sta...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the two following tables:
tblProject:
ProjectID
5001
5002
6001
6002
7001
7002
tblProject_type:
ProjectTypeID ProjectIDFrom ProjectIDTo
A 5000 5999
A 7000 7999
I need to create a SELECT statement which shows all records from
tblProjects WHERE ProjectTypeID = A. In this case every project except
6001 and 6002.
Try:
SELECT projectid
FROM tblProject AS P
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT *
FROM tblProject_type AS T
WHERE P.projectid BETWEEN T.projectidfrom AND T.projectidto
AND T.projecttypeid = 'A');
Unfortunately I can't have the ProjectTypeID in tblProject because each
project can belong to many project types. I know it sounds crazy but
that's the way my customers company is organized.
Instead of what you posted, a more common solution would be:
CREATE TABLE tblProject_ProjectType
(projectid INTEGER NOT NULL
REFERENCES tblProject (projectid),
projecttypeid CHAR(1) NOT NULL
REFERENCES tblProjectType (projecttypeid),
PRIMARY KEY (projectid, projecttyypeid);
There isn't necessarily anything wrong with what you posted and your
version certainly could make for a smaller table but it's also hard to
avoid redundancy. Specifically, you would have to use a trigger to
prevent overlapping ranges of rows for the same type - otherwise you
could get duplicate rows out of joins, which could give you incorrect
results.
The benefit of my tblProject_ProjectType version is that there is no
redundancy and joins to the table are always equijoins.
Hope this helps.
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