Multiple Left Join with sum

Question

I\'m trying to display in a table (with data tables plugin) informations with sum from 3 tables using Left Join in sql query. I succeeded to edit server-side query and disp

Answer 1

The problem might be the fact due to a Cartesian result of your data and summations going on. Just to clarify, here is a simple query... I know I don't have it all, nor join columns perfect, this is just for clarification.

ALSO, I KNOW I have abbreviated the columns and aliases for simplified reading and understanding of the concept of what you are probably encountering.

Select
      t1.yr,
      sum( t2.Amt ) as AmtChange
   FROM 
      budget AS t1
         LEFT JOIN Budget_Changes AS t2
            on t1.yr = t2.Yr

At the end, no problem... for a given year, you will get the totals from the second table. There are many records in table 2. Ex: Data

Budget
Yr
2013
2014

Budget_Changes
Yr    Amt
2013  10
2013  20
2013  30
2014  40
2014  50

Your results would be
Yr    AmtChange
2013  60
2014  90

We probably agree on that at this point... Now, throw in another table that per year (or whatever), that too has multiple records per year...

Change_Orders
Yr     COAmt
2013   100
2013   120
2014   200
2014   220

And you add this in as a secondary left-join to your query, something like

Select
      t1.yr,
      sum( t2.Amt ) as AmtChange,
      sum( t3.COAmt ) as COAmtChange
   FROM 
      budget AS t1
         LEFT JOIN Budget_Changes AS t2
            on t1.yr = t2.Yr
         LEFT JOIN Change_Orders AS t3
            on t1.yr = t3.Yr


Your might expect the results to be
Yr    AmtChange  COChangeAmt
2013  60         220
2014  90         420

However, since it is a Cartesian result... multiple rows per each join is taking the results TIMES each entry that exists in the other table... something like

Yr    AmtChange  COChangeAmt
2013  120         440
2014  180         840

To fix this, each individual table you are getting subtotals from should be handled on its own, and grouped by its own year so the subset returns only one row per context of data. Something like

Select
      t1.yr,
      t2.AmtChange,
      t3.COAmtChange
   FROM 
      budget AS t1
         LEFT JOIN ( select BC.Yr, sum( BC.Amt ) as AmtChange
                        from Budget_Changes BC
                        group by BC.Yr ) t2
            on t1.yr = t2.Yr
         LEFT JOIN ( select CO.Yr, sum( CO.COAmt ) as COAmtChange
                        from Change_Orders CO
                        group by CO.Yr ) AS t3
            on t1.yr = t3.Yr

So, the sub-queries will each return only 1 record for the respective year being aggregated and thus prevent the duplicate in sum() amounts.

Answer 2

That is the final and seems to work.

$year=date('Y');
$sQuery = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS ".str_replace(" , ", " ", implode(", ", $aColumns)).", 
t2.total_changes,
t1.operation_BP+IFNULL(total_changes,0) AS operation_total, 
t3.total_conso
FROM $sTable AS t1
LEFT JOIN (SELECT tt2.change_year_operation, IFNULL(SUM(tt2.change_amount),0) AS total_changes FROM wp_dri_budget_changes tt2 GROUP BY tt2.change_year_operation) t2 ON t1.operation_year_number = t2.change_year_operation
LEFT JOIN (SELECT tt3.expense_year_operation, IFNULL(SUM(tt3.expense_enga_amount),0) AS total_conso FROM wp_dri_budget_expenses tt3 GROUP BY tt3.expense_year_operation) AS t3 ON t1.operation_year_number = t3.expense_year_operation
WHERE t1.operation_year=".$year." AND t1.operation_active=1 $sWhere $sOrder $sLimit";

OPERATION_NUMBER NAME BP CHANGES TOTAL TOTAL_CONSO

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15P731OV001 project1 28000 (null) 28000 (null)

13P0012OV001 project2 612500 -60000 552500 21000

**But now IFNULL(x,0) seems not working anymore and null (NaN.N in datatables) are display when sum results are NULL **