MySQL: Select all that only have two rows, with specific values?

Question

I would like to grab all the users that ONLY have two roles, which are 1 and 4.

One user role is stored like this:

user_id role_id
54321   1
54321   4
54322   1
54323   1

How can i make a query, that grabs the user_id 54321, because it Only have two roles and these two are 1 and 4?

I can use WHERE role_id IN (1, 4) but this will also grab users that have other roles.

Answer 1

WHERE role_id IN (1, 4) GROUP BY user_ID HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT role_id) = 2

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Answer 2

This is an example of a set-within-sets query. I like to solve these with group by and having because that is the most general approach:

select user_id
from user_roles ur
group by user_id
having sum(role_id = 1) > 0 and
       sum(role_id = 4) > 0 and
       sum(role_id not in (1, 4)) = 0;

The having clause has three conditions. The first counts the number of times that role is 1, and the user_id passes if there is at least one such role. The second does the same for 4. The last checks that there are no other values.

I like this structure because it is flexible. If the condition were 1 and 4 and others are allowed, you would just drop the third clause. If the condition were 1 or 4 and no others, then it would look like:

having (sum(role_id = 1) > 0 or
        sum(role_id = 4) > 0
       ) and
       sum(role_id not in (1, 4)) = 0;

Answer 3

SELECT u3.user_id
FROM t u1, t u2, t u3
WHERE u1.role_id = 1 AND u2.role_id = 4
 AND u3.user_id = u1.user_id 
 AND u2.user_id = u1.user_id
GROUP BY u3.user_id HAVING COUNT(u3.role_id) = 2;