MYSQL :: Sould Someone Verify LEFT OUTER JOIN?

LEFT OUTER JOIN + WHERE ?
I have problem with constructing a SQL query. I have tables with data:

mysql> SELECT * FROM category;

+----+-----------+
| id | is_active |
+----+-----------+
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 |
+----+-----------+

4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT * FROM category_i18n;

+------------------+----+---------+
| name | id | culture |
+------------------+----+---------+
| Agroturystyka | 1 | pl_PL |
| Bed&breakfast | 2 | pl_PL |
| Hotel | 3 | pl_PL |
| Obiekt zabytkowy | 4 | pl_PL |
+------------------+----+---------+

4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Category table includes category id and is_active status. Category_i18n has category names translations for several cultures and the id field is a foreign key.

Now I'd like to get result like this:
mysql> SELECT c.id, ci.name FROM category c LEFT OUTER JOIN category_i18n ci ON c.id=ci.id WHERE ci.culture='pl_PL' OR ci.culture IS NULL;

+----+------------------+
| id | name |
+----+------------------+
| 1 | Agroturystyka |
| 2 | Bed&breakfast |
| 3 | Hotel |
| 4 | Obiekt zabytkowy |
+----+------------------+

4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
And in this case (culture='pl_PL') it works fine. But when I change culture to 'en_US' I don't get any results. How to change my query to select all ids from category table and join name field from category_i18n table but with culture condition. If there is no translation there should be a NULL value.

Result I'd like to get for culture='en_US':

+----+------------------+
| id | name |
+----+------------------+
| 1 | NULL |
| 2 | NULL |
| 3 | NULL |
| 4 | NULL |
+----+------------------+

Left Outer Join
I have noticed when I do a Left Outer Join in short form that many rows
become missing as result of null values.

i.e Left Outer Join (t1,t2,t3) ON (....)

T3 being table with null values in

It seems to be all to hard when I log a bug.

Left Outer Join
I have just converted an app from MS Access to MySql. I have using Hyperion Performance to run my queries. I have 4 tables and main table and three look up tables. when I do a left outer join to one table the query runs fine, however when I do the left outer join to more then one table it error out.

with this error message: You have an error in your sql syntax check the manual that corresponds to your Mysql server version for the right syntax to use near {oj left outer join rc_availability Al4 Al1.rc=Al4.rc} where al1.msa=al at line 1 Code:

Left Outer Join
This is what I have come up with:

SELECT CP1.PosID, CP1.Rank, CP1.BookID, CP2.BookID AS LastWeekBook, CP1.StationID, CP1.ChartTypeID, CP1.WeekID ,
CP2.Rank AS LastWeekRank, CP2.WeekID AS LastWeek
FROM Position AS CP1
LEFT OUTER JOIN Position AS CP2 ON CP1.BookID = CP2.BookID
WHERE CP1.WeekID = {d '2007-05-08'}
AND CP2.WeekID = DATE_SUB({d '2007-05-08'}, INTERVAL 7 DAY)
AND CP1.ChartTypeID = 101
AND CP2.ChartTypeID = 101
ORDER BY Rank;

(Note: joins to other tables containing author infor and book titles etc, have been omitted for simplicity.)

Instead of returning 50 rows (one for each matching row in CP1) it returns 36 rows (only those rows where the book appears in both CP1 and CP2).

I have tried alternative join syntax as follows and all return the same result:
LEFT JOIN
INNER JOIN (36 rows would be expected)
RIGHT JOIN
RIGHT OUTER JOIN

As far as I can tell the SQL as written should be giving me the desired result but it isn't and I can't see what I might be doing wrong.

Left Outer Join
^ just a quick question I can't find an answer for, with the mysql syntax is 'left outer join' the same as 'left join' ?

LEFT OUTER JOIN
am using mysql and want a recordset to be displayed from a query that links three tables.
because a user can add to their selection at a later date i would like all records from a tbl_fitopt to be displayed even when there are no foreign keys in the other tables.
sql is below but at the moment it only lists records from tbl_fitopt that have keys in tbl_fitoptlink - nb i need all records from tbl_fitopt to display so a user can add/subtract from there choices.

strsql = "SELECT tbl_fitopt.fitoptid, tbl_fitopt.fitoptcost, tbl_fitopt.fitopt, tbl_stock.stockid, tbl_fitoptlink.fitoptlinkid "_

& "FROM (tbl_fitopt INNER JOIN tbl_fitoptlink ON tbl_fitopt.fitoptid = tbl_fitoptlink.fitoptid)
INNER JOIN tbl_stock ON tbl_fitoptlink.stockid = tbl_stock.stockid "_

& "WHERE tbl_stock.stockid = " & tkey & ";"

Multiple LEFT OUTER JOIN
What is the right way to do a LEFT OUTER JOIN on both these tables to the 'Main' table where WHERE Plan.pID IS NULL and Record.rID IS NULL (primary's)

Plan
pID | _mn (foreign main key) | pType

Record
rID | _mn (foreign main key) | rDate

Main
mID (primary) | mComp

-------------------------------------
Will need: pType, rDate, mComp values as a result of the query.

Struggling With Left Outer Join
got two tables:

T1 - User, Date, Stuff

T2 - User, Date, Other Stuff

I want to be able to select rows from T1 based on User & Date, join those rows to the data in T2, so T1.User=T2.User AND T1.Date=T2.Date. Then I want to sort the results in T1.Date order

I've no idea where to start ... anyone point me in the right direction?

Performance Left Outer Join
I changed a query from an equal join to a left outer join but then the performance is suddenly 10 times as slow ?? Is this normal or do I miss something ??

$query1="SELECT * FROM ";
    $query1=$query1 . "clienttable,contacttable AS co1 WHERE co1.coclid=clid ";
    $query1=$query1 . " AND clname like '$alfabetisch%' ";
    $query1=$query1 . " order by $o";

Left Outer Join Syntax
I am trying to join a table to three other tables

Table 1 has all records
Table 2-4 must be left outer joined to table 1, not in a chain

using "other" dbs ...

select t1.a
,t2.b
,t3.c
,t4.d

from t1
,t2
,t3
,t4

Where t1.id = t2.id (+) and t1.id = t3.id (+) and t1.id = t4.id (+)

I've tried using the left outer join syntax ...

select t1.a
,t2.b
,t3.c
,t4.d

From t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN t2 using (id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN t3 using (id)
LEFT OUTER JOIN t4 using (id)

but that, of course chains t1 to t2, t2 to t3, and t3 to t4.

How can I make this join work, without the use of subqueries?

Left Outer Join Produces
In order to eliminate duplicate values from the right of a query I tried the following:

LEFT OUTER JOIN
        `private_comments`
    ON
        `report_cards`.id IN (select distinct `private_comments`.student_id1 from `private_comments`)

I have unique `report_cards`.id but multiples of `private_comments`.student_id1.

Left Outer Join Doing Wired Things
i have two tables, tableA and tableB, i want all of tableA but regardless of if there is a record in tableB that references the record of tableA, so thats what an outer (or left, or left outer) join should do if tableA is the left table... right?

Ok first my Query:

SELECT *
FROM tableA A
LEFT OUTER JOIN tableB B
ON A.ID=B._IDa
WHERE ((B._IDb IS NULL) OR (B._IDb=3)); -- no record exists in tableB with _IDb=3

tableA is referenced by tableB's foreign key field _IDa
tableA has 27 rows, tableB has many rows but none that have _IDb=3

So I expect to get 27 rows with NULL for all fields of tableB, but i only get 18 rows!!
(all fields of tableB are, as expected, NULL, but WHY those 18?!! why not all or none?!)

Note though that B is a composite entity, where _IDa is only half of the primary key, _IDb is the other half referencing someother table that's not important for this problem.

Code:

Slow Execution For A Left Outer Join Query
Whats likely to be the cause of slow execution for a left outer join query?

The original query joins three tables but even if I narrow it down to one it still takes a long time to execute.

$query = "select distinct materials.* from materials";
$query .= " left outer join materials_products on materials.material_id = materials_products.material_id";

There's 914 rows in the materials table and 1348 row in the materials_products table

Is it likely to take a long time for this amount of data or is there likely to be a problem in the table(s) set up or query?

LEFT OUTER Is Faster Than INNER Joins?
Maybe someone can explain this to me real quick. I have two identical queries, except that the join type changed. One uses inner joins:

SELECT OrderItems.product_id AS product_id
, OrderItems.code AS product_code
FROM Orders
INNER
JOIN OrderItems
ON Orders.id = OrderItems.order_id
INNER
JOIN Products
ON OrderItems.product_id = Products.id
WHERE Orders.orderdate >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 24 HOUR))
AND Products.active = 1
GROUP
BY OrderItems.product_id
and the other uses the basic LEFT OUTER JOIN:

SELECT OrderItems.product_id AS product_id
, OrderItems.code AS product_code
FROM Orders
LEFT OUTER
JOIN OrderItems
ON Orders.id = OrderItems.order_id
LEFT OUTER
JOIN Products
ON OrderItems.product_id = Products.id
WHERE Orders.orderdate >= UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 24 HOUR))
AND Products.active = 1
GROUP
BY OrderItems.product_id
When I run the two queries on the same data (using phpmyadmin), the left outer joins only take 0.12-0.13 seconds whereas the inner joins take a whopping 2.5+ seconds. I kinda thought that an inner join would be faster. I'm still bad with determining join types.... Is there a fundamental reasoning for this that I am missing?

Summing Two Columns From Two Left Outer Joins
I've got data from three tables. Two of them have a column that needs to be summed and displayed with the rows of the remaining table. So the raw joins of c3 and c4 from the two tables onto c1 and c2 from the third table look like this:

id c1 c2 c3 c4
1 A B 7 3
1 A B 7 8
1 A B 2 3
1 A B 2 8
And I want

id c1 c2 c3 c4
1 A B 9 11
The group by clause was working beautifully and I didn't have a problem until I threw another table into the mix (the data from c4). Now it's just summing up everything in c3 and c4 from the raw table... not particularly surprising but I'm not sure how to get around this problem

Specify Conditions For The Left Side Of A Multiple Left Join
I'm doing a left join that looks like this standard example:

SELECT t1.c1, t2.c2, SUM(t3.c3)
FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.c1=t2.c1
LEFT JOIN t3 ON t1.c1=t3.c1
GROUP BY t1.c1

The problem is that I also want to specify a condition for selecting records from t1:

WHERE t1.c1='x'

so that only the records with that value in c1 will be returned on the left side of the join. I don't know where to put this in the SQL.

Outer Join With Where
I am willing to select all the distinct Products from the product table and in case the PC Name was the same as a @ passed PC name return ALSO the local path, Otherwise return null for the localpath field.... How I can do that?
here is my query:

SQL
SELECT Products.Name, Products.Code,
UserProduct.LocalPath, UserProduct.PC FROM
Products LEFT OUTER JOIN
UserProduct ON
UserProduct.ProdCode = Products.Code
this returns the same product name and product code from many users....also, I want to return distinct Product Names also.

Do I Need An Outer Join?
I have a table that stores traffic data keyed on a char (even though I call it a tstamp). The data is coalated into hourly chunks and is viewed through a web app in monthly, daily and hourly increments.

I've been charged with creating some KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) from this data and one of them is for a given month/day/year, generate an addition figure of how many times the average traffic per period (in a column called average) is less than or equal to 5.

mysql> desc coal_counts ....

Outer Join
hello, I am trying to run following query in mysql.

select a.name, a.record, b.data from A a, B b where a.name*=b.name and b.date='2006-07-28'

How can I do this in mysql? I looked up LEFT JOIN but still can't figure it out.

OUTER JOIN
I have 2 tables with the corresponding columns:

1) InventoryComputers-ComputerID, ComputerSN.
2) InventoryStations-Autonum, BranchID, StationID, ComputerID.

I want to display all rows of InventoryComputers for which the ComputerID does not have an entry in InventoryStations.
So basically, I want to display those computers that do not have a station assigned to them.

I tried this sql statement, but it also displays those rows that are present in InventoryStations table, which I don't want.

SELECT * FROM InventoryComputers
LEFT OUTER JOIN InventoryStations on InventoryStations.ComputerID=InventoryComputers.ComputerID
ORDER BY InventoryComputers.ComputerID

Any ideas what is wrong??

Outer Join
i have a main table called property, and a lookup table called ptype (property type). the propertry table has a "type" field, and a "subtype" field. both these fields look at the ptype table to get their titles.

so, i currently have the query below, but i also want to add to this the subtype. trouble is the field name is going to be the same for both the type and subtype values, so how do i get at them both?

I tried "AS subtype" after the LEFT OUTER JOIN but this didnt work.

SELECT * FROM property
LEFT OUTER JOIN ptype ON ptype.pty_id = property.pro_ptype
WHERE property.pro_id = 1

LEFT SELF Join -- LEFT Join On Same Table
Is it possible to LEFT JOIN a table to itself?

I want to see all records in a table where the year of the sales date is
2003 and where the salesman sold an item to a customer to which he did not
sell that item to in 2002.

The following is an example table (SALES):

+----+-----+------+------------+--------+------+-----+
| ID | SLM | CUST | DATE | ITEM | COST | QTY |
+----+-----+------+------------+--------+------+-----+
| 1 | 1 | AAA | 2002-01-01 | APPLE | 1.00 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | BBB | 2002-01-01 | APPLE | 1.00 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | CCC | 2002-01-01 | PEAR | 1.00 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | AAA | 2002-01-01 | PEAR | 1.00 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | AAA | 2002-01-01 | APPLE | 1.00 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | CCC | 2002-01-01 | BANANA | 1.00 | 2 |
| 7 | 1 | AAA | 2003-01-01 | APPLE | 1.00 | 2 |
| 8 | 2 | AAA | 2003-01-01 | APPLE | 1.00 | 2 |
| 9 | 3 | CCC | 2003-01-01 | BANANA | 1.00 | 2 |
| 10 | 1 | AAA | 2003-01-01 | BANANA | 1.00 | 2 |
| 11 | 3 | CCC | 2003-01-01 | APPLE | 1.00 | 2 |
+----+-----+------+------------+--------+------+-----+

What I want to see in my result is that in 2003 Salesman 1 sold bananas to
customer AAA and salesman 3 sold apples to customer CCC. I want to see
these because these salesmen did not sell these customers these items in 2002.

Three Table Outer Join
I have three tables:

items (id, article, etc)
deliveries (id, shipment_date, etc)
movements (item_id, delivery_id, quantity, etc)

I want to get result as following:
article | sum(quantity)

but for all articles (outer join) with condition for deliveries table(shipment_date >= '2004-08-01' for example)

It works for two table join (items and movements) without deliveries:
select i.id, sum(m.quantity) from
items i left outer join movements m on m.item_id = i.id

but how I should join "deliveries" table to add condition for shipment_date ?

Iso FULL OUTER JOIN
I need to do a full outer join, but have not seen this available in the fine manual. Is this type of join available?

The task is to list everyone that has departed the company in a certain date range. Sometimes a record is entered on table A, sometimes on table B, sometimes on both.

SELECT a.NAME, b.NAME FROM TABLEA A FULL OUTER JOIN TABLEB B ON A.SSN = B.SSN WHERE A.DEPART_DATE BETWEEN @BEGIN AND @END or
B.DEPART_DATE BETWEEN @BEGIN AND @END .

Outer Join And Distinct
I just started building a website and use MySQL as my backend database. I'm having a little trouble creating an SQL query that will get the correct information out.

Here's my problem:

I have 3 tables:
people: stores the name of people who can vote
votetype: stores the type of votes there are (In favor, Against, Withheld)
decisions: the dicisions that were voted on

Then I have another table that links them all together called votes. Votes has three columns: personID, typeID and decisionID. personID and decisionID are primary key. All are foreign key to obvious tables.

I want to retrieve for a given person the votes he made for all decisions. So: a list of all decisions with the vote he or she made and a NULL if there is no vote.

So far I have this query:
SELECT DISTINCT d.ID, d.name, d.date, v.typeID AS vID, t.name FROM decisions d, votetype t LEFT OUTER JOIN votes v ON v.decisionID = d.ID WHERE (v.personID=1 OR v.personID IS NULL) AND (v.typeID=t.ID OR v.typeID IS NULL) ORDER BY d.date;

For some reason the DISTINCT doesn't work and I get a decision that is not voted for three times (once for each type while v.typeID column is NULL).

How can I fix this so each decision only shows up once?

Jurgen

-------------------------
I've found a solution:

SELECT DISTINCT d.ID, d.name, d.date, v.typeID AS vID, IF(v.typeID IS NULL,NULL,t.name) AS stem FROM decision d, votetype t LEFT OUTER JOIN votes v ON v.decisionID = d.ID WHERE (v.personID=1 OR v.personID IS NULL) AND (v.typeID=t.ID OR v.typeID IS NULL) ORDER BY d.date;

A Simple Outer Join
Sorry to post a naive question , But i need a query for this simple condition.
There are 2 tables employee and email . both have employee id as PK. I need to list employee names and emails . If enrty does not exist in email ..then it should get NULL .
Select employee.name, email.id from employee , email where ?

Outer Join Syntax Error
Trying to do an outer join to retrieve info from two data bases and keep coming up with syntax errors....here's the code

$result = @mysql_query('SELECT * FROM members OUTER JOIN 2nd_location USING (members.ID = 2nd_location.ID) WHERE members.type= "RET" AND members.active="A" AND members.multi_location="Y" ');

OUTER JOIN With Extra Conditions?
I need to get a list of products in a certain category, along with the quantity of each item already added to the shopping cart for a given session number. I'm having a heck of a time satisfying the latter condition.

shoppingCart table:
+--------+-----------+-----------+-----+
| cartID | sessionID | productID | qty |
+--------+-----------+-----------+-----+
product table:
+-----------+--------------+------+--------+
| ProductID | ProductCatID | name | Active |
+-----------+--------------+------+--------+
Here's my base query, which just gets all the products in a given category.

SELECT product.*
FROM product
WHERE `ProductCatID`='{$id}'
AND `Active`=Ƈ'
Here's the query I've got so far:

SELECT product.*, shoppingCart.qty
FROM product
LEFT OUTER JOIN shoppingCart ON shoppingCart.productID = product.ProductID
WHERE `ProductCatID` = Ɗ'
AND shoppingCart.sessionID = '{$sessionID}'
AND `Active` = Ƈ'
Obviously, this does NOT work, because it limits the query to ONLY products that have the specified sessionID. I need it to return ALL the products in the category, but give me the quanity for items in the shoppingCart table, ONLY IF the sessionID matches (otherwise it should return NULL)!

Transform SubSelect In OUTER JOIN
maybe I'm simply to dump but I could not transform this SQL-Statment
which uses a Sub-select and create on that uses an OUTER JOIN ....

Double OUTER JOIN On The Same Table?
I'm trying to make a request with an OUTER JOIN on 2 fields at the same time:

Here are the tables:

test:
- id
- user1
- user2

users:
- id
- username

And Id like to get as result each line of the 'test' table, with the corresponding username from 'user' fir the fields user1 and user2.

Do you know how to do this without using several SELECT?

Full Outer Join Should Work
why doesn't the following work?

mysql> select * from girls full outer join boys where girls.city = boys.city;

where :

drop table girls;
drop table boys;
create table girls (name varchar(12), city varchar(12));
create table boys (name varchar(12), city varchar(12));
insert into girls values('Mary', 'Boston');
insert into girls values('Nancy', null);
insert into girls values('Susan', 'Chicago');
insert into girls values('Betty', 'Chicago');
insert into girls values('Anne', 'Denver');
insert into boys values('John', 'Boston');
insert into boys values('Henry', 'Boston');
insert into boys values('George', null);
insert into boys values('Sam', 'Chicago');
insert into boys values('James', 'Dallas');

If needed, I can go into insert and create for you!

BTW left and right work OK!

BTW what do P1(T1,T2), P1(T1,T2) and R( mean in the following

SELECT * T1 LEFT JOIN T2 ON P1(T1,T2)
WHERE P(T1,T2) AND R(T2)

Workaround For Outer Join Using Filtering Subquery
I'm using mysql 4.0.x, which does not allow the following query (which works
fine in 4.1). Is there any way I can issue a single query to achieve the
same results? (I want a list of all records from table al, nulled where
there is no match in table alm, which has been filtered. Without a
subquery, the filtering occurs after the outer join, and for one specific
row from alm, I only see the nonmatching records from al where NO other alm
record matches.)

SELECT al.id, alm.idmember, al.listname
FROM addresslists AS al
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT idlist, idmember FROM addresslistmembers WHERE idmember = 4)
AS alm
ON al.id = alm.idlist

Connecting Three Tables With Left Join And Ordinary Join
I have 3 Mysql tables:

Week (with columns day and hour)
Activity (with columns day, hour, activityid and ac_text)
Person (with columns name and activityid)

I would like to create a scheme showing the activities during a week sorted on days and hours. If I ignore the person table I can fix it with the statement:
Select …. From week left join activity on (week.day = activity.day) and (week.hour = activity.hour) order by day, hour

I can then make a loop (I am usin asp.net) that writes the activities.
My problem is when I try to combine the persons to the activtities in an given hour. How do I do that ? (activity.activityid = person.activityid).

I have a little extra question. When I make the join above and print the result (day, time and activity) there isn’t any output if no activity matches a given day and hour. How do I do when I always want to print day and hour and add activity where such exist.

LEFT JOIN? RIGHT JOIN? Multiple JOIN?
Simplifying this down to its basics, I'm using LEFT JOIN in a query but I'm not getting the results I want.

The tables are:
table services
service_id
service_name

table services_provided
service_id
service_date (date field)
cust_id
service_quantity

I need to select ALL services from the services table, and the number of services provided (by a specific customer, in a specific time frame) from the services_provided table, so that I can generate a list that shows services provided by that customer in the specified period of time

The query:

SELECT service_date, service_name, service_quantity
FROM services
LEFT JOIN services_provided ON services_provided.service_id = services.service_id
WHERE cust_id = $cust_id
AND MONTH(service_date) = 10
AND YEAR(service_date) = 2007
GROUP BY service_id
ORDER BY service_id
(Aside: The date to be selected varies - it may be the whole year, or may be a selection of months,such as 1, 2 or 3. This is determined dynamically in the script. The cust_id is determined by which customer is logged in.)

I'm pretty sure that the left join as I have it should return all services, even if there's no corresponding entry in the services_provided table.

But because of the WHERE clause, I don't get a complete list of all services -- if the customer doesn't have any entries for a particular service, that service doesn't come up in my results.

Do I need to change how I'm joining the tables, or join them twice? I'm sure I could do this with a nested query, but I'm trying to avoid that.

Using LEFT JOIN Instead Of A Equi-JOIN
I have a SQL statement in some code I'm trying to get my head around.. I havent used SQL that much so I assume this is a newbie question: Why would someone use LEFT JOIN if they can simply construct the statement with equi-JOIN? The first statement uses left joins and the 2nd is my reconstruction using equi-JOINs.. so far they produce the same results (however it could be I dont have the right kind of test data) So to summarize my questions: Why do it using LEFT JOINS which I personally find harder to read over the equi-JOIN, 2nd Do they acutally produce the same result everytime?
1st (LEFT JOIN)
-------------------------------------------------------------
SELECT action.action,
summary.gatekeepercl,
branch.branch
FROM summary
LEFT JOIN action ON summary.action=action.id
LEFT JOIN branch ON summary.branch=branch.id
WHERE summary.gatekeepercl IN (506100,506101)
2nd (equi-JOIN)
---------------------------------------------------------------

SELECT action.action,
summary.gatekeepercl,
branch.branch
FROM summary, action, branch
WHERE summary.action=action.id
AND summary.branch=branch.id
AND summary.gatekeepercl IN (506100,506101)

Right And Left Join
So I have Table named Global and one named Personal. i need to Get All Records from both tables that match a single userid. These tables may have a linking attribute (globalid to id) But it may not exist as well. The only way I have figured out how to get the correct data is to utilize 2 seperate queries. Can I get these to run a one?

CREATE TABLE `global` (
`id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`userid` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
`value` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=8245;

CREATE TABLE `personal` (
`id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`globalid` int(11) unsigned default NULL,
`value` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=379 ;
Now here is some Data

INSERT INTO `global` (`id`, `userid`, `value`) VALUES
(2442, 13, 630),
(3017, 13, 0),
(3108, 13, 78),
(3109, 16, 2220),
(3110, 16, 2220);

INSERT INTO `personal` (`id`, `userid`, `globalid`, `value`) VALUES
(324, 13, 2442, -5),
(367, 13, 3017, 10),
(378, 13, NULL, 25),
(336, 12, NULL, 2543);

And here is the current queries I am running.

SELECT g.value, p.value as PValue
FROM `global` g
LEFT JOIN personal p ON p.globalid = g.id
WHERE g.userid = 13

SELECT g.value, p.value as PValue
FROM `global` g
RIGHT JOIN personal p ON p.userid = g.userid AND p.globalid = g.id
WHERE p.userid = 13 AND g.id is null

Using A WHERE With LEFT JOIN
My problem seems pretty simple, but I'm having a tough time figuring out a SELECT statement that will do what I want.

Basically, I have two tables that look like this:

table1
userid
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

table2
myid addedid
2 4
2 5
What i need to do is find a way to list the users in table1 that are NOT listed in 'addedid' in table two.

This is the basic select statement that I'm using:

SELECT table1. * , table2. * FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2 ON table1.userid = table2.addedid

Which lists the results like this:

userid myid addedid
1 null null
2 null null
3 null null
4 2 4
5 2 5
6 null null
7 null null
What I want to do is display only the results that have "myid" and "addedid" as null. I tried adding "WHERE users.userid!=adds.addedid" to the original SELECT statement's ending, but it doesn't work. I also tried adding "WHERE "myid=null", but that doesn't work either. ?

LEFT JOIN With MIN() - Please Help
I just can not get my head around this, so any help is appreciated.

I am building a real estate web site and need to look up properties to list them.

I need to get an image from the jos_mh_images table if one exists. If not - I still want to get the content from jos_mh_properties - thus the LEFT join.

Here is a simplified version of my query:

SELECT p.*, MIN(i.image_name_id), i.image_ext
FROM jos_mh_properties AS p
LEFT JOIN jos_mh_images AS i ON p.id = i.property_id
WHERE p.published = 1
GROUP BY p.id
LIMIT 0, 10
My issue is that the query returns the correct MIN i.image_name_id but the returned i.image_ext is not from the same row.

I would like to select the whole row from jos_mh_images where i.image_name_id is smallest and property_id = p.id

My original query has lots of other LEFT JOINS that works great - they have been removed to make the question easier to understand.

Left Join Doesn't Seem To Do It's Job?
First post to sitepoint - and it's probably the easiest solution (I just can't see it!).

I have a query between two tables (A and B). A lists all the types, and B has the occurences of these types. Example structures below:

Table A
======
type_id
type_desc

Table B
======
occurence_id
type_id
vaidator_id

MySQL
SELECT t.type_id, t.type_desc, COUNT(o.validator_id) AS validated, COUNT(o.occurence_id) AS total
FROM type AS t NATURAL LEFT JOIN occurence AS O
GROUP BY t.type_id
ORDER BY t.type_id ASC

What I would expect to happen is evey row in the type table to be returned with either nulls or the counts of the relevant values from the occurence table.

What I'm actually getting is the correct count, but only for the items that have that have a value (as if I was using a standard join). For example:

I'm getting this:

type_id type_desc validated total
================================
1 Type 1 5 7
3 Type 3 0 1

Where I'm expecting this:

type_id type_desc validated total
================================
1 Type 1 5 7
2 Type 2 0 0
3 Type 3 0 1

I get the same result with NATURAL LEFT JOIN as I do with LEFT JOIN... ON... .

Left Join Help
Using MYSQL 4.0.13, debian linux

create table members (
id unsigned int autoincrement,
name
)

create table activity (
id unsigned int autoincrement,
description
)

create table history (
id unsigned in autoincrement,
date date,
member_id unsigned int,
activity unsigned int
)

What I need:
1) only records for a particular date
2) there should be at least one record for each activity
3) there may be multiples of the same activity on a given date
4) there may be multiples of the same member on a given date
5) not all members will be listed
6) the members.name result field may be NULL

SELECT history.date, activity.description, members.name
???
WHERE history.date = 'YYYY-MM-DD'

LEFT JOIN
I have three tables: record, record_author, and author At the moment I have a search form that searches fields in the record table, but I want to extend that so people can search for records by author.

A record can be written by 0,1, or many authors, and 1 author can write many records.

I saw this example in the mysql docs:
mysql> SELECT * FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2 ON table1.id=table2.id
-> LEFT JOIN table3 ON table2.id=table3.id;

This seems to do what I would like.. is it getting me all the authors connected to each record? but also getting me records that dont have an author?

Well I substituted my tables in the statement and mysql sort of froze, it took up 100% CPU and shut me out..

Do you know why this would happen (the tables contain around 20,000 rows each) or do you have an idea of what I could do to achieve this ?

Using LEFT JOIN
I have two tables which I am trying to perform a left join on.

table 1: master
columns | datatype
--------------------
masid | int(4)
maDesc | varchar(200)
maNote | varchar(200)

table 2: slave
columns | datatype
--------------------
asid | int(11)
masid | int(4)
uid | int(11)
cdate | datetime
title | text

my query is as follows

SELECT *
FROM `master`
LEFT JOIN `slave` ON master.masid = slave.masid
WHERE slave.uid = ? OR slave.uid IS NULL
ORDER BY master.masid DESC LIMIT 0, 30

I want to be able to display a row for each master.masid and then, depending
on whether a slave row exists that matches display a link to create on (this
is a php/mySQL project). Problem is it doesn't quite do what I want.

It only seems to return the one row with the highest master.masid if no
matching slave row exists for it, rather than listing all the masid rows for
which no matching slave row exists. It returns all the matching slave rows.

Left Join
I have gone through the database normalization process, and rewrote the queries in php to accomodate this, but now, in preparation for the next step, where the data can be retrieved, I need some help in understanding the LEFT JOIN.

I had been advised that in the many=>many format, I should create a third table, but am now wondering if that was ONLY if my host supported INNODB table types.

I have one table called workorder, where the basic information goes, and a second table where the part number and description of the parts required will go.

The WorkOrder table has the following columns - work_id(primary key, auto-increment), work(work order number (in mmhhddss format), name, site, serial, severity, issue and sched(date)

The Parts table has parts_id(primary key, autoincrement), number, description.

Do I need to add another column to the Parts Table that would have a field that is the same as the workorder table? Perhaps the workorder # or use the primary key through the use of the mysql_insert_id().

Originally I had created a third table called workorder_parts, but am thinking this is for tables that have INNODB type.

A LEFT JOIN With LIKE?
I would like to use a "LIKE" condition in my LEFT JOIN statement.

At the moment I have something like:
SELECT * FROM page AS p LEFT JOIN item AS i ON p.url=i.url

Now I want to include the subpages from i.url. So if p.url is
"www.here.com/page"
it should also match if i.url is
"www.here.com/page/subpage.html"

So the new command should look something like:
SELECT * FROM page AS p LEFT JOIN item AS i ON p.url=i.url%

Can this be done? How?

LEFT JOIN
I have three tables. Simplified, they look like this.

1. galleryData(fileID INT)
2. galleryViews(fileID INT, time DATETIME)
3. galleryFeedback(fileID INT, feedback TEXT, time DATETIME)

Now over to my problem. What I want to do is select all rows in galleryData that have a fileID that matches the fileID in galleryFeedback. Meaning, select all fileID's that have a feedback associated with it.

Now that's no problem.

But, I only want the feedback written AFTER the time the file was last viewed. There can be multible rows in galleryViews for each file (since a new row is inserted into the table every time the file is viewed). Hence, if galleryViews.time < galleryFeedback.time, then select the row.

Now, I'm no expert on LEFT JOIN, but this is what i made (that doesn't work):
SELECT galleryData.fileID, galleryFeedback.feedback FROM galleryData LEFT JOIN (galleryFeedback, galleryViews) ON (galleryViews.fileID = galleryViews.fileID AND galleryViews.time < galleryFeedback.time)

All I get from that is null in the feedback column. What I want to do ultimately is to put a COUNT on the SELECT to see how many feedbacks the user has not seen.

LEFT JOIN And WHERE
This question is about using left joins, and a where constrain on a field in the joined table. I I have a really simple query like so...

SELECT
a.field1a
,b.field1b
FROM tableA as a
LEFT JOIN tableB as b
ON a.id = b.a_id

WHERE b.this = 1

Left Join
If I do

select "a.id, b.id from table_a a left join table_b b on a.id = b.id";

it works. But when I try to add a third table,it is failing.

select "a.id, b.id, c.id from table_a a left join table_b b on a.id = b.id left
join table_c c on a.id=c.id";

Is there something wrong with this second statement?Does the second left join combine table c with the first two or is what's joined determined by the on clause?

Why would I want to use left join as above instead of instead of the following?

select "a.id, b.id from table_a a, table_b b where a.id=b.id