Re: Lowest 2 items per

Oliver,

I had to make a few grammatical corrections on your query to get it to
run, but once I did it gave me almost correct results.  It leaves out
all of the printer models that only have one consumable with a cost.
Some printers might have more than two black inks and some might have
only one.  Your query only returns those printers that have two or more.

Here's your query with the corrections I had to make
SELECT subquery2.Make, subquery2.Model, subquery2.Color,subquery2.Type,
subquery1.cpp, min(Cost/Yield) as cpp2
FROM(  SELECT Printers.Make, Printers.Model, Consumables.Color,
Consumables.Type, min(Cost/Yield) AS cpp  FROM Printers  JOIN
PrintersAndConsumables ON Printers.PrinterID =
PrintersAndConsumables.PrinterID  JOIN Consumables ON
Consumables.ConsumableID =  PrintersAndConsumables.ConsumableIDWHERE Consumables.Cost Is Not NullAND Consumables.Yield
IsNot NullGROUP BY Printers.Make, Printers.Model, Consumables.Color,
 
Consumables.Type) subquery1JOIN(SELECT Printers.Make, Printers.Model, Consumables.Color,
Consumables.Type,Cost,Yield  FROM Printers  JOIN PrintersAndConsumables
ON Printers.PrinterID =  PrintersAndConsumables.PrinterID  JOIN
Consumables ON Consumables.ConsumableID =
PrintersAndConsumables.ConsumableIDWHERE Consumables.Cost Is Not NullAND Consumables.Yield Is Not Null) subquery2
ON (subquery1.Make = subquery2.Make
AND subquery1.Model = subquery2.Model
AND subquery1.Color = subquery2.Color
AND subquery1.Type = subquery2.Type)WHERE subquery2.Cost / subquery2.Yield <> subquery1.cpp  GROUP BY
subquery2.Make,subquery2.Model,
subquery2.Color,subquery2.Type,subquery1.cppORDER BY Make, Model;

* Hello again, Mike,

Thank you for your e-mail.

Yes, you are right, now, thinking about the way I built it, the query, 
indeed, leaves out the corner case of models which have just one
consumable.

I didn't try ur version of the query.
Does itork now with your improvements ?
Or were they only gramatical ?

Best,
Oliver


Mike




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