Question

I have three tables:

    CREATE TABLE Movie
    (
        movieId INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
        title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
        moviePath VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL
    );

    CREATE TABLE Rating
    (
        rid INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
        mid INTEGER FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Movie(movieId) ON DELETE CASCADE, 
        uid INTEGER FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES User(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
        rating INTEGER NOT NULL, 
    );

   CREATE TABLE Genre(
       id INTEGER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
       movieId INTEGER NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Movie(movieId) ON DELETE CASCADE,
       genre VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
   );

I want to create an sql query which gives me the most seen movie(with moviepath, title) from the the most seen genre back.

Any ideas?

UPDATE

Results:

| MID |   TITLE    | MOVIEPATH |
--------------------------------
|   4 | Happy days |         a |
|   4 | Happy days |         a |

Answer 1

You could calculate the rating by summing all ratings for a movie in a subquery. Another subquery could calculate the highest rating per genre. By joining them together, you’d filter only the top movies per genre:

select  *
from    Movie m
join    Genre g
on      g.movieId = m.movieId
join    (
        select  r.mid
        ,       sum(Rating) as SumRating
        from    Rating r
        group by
                r.mid
        ) r
on      r.mid = m.movieId
join    (
        select  g.id as gid
        ,       max(SumRating) as MaxGenreRating
        from    (
                select  r.mid
                ,       sum(Rating) as SumRating
                from    Rating r
                group by
                        r.mid
                ) r
        join    Genre g
        on      g.movieId = r.mid
        group by
                g.id
        ) filter
on      filter.gid = g.id
        and filter.MaxGenreRating = r.SumRating