selection criteria spread on multiple rows

[abraham.pinsker]

Hi,

I'm having the following problem. I have a table that contains
information about books people read, i.e. each row has two columns,
people id and book id.
I need to do the following query: retrieve the list of all people that
read ALL the books in a given list, e.g. all the people that read book
X and book Y and book Z.
Tu further complicate the situation, an extended query also include an
exclusion crieteria, i.e. a list of books that the user should not
have read.

I really have no clue on how to approach this.
Any help will be much appricated.

Abe.

[Allen Browne]

You will need to use subqueries to achieve this.

Here's a starting point:
Subquery basics
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/subquery-01.html

It may be possible to create a query that groups by the person and book,
where the book is IN a list of books, and take the count to see if you got
all 3. But you need to be sure you avoid the case where someone read a book
twice.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia
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Hi,

I'm having the following problem. I have a table that contains
information about books people read, i.e. each row has two columns,
people id and book id.
I need to do the following query: retrieve the list of all people that
read ALL the books in a given list, e.g. all the people that read book
X and book Y and book Z.
Tu further complicate the situation, an extended query also include an
exclusion crieteria, i.e. a list of books that the user should not
have read.

I really have no clue on how to approach this.
Any help will be much appricated.

Abe.