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Re: join with one parent record only

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On Monday, December 3, 2012 10:50:02 PM UTC-8, bradbury9 wrote:
> El martes, 4 de diciembre de 2012 00:42:39 UTC+1, migurus  escribió:
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> > There is parent-child table situation and I am interested in getting only cases when only one parent record exists, the matching criteria are in both tables. There are one or two child records per each parent.
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> > Running on SQL 2008, here is illustration, I omit key etc for brevity:
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> > declare	@MAIN_NAME	varchar(32) = 'B%';
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> > declare	@ATTR	int	= 124;
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> > declare	@MAIN_RECORD	table	(
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> > 	MAIN_NAME	varchar(32)	not null	
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> > ,	ID		int	not null
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> > );
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> > declare	@SUB_RECORD		table	(
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> > 	MAIN_ID		int	not null
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> > ,	LOW_VAL		int	not null
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> > ,	UP_VAL		int	not null
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> > );
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> > insert into @MAIN_RECORD	values
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> >  ('BETA-0'	,1)
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> > ,('BETA-1'	,2)
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> > ,('BETA-2'	,3);
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> > insert into @SUB_RECORD		values
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> > --	BETA-0
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> >  (	1,	100,	200	)
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> > ,(	1,	101,	201	)
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> > --	BETA-1
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> > ,(	2,	1000,	1240	)
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> > ,(	2,	1001,	1251	)
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> > ,(	2,	1400,	1500	)
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> > --	BETA-2
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> > ,(	3,	1001,	1889	)
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> > ,(	3,	1002,	1458	)
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> > select M.MAIN_NAME
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> > ,	S.LOW_VAL
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> > ,	S.UP_VAL
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> > from @MAIN_RECORD	M, @SUB_RECORD S
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> > where	M.ID = S.MAIN_ID
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> > and	M.MAIN_NAME like @MAIN_NAME
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> > and	@ATTR	between S.LOW_VAL and S.UP_VAL;
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> > result is 
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> > MAIN_NAME	LOW_VAL	UP_VAL
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> > BETA-0	100	200
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> > BETA-0	101	201
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> > and this is good result, only one parent record found.
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> > If I say @ATTR = 1424
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> > result is
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> > MAIN_NAME	LOW_VAL	UP_VAL
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> > BETA-1	1400	1500
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> > BETA-2	1001	1889
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> > BETA-2	1002	1458
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> > and I'd like NOT to output anything in this case, as there are two parent records matching.
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> > I can deal with this on the application side, where I would programmatically count how many distinct MAIN_NAME came back and discard results when it is more than one. 
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> > But I suspect there are ways to do it on the server side. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> You could use:
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> SELECT MAIN_NAME, MAX(LOW_VAL) AS LOW_VAL, MAX(UP_VAL) AS UP_VAL FROM SUB_RECORDS WHERE @ATTR BETWEEN LOW_VAL AND UP_VAL
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> GROUP BY MAIN_NAME HAVING COUNT(MAIN_NAME) = 1

Thanks, but I can not use this approach, as application needs both child records if there are two of them

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