Question

Writing my first nested SELECT statement and I’m hoping someone can help me out.

I need to grab the CompanyCode and AgentId from the UniqueAgentIdtoUniqueAgentId table. However, I only need the ones that show up in a query from another table. The common link between the rows will the the UniqueAgentId column (basically I need to grab the CompanyCode and AgentId from the rows that contain the same UniqueAgentId as come up in the nested query).

When I write this query out, I get the extremely helpful message

Incorrect syntax near ‘)’

Query:

SELECT 
    CompanyCode, AgentId
FROM 
    UniqueAgentIdToUniqueAgentId un
WHERE 
    un.UniqueAgentId = 
       (SELECT UniqueAgentId 
        FROM 
            (SELECT q.LastChangeDate, a.UniqueAgentId 
             FROM QueueUpdates q, AgentProductTraining a 
             WHERE a.LastChangeDate >= q.LastChangeDate)
       )

EDIT
Thank you very much for the responses. Using every single query below, however I keep getting the same error message: Invalid object name ‘UniqueAgentIdToUniqueAgentId’. This is odd to me because this is an actual table on the database that SQL Management Studio can see.

SECOND EDIT
This turned out to simply be a spelling error. The new error is “The conversion of the varchar value ‘3030111101’ overflowed an int column.” Not quite sure what this means either…

FINAL EDIT
I was attempting to compare a char with an it, which caused this error. Thanks again for all the help!

Answer 1

When you have a subquery in many databases, you need to give it an alias:

SELECT CompanyCode, AgentId
FROM UniqueAgentIdToUniqueAgentId un
WHERE un.UniqueAgentId = 
      (SELECT UniqueAgentId 
       FROM (SELECT q.LastChangeDate, a.UniqueAgentId 
             FROM QueueUpdates q, AgentProductTraining a 
             WHERE a.LastChangeDate >= q.LastChangeDate
            ) t
      )

However, your inner query might return multiple values, and you don’t need two nested queries:

SELECT CompanyCode, AgentId
FROM UniqueAgentIdToUniqueAgentId un
WHERE un.UniqueAgentId in
      (SELECT UniqueAgentId 
       FROM QueueUpdates q, AgentProductTraining a 
       WHERE a.LastChangeDate >= q.LastChangeDate
      )

And, it is more proper to use JOIN syntax in this case:

SELECT CompanyCode, AgentId
FROM UniqueAgentIdToUniqueAgentId un
WHERE un.UniqueAgentId in
      (SELECT UniqueAgentId 
       FROM QueueUpdates q join
            AgentProductTraining a 
            on a.LastChangeDate >= q.LastChangeDate
      )

That should help.