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Max Segal
Max Segal

Reputation: 2045

join two tables without losing relevant values

I have two tables representing a database for customer products and its competitors' products:

tmp_match - from_product_id and to_product_id representing matches between customer product and competitor product respectively.

tmp_price_history - shows the price of each product per date.

I am trying to write a query which will list all dates from table tmp_price_history. For each date I want to see customer product price vs competitor product price according to product matches pairs in table tmp_match, regardless of whether there was a price history record for customer product or competitor product or both:

if both prices are available for a specific date - list them both in their columns

if there is only a record for customer product - show only customer price (and leave the competitor column blank).

if there is only record for competitor product - show competitor price in its column.

Expected result:

date    from_product_id to_product_id   cust_price  comp_price
1       1               11              99          95
2       1               11              98          94
1       1               12                          92
2       1               12                          91
2       2                               108

I tried to achieve that using this query:

 select cust_hist.date, from_product_id, to_product_id, cust_hist.price as cust_price,comp_hist.price as comp_price
from tmp_match as matches
       left join tmp_price_history cust_hist
         on cust_hist.product_id = matches.from_product_id
       left join tmp_price_history comp_hist
         on  comp_hist.product_id = matches.to_product_id
;

but it doesn't achieve my goal as can be seen in this sql snippet.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 88

Answers (1)

mehran monster
mehran monster

Reputation: 82

I think that you are looking for this:

select distinct *
from (SELECT date,
             if(group_concat(distinct cust_price), from_product_id, null)as from_product_id,
             if(group_concat(distinct comp_price), to_product_id, null)  as to_product_id,
             group_concat(distinct cust_price)                           as cust_price,
             group_concat(distinct comp_price)                           as comp_price
      FROM (select cust_hist.date,matches.from_product_id,
                   matches.to_product_id,cust_hist.price cust_price,
                   comp_hist.price                       comp_price
            from tmp_match matches
                   inner join tmp_price_history cust_hist on matches.from_product_id = cust_hist.product_id
                   inner join tmp_price_history comp_hist on matches.to_product_id = comp_hist.product_id
            WHERE comp_hist.date = cust_hist.date
            union
            select comp_hist.date,matches.from_product_id,
                   matches.to_product_id,null as cust_price,
                   comp_hist.price               comp_price
            from tmp_price_history comp_hist
                   join tmp_match matches
                     on matches.to_product_id = comp_hist.product_id # and matches.from_product_id is null

            union
            select cust_hist.date,matches.from_product_id,
                   matches.to_product_id,
                   cust_hist.price cust_price,
                   null            comp_price
            from tmp_price_history cust_hist
                   join tmp_match matches
                     on matches.from_product_id = cust_hist.product_id # and matches.to_product_id is null

            order by DATE, from_product_id, to_product_id, cust_price, comp_price) as u
      group by date,from_product_id,to_product_id) g

Your idea about sql snippet was great!

Upvotes: 1

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