Question

I have two tables:

table1        table2
column id     column id   column value
1             1           count_20
2             1           count_30
3             2           count_20
4             2           count_50
...           2           count_200
              3           count_30
              3           count_50
              3           count_200
              4           count_130
              ...         ...

I want to build a query that will select every row from table1, column id and the MAX value from the corresponding column value from table2 and make a DESC short as int in value column.

So the output should be:

table1.id     value
2             count_200  
3             count_200  
4             count_130  
1             count_30  
...           ...  

I have tried JOIN but then, for every value (count_%) in table2 I get the corresponding id from table1.

SELECT table1.id, table2.id, table2.value FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2
ON table2.id=table1.id
WHERE table1.id<'100'
ORDER BY
CASE value
  WHEN 'count_20' THEN '20' 
END DESC,
CASE value
  WHEN 'count_30' THEN '30' 
END DESC,
CASE value
  WHEN 'count_50' THEN '50' 
END DESC,
CASE value
  WHEN 'count_130' THEN '130' 
END DESC,
CASE value
  WHEN 'count_200' THEN '200' 
END DESC;

Output:

table1.id   table2.id   value
2           2           count_200  
3           3           count_200  
4           4           count_130  
2           2           count_50  
3           3           count_50  
1           1           count_30  
3           3           count_30  
1           1           count_20  
2           2           count_20  
...         ...  

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Give this a try:

select t2.id, 
'count_' + cast(max(cast(replace(t2.value, 'count_', '') as int)) varchar) intValue
from table1 t1
join table2 t2 on t1.id = t2.id
group by t2.id
order by max(cast(replace(t2.value, 'count_', '') as int)) desc

This results in:

+----+-----------+
| ID |   VALUE   |
+----+-----------+
|  2 | count_200 |
|  3 | count_200 |
|  4 | count_130 |
|  1 | count_30  |
+----+-----------+

Fiddle here.