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问题描述

我正在尝试在 Laravel/MySQL 中实现某些目标,但似乎无法为解决方案指明正确的方向。我可以通过子查询来实现我正在寻找的东西,但我被告知它们不如连接有效。而且,我将不得不将此解决方案转换为 Eloquent/Query Builder,而我使用子查询和联合的方式似乎并不容易转换。

我要做的是根据行的created_at日期从两个可能的表中选择一行。我想将此created_at值与我的用户表作为一个名为的新列加入started_at。这是一些示例数据,以及如何使用两个可能的表的子查询/联合来实现查询,我可以从中获取数据:

CREATE TABLE users (
  id INTEGER, 
  first_name TEXT,
  last_name TEXT
 );

INSERT INTO users (id, first_name, last_name)
VALUES 
(1, 'Craig', 'Smith'), 
(2, 'Bill', 'Nye'), 
(3, 'Bloop', 'Blop');

CREATE TABLE old_activity (
  id INTEGER,
  user_id INTEGER,
  firm_id INTEGER,
  amount INTEGER,
  created_at DATE
 );

INSERT INTO old_activity (id, user_id, firm_id, amount, created_at)
VALUES 
(1, 1, 3, 5.24, '2019-04-29'), 
(2, 2, 7, 4, '2019-03-28'), 
(3, 3, 4, 6.99, '2019-04-28');

CREATE TABLE new_activity (
  id INTEGER,
  user_id INTEGER,
  firm_id INTEGER,
  plays INTEGER,
  saves INTEGER,
  created_at DATE
);

INSERT INTO new_activity (id, user_id, firm_id, plays, saves, created_at)
VALUES 
(1, 1, 3, 10, 1, '2019-04-27'), 
(2, 2, 3, 12, 2, '2019-03-29'), 
(3, 3, 3, 6, 3, '2019-04-27');

CREATE TABLE firms (
  id INTEGER,
  name TEXT
);

INSERT INTO firms (id, name)
VALUES 
(1, 'apple'), 
(2, 'banana'), 
(3, 'orange');
select 
id,
first_name,
last_name,
(select created_at from old_activity 
 where user_id = users.id
 union
 select created_at from new_activity 
 where user_id = users.id
 order by created_at asc 
 limit 1) as started_at
from users

查询应该只返回两个表created_at之一中特定用户的最旧的。activity

我怎样才能通过加入来实现这一目标?对此的任何帮助将不胜感激。

标签: phpmysqlsqllaravel

解决方案


嗯。. . 你总是可以使用窗口函数:

select u.*, a.*
from users u left join
     (select a.*,
             row_number() over (partition by a.user_id order by a.created_at desc) as seqnum
      from ((select oa.* from old_activity oa) union all
            (select na.* from new_activity na)
           ) a
     ) a
     on a.user_id = a.id and a.seqnum = 1

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