Two given tables:
John Smith | 84
Jane Bloggs| 100
John Smith | 182
Mark Antor | 219
84 | Swimming | 17
84 | Tennis | 36
100| Squash | 40
100| Swimming | 17
182| Tennis | 36
219| Golf | 47
219| Swimming | 15
219| Squash | 40
Question: Select the activity with the highest cost and the names of the students that are registered in it.
Result should be: activity column(golf) and students column(mark antony). In this case there's just one student registered but I want to account for a case if there are more students registered.
I tried all kinds of solutions but I cant seem to get it right.
Any tips appreciated, thanks.
edit: I see Im getting downvoted, I didnt want to show what I tried because I think its way off the mark but here is some of it:
SELECT s.Student, a.Activity from Activities as a inner join Students as s
ON a.ID = s.ID where a.Cost = (select max(a.Cost))
SELECT s.Student, a.cost, a.Activity from Activities as a inner join Students `as s ON a.ID = s.ID`
group by s.Student having a.cost = max(a.cost)
Following query works.
But please next time don't use images and you should also take a look at normalisation
CREATE TABLE activity ( `ID` INTEGER, `Activity` VARCHAR(8), `Cost` INTEGER ); INSERT INTO activity (`ID`, `Activity`, `Cost`) VALUES ('84', 'Swimming', '17'), ('84', 'Tennis', '36'), ('100', 'Squash', '40'), ('100', 'Swimming', '17'), ('182', 'Tennis', '36'), ('219', 'Golf', '47'), ('219', 'Swimming', '15'), ('219', 'Squash', '40');
CREATE TABLE students ( `Student` VARCHAR(11), `ID` INTEGER ); INSERT INTO students (`Student`, `ID`) VALUES ('John Smith', '84'), ('Jane Bloggs', '100'), ('John Smith', '182'), ('Mark Antor', '219');
SELECT Student,Activity FROM students s INNER JOIN ( SELECT id,Activity FROm activity WHERE Cost = (SELECT MAX(Cost) FROM activity)) a ON s.ID = a.id
Student | Activity :--------- | :------- Mark Antor | Golf
db<>fiddle here