I am working on a web app and I have a database with two tables. One of them is called entities and the other is activities. It is a one to many relationship where there are many entities in the activities table. The activities table has a date associated with it and I want to pull results based on certain entity id's but I only want to pull the most recent activity (by its date). So basically, I only want one return per entity. There must be a way to do this in mysql without parsing out the data with php. I want to make the app as fast as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Guessing at field names ...
SELECT
e.*, a.*
FROM
(SELECT
MAX(ActivityID) ActivityID,
EntityID
FROM
Activity
GROUP By
EntityID) maxActivity
INNER JOIN Activity a
ON maxActivity.ActivityID = a.ActivityID
INNER JOIN Entity e
ON e.EntityID = a.EntityID
Or if ID isn't always the latest and you really want date (assuming two activities can't share the same date)
SELECT
e.*, a.*
FROM
(SELECT
MAX(Date) Date,
EntityID
FROM
Activity
GROUP By
EntityID) maxActivity
INNER JOIN Activity a
ON maxActivity.Date = a.Date
and maxActivity.EntityID = a.EntityID
INNER JOIN Entity e
ON e.EntityID = a.EntityID
I would say, create a linking table through a PK / FK relationship.
So for instance:
[entities table] ------ [ent_activities] --- [activities] , especially since the two data is so intertwined.
1:M is a horrible data integrity issue and even more so when you have 10s, even hundreds of 1:M throughout.
Good luck
Related
I have three different tables I am trying to pull info from. Related in different ways. I am trying to find a Join statement that will allow me to pull the information a little better than using the two queries I am now.
Here is what I have
SELECT * FROM reports LEFT JOIN students USING (sID)
This allows me to properly merge the two tables. However - There is a row in the reports table named pID. I have another table named test, that also has a matching pID row, along with other data. I am trying to access the data from that table as well. Is it possible to join three tables in that way? Not only getting data from the sID, but the pID as well
You can do the following
SELECT *
FROM reports
LEFT JOIN students USING (sID)
LEFT JOIN table3 USING (pID)
Where table3 is the name of your table.
Hi robert yes it is posible. You can do a query like as shown below given your three tables, reports, students, and test.
SELECT *
FROM `reports`
LEFT JOIN `students` ON `students.sid=reports.sid`
LEFT JOIN `test` ON `reports.pid=tests.pid`
I'm having trouble with a join query, my issue is as follows.
Table: battles
Fields: id,attacker_id,defender_id
Table: users
Fields: id,profile_image
I would like to do a query to retrieve a battle and get the profile images as well from the other table.
Is there a way to do this in a single or do I have to do more than one?
Thanks in advance.
I wanted to wait a while to see if you had any attempt or if you will answer my first question to know if I understood the problem. But maybe you don't have a starting point. Try something like:
SELECT
a.profile_image as attacker_profile_image,
d.profile_image as defender_profile_image
FROM
`battles` b
LEFT JOIN
`users` a
ON
b.`attacker_id` = a.`id`
LEFT JOIN
`users` d
ON
b.`defender_id` = d.`id`
the problem here is the fact that you need to join with the users table twice, so you will need to create aliases for the columns you plan to use
This query will fetch the two images only, you will need to add the extra fields
I'm having a small problem making a query in MySQL.
I have the following tables:
member;
group;
member_has_group (this one has the columns id_group referes to the group id and id_member referes to member id)
I'm trying to make a query that gives me the members from a selected group. Can you help me?
I'm not familiar with join tables, but for the search i made i think thats probably one of the solutions.
Thanks in advance.
Elkas
If you know the group id
select member.* from member m
inner join member_has_group mg on m.id = mg.id_member
where mg.id_group = [x]
If you only know the group name
select member.* from member m
inner join member_has_group mg on m.id = mg.id_member
inner join group g on g.id = mg.id_group
where g.name = 'group name'
This is trival in SQL :
SELECT m.id_member, m.name
FROM member AS m
INNER JOIN member_has_group AS h ON (m.id_member=h.id_member)
WHERE (h.id_group=#my_id_group)
#my_id_group is the group id you have to give.
Yep, you need a join here.
SELECT *
FROM `member`
JOIN `group` ON member.id = group.id
JOIN `member_has_group` ON group.id = member_has_group.id
Depending on the information in your tables, you may not need the third table at all.You only need a connector table with you have a "many to many" relationship between then.
(Ignore the rest if you already know
about database normalization)
For example, if you had two tables, Authors and Books. Authors would contain fields such as Name, Publisher, Birthday, whatever is a property of the "author". Books would contain relevant "book" information. This is a "one-to-many" relationship. An author may be linked (via a field such as author_id) to several books, but a book can only have one author. You would not need a third table here.
Building on that, say you had a third table for "Character Names". This would be a list of main character names used in any of the books in the "Books" table. One of the characters happens to be named John Steele. John has a whole series of books written about him. In the Books table, several of the books may list John Steele as a character. While in the characters table, John Steele could be listed in several books. This is "many-to-many". You need a third table here. It would only have two fields. A book_id and character_id, one entry for each book that John Steele appears in.
MySql Manual on DB Normalization
Suppose that in table "ab" I have the names of the students that get along from class "a" and class "b", identically I have table "ac" and "bc". What SQL query should I use in order to get all the combinations possible of students who can form groups (i.e. "get along together")? And how can i extend this to n classes?
For example: John from class a gets along with Jen from class b and Steff from class c, and Jen and Steff get along. Therefore John, Jen and Steff can form a group).
For this I would create two tables, a student table (id, name, class) and a relationship table (student1, student2). You might also want to add a class table for the time, location etc of the class.
A friendship would have two relationships (2,3) and (3,2) to describe it as two way. One way might be a follower or fan of another student.
This will scale up to a lot more than 3 classes.
Then you can use multiple joins to get friends of friends and so on to an arbitrary depth.
Here is a query to get friends of friends (fof):
SELECT fof_details.*
FROM relationships r
INNER JOIN relationships fof
ON r.student2 = fof.student1
INNER JOIN student fof_details
ON fof_details.id = fof.student2
WHERE r.student1 = '12';
There are also database engines made specifically for doing graph modeling like this.
http://openquery.com/blog/graph-engine-mkii
This query should return all students who can be in one group with John.
WITH ABC AS (SELECT AB.A, AB.B, AC.C FROM (SELECT * FROM AB
INNER JOIN BC
ON AB.B=BC.B)
INNER JOIN AC
ON (AC.C=BC.C AND AB.A=AC.A))
SELECT STUDENT FROM (
SELECT AB.B STUDENT FROM ABC WHERE AB.A='John'
UNION
SELECT AC.C STUDENT FROM ABC WHERE AB.A='John')
GROUP BY STUDENT
PS.: Written fast without any syntax check, hope you'll be able to bring this to work :)
The initial query can be satisfied by the code
select ab.a, ab.b, ac.c
from
ab inner join
bc on ab.b = bc.b inner join
ac on ac.a = ab.a and bc.c = ac.c
Stepping up to n classes will get progressively more complex as n=4 would be the same query with the additional three joins
inner join ad on ab.a = ad.a
inner join bd on bd.b = ab.b and ad.d = bd.d
inner join cd on cd.c = ac.c and ad.d = cd.d
2 classes requires 1 table and no joins,
3 classes requires 3 tables and 2 joins,
4 classes requires 6 tables and 5 joins
So we can see it getting progressively more complex as we proceed
First you don't want to have a table for each class. You are capturing the same type of information in multiple tables and this is generally considered a bad practice. You want to "normalize" your data so that the same data exists in one place.
Second, name your tables appropriately so that you understand what you are actually trying to build. Maybe you are generalizing to mask what your intentions for the actual implementations are by using "ab" in the question, but if you are doing this in your actual code it will hurt you in the long run.
It appears you need a people table with names and a friends table where you track who is friends with who:
create table people ( id int, name char(128) );
create table friends ( id int, person_id int, friend_id int );
Then you just need to have the query to get the groups:
SELECT person.* FROM friends
INNER JOIN friends grp
ON friends.friend_id = grp.person_id
INNER JOIN people person
ON person.id = grp.friend_id
WHERE friends.person_id = 42;
I am writing an application that helps book exchange between users.
I am using PHP and MySQL, and I am pretty new to them both.
I have 5 tables, 3 data tables and 2 service tables:
user: with user attributes (user_id, name, birth... etc).
book: with book attributes (book_id, name, author, publisher... etc).
copy: represents actual copies of a books (copy_id, condition, comments... etc).
user_copy: describes which user holds which copy, composed out of userID and copyID.
copy_book: represents the connection of copy and book, composed out of copyID and bookID
My question is:
what is the easiest and most efficient statement for getting the
book attributes and copy attributes for each copy that a user holds?
You need to inner join all the tables that you are interested in: book, copy, user_copy, and copy_book. The SELECT statement that returns attributes on all copies held by a user may look like this:
SELECT B.bookID
, B.name
, B.author
, B.publisher
, C.condition
, C.comments
-- you may get other fields that you are interested in here..
FROM book B
INNER JOIN copy_book CB ON B.bookID = CB.bookID
INNER JOIN user_copy UC ON UC.copyID = CB.copyID
INNER JOIN copy C ON C.copyID = UC.copyID
WHERE UC.userID = <the user Id that you want>
I hope it's pretty clear what the statement does but if you have any questions, please ask.