Select every field that fullfil the condition - mysql

Question

I have a table call production
factory_id | factory_name | product_id
1 | A | 1
1 | A | 2
1 | A | 3
2 | B | 3
3 | C | 1
3 | C | 2
3 | C | 3
3 | C | 4
3 | C | 5
I'm trying to develop a query that will return two factory name pair such that every product of factory1 is produced by factory2, result looked like:
factory_name_1 | factory_name_2
A | C
B | A
B | C
I have some nested self join and renames, but I can't wrap my head around how I can apply EXISTS or IN for this scenario that does "for each product produced by factory X do condition". Thanks to any help in advanced.
Update:
Sorry that I forgot to paste my query:
select t0.fname0, t1.fname1
from (
select factory_id as fid0, factory_name as fname0, product_id as pid0, count(distinct factory_id, product_id) as pnum0
from production
group by factory_id
) t0
join
(
select factory_id as fid1, factory_name as fname1, product_id as pid1, count(distinct factory_id, product_id) as pnum1
from production
group by factory_id
) t1
where t0.fid0 <> t1.fid1
and t0.pnum0 < t1.pnum1
and t0.pid0 = t1.pid1;
Update 2: production is the only table. Expected output factory1 and factory2 are just the rename of factory_name attribute.

Answer 1

You need to JOIN the table for each factory pairing to make sure they "join" on the same product_ids, otherwise you might end up with similar counts for DISTINCT product_ids but these will not necessarily refer to the same product_ids.
This is my take on it:
SELECT bfna,afna, pcnt FROM (
SELECT a.factory_name afna, b.factory_name bfna, COUNT(DISTINCT b.product_id) commoncnt
FROM tbl a LEFT JOIN tbl b ON b.factory_name!=a.factory_name AND b.product_id=a.product_id
GROUP BY a.factory_name, b.factory_name
) c
INNER JOIN (
SELECT factory_name fna, COUNT(DISTINCT product_id) pcnt
FROM TBL GROUP BY factory_name
) d ON fna=bfna AND commoncnt=pcnt
ORDER BY bfna,afna
You can find a demo here: https://rextester.com/JJGCK84904
It produces:
bfna afna commoncnt
A C 3
B A 1
B C 1
For simplicity I left out the column factory_id as it does not add any information here.
Fun fact: as I am using only "bare-bone" SQL expressions, the above code will run on SQL-Server too without any changes.

Answer 2

You can do it this way:
select A as factory_name_1 , B as factory_name_2
from
(
select A, B, count(*) as Count_
from
(
select a.factory_name as A, b.factory_name as B
from yourtable a
inner join yourtable b
on a.product_id = b.product_id and a.factory_id <> b.factory_id
)a group by A, B
)a
inner join
(select factory_name, count(*) as Count_ from yourtable group by factory_name) b
on a.A = b.factory_name and a.Count_ = b.Count_
Order by 1
Output:
factory_name_1 factory_name_2
A C
B A
B C

Answer 3

The other solutions just seem more complicated than necessary. This is basically a self-join with aggregation:
with t as (
select t.*, count(*) over (partition by factory_id) as cnt
from tbl t
)
select t1.factory_id, t2.factory_id, t1.factory_name, t2.factory_name, count(*)
from t t1 join
t t2
on t1.product_id = t2.product_id and t1.factory_id <> t2.factory_id
group by t1.factory_id, t2.factory_id, t1.factory_name, t2.factory_name, t1.cnt
having count(*) = max(t1.cnt);
Here is a db<>fiddle.