MySQL JOIN with LIMIT 1 on joined table

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I want to join two tables, but only get 1 record of table2 per record on table1

For example:

SELECT c.id, c.title, p.id AS product_id, p.title
FROM categories AS c
JOIN products AS p ON c.id = p.category_id

This would get me all records in products, which is not what I want. I want 1 [the first] product per category (I have a sort column in the products field).

How do I go about doing that?

limit join mysql
11 Answers

Another example with 3 nested tables: 1/ User 2/ UserRoleCompanie 3/ Companie

  • 1 user has many UserRoleCompanie.
  • 1 UserRoleCompanie has 1 user and 1 Company
  • 1 Companie has many UserRoleCompanie
SELECT 
u.id as userId, 
u.firstName,
u.lastName,
u.email,
urc.id ,
urc.companieRole,
c.id as companieId,
c.name as companieName
FROM User as u 
JOIN UserRoleCompanie as urc ON u.id = urc.userId
    AND urc.id = (
        SELECT urc2.id
        FROM UserRoleCompanie urc2 
        JOIN Companie ON urc2.companieId = Companie.id
        AND urc2.userId = u.id 
        AND Companie.isPersonal = false
        order by Companie.createdAt DESC
        
        limit 1
    )
    
LEFT JOIN Companie as c ON urc.companieId = c.id

+---------------------------+-----------+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------------------+
| userId                    | firstName | lastName           | email                     | id                        | companieRole | companieId                | companieName      |
+---------------------------+-----------+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+-------------------+
| cjjt9s9iw037f0748raxmnnde | henry     | pierrot            | henry@gmail.com           | cjtuflye81dwt0748e4hnkiv0 | OWNER        | cjtuflye71dws0748r7vtuqmg | leclerc           |
user_54494500

In my opinion, this is the best answer (making it general):

SELECT  
TB1.Id  
FROM Table1 AS TB1  
INNER JOIN Table2 AS TB2 ON (TB1.Id = TB2.Id_TB1)  
    AND TB2.Id = (  
        SELECT Id  
        FROM Table2  
        WHERE TB1.Id = Id_TB1  
        ORDER BY Table2.Id DESC  
        LIMIT 1  
    )
user_141710820

When using postgres you can use the DISTINCT ON syntex to limit the number of columns returned from either table.

Here is a sample of the code:

SELECT c.id, c.title, p.id AS product_id, p.title FROM categories AS c JOIN ( SELECT DISTINCT ON(p1.id) id, p1.title, p1.category_id FROM products p1 ) p ON (c.id = p.category_id)
The trick is not to join directly on the table with multiple occurrences of the id, rather, first create a table with only a single occurrence for each id

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