子查询指一个查询语句嵌套在另一个查询语句内部的查询,这个特性从MySQL4.1开始引入。
SQL中子查询的使用大大增强了SELECT查询的能力,因为很多时候查询需要从结果集中获取数据,或者需要从同一个表中先计算出一个数据结果,然后与这个数据结果(可能是单行,也可能是多行)进行比较。
1.需求分析与问题解决
1.1 实际问题
查询出employees表中,比Abel工资高的员工信息。- -- 方式1多表查询 自连接
- SELECT
- e2.`last_name`,
- e2.`salary`
- FROM
- employees e1,
- employees e2
- WHERE e2.`salary` > e1.`salary`
- AND e1.`last_name` = 'Abel';-- 相当于自连接e1表(一张只有一行数据的employees表)
- -- 方式2 子查询
- SELECT
- last_name,
- salary
- FROM
- employees
- WHERE salary >
- (SELECT
- salary
- FROM
- employees
- WHERE last_name = 'Abel');
复制代码 1.2 子查询的基本使用
- SELECT select_list
- FROM table_name
- WHERE expr operator
- (SELECT select_list
- FROM table_name
- );
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- 子查询(内查询)在主查询之前一次执行完成。
- 子查询的结果被主查询(外查询)使用。
- 注意事项
- 子查询要包含在括号内。
- 将子查询放在比较条件的右侧。
- 单行操作符对于单行子查询,多行操作符对于多行子查询。
1.3 子查询的分类
分类方式1:
按照内查询的结果返回一条还是多条记录,将子查询分为单行子查询,多行子查询。
分类方式2:
我们按内查询是否被执行多次,将子查询划分为相关(或关联)子查询和不相关(或非关联)子查询。
子查询从数据表中查询了数据结果,如果这个数据结果只执行一次,然后这个数据结果作为主查询的条件进行执行,那么这样的子查询叫做不相关子查询。
如果,子查询需要执行多次,即采用循环的方式,先从外部查询开始,每次都传入子查询进行查询,然后再将结果反馈给外部,这种嵌套的方式,就称为相关子查询。
2.单行子查询
2.1 单行比较操作符

2.2 代码示例
题目:查询工资大于149号员工工资的员工的信息- mysql> SELECT last_name,employee_id,salary
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE salary > (
- -> SELECT salary FROM employees WHERE employee_id = 149
- -> );
- +-----------+-------------+----------+
- | last_name | employee_id | salary |
- +-----------+-------------+----------+
- | King | 100 | 24000.00 |
- | Kochhar | 101 | 17000.00 |
- | De Haan | 102 | 17000.00 |
- ...
- | Hartstein | 201 | 13000.00 |
- | Higgins | 205 | 12000.00 |
- +-----------+-------------+----------+
- 13 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 题目: 返回job_id与141号员工相同,salary比143号员工多的员工姓名,job_id和工资- mysql> SELECT last_name,job_id,salary
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE job_id = (SELECT job_id FROM employees WHERE employee_id = 149)
- -> AND salary > (SELECT salary FROM employees WHERE employee_id = 143);
- +-----------+--------+----------+
- | last_name | job_id | salary |
- +-----------+--------+----------+
- | Russell | SA_MAN | 14000.00 |
- | Partners | SA_MAN | 13500.00 |
- | Errazuriz | SA_MAN | 12000.00 |
- | Cambrault | SA_MAN | 11000.00 |
- | Zlotkey | SA_MAN | 10500.00 |
- +-----------+--------+----------+
- 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 题目 :返回公司工资最少的员工的last_name,job_id和salary- mysql> SELECT last_name,job_id,salary
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE salary = (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees);
- +-----------+----------+---------+
- | last_name | job_id | salary |
- +-----------+----------+---------+
- | Olson | ST_CLERK | 2100.00 |
- +-----------+----------+---------+
- 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 扩展,如何求出工资倒数第二的工资的员工的last_name,job_id和salary- mysql> SELECT last_name,job_id,salary
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE salary = (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees WHERE salary != (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees));
- +------------+----------+---------+
- | last_name | job_id | salary |
- +------------+----------+---------+
- | Markle | ST_CLERK | 2200.00 |
- | Philtanker | ST_CLERK | 2200.00 |
- +------------+----------+---------+
- 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 来源,这是我再leetcode刷到过的sql的中等题目
思路解析,WHERE salary != (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees) 就是,过滤掉倒数第一的工资,排除倒数第一的工资的倒数第一的工资就是倒数第二,当时觉得这个思路,特别好,记忆比较深刻。
题目,查询与141号或174号员工的manager_id和department_id相同的其他员工的employee_id,manager_id,department_id
题目 其实是多行子查询(返回结果是多行的)
不成对比较- mysql> SELECT employee_id,manager_id,department_id
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE manager_id IN (SELECT manager_id FROM employees WHERE employee_id IN (141,174))
- -> AND department_id IN (SELECT department_id FROM employees WHERE employee_id IN (141,174))
- -> AND employee_id NOT IN(141,174);
- +-------------+------------+---------------+
- | employee_id | manager_id | department_id |
- +-------------+------------+---------------+
- | 142 | 124 | 50 |
- | 143 | 124 | 50 |
- | 144 | 124 | 50 |
- | 196 | 124 | 50 |
- | 197 | 124 | 50 |
- | 198 | 124 | 50 |
- | 199 | 124 | 50 |
- | 175 | 149 | 80 |
- | 176 | 149 | 80 |
- | 177 | 149 | 80 |
- | 179 | 149 | 80 |
- +-------------+------------+---------------+
- 11 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 成对比较(使用的条件很苛刻,用的很少)- mysql> SELECT employee_id,manager_id,department_id
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE (manager_id,department_id) IN (SELECT manager_id,department_id FROM employees WHERE employee_id IN (141,174))
- -> AND employee_id NOT IN(141,174);
- +-------------+------------+---------------+
- | employee_id | manager_id | department_id |
- +-------------+------------+---------------+
- | 142 | 124 | 50 |
- | 143 | 124 | 50 |
- | 144 | 124 | 50 |
- | 196 | 124 | 50 |
- | 197 | 124 | 50 |
- | 198 | 124 | 50 |
- | 199 | 124 | 50 |
- | 175 | 149 | 80 |
- | 176 | 149 | 80 |
- | 177 | 149 | 80 |
- | 179 | 149 | 80 |
- +-------------+------------+---------------+
- 11 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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- 首先执行子查询
- 向主查询中的HAVING子句返回结果
题目 查询最低工资大于50号部门最低工资的部门id和其最低工资- mysql> SELECT department_id,MIN(salary)
- -> FROM employees
- -> GROUP BY department_id
- -> HAVING MIN(salary) > (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees WHERE department_id = 50);
- +---------------+-------------+
- | department_id | MIN(salary) |
- +---------------+-------------+
- | NULL | 7000.00 |
- | 10 | 4400.00 |
- | 20 | 6000.00 |
- | 30 | 2500.00 |
- | 40 | 6500.00 |
- | 60 | 4200.00 |
- | 70 | 10000.00 |
- | 80 | 6100.00 |
- | 90 | 17000.00 |
- | 100 | 6900.00 |
- | 110 | 8300.00 |
- +---------------+-------------+
- 11 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 2.4 CASE中的子查询
题目:显示员工的employee_id,last_name和location。其中,若员工department_id与location_id为1800的department_id相同,则location为’Canada’,其余则为’USA’。- SELECT
- employee_id,
- last_name,
- (
- CASE
- department_id
- WHEN
- (SELECT
- department_id
- FROM
- departments
- WHERE location_id = 1800)
- THEN 'Canadad'
- ELSE 'USA'
- END
- ) AS 'location'
- FROM
- employees
复制代码 2.5 子查询中的空值现象
出现原因是,子查询中为查到数据,也可能是子查询中查到的数据中包含null(多行子查询中出现空值现象的原因)- mysql> SELECT last_name,salary,job_id
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE job_id = (SELECT job_id FROM employees WHERE last_name = 'wind');
- Empty set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 2.6 非法使用子查询
- mysql> SELECT last_name,salary,job_id
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE salary = (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees GROUP BY department_id);
- ERROR 1242 (21000): Subquery returns more than 1 row
复制代码 多行子查询使用单行比较符
3.多行子查询
- 也称为集合比较子查询
- 子查询返回多行
- 使用多行比较操作符
3.1 多行比较操作符

3.2 代码示例
题目 返回其它job_id中比job_id为‘IT_PROG’部门任一工资低的员工的员工号、姓名、job_id 以及salary- mysql> SELECT employee_id,last_name,job_id,salary
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE salary < ANY (SELECT salary FROM employees
- -> WHERE job_id = 'IT_PROG') AND job_id != 'IT_PROG';
- +-------------+-------------+------------+---------+
- | employee_id | last_name | job_id | salary |
- +-------------+-------------+------------+---------+
- ...
- | 202 | Fay | MK_REP | 6000.00 |
- | 203 | Mavris | HR_REP | 6500.00 |
- | 206 | Gietz | AC_ACCOUNT | 8300.00 |
- +-------------+-------------+------------+---------+
- 76 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码- -- 上述sql语句也可以转化为下面这条sql语句,是因为比任一工资低的条件,可以转化为比最大值低即可
- -- 这是因为比除最大值外的值低的条件,会隐形的包含在比最大值低的情况下
- SELECT employee_id,last_name,job_id,salary
- FROM employees
- WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees
- WHERE job_id = 'IT_PROG') AND job_id != 'IT_PROG';
复制代码 题目:返回其它job_id中比job_id为‘IT_PROG’部门所有工资都低的员工的员工号、姓名、job_id以及salary- mysql> SELECT employee_id,last_name,job_id,salary
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE salary < ALL (SELECT salary FROM employees
- -> WHERE job_id = 'IT_PROG') AND job_id != 'IT_PROG';
- +-------------+-------------+----------+---------+
- | employee_id | last_name | job_id | salary |
- +-------------+-------------+----------+---------+
- | 115 | Khoo | PU_CLERK | 3100.00 |
- | 116 | Baida | PU_CLERK | 2900.00 |
- | 117 | Tobias | PU_CLERK | 2800.00 |
- ...
- | 197 | Feeney | SH_CLERK | 3000.00 |
- | 198 | OConnell | SH_CLERK | 2600.00 |
- | 199 | Grant | SH_CLERK | 2600.00 |
- +-------------+-------------+----------+---------+
- 44 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码- -- 上述sql语句也可以转化成下面这条SQL语句,是因为比所有的工资都低的员工,可以转成比最小值低即可
- -- 这是因为比除最小值的值低的条件,会隐形的包含在比最小值低的情况下
- SELECT employee_id,last_name,job_id,salary
- FROM employees
- WHERE salary < (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees
- WHERE job_id = 'IT_PROG') AND job_id != 'IT_PROG';
复制代码 题目:查询平均工资最低的部门id
思路,按照部门id分类,查出各部门的平均工资,然后找出小于等于所有部门平均工资的平均工资对于的部门id。- mysql> SELECT
- -> department_id
- -> FROM
- -> employees
- -> GROUP BY department_id
- -> HAVING AVG(salary) <= ALL
- -> (SELECT
- -> AVG(salary)
- -> FROM
- -> employees
- -> GROUP BY department_id);
- +---------------+
- | department_id |
- +---------------+
- | 50 |
- +---------------+
- 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码- -- 上述sql可以转化为下面SQL语句
- -- 思路,找出最小的平均工资对应的部门
- SELECT department_id
- FROM employees
- GROUP BY department_id
- HAVING AVG(salary) = (
- SELECT MIN(avg_salary)
- FROM (
- SELECT AVG(salary) AS avg_salary
- FROM employees
- GROUP BY department_id
- ) t
- );
复制代码 注意,在MYSQL中聚合函数不能嵌套使用。- mysql> SELECT
- -> MIN(AVG(salary))
- -> FROM
- -> employees
- -> GROUP BY department_id;
- ERROR 1111 (HY000): Invalid use of group function
复制代码 3.3 空值问题
- mysql> SELECT employee_id
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE employee_id NOT IN(
- -> SELECT manager_id
- -> FROM employees
- -> );
- Empty set (0.00 sec)
复制代码- -- sql分析,原本是想获取不在管理者中的员工信息,但是因为子查询中存在null值,导致整个查询为空
- SELECT employee_id,last_name
- FROM employees
- WHERE employee_id NOT IN(
- SELECT manager_id
- FROM employees
- );
- -- 获取不在管理者中的员工信息 正确的写法
- SELECT employee_id,last_name
- FROM employees
- WHERE employee_id NOT IN(
- SELECT manager_id
- FROM employees
- WHERE manager_id IS NOT NULL
- );
复制代码 4.相关子查询
4.1 相关子查询执行流程
如果子查询的执行依赖于外部查询,通常情况下都是因为子查询中的表用到了外部的表,并进行了条件关联,因此每执行一次外部查询,子查询都要重新计算一次,这样的子查询就被称为关联子查询。
相关子查询按照一行一行的顺序执行,主查询的每一行都执行一次子查询。
 - -- 相关子查询语法 子查询中使用主查询中的列
- SELECT column1,column2,...
- FROM table1 outer
- WHERE column1 operator
- (SELECT column1,column2
- FROM table2
- WHERE expr1 = outer.expr2
- );
复制代码 4.2 代码示例
题目:查询员工中工资大于本部门平均工资的员工的last_name,salary和其department_id
方式一 相关子查询- mysql> SELECT last_name,salary,department_id
- -> FROM employees e
- -> WHERE salary > (
- -> SELECT AVG(salary)
- -> FROM employees
- -> WHERE department_id = e.`department_id`
- -> GROUP BY department_id
- -> );
- +-----------+----------+---------------+
- | last_name | salary | department_id |
- +-----------+----------+---------------+
- | King | 24000.00 | 90 |
- | Hunold | 9000.00 | 60 |
- | Ernst | 6000.00 | 60 |
- | Greenberg | 12000.00 | 100 |
- ...
- | Everett | 3900.00 | 50 |
- | Hartstein | 13000.00 | 20 |
- | Higgins | 12000.00 | 110 |
- +-----------+----------+---------------+
- 38 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 方式二 FROM子句中使用子查询- mysql> SELECT last_name,salary,e1.department_id
- -> FROM employees e1,(SELECT AVG(salary) AS avg_sal,department_id FROM employees GROUP BY department_id) e2
- -> WHERE e1.`salary` > e2.avg_sal AND e1.`department_id` = e2.department_id;
- +-----------+----------+---------------+
- | last_name | salary | department_id |
- +-----------+----------+---------------+
- | Hartstein | 13000.00 | 20 |
- | Raphaely | 11000.00 | 30 |
- ...
- | Greenberg | 12000.00 | 100 |
- | Faviet | 9000.00 | 100 |
- | Higgins | 12000.00 | 110 |
- +-----------+----------+---------------+
- 38 rows in set (0.00 sec)
复制代码 FROM子句中使用子查询,子查询是作为FROM的一部分,子查询要用()引起来,并且要给这个子查询起别名,把它当作一张临时表使用。
在ORDER BY中使用子查询
题目:查询员工的id,salary,按照department_name 排序- SELECT employee_id,salary
- FROM employees e
- ORDER BY (
- SELECT department_name
- FROM departments
- WHERE department_id = e.`department_id`
- );
复制代码 题目:若employees表中employee_id与job_history表中employee_id相同的数目不小于2,输出这些相同id的员工的employee_id,last_name和其job_id- SELECT employee_id,last_name,job_id
- FROM employees e
- WHERE 2 <= (
- SELECT COUNT(*)
- FROM job_history
- WHERE employee_id = e.`employee_id`
- );
复制代码 问题
自连接和子查询那种好?
答案
自连接更好!如果需求可以使用自连接,也可以使用子查询的情况下,建议使用自连接。原因,因为在许多DBMS的处理过程中,对于自连接的处理速度要比子查询快的多。
可以这样理解,子查询实际上是通过未知表进行查询后的条件判断,而自连接是通过已知的自身数据表进行条件判断,因此大部分的DBMS中都对自连接进行了优化。
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