I currently have:
SELECT tbl_review.*, users.first_name, users.last_name, (
SELECT order_ns.tran_date
FROM order_ns
LEFT JOIN product_2_order_ns.external_order_id = order_ns.order_id
WHERE product_2_order_ns.bkfno IN :id
ORDER BY order_ns.trandate ASC
LIMIT 1
) as purchase_date
FROM tbl_review
LEFT JOIN users ON users.sequal_user_id = tbl_review.user_id
WHERE tbl_review.product_id IN :id AND tbl_review.approved = 1
Which, in its sub query, selects an order the user has which has a product in question (defined in :id
) get the the oldest transaction date on file for one of the found orders.
I would really like to keep this to one call of the database (don't really want to call again for each returned user for just one field, or even do a range query of all users) but obviously this particular query isn't working.
What can I do, if anything, to get this working?
I cannot make the sub query into a join since they are two distinct pieces of data, the sub query needs to return detail for each row in the main query.
@Gordons answer is really close but I wanted it to return even if no data was found for tran_date so I changed my query to:
SELECT tbl_review.*, users.first_name, users.last_name, order_ns.tran_date
FROM tbl_review
LEFT JOIN users ON users.sequal_user_id = tbl_review.user_id
LEFT JOIN order_ns ON order_ns.order_id = (
SELECT order_ns.order_id
FROM order_ns
LEFT JOIN product_2_order_ns on product_2_order_ns.external_order_id = order_ns.order_id
WHERE product_2_order_ns.bkfno IN :id
ORDER BY order_ns.tran_date ASC
LIMIT 1
)
WHERE tbl_review.product_id IN :id AND tbl_review.approved = 1;
This will return the distinct data of tran_date
irrespective of whether it is found or not.
I think you just want a correlated subquery. It is unclear exactly what the relationship is between the inner query and the outer one. My guess is that it is on users and orders:
SELECT tbl_review.*, users.first_name, users.last_name,
(SELECT order_ns.tran_date
FROM order_ns LEFT JOIN
product_2_order_ns
on product_2_order_ns.external_order_id = order_ns.order_id and
product_2_order_ns.bkfno = tbl_review.product_id and
WHERE order_ns.user_id = tbl_review.user_id
ORDER BY order_ns.trandate ASC
LIMIT 1
) as purchase_date
FROM tbl_review LEFT JOIN
users
ON users.sequal_user_id = tbl_review.user_id
WHERE tbl_review.product_id IN :id AND tbl_review.approved = 1;
EDIT:
Oh, the inner query has no relationship to the outer query. Then it is easier. Move it to the from
clause using cross join
:
SELECT tbl_review.*, users.first_name, users.last_name,
innerquery.tran_date as purchase_date
FROM tbl_review LEFT JOIN
users
ON users.sequal_user_id = tbl_review.user_id cross join
(SELECT order_ns.tran_date
FROM order_ns LEFT JOIN
product_2_order_ns
on product_2_order_ns.external_order_id = order_ns.order_id
WHERE product_2_order_ns.bkfno IN :id
ORDER BY order_ns.trandate ASC
LIMIT 1
) innerquery
WHERE tbl_review.product_id IN :id AND tbl_review.approved = 1;