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sdfgg45
sdfgg45

Reputation: 1242

How to match on several rows using left inner join on mysql

I have the following scenario: Not sure how to explain it better but ill try to give some sql details and a valid scenario.

I have a table that have products,one that keeps the product tags, and one that saves the ones added to a product. I can add several tags to one product.

CREATE TABLE product(
    id INT auto_increment primary key,
    name varchar(255)
);

CREATE TABLE tags(
    id INT auto_increment primary key,
    tag_name varchar(255)
);

CREATE TABLE product_tag(
    id INT auto_increment primary key,
    tag_id INT,
    product_id INT
);

The sql query using inner join gives me:

select
product.name,
tags.tag_name
from product
INNER JOIN product_tag ON product.id = product_tag.product_id
INNER JOIN tags ON product_tag.tag_id = tags.id

The result gives me:

Product 1 | Tag1
Product 1 | Tag2
Product 1 | Tag3
Product 2 | Tag1
Product 2 | Tag3

I want to make a query that check if product 1 have tag1,tag2 and tag3 have all 3 tags attached. Imagine the user on front end selects all tree tags, then i want to show the product that have all tree tags refered to it. But i get 3 rows and each row contain only one row in this example. What would be the proper way to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 48

Answers (2)

1000111
1000111

Reputation: 13519

Here's the full query:

SELECT 
 P.id,
 P.name
FROM product_tag PT 
INNER JOIN tags T ON PT.tag_id = T.id
INNER JOIN product P ON PT.product_id = P.id
WHERE T.tag_name IN ('Tag1','Tag2','Tag3')
GROUP BY PT.product_id
HAVING COUNT(T.id) = 3

This query will give output only those product id and names which are involved in all the three tags given.

Explanation:

Only IN doesn't guarantee that a single product holds all the three tags given.

Since you want result for each product that's why GROUP BY product.id comes into play.

Later HAVING COUNT(T.id) = 3 is used to filter out those products only which hold all the three tags given.

WORKING DEMO

Upvotes: 2

Bartłomiej Wach
Bartłomiej Wach

Reputation: 1986

so you want to count how many of the chosen tags your product is linked to

SELECT p.id, count(p.id) as tag_count FROM product p INNER JOIN product_tag pt ON p.id = pt.product_id WHERE pt.tag_id IN (1,2,3) GROUP BY p.id HAVING tag_count = 3;

this will give you ids of products that have exactly 3 tags linked, where ids of those tags are 1,2,3. You can replace 1,2,3 with another select or a variable depending on your situation.

Upvotes: 1

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