mysql left join produces fewer results than expected - mysql

There are a number of left join questions already, but still I can't quite put my finger on this issue. The WHERE condition doesn't look sensible to move.
The problem is that there should be 4 rows returned but only 1 is.
In checking the left join conditions, there is 1 row returned for each left join, which is correct for the number of records in the table, however the query below returns 1 record instead of 4, but I can't see how to return 4, yet.
Query follows: (Gives 1 result not 4; 4 being expected)
SELECT
list.uid,
list.business_uid,
list.creator_name,
business.company_name,
list_alias.uid AS list_alias_uid,
list_alias.alias AS list_alias,
list_member.uid AS list_member_uid,
mailbox.full_name AS list_member_name,
mailbox.email_address AS list_member_email_address
FROM
mailbox,
business,
list
LEFT JOIN
list_alias ON list_alias.list_uid=list.uid
LEFT JOIN
list_member ON list_member.list_uid=list.uid
WHERE
list.business_uid='1'
AND list.business_uid=business.uid
AND mailbox.uid=list_member.mailbox_uid
ORDER BY
list.full_name ASC
Data:
Business UID 1 has 4 lists
SELECT * FROM list WHERE business_uid=1 -- gives 4 results
SELECT * FROM list_alias WHERE list_uid IN (SELECT uid FROM list WHERE business_uid=1) -- gives 1 result
SELECT * FROM list_member WHERE list_uid IN (SELECT uid FROM list WHERE business_uid=1) -- gives 1 result
Any pointers on what I could check would be welcome.
Table Sample Data:
list:
uid | business_uid | creator_name | full_name
--------------------------------------------------
1 1 List Maker Subscribe to W
2 1 List Maker Subscribe to X
3 1 List Maker Subscribe to Y
4 1 List Maker Subscribe to Z
business:
uid | company_name
-------------------
1 List Company
list_alias:
uid | list_uid | alias
----------------------------------------
1 1 subscriber#list-url.com
list_member:
uid | list_uid | mailbox_uid
------------------------------------
1 1 1
mailbox:
uid | full_name | email_address
-------------------------------
1 I am He me#me.com

Try this using a single join methodology, like so.
SELECT list.uid,
list.business_uid,
list.creator_name,
b.company_name,
la.uid AS list_alias_uid,
la.alias AS list_alias,
lm.uid AS list_member_uid,
m.full_name AS list_member_name,
m.email_address AS list_member_email_address
FROM list LEFT JOIN list_member lm ON lm.list_uid=list.uid
LEFT JOIN mailbox m ON m.uid=lm.mailbox_uid
LEFT JOIN business b ON list.business_uid=b.uid
LEFT JOIN list_alias la ON la.list_uid=list.uid
WHERE list.business_uid=1
ORDER BY list.full_name ASC

Question: What are the values of 'uid' from the 'list' table? Because 'uid' is not the same as 'business_uid'. What I mean is ...
If the 'list' table has this ...
'uid' 'business_uid'
1 1
2 1
3 1
4 1
Then that is the problem. You are returning the same 'busines_uid' but a different 'uid' which means it will only match the first record.

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mysql using limit in a left join not working properly

I have two tables looking like this
Patient (table 1)
id | name
------------
1 | robel
2 | dave
Patient_followup (table 2)
id | Patient_id | date_created
-----------------------
1 | ---- 1 -- | 01/01/2015
2 | -----1 -- | 01/07/2016
I want to display all the patients with their perspective latest followup data. so i tried using this query
Select * from patient
left join Patient_followup pf on pf.Patient_id = patient.id
order by pf.date_created
Limit 1
but this is giving me only the first patient robel. i tryed removing the limit and its giving me two records of robel and one record of dave because robel has two followup data. so what should i do to get only one record of each patient ?
Try this:
Select
*
from
patient
left join
(SELECT
id as pf_id,
MAX(date_created) as latest_followup_date,
Patient_id
FROM
Patient_followup
GROUP BY
Patient_id) as pf
ON pf.Patient_id = patient.id
As mentioned by anton in the first comment, you need to use aggregation to get one record per patient.
Select patient.*,MAX(pf.date_created) as followupdate,group_concat(pf.date_created) from patient
left join Patient_followup pf on pf.Patient_id = p.patient.id
group by patient.id
order by pf.date_created
Here, you will get your values comma separated.
1) "Limit 1" will only return the first result. Typically this is used if the query will result in a very large result set and you only want the first few results.
Ex:
"LIMIT 30" will show the first 30 rows of the query.
2) I would change to setup of the tables so the query is smoother. Right now, you create a new line for each follow-up date even if the patient is already created. You could add another column in the table named "FollowUpDate". That way each patient record has the table id, patient id, creation date and followup date in the same row. That way, each patient has only one row.
EX:
Patient (table 1)
id | name | created_date | next_followup_date |
1 | Robel | 01/01/2015 | 01/01/2016 |
2 | Dave |[created_date]| [next_follup_date] |
Patient_followup (table 2)
id | Patient_id | date_created | followUpDate |
1 | 1 | 01/01/2015 | 06/01/2016 | // example date
2 | 1 | 01/01/2015 | 01/01/2016 |
3 | 2 |[date created]| [FollowUpDate] |
3) Change query to:
Use this select statement to get all patient records.
Select * from patient
left join Patient_followup pf on pf.Patient_id = patient.id
order by pf.Patient_id
Use this select statement to get the specific patient record information.
Select * from patient
inner join Patient_followup pf on pf.Patient_id = patient.id
where patient.id = 1 //to get robel. Edit this line as necessary, perhaps by user input...
order by pf.followUpDate
NOTE: When you insert a new record in Patient_followup, make sure you update Patient.next_followup_date.
I hope this helps!

MySQL intersection of two tables

I need to implement a function which returns all the networks the installation is not part of.
Following is my table and for example if my installation id is 1 and I need all the network ids where the installation is not part of then the result will be only [9].
network_id | installation_id
-------------------------------
1 | 1
3 | 1
2 | 1
2 | 2
9 | 2
2 | 3
I know this could be solved with a join query but I'm not sure how to implement it for the same table. This is what I've tried so far.
select * from network_installations where installation_id = 1;
network_id | installation_id
-------------------------------
1 | 1
2 | 1
3 | 1
select * from network_installations where installation_id != 1;
network_id | installation_id
-------------------------------
9 | 2
2 | 2
2 | 3
The intersection of the two tables will result the expected answer, i.e. [9]. But though we have union, intersect is not present in mysql. A solution to find the intersection of the above two queries or a tip to implement it with a single query using join will be much appreciated.
The best way to do this is to use a network table (which I presume exists):
select n.*
from network n
where not exists (select 1
from network_installation ni
where ni.network_id = n.network_id and
ni.installation_id = 1
);
If, somehow, you don't have a network table, you can replace the from clause with:
from (select distinct network_id from network_installation) n
EDIT:
You can do this in a single query with no subqueries, but a join is superfluous. Just use group by:
select ni.network_id
from network_installation ni
group by ni.network_id
having sum(ni.installation_id = 1) = 0;
The having clause counts the number of matches for the given installation for each network id. The = 0 is saying that there are none.
Another solution using OUTER JOIN:
SELECT t1.network_id, t1.installation_id, t2.network_id, t2.installation_id
FROM tab t1 LEFT JOIN tab t2
ON t1.network_id = t2.network_id AND t2.installation_id = 1
WHERE t2.network_id IS NULL
You can check at http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4798d/2
select *
from network_installations
where network_id in
(select network_id
from network_installations
where installation_id = 1
group by network_id )

Select all values from table B where matches table A

I have this schema:
items | taxonomy | subjects
| |
ID headline | item_id subject_id | subject_id subject
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 information | 1 1 | 1 cities
2 here we are | 2 1 | 2 towns
3 more things | 3 2 | 3 water
4 doo dah | 3 4 | 4 telephones
| 4 1 |
| 4 3 |
I would like to select a single row from "items" and with it, include all the rows from "subjects" which are joined by the "taxonomy" table. So for example, getting item.ID=3 would result in something like:
items.ID = 3
items.headline = "more things"
subjects.subject = "towns"
subjects.subject = "telephones"
I've started with this query
SELECT
i.ID,
i.headline,
s.subject_name
FROM items i
JOIN taxonomy t
on i.ID=t.item_id
JOIN subjects s
on t.subject_id=s.subject_id
WHERE i.ID = 3
But this only returns a single value from subject_name even if there are multiple values associated with that item_id.
EDIT
I actually had a LIMIT 1 on the query which was causing (as #Gordon Linoff said) only one row to be returned, even though there were multiple rows in the result set corresponding to the multiple subjects. His solution still does nicely, because I only want to return a single row.
Your query returns the subjects on multiple rows. If you want the subjects on a single row, then you need some form of concatenation:
SELECT i.ID, i.headline, GROUP_CONCAT(s.subject_name) as subjects
FROM items i JOIN
taxonomy t
ON i.ID = t.item_id JOIN
subjects s
ON t.subject_id = s.subject_id
WHERE i.ID = 3
GROUP BY i.ID, i.headline;
For one item, the GROUP BY is optional, but it is good form in case you modify the query to handle multiple items.
I would suggest you the "union all" clause (or "union", if you are not needing the duplicates).
(SELECT
"taxonomy" As Name,
i.headline As Value
FROM items i
JOIN taxonomy t
on i.ID=t.item_id
WHERE i.ID = 3)
Union All
(SELECT
"subject" As Name,
s.subject_name As Value
FROM items i
JOIN subjects s
on t.subject_id=s.subject_id
WHERE i.ID = 3)
You can add a 2nd field in each select to indicate type of item selected ("headline", "subjects", etc).

MYSQL IN Clause Issue

There are a lot of questions posted on stackoverflow that are almost same like my problem but I found no working solution. I have a table message and entries are:
id | Message | Status
1 | Hello | 1
2 | Hiiii | 0
4 | Works | 1
I have another table which gives ids 1,2,3 and I want to find the status of all these entries from message table. What I want is if an id doesn't exist in message table then it should return null for that id if I use IN clause to find all status. I want following result:
id | Status
1 | 1
2 | 0
3 | null
I have been using IN clause but didn't get working output. Then I got a solution on stackoverflow and tried this query
SELECT `id`,`status` FROM ( SELECT 1 AS ID UNION ALL SELECT 2 AS ID UNION ALL SELECT 3) ids LEFT OUTER JOIN message ON ids.ID = message.id
But this query is not giving the expected results. Any help would be much appreciated.
I don't see how your query would work. The column id should be ambiguous in the select (unless your database is case sensitive). Try this:
SELECT ids.ID, m.status
FROM ( SELECT 1 AS ID UNION ALL SELECT 2 AS ID UNION ALL SELECT 3
) ids LEFT OUTER JOIN
message m
ON ids.ID = m.id;

Select those that HAVE NEVER had certain entry

I have a table of services that have been provided to clients. I'm trying to make a query that selects all the clients who received a service that WEREN'T provided by a certain user.
So consider this table...
id_client | id_service | id_user
--------------------------------
5 | 3 | 2
7 | 4 | 2
7 | 4 | 1
9 | 4 | 2
8 | 4 | 1
If I write the query like this:
SELECT id_client FROM table WHERE id_service=4 AND id_user<>1
I still end up getting id_client 7. But I don't want to get client 7 because that client HAS received that service from user 1. (They're showing up because they've also received that service from user 2)
In the example above I would only want to be returned with client 9
How can I write the query to make sure that clients that have EVER received service 4 from user 1 don't show up?
Try this:
SELECT DISTINCT id_client
FROM yourtable t
WHERE id_service = 4 AND id_client NOT IN
(SELECT DISTINCT id_client
FROM yourtable t
WHERE id_user = 1
)
I'd write it like this:
SELECT DISTINCT id_client
FROM mytable t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN mytable t2
ON t1.id_client = t2.id_client AND t2.id_user = 1
WHERE t2.id_client IS NULL
When the conditions of a left outer join are not met, the row on the left side is still returned, and all the columns for the row on the right side are null. So if you search for cases of null in a column that would be certain to be non-null if there were a match, you know the outer join found no match.
SELECT id_client
FROM table
WHERE id_service = 4
GROUP BY id_client
HAVING MAX(CASE
WHEN id_user = 1 THEN 2
ELSE 1
END) = 1