MYSQL Query With Select Having Distinct with LIMIT Condition

Question

Currently, I have a table as below and I wanted to pull the records with id having the estimated_date which are assigned to least value of update_index value and if the value is null I want to go the value assigned to next update_index,

For example, for record with

• id=73, I want to get the value 2017-06-13 00:00:00
• id=75, I want to get the value 2017-01-01 00:00:00
• id=76, I want to get the value 2018-06-01 00:00:00

Input Table

+----+--------------+---------------------+
| id | update_index |    estimated_date   |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 73 |       1      | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 73 |       2      | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 73 |       3      | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 73 |       4      |         NULL        |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 75 |       1      | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 75 |       2      |         NULL        |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 75 |       3      | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 76 |       1      |         NULL        |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 76 |       2      | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+

Output Table

+----+--------------+---------------------+
| id | update_index |    estimated_date   |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 73 |       1      | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 75 |       1      | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+
| 76 |       2      | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 |
+----+--------------+---------------------+

I have tried the below values but I get only one record always, can you please help me with this?

SELECT  id,update_index,estimated_date
FROM tablename where estimated_date = (
       SELECT DISTINCT estimated_date
       FROM tablename
        where estimated_date is not null
       ORDER BY id, udpate_index ASC
       LIMIT 1);
 `

Answer 1

I would use a correlated subquery:

select t.*
from tablename t
where t.update_index = (select t2.update_index
                        from tablename t2
                        where t2.id = t.id and t2.estimated_date is not null
                        order by t2.update_index asc
                        limit 1
                       );

Answer 2

Please try this.

    select t2.*
    from
    (select id, min(update_index) updated_index 
    from input_table 
    where estimated_date is not null
    group by 1 )t1
    left join input_table t2
    on t1.id = t2.id
    and t1.update_index = t2.update_index

Answer 3

You cant try this:

select t.id, t.update_index, t.estimated_date from tablename t where t.update_index=(select MIN(update_index) from tablename t1 where t1.id=t.id and t1.estimated_date is not null) group by t.id

Answer 4

Use subquery with LIMIT clause :

select t.*
from table t
where t.update_index = (select t2.update_index
                        from table t2
                        where t2.id = t.id and t2.estimated_date is not null
                        order by t2.estimated_date desc
                        limit 1
                       );

However, your sample data more suggest me :

select t.*
from table t
where t.estimated_date = (select max(t2.estimated_date)
                          from table t2
                          where t2.id = t.id and t2.estimated_date is not null
                         );

If you have a ties with estimated_date then first approach would work instead.