I have a query that will return results from 2 tables into 1 using a UNION ALL, which all works as I need it to. However I need to run a GROUP BY and an ORDER BY on the returned dataset however I am getting many errors and I'm not sure how to solve it.
Here is my Query:
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM BasketItems
UNION ALL
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM OrderItems
This will return a results set such as this:
ProductID Quantity
15 2
20 2
15 1
8 5
5 1
I then want to run a GROUP BY
on the ProductID
field and then finally an ORDER BY DESC
on the Quantity
field. So in the final output, this particular results set will finally result in this:
ProductID
8
15
20
5
I can then run queries on this result set as I usually do
EDIT:
As stated above, but maybe not implied enough is that I will need to run queries on the returned results, which isn't working as you cannot run a query on a set of results that have an ORDER BY clause (so far as I gathered from the error list)
If you want more information on the problem, here it is:
From this results set, I want to get the products from the product table that they relate to
SELECT * FROM Products WHERE ID IN (
SELECT ProductID
FROM
(
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM BasketItems
UNION ALL
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM OrderItems
) v
GROUP BY ProductID
ORDER BY SUM(Quantity) DESC
)
However, I get this error: The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived tables, subqueries, and common table expressions, unless TOP, OFFSET or FOR XML is also specified.
The output of products need to be in the order that they are returned in the sub query (By quantity)
You can use group by in a subquery, but your syntax is off.
In fact, the SQL standard does not even allow the ORDER BY clause to appear in this subquery (we allow it, because ORDER BY ... LIMIT ... changes the result, the set of rows, not only their order).
A subquery cannot be placed in the Oracle GROUP BY Clause. Sub-queries can be divided into two main categories : Single Row Subqueries – subqueries that return zero or one row to the outer SQL statement. Multiple Row Subqueries – subqueries that return more than one row to the outer SQL statement.
You can use sub queries in you SQL's HAVING clause to filter out groups of records. Just as the WHERE clause is used to filter rows of records, the HAVING clause is used to filter groups.
SELECT Products.*
FROM Products
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT ProductID, Sum(Quantity) as QuantitySum
from
(
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM BasketItems
UNION ALL
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM OrderItems
) v
GROUP BY ProductID
) ProductTotals
ON Products.ID = ProductTotals.ProductID
ORDER BY QuantitySum DESC
will this work?
SELECT ProductID
from
(
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM BasketItems
UNION ALL
SELECT ProductID, Quantity
FROM OrderItems
) temp
GROUP BY temp.ProductID
ORDER BY SUM(temp.Quantity) desc
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