Mysql unique values query - mysql

Question

I have a table with name-value pairs and additional attribute. The same name can have more than one value. If that happens I want to return the row which has a higher attribute value.
Table:
ID | name | value | attribute
1 | set1 | 1 | 0
2 | set2 | 2 | 0
3 | set3 | 3 | 0
4 | set1 | 4 | 1
Desired results of query:
name | value
set2 | 2
set3 | 3
set1 | 4
What is the best performing sql query to get the desired results?

Answer 1

the best performing query would be as follows:
select
s.set_id,
s.name as set_name,
a.attrib_id,
a.name as attrib_name,
sav.value
from
sets s
inner join set_attribute_values sav on
sav.set_id = s.set_id and sav.attrib_id = s.max_attrib_id
inner join attributes a on sav.attrib_id = a.attrib_id
order by
s.set_id;
+--------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| set_id | set_name | attrib_id | attrib_name | value |
+--------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| 1 | set1 | 3 | attrib3 | 20 |
| 2 | set2 | 0 | attrib0 | 10 |
| 3 | set3 | 0 | attrib0 | 10 |
| 4 | set4 | 4 | attrib4 | 10 |
| 5 | set5 | 2 | attrib2 | 10 |
+--------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------+
obviously for this to work you're gonna also have to normalise your design and implement a simple trigger:
drop table if exists attributes;
create table attributes
(
attrib_id smallint unsigned not null primary key,
name varchar(255) unique not null
)
engine=innodb;
drop table if exists sets;
create table sets
(
set_id smallint unsigned not null auto_increment primary key,
name varchar(255) unique not null,
max_attrib_id smallint unsigned not null default 0,
key (max_attrib_id)
)
engine=innodb;
drop table if exists set_attribute_values;
create table set_attribute_values
(
set_id smallint unsigned not null,
attrib_id smallint unsigned not null,
value int unsigned not null default 0,
primary key (set_id, attrib_id)
)
engine=innodb;
delimiter #
create trigger set_attribute_values_before_ins_trig
before insert on set_attribute_values
for each row
begin
update sets set max_attrib_id = new.attrib_id
where set_id = new.set_id and max_attrib_id < new.attrib_id;
end#
delimiter ;
insert into attributes values (0,'attrib0'),(1,'attrib1'),(2,'attrib2'),(3,'attrib3'),(4,'attrib4');
insert into sets (name) values ('set1'),('set2'),('set3'),('set4'),('set5');
insert into set_attribute_values values
(1,0,10),(1,3,20),(1,1,30),
(2,0,10),
(3,0,10),
(4,4,10),(4,2,20),
(5,2,10);

Answer 2

This solution will probably perform the best:
Select ...
From Table As T
Left Join Table As T2
On T2.name = T.name
And T2.attribute > T1.attribute
Where T2.ID Is Null
Another solution which may not perform as well (you would need to evaluate against your data):
Select ...
From Table As T
Where Not Exists (
Select 1
From Table As T2
Where T2.name = T.name
And T2.attribute > T.attribute
)

Answer 3

select name,max(value)
from table
group by name

Answer 4

SELECT name, value
FROM (SELECT name, value, attribute
FROM table_name
ORDER BY attribute DESC) AS t
GROUP BY name;

Answer 5

There is no easy way to do this.
A similar question was asked here.
Edit: Here's a suggestion:
SELECT `name`,`value` FROM `mytable` ORDER BY `name`,`attribute` DESC
This isn't quite what you asked for, but it'll at least give you the higher attribute values first, and you can ignore the rest.
Edit again: Another suggestion:
If you know that value is a positive integer, you can do this. It's yucky, but it'll work.
SELECT `name`,CAST (GROUP_CONCAT(`value` ORDER by `attribute` DESC) as UNSIGNED) FROM `mytable` GROUP BY `name`
To include negative integers you could change UNSIGNED to SIGNED.

Answer 6

Might want to benchmark all these options, here's another one.
SELECT t1.name, t1.value
FROM temp t1
WHERE t1.attribute IN (
SELECT MAX(t2.attribute)
FROM temp t2
WHERE t2.name = t1.name);

Answer 7

How about:
SELECT ID, name, value, attribute
FROM table A
WHERE A.attribute = (SELECT MAX(B.attribute) FROM table B WHERE B.NAME = A.NAME);
Edit: Seems like someones said the same already.

Answer 8

Did not benchmark them, but here is how it is doable:
TableName = temm
1) Row with maximum value of attribute :
select t.name, t.value
from (
select name, max(attribute) as maxattr
from temm group by name
) as x inner join temm as t on t.name = x.name and t.attribute = x.maxattr;
2) Top N rows with maximum attribute value :
select name, value
from temm
where (
select count(*) from temm as n
where n.name = temm.name and n.attribute > temm.attribute
) < 1 ; /* 1 can be changed to 2,3,4 ..N to get N rows */