SQL Exercise: Names of all patients who had at least 2 appointments
SQL hospital Database: Exercise-38 with Solution
38. From the following table, write a SQL query to find those patients with at least two appointments in which the nurse who prepared the appointment was a registered nurse and the physician who provided primary care should be identified. Return Patient name as "Patient", Physician name as "Primary Physician", and Nurse Name as "Nurse".
Sample table: appointment
Sample table: patient
Sample table: nurse
Sample table: physician
Sample Solution:
SELECT pt.name AS "Patient",
p.name AS "Primary Physician",
n.name AS "Nurse"
FROM appointment a
JOIN patient pt ON a.patient=pt.ssn
JOIN nurse n ON a.prepnurse=n.employeeid
JOIN physician p ON pt.pcp=p.employeeid
WHERE a.patient IN
(SELECT patient
FROM appointment a
GROUP BY a.patient
HAVING count(*)>=2)
AND n.registered='true'
ORDER BY pt.name;
Sample Output:
Patient | Primary Physician | Nurse ---------------+-------------------+----------------- Dennis Doe | Christopher Turk | Laverne Roberts Grace Ritchie | Elliot Reid | Carla Espinosa Grace Ritchie | Elliot Reid | Carla Espinosa John Smith | John Dorian | Carla Espinosa John Smith | John Dorian | Laverne Roberts (5 rows)
Explanation:
The said query in SQL that selects the names of patients, their primary care physicians, and the names of the nurses who prepared for their appointments. The query only includes patients who have had at least two appointments and whose nurses are registered.
The query uses JOIN statements to link the tables based on the relevant columns. The JOIN statement combines the 'appointment' and 'patient' tables based on the patient and ssn columns. The second JOIN statement combines the 'appointment' and 'nurse' tables based on the presnurse and employeeid columns and the third JOIN statement links the 'patient' and 'physician' tables based on the pcp and employeeid columns.
With the first condition in WHERE clause, only patients with at least two appointments are included in the output, based on a subquery that groups and filters appointments by patient and the second condition ensures that only nurses who are registered are included in the output.
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SQL: Tips of the Day
Grouped LIMIT in PostgreSQL: Show the first N rows for each group?
db=# SELECT * FROM xxx; id | section_id | name ----+------------+------ 1 | 1 | A 2 | 1 | B 3 | 1 | C 4 | 1 | D 5 | 2 | E 6 | 2 | F 7 | 3 | G 8 | 2 | H (8 rows)
I need the first 2 rows (ordered by name) for each section_id, i.e. a result similar to:
id | section_id | name ----+------------+------ 1 | 1 | A 2 | 1 | B 5 | 2 | E 6 | 2 | F 7 | 3 | G (5 rows)
PostgreSQL v9.3 you can do a lateral join
select distinct t_outer.section_id, t_top.id, t_top.name from t t_outer join lateral ( select * from t t_inner where t_inner.section_id = t_outer.section_id order by t_inner.name limit 2 ) t_top on true order by t_outer.section_id;
Database: PostgreSQL
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