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How to write a Nested SQL Query

Thread began 5/20/2015 8:40 pm by stephen287384 | Last modified 5/27/2015 10:50 am by Ray Borduin | 3706 views | 34 replies |

stephen287384

How to write a Nested SQL Query

I am trying to filter search results into 2 separate results on one page. Eg: I have paid customers and free customers, I want the paid customers results to be at the top of the page BUT I want them to be ORDER BY RAND() and the free customers results below the paid customers ORDER BY name ASC. I have tried to achieve this by a nested SQL Query, eg:

$rsResult->setQuery("SELECT * FROM (SELECT bID, Name)AS paid FROM directory WHERE Category = ? AND Link = 1 AND Active = 1, (SELECT bID, Name)AS free FROM directory WHERE Category = ? AND Link = 0 AND Active = 1 ORDER BY free ASC, paid RAND()");


Would it be easier to just create 2 separate recordsets to achieve this?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I think what you are looking for is more like:

SELECT * FROM (
(SELECT bID, Name, 'paid' AS status FROM directory WHERE Category = ? AND Link = 1 AND Active = 1)
UNION
(SELECT bID, Name, 'free' AS status FROM directory WHERE Category = ? AND Link = 0 AND Active = 1))
ORDER BY bID
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stephen287384

Don't understand how that will order the "paid" results randomly and the "free" results by name ASC

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It wouldn't... I didn't understand what you were going for there so I didn't tackle the sorting part.

Did you want all the paid first but in a random order, and the free after ordered by name? Or should they be intermingled in some way as well?

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stephen287384

Basically just want the paid results to be at the top but displayed randomly as to be fair so a name starting with A would not always be the first result and then the free results to always be below all the paid results as they are not paying anything. The free results can be ordered by name ASC.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

SELECT bID, Name, 'paid' AS status FROM directory WHERE Category = ? AND Link = 1 AND Active = 1 ORDER BY Rand()
UNION
SELECT bID, Name, 'free' AS status FROM directory WHERE Category = ? AND Link = 0 AND Active = 1 ORDER BY Name
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stephen287384

Error in SQL syntax

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Please attach a copy of the page and a URL where I can view the error.

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stephen287384

PM

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Do you have a url? When do you get the error?

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