Question

My current query:

SELECT Series.*, Episodes.* FROM Series, Episodes
WHERE EpisodeAirDate > '.time().' AND Episodes.SeriesKey = Series.SerieID
GROUP BY Series.SerieTitle ORDER BY Episodes.EpisodeAirDate;

I want to retrieve the information from Episodes where Episodes.EpisodeAirDate is the closest to the current time (time()). With this I just get the last episode in the database.

I’ve tried with

SELECT Series.*, Episodes.*, MIN(Episodes.EpisodeAirDate) AS EpisodeAirDate FROM Series, Episodes
WHERE EpisodeAirDate > '.time().' AND Episodes.SeriesKey = Series.SerieID
GROUP BY Series.SerieTitle ORDER BY EpisodeAirDate;

which kind of works, but Episode.EpisodeTitle etc. does not correspond with the timestamp row.

Here I’m using the MIN()-query (http://grab.by/8UNY). I wasn’t allowed to post an image, so perhaps a link will suffice 🙂

As you can see, the SerieTitle and “Time until” is correct, but the EpisodeTitle, EpNo and SeasonNo is that of the first query.

It’s hard to explain, really. I hope you make sense of this! 🙂

Answer 1

Please try this:

SELECT S.*,E.* FROM Series S
JOIN (SELECT SeriesKey, MIN(EpisodeAirDate) MinDate FROM Episodes
    WHERE EpisodeAirDate > NOW() GROUP BY SeriesKey) M
    ON M.SeriesKey = S.SerieID
JOIN Episodes E ON E.SeriesKey = S.SerieID AND E.EpisodeAirDate = M.MinDate
ORDER BY E.EpisodeAirDate;

Edit: Added the ORDER BY clause.