inner join on 2 values (datetime and id) same table

Question

I have 2 tables:

1. device_color
2. device_alerts

both tables have data specific to a device_id and datetime, for example device color:

device_id, datetime, color

device_alerts:

device_id, datetime, alert

now there can be multiple records per device per day. So there can be multiple alerts and multiple colors for 1 device per day. And there are multiple devices.

I want to merge these 2 tables with a query. But when I do this, I get way to many rows. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. This is my query (it's sql lite because it is in redash)

select a.alarm_type, a.created_at, a.monitor_id, dc.datetime, dc.device_id, dc.color
from query_505127 as a
inner join query_505241 as dc on a.monitor_id = dc.device_id
inner join query_505241 as dc1 on dc.datetime = a.created_at_date

Answer 1

Without example data it's hard to know exactly what you want..

This version joins to query_505241 once, using both fields as JOIN criteria which I think is what you are after.

select a.alarm_type, a.created_at, a.monitor_id, dc.datetime, dc.device_id, dc.color
from query_505127 as a
inner join query_505241 as dc on a.monitor_id = dc.device_id
AND dc.datetime = a.created_at_date

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This version is the same as your query but with the second JOIN being based on dc1.datetime rather than dc.datetime

select a.alarm_type, a.created_at, a.monitor_id, dc.datetime, dc.device_id, dc.color
from query_505127 as a
inner join query_505241 as dc on a.monitor_id = dc.device_id
inner join query_505241 as dc1 on dc1.datetime = a.created_at_date

Do either of these return what you'd expect?