Left Join Query 1

[agp4]

Hi,

I have the following 2 tables;

Table1: Products (ID, Customer, ProductName, Price)
Table2: Orders (ID, Customers, ProductName, Price, Quantity)

I want to create a query that selects all the records from the Products table and also any matching records from the Orders table for a given customer. However, if there is a match in the Orders table, then I want the value in the Orders table to supercede the value from the Products table.

i.e.

If CustomerA has the following 3 products in the Products table;

ProdA, £1.99
ProdB, £3.00
ProdC, £5.00

The orders table includes the following records for CustomerA

ProdA, £1.99, 15
ProdB, £3.99, 10


I now want to display a recordset from the above tables that looks like the following;

ProdA, £1.99, 15
ProdB, £3.99, 10
ProdC, £5.00, 15

Please note there was no record for ProdC in the Orders table, but this was still displayed and because there was a matching record for ProdB in the Orders table the price value was taken from the Orders table (£3.00 - £3.99).

I know I need a left join but can't get this to work!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Many Thanks,
AGP

 

[jaxtell]

I'm not clear on how you got 15 quantity for ProdC, since there wasn't a row in the orders table. Other than that, this should work

SELECT p.productName, COALESCE( o.price, p.price ) price, o.quantity
FROM  `products` p
LEFT JOIN  `orders` o ON p.customer = o.customer
AND p.productName = o.productName

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