Thread: Difficult select statement

Difficult select statement

From
Owen Funkhouser
Date:
I have two tables.

Table "data" has three fields, "id integer", "project text", and "component text".

Table "participants" has two fields, "id integer" and "username text".

The id in each table correspond to the same thing.

The values for each table is as follows:

data
----
1  |  Stocks  |  Decisions
2  |  Stocks  |  Loss
3  |  Stocks  |  Profits
4  |  Bonds   |  Interest

participants
------------
1  |  George
1  |  Harry
1  |  Carmen
2  |  Owen
2  |  John
3  |  Harry
4  |  Bubba

What I want is a distinct list of id, project, and component where username = Harry.
Resulting in the following:

1  |  Stocks  |  Decisions
3  |  Stocks  |  Profits

Can this be done in a single SQL statement?

Re: Difficult select statement

From
Stephan Szabo
Date:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Owen Funkhouser wrote:

> I have two tables.
>
> Table "data" has three fields, "id integer", "project text", and "component text".
>
> Table "participants" has two fields, "id integer" and "username text".
>
> The id in each table correspond to the same thing.
>
> The values for each table is as follows:
>
> data
> ----
> 1  |  Stocks  |  Decisions
> 2  |  Stocks  |  Loss
> 3  |  Stocks  |  Profits
> 4  |  Bonds   |  Interest
>
> participants
> ------------
> 1  |  George
> 1  |  Harry
> 1  |  Carmen
> 2  |  Owen
> 2  |  John
> 3  |  Harry
> 4  |  Bubba
>
> What I want is a distinct list of id, project, and component where username = Harry.
> Resulting in the following:
>
> 1  |  Stocks  |  Decisions
> 3  |  Stocks  |  Profits

I'd think something like:

select distinct id, project, component from data inner join participants
using (id) where username='Harry';

will give you what you want if I'm understanding the request correctly.
Your example data doesn't seem to have any cases where the distinct
matters, but I assume the real data does.  If it doesn't (like there's a
unique constraint on data.id and a two column unique constraint on id,
username for participants), you don't need the distinct in the query.