Question

Let’s suppose I have seven tables, and I want to perform the same query on all of them, and then return the result. Right now I have some code like this

$dates = array();
foreach ($tables as $table) {
  $result = runStatement("
    SELECT MIN(StartDate) as Start, 
           MAX(EndDate) as End 
           FROM $table WHERE ProjectID = ?",
    array($id));
  $stageDates[$table] = $result[0];
}
echo json_encode($dates);

It works, but it is prohibitively slow because it has to initiate and retrieve results from seven different queries. Is there a way to amalgamate all of the queries into one? Is there any other way to speed it up?

Answer 1

Using join with subquery will solve the problem

SELECT
  MIN(t1.StartDate) as Start,
  MAX(t1.EndDate) as End,
  t2.Start,
  t2.END,
  t3.Start,
  t3.END  
FROM table1 as t1
  left join (SELECT
           MIN(t2.StartDate) as Start,
           MAX(t2.EndDate) as End
         FROM table1) as t2
    on t1.id = t2.id
  left join (SELECT
           MIN(t3.StartDate) as Start,
           MAX(t3.EndDate) as End
         FROM table1) as t3
    on t1.id = t3.id  
    -- and so on --  
WHERE t1.ProjectID = 1