sql query with multiple where statements

You need to consider that GROUP BY happens after the WHERE clause conditions have been evaluated. And the WHERE clause always considers only one row, meaning that in your query, the meta_key conditions will always prevent any records from being selected, since one column cannot have multiple values for one row. And what about the redundant meta_value checks? If a value is allowed to … Read more

How can I do a FULL OUTER JOIN in MySQL?

You don’t have full joins in MySQL, but you can sure emulate them. For a code sample transcribed from this Stack Overflow question you have: With two tables t1, t2: The query above works for special cases where a full outer join operation would not produce any duplicate rows. The query above depends on the UNION set operator to remove duplicate rows introduced by the query pattern. … Read more

What’s the difference between identifying and non-identifying relationships?

An identifying relationship is when the existence of a row in a child table depends on a row in a parent table. This may be confusing because it’s common practice these days to create a pseudokey for a child table, but not make the foreign key to the parent part of the child’s primary key. Formally, the “right” way … Read more

Efficiently convert rows to columns in sql server

There are several ways that you can transform data from multiple rows into columns. Using PIVOT In SQL Server you can use the PIVOT function to transform the data from rows to columns: See Demo. Pivot with unknown number of columnnames If you have an unknown number of columnnames that you want to transpose, then you can use dynamic SQL: See Demo. Using … Read more