Question

This question is a continuation of Changing this query to group rows and filter out all rows apart from the one with smallest value but with an extra bit at the end….

I have the following results set:

275     72.87368055555555555555555555555555555556   foo    70
275     72.87390046296296296296296296296296296296   foo    90 
113     77.06431712962962962962962962962962962963   foo    80
113     77.07185185185185185185185185185185185185   foo    60 

that I got from this query:

SELECT id, (tbl2.date_modified - tbl1.date_submitted)/86400, some_value
FROM tbl1, tbl2, tbl3
WHERE tbl1.id = tbl2.fid 
AND tbl1.id = tbl3.fid

Notice there are 4 rows with 2 ids. I wanted to filter the rows to get only the minimum number in the second column. This fixed it:

SELECT id, min((tbl2.date_modified - tbl1.date_submitted)/86400), max(some_value)
FROM tbl1, tbl2, tbl3
WHERE tbl1.id = tbl2.fid 
AND tbl1.id = tbl3.fid
GROUP BY tbl1.id

so I got:

275     72.87368055555555555555555555555555555556   foo    70
113     77.06431712962962962962962962962962962963   foo    80

How can I change it to do the same but not include rows where the are other rows with some_value=90 ? I.e.

113     77.06431712962962962962962962962962962963   foo    80

I think I need some nested group or nested query ?!

Many thanks :).

Answer 1

You should be able to use NOT EXISTS:

SELECT id, 
  min((tbl2.date_modified - tbl1.date_submitted)/86400), 
  max(some_value)
FROM tbl1, tbl2, tbl3
WHERE tbl1.id = tbl2.fid 
  AND tbl1.id = tbl3.fid
  AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT id 
                  FROM tbl2 
                  WHERE tbl1.id = tbl2.fid
                    AND some_value = 90)
GROUP BY tbl1.id

Or using ANSI join syntax:

SELECT id, 
  min((tbl2.date_modified - tbl1.date_submitted)/86400), 
  max(some_value)
FROM tbl1
INNER JOIN tbl2
   ON tbl1.id = tbl2.fid 
INNER JOIN tbl3
   ON tbl1.id = tbl3.fid
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT id 
                  FROM tbl2 
                  WHERE tbl1.id = tbl2.fid
                    AND some_value = 90)
GROUP BY tbl1.id