Question

I’ve got an order items & a parts table, which i’m joining on the part ID foreign key:

SELECT orderID,qty,minorder 
FROM 
  orderitem 
LEFT JOIN 
  parts 
ON orderitem.partID=parts.partID 
WHERE orderitem.orderID='2128' AND qty < minorder

When i perform this query, i am getting no results. When i remove the qty < minorder from the where clause, i get the following.

I’m’ trying to craft this query so i get the 2nd record (where the qty is less than the minorder).

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In my comment above, if your data types are strings, just add this to your query…

select orderID,qty,minorder from orderitem left join parts ON orderitem.partID=parts.partID where orderitem.orderID='2128' AND (0+qty) < (0+minorder)

By adding a numeric to a string, it will implicitly convert to number and perform the expected comparison.