I have to produce a query to obtain a single record, however, the
tables I work with have a very strange relationship:
Table: student
Fields:
id
first_name
last_name
email
school_type_id (type of school)
school_type_other
school_year_id (their year in school)
school_year_other
student_enrollment_status_id (if they're enrollment full time, part
time, whatever)
student_enrollment_status_other
unique_key
the "_other" fields contain text the student enters in lieu of not
entering anything that would produce IDs in the "_id" fields. Like
this:
Table: school_year
Fields
id school_year_name
1 freshman
2 sophomore
3 junior
4 senior
And instead of choosing any of the above, the student enters "King of
the World" in the "_other" text field and thus populating the
"school_year_other" field instead of "school_year_id" (which becomes 0
in this case).
So your student record could look like this:
id school_type_id school_type_other school_year_id
school_year_other
1 4 NULL 2
NULL
Or it could look like this:
id school_type_id school_type_other school_year_id
school_year_other
1 0 merchant marine 0
pfc
Or any combination of these six fields!
Based on what you see so far, how would you produce a unique query of
one row, knowing that you are grabbing the data blindly, of course,
what on earth do you do? If I do this:
1) SELECT .. FROM student s, school_year y WHERE s.school_year_id =
y.id
(etc.)
Then you might be 0 records if s.school_year = 0
BUT
If I do this:
1) SELECT .. FROM student s, school_year y WHERE s.school_year_id NOT
IN (SELECT id from school_year) AND s.school_year_other IS NOT NULL AND
s.school_year_other != ''
Then I get a Cartesian product!!
Basically, I really need help on this and quickly as I have a
presentation in a week and I can't for the life of me figure this query
out (NO DBA's available!)
Thanx
Phil 3 1341
<ph**************@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11*********************@g47g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com... . . . Based on what you see so far, how would you produce a unique query of one row, knowing that you are grabbing the data blindly, of course, what on earth do you do?
Here's an example to handle the school year field:
SELECT IF(s.school_year_id = 0, s.school_year_other, y.school_year) AS
school_year
FROM student AS s
LEFT OUTER JOIN school_year AS y ON s.school_year_id = y.id
The outer join ensures it gets the row from s even if there is no matching
row in y.
The IF() function in the select-list chooses the _other label if the _id is
0, otherwise returns the label from y.
Regards,
Bill K.
I'm sorry, but the query fails if school_year_id = 0. It still
produces an empty set, even though the record exists with
school_year_id = 0.
Phil
Bill Karwin wrote: <ph**************@gmail.com> wrote in message news:11*********************@g47g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com... . . . Based on what you see so far, how would you produce a unique query of one row, knowing that you are grabbing the data blindly, of course, what on earth do you do?
Here's an example to handle the school year field:
SELECT IF(s.school_year_id = 0, s.school_year_other, y.school_year) AS school_year FROM student AS s LEFT OUTER JOIN school_year AS y ON s.school_year_id = y.id
The outer join ensures it gets the row from s even if there is no matching row in y. The IF() function in the select-list chooses the _other label if the _id is 0, otherwise returns the label from y.
Regards, Bill K.
Ok I got it to work! I had some extraneous JOINS in there by mistake,
THANX!!
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