Question

I have two tables. They are linked together with a userid. What i wanted do is check if there’s a linked record in table 2 AND if a date field in that table is older then a certain time OR if there’s no linked record in the 2nd table.

I thought i wanted a left join, but it’s ignoring the date field. If there are no records in the 2nd table, then i want to ignore the 2nd table. But if there is a matching record in the 2nd table and the date is outside of my range, then i dont want to select those records.

SELECT FirstName, Email, u.userid FROM u
LEFT JOIN uevh
ON u.UserID = uevh.UserID AND uevh.LastEmailed < GETDATE()-14
WHERE u.ConfirmedEmail = 0

if i run that, and there’s a record in the uevh table that’s less then 14 days old, i dont want a record returned, but it’s returning a record regardless of the date.

Answer 1

SELECT u.FirstName
     , u.Email
     , u.userid 
FROM u
WHERE NOT EXISTS
        ( SELECT *
          FROM uevh
          WHERE u.UserID = uevh.UserID
            AND NOT (uevh.LastEmailed < GETDATE()-14)
        )
  AND u.ConfirmedEmail = 0 

or:

SELECT u.FirstName
     , u.Email
     , u.userid 
FROM u
WHERE ( EXISTS
        ( SELECT *
          FROM uevh
          WHERE u.UserID = uevh.UserID
            AND uevh.LastEmailed < GETDATE()-14
        )
     OR NOT EXISTS
        ( SELECT *
          FROM uevh
          WHERE u.UserID = uevh.UserID
        )
      )
  AND u.ConfirmedEmail = 0 

or:

SELECT u.FirstName
     , u.Email
     , u.userid 
FROM u
  LEFT JOIN uevh
    ON u.UserID = uevh.UserID 
WHERE u.ConfirmedEmail = 0
  AND ( uevh.LastEmailed < GETDATE()-14
     OR uehv.UserID IS NULL
      )