Mysql (conditional?) query from two tables - mysql

Question

Not sure if I have phrased the title properly, but here it goes. I have these two tables:
table:staff
id Name groupId Status
1 John Smith 1 1
2 John Doe 1 1
3 Jane Smith 2 1
4 Jerry Smith 1 1
table:jobqueue
id job_id staff_id jobStatus
1 1 1 1
2 2 1 1
3 5 2 1
4 7 3 0
Now, what I need to do is to find the staff with the least amount of job assigned to him which I am able to do by querying the jobqueue table.
SELECT min(cstaff),tmp.staff_id FROM (SELECT t.staff_id, count(staff_id) cstaff from jobqueue t join staff s on t.staff_id=s.id join group g on s.groupId=g.id where g.id=26 GROUP BY t.id ) tmp
This works fine, but the problem is if a staff is not assigned to any job at all, this query wont get them, because it only queries the jobqueue table, where that particular staff won't have any entry. I need to modify the query to include the staff table and if a staff is not assigned any job in the jobqueue then I need to get the staff details from the staff table. Basically, I need to find staff for a group who are not assigned any job and if all staffs are assigned job then find staff with the least amount of jobs assigned. Could use some help with this. Also, tagging as Yii as I would like to know if this is doable with Yii active-records. But I am okay with a plain sql query that will work with Yii sql commands.

Answer 1

not sure that it is optimal query, but it works:
select d.groupId, d.name, (select count(*) from jobqueue as e where e.staff_id=d.id) as jobassigned
from staff as d
where d.id in (
select
(
select a.id
from staff as a
left outer join
jobqueue as b
on (a.id = b.staff_id)
where a.groupId = c.groupId
group by a.id
order by count(distinct job_id) asc
limit 1
) as notassigneduserid
from (
select distinct groupId from staff
) as c)
maybe need some comments:
c query is needed to get all distinct groupId - if you have separate table for this, you can replace it
notassigneduserid statement for each groupId select user with minimal job count
d query is needed to fetch actual user names, groupId for all found "unassigned users" and present it
here is the results for data from question:
Group Staff Jobs assigned
1 Jerry Smith 0
2 Jane Smith 1

Answer 2

with
counts as (
select s.groupId
, s.id
, (select count(*) from jobqueue where staff_id = s.id) count
from staff s
group by s.id, s.groupId),
groups as (
select groupId, min(count) mincount
from counts
group by groupId)
select c.groupId, c.id, c.count
from counts c
join groups g on c.groupId = g.groupId
where c.count = g.mincount
This SQL will give you all the staff with the minimum number of jobs in each group. It might be that more than one staff has the same minimum number of jobs. The approach is to use common table expressions to build first a list of counts, and then to retrieve the minimum count for each group. Finally I join the counts and groups tables and retrieve the staff that have the minimum count for each group.
I tested this on SQL Server, but the syntax should work for MySQL as well. To your data I added:
id Name groupId Status
5 Bubba Jones 2 1
6 Bubba Smith 1 1
and
id job_id staff_id jobStatus
5 4 5 1
Results are
group name count
1 Bubba Smith 0
1 Jerry Smith 0
2 Bubba Jones 1
2 Jane Smith 1
BTW, I would not try to do this with active record, it is far too complex.

Answer 3

As Ilya Bursov said this answer wasn't respond exactly what was asked. So here is a more optimized solution:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT s.id as id_staff, s.Name, s.groupId, count(distinct t.id) as jobsXstaff
FROM staff s
LEFT JOIN jobqueue t ON s.id=t.staff_id
GROUP BY s.id, s.groupId
ORDER BY s.groupId, jobsXstaff
) tmp
GROUP BY groupId
Old answer below.
This works but without table group which I don't create. You can simply join table groups as you did:
SELECT min(cstaff),tmp.id
FROM (
SELECT s.id, count( staff_id ) cstaff
FROM jobqueue t
RIGHT JOIN staff s ON t.staff_id = s.id
GROUP BY t.id
) tmp
As you see you need to get all values from table staff (right join) and select the id staff from it's own table (s.id instead of t.staff_id). Also you have to get tmp.id instead of staff_id now.