From: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
To: Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@askesis.nl>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Can I do this smarter?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:52:39 -0500
Message-ID: <bf05e51c0607132052l6b95d5b1m67d5620e80e7491e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 7/13/06, Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@askesis.nl> wrote:
>
> I have three tables: customers, salesorders and invoices. Customers have
> salesorders and salesorders have invoices ( child tables have foreign
> key columns to their parent).
>
> I want to get a list of all invoices with their customers. This what I
> came up with:
>
> select
> invoices.objectid,
> invoices.invoicenumber,
> invoices.invoicedate,
> (select customer from salesorders where objectid =
> invoices.salesorderobjectid),
> (select customernumber from customers where objectid = (select customer
> from salesorders where objectid = invoices.salesorderobjectid)),
> (select lastname from customers where objectid = (select customer from
> salesorders where objectid = invoices.salesorderobjectid))
> from invoices
>
> Can I do this smarter as the three subselects select the same customer
> three times and I would think that 1 time is enough?
SELECT
invoices.objectid,
invoices.invoicenumber,
invoices.invoicedate,
salesorders.customer,
customers.customernumber,
customers.lastname
FROM invoices
INNER JOIN salesorders ON (
salesorders.objectid = invoices.salesorderobjectid
)
INNER JOIN customers ON (
customers.objectid = salesorder.customer
)
You should do INNER and OUTER joins for connecting the tables by their
foreign keys.
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Aaron Bono
Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
http://www.aranya.com
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