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Karstieman
Karstieman

Reputation: 57

How can I use the result of a SQL query in another SQL query

I'm writing a ticket program in vb.net using MySQL.

What I want is to use the Statename that a ticket can have (open/closed/on hold/etc) that I get from query 1, and use it in query 2 to get a list of all statenames, with the result of the first query as first item.

I now use 2 queries after each other, but i'm sure it can be done in 1 query.

Query 1:

SELECT StateName 
  FROM Tickets t 
  JOIN States s
    ON s.stateID = t.StateID 
 WHERE TicketNumber = & *intTicketNumber*

--> Result = "Open"

Query 2:

SELECT StateName 
  from States 
 ORDER 
    BY(case when StateName = '" & *StrStateName* & "' then 0 else 1 end)
     , StateName desc

The Desired result of the combined query should be:

  1. open
  2. assigned
  3. closed
  4. on hold

How Can I combine there 2 queries? Any help would really be appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

Madhur Bhaiya
Madhur Bhaiya

Reputation: 28834

  • You can instead make States as your Leftmost table and do a LEFT JOIN to the Tickets table, on stateID and TicketNumber. Match the TicketNumber in the Join condition, instead of Where.
  • Making States as leftmost table will ensure that all the StateName values will be considered.
  • For a particular TicketNumber, t.StateId will be NULL (post LEFT JOINing), except for one StateName (assigned to the Ticket currently).
  • You can them simply sort on the t.StateId in Descending order. Ticket's current StateName will appear first in the list and rest of them sorted afterwards.

Try with Left join instead:

SELECT s.StateName 
FROM States AS s
LEFT JOIN Tickets AS t 
  ON s.stateID = t.StateID AND 
     t.TicketNumber = $intTicketNumber  -- $intTicketNumber is the input variable
ORDER BY t.StateID DESC, 
         s.StateName DESC

Upvotes: 2

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