Hi Igor, this worked out !!!! :)
Thank so musch for your help, and thank to all who answered my question Have a nice new year greetings from Rome, Giulio > Giulio Mastrosanti <giu...@cantoberon.it> wrote: >> But the user can select to search for A records that MATCH ALL the B records >> selected, in this case the A records that are linked >> to ALL of record B with id 1, 2, 3 >> >> I have arranged the query this way: >> >> select a_id from a_b where b_id in (1,2,3) group by a_id having count(b_id) >> = 3 >> >> this query returns only A with id 1, because checking if the count of the >> rows grouped is equal to the number of the B ids >> specifyed in the query, I have returned only the A records that are linked >> to ALL the B records selected for the query. >> >> Now my problem is, that for a number of reasons now I can have an A record >> linked to more than one records B with the same ID, so >> I could have a table A_B filled this way: >> >> A_id | B_id >> 1 1 >> 1 2 >> 1 3 >> 2 1 >> 2 2 >> 2 2 > > select a_id from (select distinct a_id, b_id from a_b) > where b_id in (1,2,3) group by a_id having count(b_id) = 3; > > Igor Tandetnik > > Giulio Mastrosanti giu...@cantoberon.it _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users