Sorry if the title is misleading, I don’t really know the terminology for what I want to accomplish. But let’s consider this table:
CREATE TABLE entries (
id INT NOT NULL,
number INT NOT NULL
);
Let’s say it contains four numbers associated with each id, like this:
id number
1 0
1 9
1 17
1 11
2 5
2 8
2 9
2 0
.
.
.
Is it possible, with a SQL-query only, to count the numbers of matches for any two given numbers (tuples) associated with a id?
Let’s say I want to count the number of occurrences of number 0 and 9 that is associated with a unique id. In the sample data above 0 and 9 does occur two times (one time where id=1 and one time where id=2). I can’t think of how to write a SQL-query that solves this. Is it possible? Maybe my table structure is wrong, but that’s how my data is organized right now.
I have tried sub-queries, unions, joins and everything else, but haven’t found a way yet.
>Solution :
You can use GROUP BY and HAVING clauses:
SELECT COUNT(s.id)
FROM(
SELECT t.id
FROM YourTable t
WHERE t.number in(0,9)
GROUP BY t.id
HAVING COUNT(distinct t.number) = 2) s
Or with EXISTS():
SELECT COUNT(distinct t.id)
FROM YourTable t
WHERE EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM YourTable s
WHERE t.id = s.id and s.id IN(0,9)
HAVING COUNT(distinct s.number) = 2)