Question

I have the following query using INTERSECT and I can’t figure out how to translate it to MySQL using INNER JOIN.

SELECT DISTINCT Title, Variable FROM Table WHERE Location='Location1' AND Date='Date1'  
INTERSECT  
SELECT DISTINCT Title, Variable FROM Table WHERE Location='Location2' AND Date='Date2'  
INTERSECT  
SELECT DISTINCT Title, Variable FROM Table WHERE Location='Location3' AND Date='Date3'

Can anyone give me a hand?

Answer 1

SELECT t1.Title, t1.Variable
FROM Table t1
JOIN Table t2 USING (Title, Variable)
JOIN Table t3 USING (Title, Variable)
WHERE (t1.Location, t1.Date) = ('Location1', 'Date1')
  AND (t2.Location, t2.Date) = ('Location2', 'Date2')
  AND (t3.Location, t3.Date) = ('Location3', 'Date3');

You might need to use SELECT DISTINCT but I can’t tell because I don’t know your table structure, unique constraints, etc.

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Re your cryptic comment: I tried the following script in my test database:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS MyTable;
CREATE TABLE MyTable (
 id       SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
 title    VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
 variable VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
 location VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
 date     DATE NOT NULL
);

INSERT INTO MyTable VALUES
 (DEFAULT, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'variable', 'America', '2010-01-01'),
 (DEFAULT, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'variable', 'England', '2010-02-01'),
 (DEFAULT, 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'variable', 'France',  '2010-03-01');

SELECT t1.Title, t1.Variable
FROM MyTable t1
JOIN MyTable t2 USING (Title, Variable)
JOIN MyTable t3 USING (Title, Variable)
WHERE (t1.Location, t1.Date) = ('America', '2010-01-01')
  AND (t2.Location, t2.Date) = ('England', '2010-02-01')
  AND (t3.Location, t3.Date) = ('France',  '2010-03-01');

The output is this:

+----------------------+----------+
| Title                | Variable |
+----------------------+----------+
| A Tale of Two Cities | variable |
+----------------------+----------+