Question

So here I am and need to see some results from a MYSQL database based not on one but on results from a few tables.

TABLE DESCRIPTION:

Metaexplanation:

Tablename

Row1,Row2,Row3....Row(N)

Tables:

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|table toy  |
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|toy_id | name | description  |
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|table owned_toy  |
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| owner  | toy_id          |
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|table toy_expansions |
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| expansion | toy_id          |
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I created a query to identify toys with no owner assigned

SELECT DISTINCT * from toy WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM ownedtoy WHERE owned_toy.toy_id = toy.id);

That worked and I was able to identify things that had no owner.

Now to make things more interesting I am trying to find out a way to discover how many expansions exist for each of the toys that I have identified in the query above.

I can count the total number of expansions to the toys using:

Select COUNT(expansion) from toy_expansions;

However what I need is to see the total number of expansions for each DISTINCT toy that does not yet have an owner, and it needs to be sorted so that I see the results from the first query combined with a column saying “number of Expansions” that lists the number of expansions for each toy identified to have no owner

I would like to be able to adding the results by combining the original query with a statement like this:

Select COUNT(expansion) as "Number of expansions" from toy_expansions

Also just to make it a little more difficult I would like to be able to execute it in one single query without creating extra tables etc. i.e. without making any changes to the db itself.

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

SELECT t.name, COUNT(te.expansion) AS NumberOfExpansions
    FROM toy t
        LEFT JOIN toy_expansions te
            ON t.id = te.toy_id
        LEFT JOIN owned_toy ot
            ON t.id = ot.toy_id
    WHERE ot.toy_id IS NULL
    GROUP BY t.name