Lets consider the following table-
ID Score 1 95 2 100 3 88 4 100 5 73
I am a total SQL noob but how do I return the Scores featuring both IDs 2 and 4? So it should return 100 since its featured in both ID 2 and 4
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Answer
This is an example of a “sets-within-sets” query. I recommend aggregation with the having
clause, because it is the most flexible approach.
select score from t group by score having sum(id = 2) > 0 and -- has id = 2 sum(id = 4) > 0 -- has id = 4
What this is doing is aggregating by score. Then the first part of the having
clause (sum(id = 2)
) is counting up how many “2”s there are per score. The second is counting up how many “4”s. Only scores that have at a “2” and “4” are returned.