Re: [GENERAL] select and join

Morelli 'ZioBudda' Davide Michel wrote:

> My question is: there is a way to join the table "utente" so to make a
> "select" that return me the column "utente.cognome",too ?
>
> i have make this try:
>
> esame=> select utente.cognome,
>                prestito.id_utente,
>                libro.tipo,
>                count(*)
>         from  prestito, libro
>         where libro.id_libro = prestito.id_libro and
>               utente.id_utente = prestito.id_utente
>         group by id_utente,
>                  tipo\g

(re-arranged)

Generally, the column functions/aggregates like count() can be applied
only if all non-aggregates/functions appear in the "group by"-section;
you joined the three tables correctly (however, you forgot to put the
third table name into the "from"-section!), but you have to tell the
database engine to determine the count grouped by "utente.cognome",
too. Try:

       select utente.cognome,
              prestito.id_utente,
              libro.tipo,
              count(*)
       from utente, prestito, libro
       where libro.id_libro = prestito.id_libro and
             utente.id_utente = prestito.id_utente
       group by utente.cognome,
                prestito.id_utente,
                libro.tipo

The result should be what you desired, because the relation
"utente.cognome"->"prestito.id_utente" is one-to-one. And you should
specify the table name for "id_utente" in the "group by"-section, too,
because this column name is not unique. Anyway, I did not test
anything, and maybe I overlooked something important ... I hope it
helps ...

Yours, Ulf

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