Re: Why doesn't this query work? Puzzle to hard for me to crack

[Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>]

These queries are identical!

I'm guessing your query works because there is only one player named 
Robert.  If there were more than one Robert; the query will likely also 
produce incorrect results.

IAC, try adding "GROUP BY players.player_id".




sdger erger wrote:
> This query works as I want it to:
>
> SELECT sum(cutoffuohands) AS HANDS, sum(cutoffuopfr) AS pfr
> FROM compiledplayerresultspositionaction
> JOIN compiledresults
> ON compiledplayerresultspositionaction.compiledplayer results_id = 
> compiledresults.compiledplayerresults_id
> JOIN players
> ON compiledresults.player_id = players.player_id
> WHERE playername = 'Robert'
>
> It returns the number of "cutoffuohands" and the number of "cutoffuopfr" 
> for the player Robert.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> But this similar query does not work as I want it to do:
>
> SELECT sum(cutoffuohands) AS HANDS, sum(cutoffuopfr) AS pfr
> FROM compiledplayerresultspositionaction
> JOIN compiledresults
> ON compiledplayerresultspositionaction.compiledplayer results_id = 
> compiledresults.compiledplayerresults_id
> JOIN players
> ON compiledresults.player_id = players.player_id
> WHERE playername = 'Robert'
>
>
> I want it to return all the "cutoffuohands" and "cutoffuopfr" for all 
> players not named Robert. But it returns unreasonable numbers.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know much about the inner workings of the database 
> and unfortunately I'm only a novice with SQL so I haven't been able to 
> figure out how to fix the second query. I hope you guys here on the 
> mailing list can take a lot at this and see if you can figure it out.
>
> Thanks!