Question

This one has me pretty confused and after reading numerous forums and “how to” sites, I think I’m even more confused why this isn’t working.

I have 2 tables that I am joining.

Table 1 (products) contains all my product details.

Table 2 (ratings) contains all the ratings for each product and each product has 3 ratings from 3 different rating entities.

I am working on a set of AJAX search filters and need to write the query in a manner that incorporates all of the filters.

The filters include price, number of reviews, average review stars, rating 1, rating 2, rating 3.

The price, num reviews, and avg stars comes from Table 1 (products).

Rating 1, 2, and 3 come from Table 2 (ratings).

I need something like this for my query, but this is returning zero results when I know (have verified in the database) that I have records that meet the criteria I’m querying for.

SELECT p.id, p.name 
FROM products p 
JOIN ratings r ON p.id = r.id 
WHERE p.num_reviews BETWEEN '0' AND '1000' 
AND p.price BETWEEN '0' AND '500' 
AND p.avg_rvw_stars BETWEEN '0' AND '5' 
AND (r.ratingSource='1' AND (r.rating BETWEEN '1' AND '4')) 
AND (r.ratingSource='2' AND (r.rating BETWEEN '0' AND '100')) 
AND (r.ratingSource='3' AND (r.rating BETWEEN '0' AND '100')) 
ORDER BY p.name ASC

The issue seems to reside in the last three WHERE statements. If I remove any 2 of the 3, I get results. But when I include all 3, I get nothing when there are records that qualify.

If I change the last two AND’s to OR, I also get results, but it’s not the result set that is expected or needed.

Am I not writing this correctly?

Any help/guidance is greatly appreciated!!

Answer 1

If you have 3 different rows with the ratings, you can’t use that logic. Each row is checked for the WHERE conditions once, so there cannot be a row with a rating both 1 and 2.

The easiest way is to join thrice:

SELECT p.id, p.name 
FROM products p 
  JOIN ratings r1 ON  p.id = r1.id 
                  AND r1.ratingSource = 1
                  AND r1.rating BETWEEN 1 AND 4
  JOIN ratings r2 ON  p.id = r2.id 
                  AND r2.ratingSource = 2
                  AND r2.rating BETWEEN 0 AND 100
  JOIN ratings r3 ON  p.id = r3.id
                  AND r3.ratingSource = 3
                  AND r3.rating BETWEEN 0 AND 100
WHERE p.num_reviews BETWEEN 0 AND 1000 
  AND p.price BETWEEN 0 AND 500 
  AND p.avg_rvw_stars BETWEEN 0 AND 5 
ORDER BY p.name ASC ;