I have 3 tables :
categories:
ID, category
"1","Cars"
"2","Trucks"
"3","Bikes"
"4","Planes"
"5","Boats"
users:
ID, username
"1","john"
"2","bob"
"3","billy"
users_categories:
ID, userid, categoryid
"1","1","2"
"2","1","5"
"3","2","3"
"4","3","2"
"5","3","4"
"6","3","5"
Q1. What I want is :
john,Trucks,Boats
bob,Bikes
billy,Trucks,Planes,Boats
I've come to this. A Concat of the categories would do.
SELECT U.`username`, (SELECT C.`category` FROM `categories` C LEFT JOIN `users_categories` UC ON C.`ID` = UC.`categoryid` WHERE U.ID = UC.userid) FROM `users` U
But I get #1242 - Subquery returns more than 1 row.
Q2. Is there a better way to structure this ? There won't be more than 50-100 categories.
use GROUP_CONCAT to achieve what you want
SELECT a.username,
GROUP_CONCAT(c.category)
FROM users a
INNER JOIN users_categories b
On a.Id = b.userID
INNER JOIN categories c
ON b.categoryID = c.ID
GROUP BY a.ID
SQLFiddle Demo
if you can live with having the categories as a comma separated string, you can use the GROUP_CONCAT function.
Let's see (I've never tried myself in mysql)
select u.username,
GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT c.Category order by c.Category SEPARATOR ',')
from users u
join usersCategories uc
on u.ID = uc.userID
join Categories c
on c.ID = uc.CategoryID
You might have to adjust it to MySQL specific syntax, sorry.
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We are maintaining a history of Content. We want to get the updated entry of each content, with create Time and update Time should be of the first entry of the Content. The query contains multiple selects and where clauses with so many left joins. The dataset is very huge, thereby query is taking more than 60 seconds to execute. Kindly help in improving the same. Query:
select * from (select * from (
SELECT c.*, initCMS.initcreatetime, initCMS.initupdatetime, user.name as partnerName, r.name as rightsName, r1.name as copyRightsName, a.name as agelimitName, ct.type as contenttypename, cat.name as categoryname, lang.name as languagename FROM ContentCMS c
left join ContentCategoryType ct on ct.id = c.contentType
left join User user on c.contentPartnerId = user.id
left join Category cat on cat.id = c.categoryId
left join Language lang on lang.id = c.languageCode
left join CopyRights r on c.rights = r.id
left join CopyRights r1 on c.copyrights = r1.id
left join Age a on c.ageLimit = a.id
left outer join (
SELECT contentId, createTime as initcreatetime, updateTime as initupdatetime from ContentCMS cms where cms.deleted='0'
) as initCMS on initCMS.contentId = c.contentId WHERE c.deleted='0' order by c.id DESC
) as temp group by contentId) as c where c.editedBy='0'
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you.
Just a partial eval and suggestion because your query seems non properly formed
This left join seems unuseful
FROM ContentCMS c
......
left join (
SELECT contentId
, createTime as initcreatetime
, updateTime as initupdatetime
from ContentCMS cms
where cms.deleted='0'
) as initCMS on initCMS.contentId = c.contentId
same table
the order by (without limit) in a subquery in join is unuseful because join ordered values or unordered value produce the same result
the group by contentId is strange beacuse there aren't aggregation function and the sue of group by without aggregation function is deprecated is sql
and in the most recente version for mysql is not allowed (by deafult) if you need distinct value or just a rows for each contentId you should use distinct or retrive the value in a not casual manner (the use of group by without aggregation function retrive casual value for not aggregated column .
for a partial eval your query should be refactored as
SELECT c.*
, c.initcreatetime
, c.initupdatetime
, user.name as partnerName
, r.name as rightsName
, r1.name as copyRightsName
, a.name as agelimitName
, ct.type as contenttypename
, cat.name as categoryname
, lang.name as languagename
FROM ContentCMS c
left join ContentCategoryType ct on ct.id = c.contentType
left join User user on c.contentPartnerId = user.id
left join Category cat on cat.id = c.categoryId
left join Language lang on lang.id = c.languageCode
left join CopyRights r on c.rights = r.id
left join CopyRights r1 on c.copyrights = r1.id
WHERE c.deleted='0'
) as temp
for the rest you should expiclitally select the column you effectively need add proper aggregation function for the others
Also the nested subquery just for improperly reduce the rows don't help performance ... you should also re-eval you data modelling and design.
I have a query with one LEFT JOIN that works fine. When I add a second LEFT JOIN to a table with multiple records per field in the first table, however, I am getting the product of the results in the two tables ie books x publishers returned. How can I prevent this from happening?
SELECT a.*,b.*,p.*, group_concat(b.id as `bids`)
FROM authors `a`
LEFT JOIN books `b`
ON b.authorid = a.id
LEFT JOIN publishers `p`
on p.authorid = a.id
GROUP by a.id
EDIT:
Figured it out. The way to do this is to use subqueries as in this answer:
SELECT u.id
, u.account_balance
, g.grocery_visits
, f.fishmarket_visits
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT user_id, count(*) AS grocery_visits
FROM grocery
GROUP BY user_id
) g ON g.user_id = u.id
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT user_id, count(*) AS fishmarket_visits
FROM fishmarket
GROUP BY user_id
) f ON f.user_id = u.id
ORDER BY u.id;
If you do multiple LEFT Joins, your query will return a cartesian product of the results. To avoid this and get only one copy of fields you desire, do a subquery for each table you wish to join as below. Hope this helps someone in the future.
SELECT u.id
, u.account_balance
, g.grocery_visits
, f.fishmarket_visits
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT user_id, count(*) AS grocery_visits
FROM grocery
GROUP BY user_id
) g ON g.user_id = u.id
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT user_id, count(*) AS fishmarket_visits
FROM fishmarket
GROUP BY user_id
) f ON f.user_id = u.id
ORDER BY u.id;
I have a table of ratings for comments, when I fetch comments, I also fetch the ratings and I also want to be able to display which comments the logged user has already voted on. This is what I am doing now
SELECT
c.id,
c.text,
c.datetime,
c.author,
u.email AS author_name,
SUM(cr.vote) AS rating,
cr2.vote AS voted
FROM comments c
LEFT JOIN users u ON u.id = c.author
LEFT JOIN comments_ratings cr ON c.id = cr.comment
LEFT JOIN comments_ratings cr2 ON c.id = cr2.comment AND cr2.user = :logged_user_id
GROUP BY c.id ORDER BY c.id DESC
But I don't like how I'm performing a second join on the same table. I know it is perfectly valid but if I could get the information I want from the first join, which is there anyway, why perform a second one?
Is it possible to figure out if a row with column user equal to :logged_user_id exists on table comments_ratings cr before executing the aggregate function(s)?
P.S.: If someone could come up with a better title, people can find in future, I'd also appreciate that.
You can do what you want with conditional aggregation:
SELECT c.id, c.text, c.datetime, c.author, u.email AS author_name,
SUM(cr.vote) AS rating,
MAX(cr.user = :logged_user_id) as voted
FROM comments c LEFT JOIN
users u
ON u.id = c.author LEFT JOIN
comments_ratings cr
ON c.id = cr.comment
GROUP BY c.id
ORDER BY c.id DESC;
I have three tables in Mysql that are link together:
Profile (ID, Name, Stuff..)
Contact(ID, ProfileID,desc,Ord)
Address(ID,ProfileID, desc, Ord)
Now I need to select all profile from the profile table, with the “desc” field from Contact and Address where Ord = 1. (this is for a search function where in a table I’ll display the name, main contact info and main Address of a client.
I can currently do this with three separate SQL request:
SELECT Name, ID FROM Profile WHERE name=”bla”
Then in a foreach loop, I’ll run the other two requests:
SELECT ProfileID, desc FROM Contact WHERE ProfileID=MyProfileID AND Ord=1
SELECT ProfileID, desc FROM Address WHERE ProfileID=MyProfileID AND Ord=1
I know you can do multiple SELECT in one query, is there a way I could group all three SELECT into one query?
You should be able to JOIN the tables on the profile.id and the profileid in the other tables.
If you are sure the profileid exists in all three tables, then you can use an INNER JOIN. The INNER JOIN returns matching rows in all of the tables:
select p.id,
p.name,
c.desc ContactDesc,
a.desc AddressDesc
from profile p
inner join contact c
on p.id = c.profileid
inner join address a
on p.id = a.profileid
where p.name = 'bla'
and c.ord = 1
and a.ord = 1
If you are not sure that you will have matching rows, then you can use a LEFT JOIN:
select p.id,
p.name,
c.desc ContactDesc,
a.desc AddressDesc
from profile p
left join contact c
on p.id = c.profileid
and c.ord = 1
left join address a
on p.id = a.profileid
and a.ord = 1
where p.name = 'bla'
If you need help learning JOIN syntax, here is a great visual explanation of joins
This query below only selects column when an ID from Profile table has atleast one match on tables: Contact and Address. If one or both of them are nullable, use LEFT JOIN instead of INNER JOIN because LEFT JOIN displays all records from the Left-hand side table regardless if it has a match on other tables or not.
SELECT a.*,
b.desc as BDESC,
c.desc as CDESC
FROM Profile a
INNER JOIN Contact b
ON a.ID = b.ProfileID
INNER JOIN Address c
ON a.ID = c.ProfileID
WHERE b.ORD = 1 AND
c.ORD = 1 AND
a.Name = 'nameHERE'
The LEFT JOIN version:
SELECT a.*,
b.desc as BDESC,
c.desc as CDESC
FROM Profile a
INNER JOIN Contact b
ON a.ID = b.ProfileID AND b.ORD = 1
INNER JOIN Address c
ON a.ID = c.ProfileID AND c.ORD = 1
WHERE a.Name = 'nameHERE'
To further gain more knowledge about joins, kindly visit the link below:
Visual Representation of SQL Joins
i have created working demo as your requirement :
The query bellow will retrieve all matching records from the database.its retrieving profile id,name stufff and description of contact tables
select p.id,p.name,p.stauff,c.descr,a.descr from profile as p
inner join contact as c on c.profileid=p.id
inner join address as a on a.profileid=p.id
where p.name="bla" and c.ord=1 and a.ord=1
I have a fairly complicated SQL statement I am working on. Here is where I am at:
SELECT c.category
FROM master_cat as c
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT cat_id, user_id COUNT(cat_id) favoriteCat
FROM ratings
GROUP BY user_id
) a ON a.cat_id= c.cat_id
LEFT JOIN users AS u
ON u.user_id AND a.user_id
WHERE u.username = '{$user}' LIMIT 1
This statement is incomplete. I am missing a middle table here. cat_id is not actually in ratings. But items_id is from a table called items and cat_id is also in that table as well.
So what I am trying to do is this:
SELECT rating FROM ??? GROUP BY cat_id where u.user=$user
The only thing I can think of doing maybe is another LEFT join with items inside favoriteCat but I am not sure if that is allowed.
I was overthinking this, here is my final solution:
SELECT c.category, count(r.rating) AS totalCount
FROM ratings as r
LEFT JOIN items AS i
ON i.items_id = r.item_id
LEFT JOIN users AS u
ON u.user_id = r.user_id
LEFT JOIN master_cat AS c
ON c.cat_id = i.cat_id
WHERE r.user_id = '{$user_id}'
GROUP BY c.category
ORDER BY totalCount DESC