Guys,
I've been working with MySQL for a while (been on & off this list over the last 10
years or so); I'm definitely not a n00b and have worked with SQL extensively. Used JOIN
and all quite a bit ... but I haven't done subqueries, union or nested joins.
I'm completely stumped on this problem; and Google hasn't been helpful at all. I'll try to
be as descriptive as possible.
I have 2 tables ... CUSTOMERS and CALLS.
Think of Customers table as your Directory. It has the customer's contact information
& some other information. In total about 20 fields in there.
The Calls table has only about 7 fields. Each time a customer calls in, the conversation
details gets recorded in this Calls table.
The PHONE field is the key field that joins the CUSTOMERS & CALLS tables. That is the
only identifying key that gets written on the Calls record when that customer calls.
One thing to note -- It is possible for a customer to exist in the CUSTOMERS table, but
not exist in the CALLS table; however, it is not possible for a PHONE # to be in the
CALLS table but not in CUSTOMERS table. Essentially, a customer's record has to be
created first in the CUSTOMERS table before a call can be recorded from him in the CALLS
table.
Also, CALLS table can have multiple entries with same PHONE # (Customer called many times
- maybe even same day), but CUSTOMERS will only have a single entry for a PHONE #.
Here comes my problem ...
I have a PHONE SEARCH box with the ability to define a date range; for simplicity sake -
we'll use just One Date instead of "DATE ... BETWEEN" for now.
When someone searches for a PHONE number, I want to show ALL the CUSTOMERS that:
a. Were CREATED on that day (Date defined in Search Criteria)
b. Had CALLED in that day (Date defined in Search Criteria)
The DATA that I need to pull up and show is in the CUSTOMERS table; not the CALLS table --
so the DATA I need needs to come out of the CUSTOMERS table matching on phone from both
tables for the given DATE.
In other words - any CUSTOMER that has the PHONE NUMBER which appears in BOTH CUSTOMERS
& CALLS table with the DATE defined should pull up.
For the life of me - I can't get this to work!!
Let's take the date "02/28/12" for example sake.
My biggest issue is ... using JOIN, I can pull up ...
a. ALL the phone/customers that appeared in the CALLS table with date "02/28/12"
b. ALL the phone/customers that appeared in CALLS & CUSTOMERS with date "02/28/12"
BUT -- If there's a customer with date "02/28/12" who DOES NOT appear in CALLS table at
all - does NOT show up!! And that is because I'm using CUSTOMERS.PHONE=CALLS.PHONE in the
JOIN ON clause. So it obviously won't pick up a record where the phone didn't exist in
both tables.
My initial query was:
SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS JOIN CALLS ON CUSTOMERS.PHONE = CALLS.PHONE
WHERE CUSTOMERS.DATE = "02/28/12" AND CALLS.DATE = "02/28/12"
I've tried 100's of combinations of this query; many different OR, AND, GROUP BY
combinations --- but I can't pull up ALL records from CUSTOMERS with DATE "02/28/12" and
ALL records from CALLS with DATE "02/28/12" in a single query.
I've hit a wall here.
Any ideas/suggestions/advice?
THANKS
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