> I want to select all the institutions that *only* have dates after July 1
How about:
select distinct institution
from renewals
where snap_date >= '2011-07-01';
in Oracle:
where snap_date >= to_date(20110701, 'YYYYMMDD');
(remove the "=" to not include 2011-07-01)
Hopefully I understood your challenge…
Cheers,
Jason
On 11-09-28 9:41 AM, "Ken Irwin" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi all,
I've not done much with MySQL subqueries, and I'm trying right now with what I find to be surprising results. I wonder if someone can help me understand.
I have a pile of data that with columns for "institution" and "date". Institution gets repeated a lot, with many different dates. I want to select all the institutions that *only* have dates after July 1 and don't appear in the table before that. My solution was to do a first query for all the institutions that DO have dates before July 1
SELECT distinct institution FROM `renewals` WHERE snap_date < '2011-07-01'
And then to do a SELECT query on all the institutions:
SELECT distinct institution from renewals
And then try to do a NOT IN subquery subtracting the smaller query from the larger one:
SELECT distinct institution from renewals
WHERE institution not in
(SELECT distinct institution FROM `renewals` WHERE snap_date < '2011-07-01')
...only it doesn't seem to work. Or rather, the query has been running for several minutes and never comes back with an answer. Each of these two queries takes just a few milliseconds to run on its own.
Can someone tell me (a) am I just formatting the query wrong, (b) do subqueries like this just take forever, and/or (c) is there a better way to do this? (I don't really understand about JOIN queries, but from what I can tell they are only for mixing the results of two different tables so I think they might not apply here.)
Any advice would be most welcome.
Thanks
Ken
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