Re: Lowest 2 items per

Hi, Mike,

Can you tell me if this gives what you want, and if it doesn't, what is the 
error reported, or wrong result ?

This is untested query, so Im not sure about it.

Best,
Oliver

SELECT make, model, color,type, subquery1.cpp, min(cost/yield) as cpp2
(
SELECT printers.make, printers.model, consumables.color,
consumables.type, min(cost/yield) AS cpp
FROM printers
JOIN printersandconsumables ON printers.printerid =
printersandconsumables.printerid
JOIN consumables ON consumables.consumableid =
printersandconsumables.consumableid
WHERE consumables.cost Is Not Null
AND consumables.yield Is Not Null
GROUP BY printers.make, printers.model, consumables.color,
consumables.type
) subquery1
NATURAL JOIN
(
SELECT printers.make, printers.model, consumables.color,
consumables.type
FROM printers
JOIN printersandconsumables ON printers.printerid =
printersandconsumables.printerid
JOIN consumables ON consumables.consumableid =
printersandconsumables.consumableid
WHERE consumables.cost Is Not Null
AND consumables.yield Is Not Null
) subquery2
WHERE subquery2.cost / subquery2.yield <> subquery1.cpp
GROUP BY make, model, color,type
ORDER BY make, model;


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Relyea, Mike" <Mike.Relyea@xerox.com>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:34 PM
Subject: [SQL] Lowest 2 items per


I need a little help putting together a query.  I have the tables listed
below and I need to return the lowest two consumables (ranked by cost
divided by yield) per printer, per color of consumable, per type of
consumable.

CREATE TABLE printers
( printerid serial NOT NULL, make text NOT NULL, model text NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT printers_pkey PRIMARY KEY (make ,
model), CONSTRAINT printers_printerid_key UNIQUE (printerid ),
 
)

CREATE TABLE consumables
( consumableid serial NOT NULL, brand text NOT NULL, partnumber text NOT NULL, color text NOT NULL, type text NOT NULL,
yieldinteger, cost double precision, CONSTRAINT consumables_pkey PRIMARY KEY (brand , partnumber ), CONSTRAINT
consumables_consumableid_keyUNIQUE (consumableid )
 
)

CREATE TABLE printersandconsumables
( printerid integer NOT NULL, consumableid integer NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT printersandconsumables_pkey PRIMARY KEY
(printerid,
 
consumableid ), CONSTRAINT printersandconsumables_consumableid_fkey FOREIGN KEY
(consumableid)     REFERENCES consumables (consumableid) MATCH SIMPLE     ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINTprintersandconsumables_printerid_fkey FOREIGN KEY
 
(printerid)     REFERENCES printers (printerid) MATCH SIMPLE     ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
)

I've pulled together this query which gives me the lowest consumable per
printer per color per type, but I need the lowest two not just the first
lowest.

SELECT printers.make, printers.model, consumables.color,
consumables.type, min(cost/yield) AS cpp
FROM printers
JOIN printersandconsumables ON printers.printerid =
printersandconsumables.printerid
JOIN consumables ON consumables.consumableid =
printersandconsumables.consumableid
WHERE consumables.cost Is Not Null
AND consumables.yield Is Not Null
GROUP BY printers.make, printers.model, consumables.color,
consumables.type
ORDER BY make, model;


After doing a google search I didn't come up with anything that I was
able to use so I'm asking you fine folks!

Mike

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