JW, YouÂ’re correct .. that is what I was getting with the LEFT JOIN and therefore it wasnÂ’t the correct answer.
I was able to get the correct answer using UNION ALL, however, like you said, I needed 2 queries in that case. One to get the PHONE numbers from both tables … and a 2nd query to get all the CUSTOMERS matching the PHONE numbers from the CUSTOMERS table. Although I still have a few issues with that (since I can’t use a VIEW cause VIEWS don’t allow subqueries in SELECT statements; and I don’t really want to create a new table every time this query is run) … but anyhow, this is the UNION ALL query that got the correct “86” records result: SELECT PHONE FROM ( (SELECT PHONE,DATE FROM CUSTOMERS) UNION ALL (SELECT PHONE,DATE FROM CALLS) ) results WHERE DATE = “02/28/12” GROUP BY PHONE; I would still like to explore the possibility of doing this using 1 single query which gives me the results I need – rather than first getting the correct PHONE numbers; inserting them in a temporary table; and then pulling records out of CUSTOMERS matching those PHONE numbers. THANKS! ~~ LUCi5R e: luc...@luci5r.com w: http://www.luci5r.com From: Johnny Withers [mailto:joh...@pixelated.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:15 PM To: luc...@luci5r.com Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Getting data from 2 tables if records have same date! After looking at this again, the query you are using; SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS LEFT JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12" AND (CALLS.PHONE IS NULL OR CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12") Would return all customers in the customer's table created on 2/28/12 WITH no calls or a call on 2/28. Maybe you should try.. SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12" UNION SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS INNER JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE WHERE CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12" Basically, you have to do two queries to get the data you want. The WHERE customers.date=2/28 is only getting those customers created on 2/28 regardless if they had a call or not on 2/28. So if you had a customer created on 2/27 and a call on 2/28, the query we were using is not going to pick that customer up. If you want duplicate customers from the second query in the UNION above, you can use UNION ALL instead of just UNION between the queries. -JW On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:54 PM, LUCi5R <luc...@luci5r.com> wrote: JW,  I’m trying to understand LEFT JOIN as we go – but it’s not working.  This query  SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS LEFT JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12" AND (CALLS.PHONE IS NULL OR CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12")  Is giving me some results which I’m not quite sure what they are – but it’s not the right results.  The way I’m testing is, on 02/28/12 I had 57 Customers created in the CUSTOMERS table. I also had a total of 105 Calls recorded in the CALLS table. Some calls were from the same customers more then once.  Essentially, I need the result to be 86 which I got from some manual calculations. Out of those 86 records, 1 record is in the CUSTOMERS table but not in the CALLS table. The other 85 were in both tables.  The above LEFT JOIN query gave me 69 records and quite a few duplicate entries. I’m trying to dissect it to understand what exactly it selected.  Thanks!  ~~ LUCi5R e:  luc...@luci5r.com w:  http://www.luci5r.com   From: Johnny Withers [mailto:joh...@pixelated.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:30 PM To: luc...@luci5r.com Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Getting data from 2 tables if records have same date!  Sounds like you need to LEFT JOIN:  SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS LEFT JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE AND CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12" WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12"  But that would only get customers created on 2/28 AND having a call on 2/28 OR not call at all on 2/28.  This would give you customers created on 2/28 with no calls AND customers created on 2/28 with a call on 2/28:  SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS LEFT JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12" AND (CALLS.PHONE IS NULL OR CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12")  JW  On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, LUCi5R <luc...@luci5r.com> wrote: Guys, I've been working with MySQL for a while (been on & off this list over the last 10 years or so); I'm definitely not a n00b and have worked with SQL extensively. Used JOIN and all quite a bit ... but I haven't done subqueries, union or nested joins. I'm completely stumped on this problem; and Google hasn't been helpful at all. I'll try to be as descriptive as possible. I have 2 tables ... CUSTOMERS and CALLS. Think of Customers table as your Directory. It has the customer's contact information & some other information. In total about 20 fields in there. The Calls table has only about 7 fields. Each time a customer calls in, the conversation details gets recorded in this Calls table. The PHONE field is the key field that joins the CUSTOMERS & CALLS tables. That is the only identifying key that gets written on the Calls record when that customer calls. One thing to note -- It is possible for a customer to exist in the CUSTOMERS table, but not exist in the CALLS table; however, it is not possible for a PHONE # to be in the CALLS table but not in CUSTOMERS table. Essentially, a customer's record has to be created first in the CUSTOMERS table before a call can be recorded from him in the CALLS table. Also, CALLS table can have multiple entries with same PHONE # (Customer called many times - maybe even same day), but CUSTOMERS will only have a single entry for a PHONE #. Here comes my problem ... I have a PHONE SEARCH box with the ability to define a date range; for simplicity sake - we'll use just One Date instead of "DATE ... BETWEEN" for now. When someone searches for a PHONE number, I want to show ALL the CUSTOMERS that: a. Were CREATED on that day (Date defined in Search Criteria) b. Had CALLED in that day (Date defined in Search Criteria) The DATA that I need to pull up and show is in the CUSTOMERS table; not the CALLS table -- so the DATA I need needs to come out of the CUSTOMERS table matching on phone from both tables for the given DATE. In other words - any CUSTOMER that has the PHONE NUMBER which appears  in BOTH CUSTOMERS & CALLS table with the DATE defined should pull up. For the life of me - I can't get this to work!! Let's take the date "02/28/12" for example sake. My biggest issue is ... using JOIN, I can pull up ... a. ALL the phone/customers that appeared in the CALLS table with date "02/28/12" b. ALL the phone/customers that appeared in CALLS & CUSTOMERS with date "02/28/12" BUT -- If there's a customer with date "02/28/12" who DOES NOT appear in CALLS table at all - does NOT show up!! And that is because I'm using CUSTOMERS.PHONE=CALLS.PHONE in the JOIN ON clause. So it obviously won't pick up a record where the phone didn't exist in both tables. My initial query was: SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12" AND CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12" I've tried 100's of combinations of this query; many different OR, AND, GROUP BY combinations --- but I can't pull up ALL records from CUSTOMERS with DATE "02/28/12" and ALL records from CALLS with DATE "02/28/12" in a single query. I've hit a wall here. Any ideas/suggestions/advice? THANKS ~~ LUCi5R e:  luc...@luci5r.com w:  http://www.luci5r.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:   http://lists.mysql.com/mysql  -- ----------------------------- Johnny Withers 601.209.4985 joh...@pixelated.net -- ----------------------------- Johnny Withers 601.209.4985 joh...@pixelated.net -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
