Select n records in table X from a field on table Y

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Select n records in table X from a field on table Y

luisalfonso70

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July 21, 2019 at 2:06 am

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Hi, hope someone can help with this.
I've the table gifts_to_give:
Id_give      number_of_gifts          name         city
1                     5                             luis             Barcelona
2                     3                            pedro         Albacete
3    10 Antonio       Madrid

and This is the other table "gifts” which contains like 100 records of each city with different gifts :
gift_id    city          description          Price
1                Barcelona       Shoes                    1500
2               Barcelona       Ring                         200
3               Barcelona       Pen 50

What I wish to accomplish is according to the fields “city” and “number_of_gifts” on the table "gifts_to_give" select X random number of records of the table "gifts" matching the "number of gifts" field and city

The fields that I need on the query results are:
Id_give, number_of_gifts, name, city, gift_id, description, price.

Thanks!!!!

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Site Owners SSC Guru Points: 80325 More actions · Answer 1

Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

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mohan.muralid SSC Journeyman Points: 99 More actions · Answer 2

I have created 2 tables asper your requirements and inserted the data into both tables

Gifts_to_give:-

Id_give number_of_gifts name city

1 5 luis Barcelona

2 3 Pedro Albacete

3 10 Antonio Madrid

Gifts:- having

gift_Id city description price

1 Barcelona Shoes 1500

2 Barcelona Ring 200

3 Barcelona Pen 50

4 Barcelona BackBag 350

5 Albacete Shoes 1200

6 Albacete Laptop 1100

7 Madrid Kit 200

8 Madrid Dress 300

9 Albacete Mobile 299

10 Barcelona Box 200

11 Madrid Pen 20

12 Madrid Shoes 800

13 Madrid Bike 3000

14 Madrid Mobile 399

15 Madrid Utilities 599

16 Madrid Personal Things 499

The below query will returns the your requested result:-

select Id_give, number_of_gifts, name, gg.city, gift_id, description, price

from gifts g

join gifts_to_give gg on

gg.city = g.city and

(select count(g1.city) from gifts g1 where g.city = g1.city group by g1.city) = gg.number_of_gifts

order by 1

OutPut:-

Id_give number_of_gifts name city gift_id description price

1 5 luis Barcelona 1 Shoes 1500

1 5 luis Barcelona 2 Ring 200

1 5 luis Barcelona 3 Pen 50

1 5 luis Barcelona 4 BackBag 350

1 5 luis Barcelona 10 Box 200

2 3 Pedro Albacete 5 Shoes 1200

2 3 Pedro Albacete 6 Laptop 1100

2 3 Pedro Albacete 9 Mobile 299

I hope this is the output you are expecting.

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Jonathan AC Roberts SSCoach Points: 18361 More actions · Answer 4

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#gifts_to_give','U') IS NOT NULL 
    DROP TABLE #gifts_to_give;

SELECT * 
INTO #gifts_to_give
FROM (VALUES
(1, 5, 'luis', 'Barcelona'),
(2, 3, 'pedro', 'Albacete'),
(3, 10, 'Antonio', 'Madrid')
) T(Id_give, number_of_gifts, name, city)
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#gifts','U') IS NOT NULL 
    DROP TABLE #gifts;
GO
SELECT * 
INTO #gifts
FROM (VALUES
(1, 'Barcelona', 'Shoes', 1500),
(2, 'Barcelona', 'Ring', 200),
(3, 'Barcelona', 'Pen', 50)
) T(gift_id, city, description, Price)
GO

SELECT * 
FROM #gifts_to_give gtg
CROSS APPLY(SELECT TOP(gtg.number_of_gifts) *
              FROM #gifts g
             WHERE g.city = gtg.city
             ORDER BY NEWID()) AS g