Question

I have a table svn1:

id | date | startdate

23 2002-12-04 2000-11-11
23 2004-08-19 2005-09-10
23 2002-09-09 2004-08-23

select id,startdate from svn1 where startdate>=(select max(date) from svn1 where id=svn1.id);

Now the problem is how do I let know the subquery to match id with the id in the outer query. Obviously id=svn1.id wont work. Thanks!

If you have the time to read more:

This really is a simplified version of asking what I really am trying to do here. my actual query is something like this

    select 
          id, count(distinct archdetails.compname) 
    from 
          svn1,svn3,archdetails 
    where 
          svn1.name='ant' 
      and svn3.name='ant' 
      and archdetails.name='ant' 
      and type='Bug' 
      and svn1.revno=svn3.revno 
      and svn3.compname=archdetails.compname 
      and 
          ( 
            (startdate>=sdate and startdate<=edate) 
            or 
            (
             sdate<=(select max(date) from svn1 where type='Bug' and id=svn1.id) 
             and 
             edate>=(select max(date) from svn1 where type='Bug' and id=svn1.id)
            ) 
            or 
            (
             sdate>=startdate 
             and 
             edate<=(select max(date) from svn1 where type='Bug' and id=svn1.id)
            ) 
          )  
      group by id LIMIT 0,40;

As you notice select max(date) from svn1 where type='Bug' and id=svn1.id has to be calculated many times.

Can I just calculate this once and store it using AS and then use that variable later. Main problem is to correct id=svn1.id so as to correctly equate it to the id in the outer table.

Answer 1

I’m not sure you can eliminate the repetition of the subquery, but the subquery can reference the main query if you use a table alias, as in the following:

select id,
       count(distinct archdetails.compname)
from svn1 s1,
     svn3 s3,
     archdetails a
where s1.name='ant' and
      s3.name='ant' and
      a.name='ant' and
      type='Bug' and
      s1.revno=s3.revno and
      s3.compname = a.compname and
      ( (startdate >= sdate and startdate<=edate) or
        (sdate <= (select max(date)
                     from svn1
                     where type='Bug' and
                           id=s1.id and
         edate>=(select max(date)
                   from svn1
                   where type='Bug' and
                   id=s1.id)) or
        (sdate >= startdate and edate<=(select max(date)
                                          from svn1
                                          where type='Bug' and
                                          id=s1.id)) )
group by id LIMIT 0,40;

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