Question

I need to select a table that have one join table

for example there are tables:

Role,AccountRole,Account
AccountRole - many to many relationship

need to select role, which has one account

Role table
id  name 
1   admin 
2   user 
3   external 

Account table
id  name 
1   homer 
2   jessica 
3   simpson 

AccountRole table
account_id role_id 
1          1 
1          2 
2          2 
3          3 

query:

SELECT  role.id    
FROM    Role role
        INNER JOIN AccountRole accRole
            ON accRole.role_id = role.id

        INNER JOIN Account acc
            ON accRole.account_id = acc.id

GROUP BY role.id
HAVING COUNT(*) = 1

in the query result:

role.id 
2 
3 

but I need role.id which role.name = “external”(in this instance role.id = 3,but not 2)

how to do this

Answer 1

SELECT  a.ID    -- change this to the original name of your Role Column
FROM    Role a
        INNER JOIN AccountRole b
            ON a.RoleID = b.RoleID -- an assumption that their linking
                                   -- column name is RoleID
        INNER JOIN Account c
            ON b.AccountID = c.AccountID -- an assumption that their linking
                                         -- column name is AccountID
GROUP BY a.ID
HAVING COUNT(*) = 1