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Asked: 2026-05-24T18:27:42+00:00

I must admit I’m pretty bad when it comes to SQL (MySQL in this

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I must admit I’m pretty bad when it comes to SQL (MySQL in this case) so I apologise if this is simple!

I have the following query:

SELECT b.tourrefcode, t.startdate, SUM(a.adults + a.children + a.infants) as Pax FROM 
explorer.booking_record b
INNER JOIN explorer.bookingroom a ON a.bookingref = b.bookingref
LEFT JOIN explorer.tour t ON b.tourrefcode = t.tourcode AND (t.startdate > '2012-02-01' AND t.startdate < '2012-03-01') AND (b.bookingstatus = "P" OR b.bookingstatus = "F") AND (b.tourdeparturedate > '2012-02-01' AND b.tourdeparturedate < '2012-03-01')
GROUP BY t.tourcode
HAVING SUM(a.adults + a.children + a.infants) < 120

The idea is that the query returns every tour from explorer.tour along with a count of the passengers (Pax in this case) for every booking found in booking_record. Booking_record is linked to bookingroom which contains the adults/children/infant figures.

As such, I’m having to join booking_reference with bookingroom to get the figures I’m looking for.

The query itself works perfectly and gives me the correct passengers for the correct tour on the correct date. However, it will not show me those tours in which there have been no bookings.

I’ve tried a number of different constructions of the same query including every type of join and moving the clauses from WHERE into the ON (as shown in the current implementation).

Any help would be massively appreciated!

EXPLAIN as requested:

id  select_type table   type    possible_keys   key key_len ref rows    Extra
1   SIMPLE  t   index       PRIMARY 11      58415   Using index; Using temporary; Using filesort
1   SIMPLE  a   ALL PRIMARY             718736  
1   SIMPLE  b   eq_ref  PRIMARY PRIMARY 5   explorer.a.bookingref   1

Regards, Daniel.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are mixing up your left/right joins:

    SELECT b.tourrefcode, t.startdate, SUM(a.adults + a.children + a.infants) as Pax FROM 
explorer.booking_record b
INNER JOIN explorer.bookingroom a ON a.bookingref = b.bookingref
RIGHT JOIN explorer.tour t ON b.tourrefcode = t.tourcode AND (t.startdate > '2012-02-01' AND t.startdate < '2012-03-01') AND (b.bookingstatus = "P" OR b.bookingstatus = "F") AND (b.tourdeparturedate > '2012-02-01' AND b.tourdeparturedate < '2012-03-01')
GROUP BY t.tourcode
HAVING SUM(a.adults + a.children + a.infants) < 120

    I changed one join to a RIGHT JOIN.

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