Thread: left outer join with count

I have the following select:

select sj.*, sr.*, wd.doc_count from
  service_jobs sj
  left outer join service_receptions sr on sr.sr_id = sj.sj_sr_id
  left outer join (select sj_id, count(sj_id) as doc_count from work_documents wd group by sj_id) wd on wd.wd_sj_id =
sj.sj_id;

While the select works, I can't help thinking that the last join is expensive.  Is there a cleaner (quicker) method of
doingthis?
 

Gary

On Saturday 30 May 2020 05:43:06 Gábor SZŰCS wrote:
> Hello Gary,
>
> Depends on way too many things, but assuming
> - You are concerned about cardinality of wd Vs SJ
> - SJ.sj_id is unique
> - there are necessary indexes in place
> ...
> Then I'd recommend subselect in SELECT clause, like:
>
>
> select sj.*, sr.*,
>     (select count(sj_id) from work_documents wd where
> wd.sj_id=SJ.sj_id) doc_count
> from
>   service_jobs sj
>   left outer join service_receptions sr on sr.sr_id = sj.sj_sr_id;
>
> (Note, haven't verified syntax)
>
> Maybe if you could send explain plans and index info...

Thank you for this.  I ended up doing it as two separate queries. Seems to be quicker.