I have two tables in MySQL 5.1.38.
products
+----+------------+-------+------------+
| id | name | price | department |
+----+------------+-------+------------+
| 1 | Fire Truck | 15.00 | Toys |
| 2 | Bike | 75.00 | Toys |
| 3 | T-Shirt | 18.00 | Clothes |
| 4 | Skirt | 18.00 | Clothes |
| 5 | Pants | 22.00 | Clothes |
+----+------------+-------+------------+
ratings
+------------+--------+
| product_id | rating |
+------------+--------+
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 4 |
+------------+--------+
My goal is to get the total price of all products which have a 5 star rating in each department. Something like this.
+------------+-------------+
| department | total_price |
+------------+-------------+
| Clothes | 36.00 | /* T-Shirt and Skirt */
| Toys | 90.00 | /* Fire Truck and Bike */
+------------+-------------+
I would like to do this without a subquery if I can. At first I tried a join with a sum().
select department, sum(price) from products
join ratings on product_id=products.id
where rating=5 group by department;
+------------+------------+
| department | sum(price) |
+------------+------------+
| Clothes | 36.00 |
| Toys | 165.00 |
+------------+------------+
As you can see the price for the Toys department is incorrect because there are two 5 star ratings for the Bike and therefore counting that price twice due to the join.
I then tried adding distinct to the sum.
select department, sum(distinct price) from products
join ratings on product_id=products.id where rating=5
group by department;
+------------+---------------------+
| department | sum(distinct price) |
+------------+---------------------+
| Clothes | 18.00 |
| Toys | 90.00 |
+------------+---------------------+
But then the clothes department is off because two products share the same price.
Currently my work-around involves taking something unique about the product (the id) and using that to make the price unique.
select department, sum(distinct price + id * 100000) - sum(id * 100000) as total_price
from products join ratings on product_id=products.id
where rating=5 group by department;
+------------+-------------+
| department | total_price |
+------------+-------------+
| Clothes | 36.00 |
| Toys | 90.00 |
+------------+-------------+
But this feels like such a silly hack. Is there a better way to do this without a subquery? Thanks!