, Jack cannot select Jim again, and on the flip side, Jim cannot select Jack.
Something like this is what comes to mind:
SELECT * FROM users
WHERE (SELECT * FROM selected WHERE (id=? AND other=?) OR (id=? AND other=?));
Well, first of all I've read that uses sub-queries like this is extremely inneficient, and I'm not even sure if I used the correct syntax, the problem is however, that I have numerous tables in my scenario which I need to filter by, so it would look more like this.
SELECT * FROM users u
WHERE (SELECT * FROM selected WHERE (id=? AND other=?) OR (id=? AND other=?))
AND (SELECT * FROM other_table WHERE (id=? AND other=?) OR (id=? AND other=?))
AND (SELECT * FROM diff_table WHERE (id=? AND value=?))
AND u.type = 'BASIC'
LIMIT = 1
I feel like there's a much, much more efficient way of handling this.
Please note: I don't want a row returned at all if the users id is present in any of the nested queries. Returning "null" is not sufficient. The reason I have the OR clause is because the user's id can be stored in either the id or the other field, so we need to check both.
I am using Postgre 9.5.3, but I added the MySQL tag as the code is mostly backwards comptable, Fancy Postgre only solutions are accepted(if any)
You can left join to another table, which produces nulls where no record is found:
Select u.* from users u
left selected s on s.id = u.id or s.other = u.other
where s.id is null
The or in a join is different, but should work. Example is kinda silly...but as long as you understand the logic. Left join first table to second table, where second table column is not null means there was atleast one record found that matched the join conditions. Where second table column is null means no record was found.
And you are right...avoid the where field = (select statement) logic when you can, poor performer there.
Use an outer join filtered on missed joins:
SELECT * FROM users u
LEFT JOIN selected s on u.id in (s.id, s.other) and ? in (s.id, s.other)
WHERE u.id != ?
AND s.id IN NULL
LIMIT 1
I'm using 3 tables to collect data from. The proces looks like:
User write VIN to form
Script search in table 1 for case_id and country base on that vin
number
After that he use case_id and country for search in table number 2
and get calculation id from there
Base on that calculation id and case id it search in 3th table
.
My script looks like this:
SELECT
cases.case_id,
cases.lastcalc_model_options,
cases.country,
calculations.calculation_id,
calculations.license,
positions.text
FROM cases
INNER JOIN calculations ON(cases.case_id =calculations.case_id
AND cases.country = calculations.country)
INNER JOIN positions ON(calculations.case_id = positions.case_id
AND calculations.calculation_id = positions.calculation_id)
WHERE vin ='ABCDEFGH'
This select work correctly, problem start when for example there is for example no result in table positions with that case_id and calculation_id. Instead of give back atleast everything it found in other tables it return NOTHING.
Is there a way to change this kind of komplex SELECT to return everything it found not return something only when every condition is TRUE?
Your problem is the INNER JOIN. Using INNER JOIN your result only contains entries present in all tables. Try using LEFT JOIN instead.
SELECT
cases.case_id,
cases.lastcalc_model_options,
cases.country,
calculations.calculation_id,
calculations.license,
positions.text
FROM cases
LEFT JOIN calculations ON(cases.case_id =calculations.case_id
AND cases.country = calculations.country)
LEFT JOIN positions ON(calculations.case_id = positions.case_id
AND calculations.calculation_id = positions.calculation_id)
WHERE vin ='ABCDEFGH'
See this stackoverlow answer for some more indepth information.
INNER JOIN returns rows from both tables only if there is a match between the columns in both tables.
You may try LEFT JOIN or FULL OUTER JOIN instead.
I have two tables. One of them named files and there is al list of all files. the second table called payments, and there is in there a list of payments for some files.
Payments:
id | fileid | {...}
1 2
2 3
3 2
Files:
id | {...}
1
2
3
I want to select all files, and join the table payments to order by count of this table.
In this case, the first row will be file #2, because it repeats the most in the payments table.
I tried to do it, but when I do it - not all of the rows are shown!
I think it happens because not all of the files are in the payments table. So in this case, I think that it won't display the first row.
Thanks, and sorry for my English
P.S: I use mysql engine
** UPDATE **
My Code:
SELECT `id`,`name`,`size`,`downloads`,`upload_date`,`server_ip`,COUNT(`uploadid`) AS numProfits
FROM `uploads`
JOIN `profits`
ON `uploads`.`id` = `profits`.`uploadid`
WHERE `uploads`.`userid` = 1
AND `removed` = 0
ORDER BY numProfits
As others have noted you need to use LEFT JOIN. - This tells MySQL that entries from the tables to the left should be included even if no corresponding entries exists in the table on the right.
Also you should use GROUP BY to indicate how the COUNT should be deliminated.
So the SQL should be something like;
SELECT Files.ID, count(Payments.FileID) as numpays FROM
Files
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Payments
ON Files.id=Payments.FileID
GROUP BY files.ID
ORDER BY numpays desc
SQL Fiddle
Try this:
select B.fileid,A.{}.....
from
(select id,.....
from files A
inner join
(select count(*),fileid,.....
from payments
group by fileid) B
on files.id=payments.fileid)
I hope this helps. I'm assuming that all ID in files table are unique. In this answer, you can apply an order by clause as per your wish. I've left the select statement to you to select whatever data you want to fetch.
As far as your problem is described, I think this should work. If any problems, do post a comment.
Try LEFT JOIN - in MySQL, the default JOIN is actually an INNER JOIN. In an INNER JOIN, you will only get results back that are in both sides of the join.
See: Difference in MySQL JOIN vs LEFT JOIN
And, as noted in the comments, you may need a GROUP BY with your COUNT as well, to prevent it from just counting all the rows that come back.
I just imported a large amount of data into two tables. Let's call them shipments and returns.
When trying to do a simple join (left or inner) based on any criteria in these two tables. query looks like it tries to do a cross join or find every combination instead of what the query should be pulling.
each table has an PK id field, but there is not FK relationship between the two other than some shared field.
I'm currently just trying to related them on shipment_id.
I feel this is a simple answer. Am I missing a reference or something obvious that is causing this? Thanks!
here's an example. This should returned under 100 rows. This instead returns hundreds of thousands.
SELECT r.*
FROM returns as r
left outer join shipments as s
on r.shipment_id = s.shipment_id
where r.date = '2011-06-20'
Here is a query that should work:
SELECT T0.*, T1.*
FROM shipments AS T0 LEFT JOIN returns AS T1 ON T0.shipment_id = T1.shipment_id
ORDER BY T0.shipment_id;
This query join assumes 1:1 on the shipment_id
It would be nice if you included the query you were using
You need to specify what you are joining on, otherwise it will do a cartesian join:
SELECT r.*
FROM returns as r
LEFT JOIN shipments as s ON s.shipment_id = r.shipment_id
where r.date = '2011-06-20'
Josh,
I would be interested in seeing what would happen if you forced a join to a specific record or set of records instead of the whole table. Assuming there is a shipment with an id of 5 in your table, you could try:
SELECT r.* FROM returns as r
left join shipments as s
ON 5 = r.shipment_id
WHERE r.date = '2011-06-20'
While just a fancy where clause, it would at least prove that the join you are attempting will eventually work correctly. The issue is that your on clause is always returning true, no matter what the value is. This could be because it's not interpreting the shipment_id as an integer, but instead as a true/false variable where any value evaluates to true.
Original Rejected Solution:
No Foreign Key relationship should be needed in order to make the joins happen. The PK id fields I'm assuming are an integer (or number, or whatever your rdms equivalent is)?
Can you past a snippet of your sql query?
Updating based on posted query:
I would add your explicit join criteria in order to rule out any funny business (my guess is since no criteria is specified, it's using 1=1, which always joins). So I would change your query to look like:
SELECT r.*
FROM returns as r
left join shipments as s ON
s.ShipId = R.ReturnId
where r.date = '2011-06-20'
The issue turned out to be very simple, just not readily apparent until going through all the columns. It turns out that the shipment ID was duplicated through every row as it hit the upper limit for the int datatype. This is why joins were returning every record.
After switching the datatype to bigint and reimporting, everything worked great. Thanks all for looking into it.
I have two tables: projects and user_licenses.
I'd like to grab the entire list of projects from the database, as well as the user's current license state. The licenses table has a user ID field which I check against a $_SESSION variable for the value. The thing is, they might not have a license, or a non-logged in visitor may want to see the projects list. My question is this: How can I get the data from the left table always display, but only grab data for that row from the right table when certain conditions are met?
The query I have at the moment is this:
SELECT Projects.*,
UserLicenses.*
FROM Projects
LEFT JOIN UserLicenses ON Projects.id = UserLicenses.project_id
WHERE UserLicenses.user_id = 12
ORDER BY name ASC
Add any extra conditions to the on clause of the left join. They will only affect the joined table.
SELECT Projects.*,
UserLicenses.*
FROM Projects
LEFT JOIN UserLicenses
ON Projects.id = UserLicenses.project_id
and UserLicenses.user_id = 12
and UserLicences.Question = '6*7'
and UserLicences.Answer = 42
ORDER BY name ASC
This will return projects without matching licenses.
Move the UserLicenses condition away from WHERE, and up to the JOIN condition. By having it in the WHERE part, you will never see those "left" rows because they are filtered away.
You can also probably use WHERE (UserLicenses.user_id = 12 OR UserLicenses.user_id IS NULL)
Don't do that. Just move it to the join condition like this:
LEFT JOIN UserLicenses ON
(Projects.id = UserLicenses.project_id AND UserLicenses.user_id = 12)
You can use LEFT JOIN
If its conditions match then values show otherwise null value shows.