问题
In a firebird database with a table "Sales", I need to select the first sale of all customers. See below a sample that show the table and desired result of query.
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SALES
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ID CUSTOMERID DTHRSALE
1 25 01/04/16 09:32
2 30 02/04/16 11:22
3 25 05/04/16 08:10
4 31 07/03/16 10:22
5 22 01/02/16 12:30
6 22 10/01/16 08:45
Result: only first sale, based on sale date.
ID CUSTOMERID DTHRSALE
1 25 01/04/16 09:32
2 30 02/04/16 11:22
4 31 07/03/16 10:22
6 22 10/01/16 08:45
I've already tested following code "Select first row in each GROUP BY group?", but it did not work.
回答1:
In Firebird 2.5 you can do this with the following query; this is a minor modification of the second part of the accepted answer of the question you linked to tailored to your schema and requirements:
select x.id,
x.customerid,
x.dthrsale
from sales x
join (select customerid,
min(dthrsale) as first_sale
from sales
group by customerid) p on p.customerid = x.customerid
and p.first_sale = x.dthrsale
order by x.id
The order by is not necessary, I just added it to make it give the order as shown in your question.
With Firebird 3 you can use the window function ROW_NUMBER which is also described in the linked answer. The linked answer incorrectly said the first solution would work on Firebird 2.1 and higher. I have now edited it.
回答2:
Search for the sales with no earlier sales:
SELECT S1.*
FROM SALES S1
LEFT JOIN SALES S2 ON S2.CUSTOMERID = S1.CUSTOMERID AND S2.DTHRSALE < S1.DTHRSALE
WHERE S2.ID IS NULL
Define an index over (customerid, dthrsale) to make it fast.
回答3:
So simple as:
select CUSTOMERID min(DTHRSALE) from SALES group by CUSTOMERID
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37014009/firebird-query-return-first-row-each-group