Question

I have two tables and I need to create a view. The tables are:

credit_orders(id, client_id, number_of_credits, payment_status)
credit_usage(id, client_id, credits_used, date)

I use the following query to do this. The query without the “create view” part works well but with “create view”, it shows the error “View’s SELECT contains a subquery in the FROM clause”. What could be the issue & possible solution:

create view view_credit_status as 
(select credit_orders.client_id, 
        sum(credit_orders.number_of_credits) as purchased, 
        ifnull(t1.credits_used,0) as used 
 from credit_orders
 left outer join (select * from (select credit_usage.client_id, 
                                        sum(credits_used) as credits_used 
                                 from credit_usage 
                                 group by credit_usage.client_id) as t0
                  ) as t1 on t1.client_id = credit_orders.client_id
 where credit_orders.payment_status='Paid'
 group by credit_orders.client_id)

Answer 1

As per documentation:

MySQL Docs

• The SELECT statement cannot contain a subquery in the FROM clause.

Your workaround would be to create a view for each of your subqueries.

Then access those views from within your view view_credit_status