On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:39 PM, jc_mich <juan.mich...@paasel.com> wrote:
>
> You've understood very well my problem, but also this query works as worse
> than everything I did before, it throws as many rows as rows are contained
> my tables clients and stores. I only want to find for every client what
> store is closer to him, I expect one client to one store and their distance

select clients.id as client_id, (select stores.id from stores order by
(power(clients.x-stores.x)+power(clients.y-stores.y)) asc limit 1) as
store_id from clients;

Should do the trick, or at least something very similar.

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- David T. Wilson
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