SELECT WHERE problem

2004-08-09 Thread René Fournier
I am having a problem building a SELECT statement that joins two tables with a WHERE condition. SELECT trucks.* FROM trucks, history WHERE trucks.account_id = '100' AND trucks.status = 'Active' AND history.truck_id = trucks.id This is the tricky bit GROUP

Re: SELECT WHERE problem

2004-08-09 Thread SGreen
You need to change your INNER JOIN to a LEFT JOIN SELECT trucks.id, sum(history.time_sec) as total_seconds FROM trucks LEFT JOIN history ON trucks.id = history_truckid GROUP BY trucks.id ORDER BY total_seconds desc One other issue ---IMHO, the

Re: SELECT WHERE problem

2004-08-09 Thread René Fournier
Thanks, the LEFT JOIN worked. I do have a question though, why is it considered best practice to list all non-aggregated columns ( I assume you mean columns from trucks.*) in the GROUP BY statement? I ask because I am interested in fast, secure, standards-compliant code, I'm just not always

Re: SELECT WHERE problem

2004-08-09 Thread Justin Swanhart
Because not doing so violates the SQL standard. Allowing you to included non aggregated columns in the SELECT list is a non standard MySQL extension to the SQL language. You will get an error in other products, such as oracle, where you will get a xxx is not a group by expression error.