Question

I have 2 tables – 1 with parent records, 1 with child records. For each parent record, I’m trying to return a single child record with the MAX(SalesPriceEach).

Additionally I’d like to only return a value when there is more than 1 child record.

parent - SalesTransactions table:
+-------------------+---------+
|SalesTransaction_ID|   text  |
+-------------------+---------+
| 1                 |  Blah   |
| 2                 |  Blah2  |
| 3                 |  Blah3  |
+-------------------+---------+

child - SalesTransactionLines table 
+--+-------------------+---------+--------------+
|id|SalesTransaction_ID|StockCode|SalesPriceEach|
+--+-------------------+---------+--------------+
| 1|   1               |  123    | 99           |
| 2|   1               |   35    | 50           |
| 3|   2               |   15    | 75           |
+--+-------------------+---------+--------------+


 desired results
+-------------------+---------+--------------+
|SalesTransaction_ID|StockCode|SalesPriceEach|
+-------------------+---------+--------------+
|   1               |  123    | 99           |
|   2               |   15    | 75           |
+-------------------+---------+--------------+

I found a very similar question here, and based my query on the answer but am not seeing the results I expect.

WITH max_feature AS (
   SELECT c.StockCode,
          c.SalesTransaction_ID,
          MAX(c.SalesPriceEach)  as feature
     FROM SalesTransactionLines c
 GROUP BY c.StockCode, c.SalesTransaction_ID)
   SELECT p.SalesTransaction_ID,
          mf.StockCode,
          mf.feature
     FROM SalesTransactions p
LEFT JOIN max_feature mf ON mf.SalesTransaction_ID = p.SalesTransaction_ID

The results from this query are returning multiple rows for each parent, and not even the highest value first!

Answer 1

select stl.SalesTransaction_ID, stl.StockCode, ss.MaxSalesPriceEach
from SalesTransactionLines stl
inner join 
(
    select stl2.SalesTransaction_ID, max(stl2.SalesPriceEach) MaxSalesPriceEach
    from SalesTransactionLines stl2 
    group by stl2.SalesTransaction_ID
    having count(*) > 1
) ss on (ss.SalesTransaction_ID = stl.SalesTransaction_ID and 
         ss.MaxSalesPriceEach = stl.SalesPriceEach)

OR, alternatively:

SELECT stl1.*
FROM SalesTransactionLines AS stl1
LEFT OUTER JOIN SalesTransactionLines AS stl2
ON (stl1.SalesTransaction_ID = stl2.SalesTransaction_ID 
    AND stl1.SalesPriceEach < stl2.SalesPriceEach)
WHERE stl2.SalesPriceEach IS NULL;