Select multiple rows with the same value(s)

Question

I have a table, sort of like this:

ID  |  Chromosome | Locus | Symbol | Dominance |
===============================================
1   |      10     |   2           


        

Answer 1

One way of doing this is via an exists clause:

select * from genes g
where exists
(select null from genes g1
 where g.locus = g1.locus and g.chromosome = g1.chromosome and g.id <> g1.id)

Alternatively, in MySQL you can get a summary of all matching ids with a single table access, using group_concat:

select group_concat(id) matching_ids, chromosome, locus 
from genes
group by chromosome, locus
having count(*) > 1

Answer 2

This may work for you:

select t1.*
from table t1
join (select t2.Chromosome, t2.Locus
    from table2
    group by t2.Chromosome, t2.Locus
    having count(*) > 1) u on u.Chromosome = t1.Chromosome and u.Locus = t1.Locus

Answer 3

The problem is GROUP BY - if you group results by Locus, you only get one result per locus.

Try:

SELECT * FROM Genes WHERE Locus = '3' AND Chromosome = '10';

If you prefer using HAVING syntax, then GROUP BY id or something that is not repeating in the result set.

Answer 4

You need to understand that when you include GROUP BY in your query you are telling SQL to combine rows. you will get one row per unique Locus value. The Having then filters those groups. Usually you specify an aggergate function in the select list like:

--show how many of each Locus there is
SELECT COUNT(*),Locus FROM Genes GROUP BY Locus

--only show the groups that have more than one row in them
SELECT COUNT(*),Locus FROM Genes GROUP BY Locus HAVING COUNT(*)>1

--to just display all the rows for your condition, don't use GROUP BY or HAVING
SELECT * FROM Genes WHERE Locus = '3' AND Chromosome = '10'

Answer 5

Assuming that you want all rows for which there is another row with the exact same Chromosome and Locus:

You can achieve this by joining the table to itself, but only returning the columns from one "side" of the join.

The trick is to set the join condition to "the same locus and chromosome":

select left.*
from Genes left
inner join Genes right
on left.Locus = right.Locus and 
  left.Chromosome = right.Chromosome and left.ID != right.ID

You can also easily extend this by adding a filter in a where-clause.