Difference between revisions of "Subquery and JOIN2"

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Revision as of 09:41, 30 July 2012

Converting aggregate subqueries into Join functions.

schema:scott

DROP TABLE orders

 CREATE TABLE orders(
  employee VARCHAR(40)),
  whn DATE(YYYY,MM,DD),
  totalitems INTEGER));
INSERT INTO orders VALUES ('Jim',(2006,10,10), 5);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES ('Jim',(2006,10,11), 3);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES ('Jim',(2006,10,12), 1);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES ('Brian',(2006,10,10), 7);

SELECT customer, whn, totalitems
FROM orders 01
WHERE 01.whn = (
 SELECT MAX(whn)
 FROM orders 02
 WHERE 01.customer = 02.customer)

To make this more efficient a HAVING clause can be used with a self join.

SELECT 01.customer, 01.whn, 01.totalitems
FROM orders AS 01 JOIN ORDER 02 ON (01.customer = 02.customer)
GROUP BY 01.customer, 01.whn, 01.totalitems
HAVING 01.whn = MAX(02.whn)

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