[LeetCode] 607. Sales Person_Easy tag: SQL

Description

Given three tables: salesperson, company, orders.
Output all the names in the table salesperson, who didn’t have sales to company 'RED'.

Example
Input

Table: salesperson

+----------+------+--------+-----------------+-----------+
| sales_id | name | salary | commission_rate | hire_date |
+----------+------+--------+-----------------+-----------+
|   1      | John | 100000 |     6           | 4/1/2006  |
|   2      | Amy  | 120000 |     5           | 5/1/2010  |
|   3      | Mark | 65000  |     12          | 12/25/2008|
|   4      | Pam  | 25000  |     25          | 1/1/2005  |
|   5      | Alex | 50000  |     10          | 2/3/2007  |
+----------+------+--------+-----------------+-----------+

The table  salesperson holds the salesperson information. Every salesperson has a sales_id and a name.

Table: company

+---------+--------+------------+
| com_id  |  name  |    city    |
+---------+--------+------------+
|   1     |  RED   |   Boston   |
|   2     | ORANGE |   New York |
|   3     | YELLOW |   Boston   |
|   4     | GREEN  |   Austin   |
+---------+--------+------------+

The table  company holds the company information. Every company has a com_id and a name.

Table: orders

+----------+----------+---------+----------+--------+
| order_id |  date    | com_id  | sales_id | amount |
+----------+----------+---------+----------+--------+
| 1        | 1/1/2014 |    3    |    4     | 100000 |
| 2        | 2/1/2014 |    4    |    5     | 5000   |
| 3        | 3/1/2014 |    1    |    1     | 50000  |
| 4        | 4/1/2014 |    1    |    4     | 25000  |
+----------+----------+---------+----------+--------+

The table  orders holds the sales record information, salesperson and customer company are represented by sales_id and com_id.

output

+------+
| name | 
+------+
| Amy  | 
| Mark | 
| Alex |
+------+

Explanation

According to order '3' and '4' in table orders, it is easy to tell only salesperson 'John' and 'Alex' have sales to company 'RED',
so we need to output all the other names in table salesperson.

Code

naive

SELECT s.name FROM salesperson as s WHERE s.name NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT s1.name FROM salesperson as s1 JOIN company as c JOIN orders as o WHERE s1.sales_id = o.sales_id AND c.name = 'RED' AND o.com_id = c.com_id)

Better

SELECT s.name FROM salesperson as s WHERE s.sales_id NOT IN (SELECT o.sales_id FROM orders as o LEFT JOIN company as c ON o.com_id = c.com_id
                                                            WHERE c.name = 'RED')