MySQL: Get the full row with min value

Question

I am trying to get the complete row with the lowest price, not just the field with the lowest price.

Create table:

CREATE TABLE `Products` (
  `SubProduct` varchar(100),
  `Product` varchar(100),
  `Feature1` varchar(100),
  `Feature2` varchar(100),
  `Feature3` varchar(100),
  `Price1` float,
  `Price2` float,
  `Price3` float,
  `Supplier` varchar(100)
);

Insert:

INSERT INTO
  `Products` (`SubProduct`, `Product`, `Feature1`, `Feature2`, `Feature3`, `Price1`, `Price2`, `Price3`, `Supplier`)
VALUES
  ('Awesome', 'Product', 'foo', 'foo', 'foor', '1.50', '1.50', '0', 'supplier1'),
  ('Awesome', 'Product', 'bar', 'foo', 'bar', '1.25', '1.75', '0', 'supplier2');

Select:

SELECT
  `SubProduct`,
  `Product`,
  `Feature1`,
  `Feature2`,
  `Feature3`,
  MIN(`Price1`),
  `Price2`,
  `Price3`,
  `Supplier`
FROM `Products`
  GROUP BY `SubProduct`, `Product`
  ORDER BY `SubProduct`, `Product`;

You can see that at http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/c0543/1/0

I get the frist inserted row with the content of the column price1 from the second inserted row.

I expect to get the complete row with the right features, supplier and other columns. In this example it should be the complete second inserted row, because it has the lowest price in column price1.

Answer 1

You need to get the MIN price rows and then JOIN those rows with the main table, like this:

SELECT
  P.`SubProduct`,
  P.`Product`,
  P.`Feature1`,
  P.`Feature2`,
  P.`Feature3`,
  `Price` AS Price1,
  P.`Price2`,
  P.`Price3`,
  P.`Supplier`
FROM `Products` AS P JOIN (
    SELECT `SubProduct`, `Product`, MIN(`Price1`) AS Price
    FROM `Products`
    GROUP BY `SubProduct`, `Product`
  ) AS `MinPriceRows`
ON P.`SubProduct` = MinPriceRows.`SubProduct`
AND P.`Product` = MinPriceRows.`Product`
AND P.Price1 = MinPriceRows.Price
ORDER BY P.`SubProduct`, P.`Product`;

Working Demo: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/c0543/20

Here what I have done is to get a temporary recordset as MinPriceRows table which will give you MIN price per SubProduct and Product. Then I am joining these rows with the main table so that main table rows can be reduced to only those rows which contain MIN price per SubProduct and Product.

Answer 2

Try with this:

SELECT
  `p`.`SubProduct`,
  `p`.`Product`,
  `p`.`Feature1`,
  `p`.`Feature2`,
  `p`.`Feature3`,
 `p`.`Price1`,
  `p`.`Price2`,
  `p`.`Price3`,
  `p`.`Supplier`
FROM `Products` `p`
inner join (select MIN(`Price1`)as `Price1`
            From `Products`
           ) `a` on `a`.`Price1` = `p`.`Price1`

ORDER BY `p`.`SubProduct`, `p`.`Product`;

demo: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/c0543/24

Answer 3

This works...

SELECT
P1.`SubProduct`,
P1.`Product`,
P1.`Feature1`,
P1.`Feature2`,
P1.`Feature3`,
P1.`Price1`,
P1.`Price2`,
P1.`Price3`,
P1.`Supplier`
FROM `Products` P1
INNER JOIN `Products` P2 ON  P1.SubProduct = P2.SubProduct AND P1.Product = P2.Product
WHERE P1.Price1 < P2.Price1