Selecting MAX from two tables in select statement - tsql

I have tables for a forum system. I am tring to get the following data to show on the forum page
Subject, Descripton, Last Posting Date (either post or comment), and username who made last post(either post or comment)
here are my tables
ForumSubject[
Id,
Subject,
Description
]
ForumPost[
id,
Subject,
Title
Body,
UserId,
Date
]
ForumComment[
id,
PostId,
UserId,
Date,
Comment
]
User[
id
Name
]
Here is what i have so far
SELECT
subject.Id,
subject.Description,
subject.Subject
FROM dbo.ForumSubject subject
How now can I get the MAX Date of either a post or comment which ever is last, and the user name for the post???
Thank you!

You can do that :
SELECT s.Id, s.Subject, s.Description, t2.LastDate
FROM dbo.FormSubjet s
INNER JOIN (
SELECT Id, Max(Date) as LastDate
FROM (
SELECT Id, Date
FROM dbo.FormPost
UNION ALL
SELECT Id, Date
FROM dbo.FormComment
) t1
GROUP BY t1.Id
) t2 ON t2.Id = s.Id

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Selecting distinct values

The domain is:
company (id, name, adress)
employee (id, name, adress, company_id, expertise_id)
dependantrelative (id, name, employee_id)
expertise (id, name, class)
I want to know how to get the number of dependantrelatives of each employee who are unique experts in their respective companies.
The Query below does not return the correct answer. Can you help me?
SELECT DISTINCT dependantrelative.employee_id
, COUNT(*) AS qty_dependantrelatives
FROM dependantrelative
INNER JOIN employee
ON employee.id = dependantrelative.employee_id
GROUP BY dependantrelative.employee_id
I just tried out the Query below and it works, but I want to know if there is a faster and simple way of getting the answer.
SELECT employee.id
,COUNT(dependantrelative.employee_id) AS qty_dependantrelatives
FROM (
SELECT employee.company_id
, employee.expertise_id AS expert
, COUNT(employee.expertise_id)
FROM employee
GROUP BY employee.company_id
, employee.expertise_id
HAVING COUNT(employee.expertise_id)<2
) AS uniexpert
LEFT JOIN employee
ON employee.expertise_id = uniexpert.expert
LEFT JOIN salesorderdetail
ON dependantrelative.employee_id = employee.id
GROUP BY employee.id
ORDER BY employee.id

Query-Sql Developer

I am creating some queries for my project, but I face some difficulties with the follow ones:
A SELECT statement containing a subquery to retrieve a list of Locations (location id and street_address) that have employees with higher salary than the average of their department. The list must contain the number of those employees and their total salary per location. Name these aggregates respectively "emp" and "totalsalary". The locations in the list must be ordered by location_id.
Select LOCATION_ID, STREET_ADDRESS
from HR.LOCATIONS IN
(Select Employee_id
from HR.Employees
Where Salary > round(avg(SALARY)))
order by location_id;
error: SQL command not properly ended
and the second query is the following
The JOB_HISTORY table can contain more than one entries for an employee who was hired more than once. Create a query to retrieve a list of Employees that were hired more than once. Include the columns EMPLOYEE_ID, LAST_NAME, FIRST_NAME and the aggregate "Times Hired".
SELECT FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,EMPLOYEE_ID,
count (*)as TIMES_HIRED
from HR.JOB_HISTORY, HR.EMPLOYEES
where EMPLOYEE_ID= LAST_NAME
having COUNT(*) >1;
error: not a single-group
Try these hope they help. I am making an assumption that employee table has Location_Id column. I am adding Employee_id to Group by to make sure you get correct TotalSalary:
Select LOCATION_ID, STREET_ADDRESS, Count(Employee_id) AS emp, SUM(salary) AS totalsalary
from HR.LOCATIONS INNER JOIN
(Select Employee_id, salary
from HR.Employees
Having Salary > round(avg(SALARY), 0)) AS Emp ON HR.LOCATION_ID = Emp.Location_ID
Group By LOCATION_ID, STREET_ADDRESS, Employee_id
order by location_id;
For the second question:
SELECT FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,EMPLOYEE_ID,
count(Employee_id) as TIMES_HIRED
from HR.JOB_HISTORY inner join HR.EMPLOYEES On JOB_HISTORY.Employee_id = Employees.Employee_id
Group By FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,EMPLOYEE_ID
Having count(Employee_id) >1;

How to get fields and added in group by in PostreSQL8.4?

I am selecting column used in group by and count, and query looks something like
SELECT s.country, count(*) AS posts_ct
FROM store s
JOIN store_post_map sp ON sp.store_id = s.id
GROUP BY 1;
However, I want to select some more fields, like store name or store address from store table where count is max, but I don't to include that in group by clause.
For instance, to get the stores with the highest post-count per country:
SELECT DISTINCT ON (s.country)
s.country, s.store_id, s.name, sp.post_ct
FROM store s
JOIN (
SELECT store_id, count(*) AS post_ct
FROM store_post_map
GROUP BY store_id
) sp ON sp.store_id = s.id
ORDER BY s.country, sp.post_ct DESC
Add any number of columns from store to the SELECT list.
Details about this query style in this related answer:
Select first row in each GROUP BY group?
Reply to comment
This produces the count per country and picks (one of) the store(s) with the highest post-count:
SELECT DISTINCT ON (s.country)
s.country, s.store_id, s.name
,sum(post_ct) OVER (PARTITION BY s.country) AS post_ct_for_country
FROM store s
JOIN (
SELECT store_id, count(*) AS post_ct
FROM store_post_map
GROUP BY store_id
) sp ON sp.store_id = s.id
ORDER BY s.country, sp.post_ct DESC;
This works because the window function sum() is applied before DISTINCT ON per definition.

Getting value from table with max key

I have a table with two columns:
UserId (auto int)
Email(Nvarchar)
I want to retrieve the email that was last inserted on table.
I've tried some options, but nothing seems to be working.
Thanks in advance.
Perhaps simply:
SELECT TOP 1 email FROM dbo.Table ORDER BY UserId DESC
or
SELECT UserId, Email
FROM dbo.Table
WHERE UserId = (SELECT MAX(UserId) FROM dbo.Table)
However, it's not good practise to abuse a primary-key column for information like "last inserted". Add a datetime column for this.
You could also use the ROW_NUMBER function:
WITH x AS (
SELECT UserId, Email,
rn = Row_number() OVER(ORDER BY UserId DESC)
FROM dbo.table)
SELECT UserId, Email
FROM x
WHERE rn = 1

SPROC T-SQL Syntax to return results if rows exist on multiple days

what I need to test for on my table is if there are rows for a given user id and order id on two separate days (DATETIME field for a timestamp).
I'm pretty sure I'd need a having clause and that's why I'm here...that frightens me terribly.
Having shouldn't scare you, it is just a "Where" on an aggregated field:
Select UserID, Count(*) From OrderTbl Group By UserID Having Count(*) > 1
That'll give you all the Users that have multiple orders.
Select UserID, Count(*) From OrderTbl Where (UserID=#UserID) Group By UserID Having Count(*) > 1
will give you the count if there are multiple records for the user id in #UserID and null if not.
if exists (Select UserID, Count(*) From OrderTbl Where (UserID=#UserID) Group By UserID
Having Count(*) > 1) Select 1 else Select 0
will return a 1 if there are multiple records for the User, 0 if not.
Update: Didn't realize that you could have multiple orders per day. This query will do what you want:
With DistinctDates as (Select Distinct UserID, [DATE] From OrderTbl Where (UserID=#UserID))
Select UserID, Count(*) From DistinctDates
Group By UserID Having Count(*) > 1
I am not sure if I understood your question, but this may work for you. The HAVING is your friend and you can still use the WHERE clause. This should let you know what order and user id combo is occuring more than once in the table.
SELECT [UserId], [OrderId]
FROM OrderTable
WHERE UserId = #UserId
AND OrderId = #OrderId
GROUP BY UserId, OrderId
HAVING Count(*) > 1