Re: just to do a select

noumian (n.noumia@gmail.com) writes:
> hello, i cant find how to make this select :
>
> here is what i have : 2 tables
> Incident(incident_id,incident_name)
> action(action_id,incident_id,action_name,dept_id)
>
> what i want?
> i would like to find all those incident which have all their action
> with dept_id=3.
>
> how can we do this?

Two ways to skin the cat:

SELECT i.incident_id, i.incident_name
FROM incidents i
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM actions a
WHERE a.incident_id = i.incident_id)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM actions a
WHERE a.incident_id = i.incident_id
AND a.dept_id = 3)

SELECT i.incident_id, i.incident_name
FROM incidents i
JOIN (SELECT incident_id
FROM actions
GROUP incident_id
HAVING COUNT(*) =
SUM(CASE WHEN dept_id = 3 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)) AS a
ON a.incident_id = i.incident_id




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