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messages for profiles that I wrote first AND are waiting for a response.

I want to see all the messages for profiles that I wrote first AND are waiting for a response.
I want to see all the messages (messages staff3 sent, messages 'big' sent) for profile_id 'big'.

abl: abl wrote first, staff3 wrote last
swa: swa wrote first, swa wrote last
dtw: dtw wrote first, dtw wrote last
gam: gam wrote first, gam wrote last
h1a: hla wrote first, staff3 wrote last
nyh: nyh wrote first, nyh wrote last
big: staff3 wrote first, big wrote last

CREATE TABLE `a_messages2` (
       `a_messages_id` INT (11) auto_increment  primary key
     , `profile_id` VARCHAR(20)
     , `sender` VARCHAR(20)
     , `message_id` BIGINT (20)
     , `this_user` VARCHAR(20)
     );



INSERT INTO a_messages2
          (`profile_id`, `sender`, `message_id`, `this_user`)
    VALUES
('abl', 'staff3', 3662615602, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3660687080, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3658803944, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3649952930, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3644250249, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3614235515, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3614140442, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3613984751, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3613936332, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3613469574, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3612970481, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3609276901, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3609276896, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3866086756, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3866079064, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3856964132, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3844779912, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3916948647, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3880367425, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3977088222, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3974513295, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3973285282, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 3960907806, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 4003664468, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 4002246444, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 3996089944, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 4024726432, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 4021516823, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 4018957318, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 4050609080, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 4052368867, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'abl', 4052424820, 'staff3'),
('abl', 'staff3', 4053183569, 'staff3'),
  
('swa','swa','4153199171','staff3'),
('swa','staff3','4150323049','staff3'),
('swa','swa','4146362776','staff3'),
('swa','staff3','4142884979','staff3'),
('swa','staff3','4142884976','staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3658976250', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3658422687', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3653399588', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3653174764', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3546098525', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3545571594', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3545571593', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3540574071', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3540454344', 'staff3'),
('DTw', 'DTw', '3540376883', 'staff3'),
('fre', 'fre', '3544889093', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3955910171', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3955910165', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3649458031', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3648816297', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3648783076', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3648516109', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3647758123', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3554774961', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3540425395', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3540357159', 'staff3'),
('gam', 'gam', '3540345288', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'staff3', '3700557963', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'h1a', '3693946789', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'h1a', '3693806133', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'staff3', '3684800156', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'h1a', '3684173904', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'h1a', '3682095987', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'h1a', '3682095983', 'staff3'),
('h1a', 'h1a', '3542388954', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3554817690', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3554796334', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3554701760', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3554689575', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3541014726', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3541012663', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3540619436', 'staff3'),
('nyh', 'nyh', '3540474531', 'staff3'),

('big', 'big', '3947506235', 'staff3'),
('big', 'staff3', '3947496223', 'staff3'),
('big', 'big', '3947489941', 'staff3'),
('big', 'staff3', '3938366539', 'staff3'),
('big', 'staff3', '3647107151', 'staff3'),
('big', 'big', '3587867444', 'staff3'),
('big', 'staff3', '3542393433', 'staff3')

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this a query to see all the messages where the highest message_id is not sent by staff3

SELECT
         m2.profile_id
       , m2.sender
       , m2.message_id
       , m2.this_user
FROM (
      SELECT
              mx.sender
      FROM (
            SELECT
              profile_id
            , sender
            , max(message_id) AS message_id
            FROM a_messages2
            WHERE profile_id=sender
            GROUP BY
              profile_id
            , sender
           ) AS mx
      LEFT JOIN a_messages2 AS m ON mx.profile_id =  m.profile_id
                                AND mx.sender     <> m.sender
                                AND mx.message_id <  m.message_id
      WHERE m.a_messages_id IS NULL
	 ) AS mmx
INNER JOIN a_messages2 AS m2 ON mmx.sender = m2.sender
;

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I am looking for the all the messages from a profile where lowest message_id='staff3' and highest message_id!='staff3'
From the mysql inserts, the only answer is profile_id 'big'

PortletPaul

Is there a table of profile attributes?

Why don't you save yourself a lot of processing and store origin of profile?

I other questions you have differentiated between:
> first contact by staff
> first contact by non-staff

store this distinction

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rgb192

ASKER

Why don't you save yourself a lot of processing and store origin of profile?

I other questions you have differentiated between:
> first contact by staff
> first contact by non-staff

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Thank you for the suggestion, but that would be a larger php problem which may never have an answer.

using mysql workbench I am trying to run the whole query but query execution interrupted after 3 minutes
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28296665/increase-query-timeout-time-using-mysql-workbench.html

or I have tried only running the query in the middle without the larger query which also timeout

I also tried adding where 'staff3'

                      SELECT
                      profile_id
                      FROM a_messages2
                      WHERE (
                               ( /* here we determine who originated the profile */
                                   message_id IN (SELECT min(message_id)
                                                  FROM a_messages2 GROUP BY profile_id)
                                AND
                                   profile_id <> sender /* originated by staff */
                               )
                            OR
                               ( /* here we determine who has sent latest message */
                                   message_id IN (SELECT max(message_id)
                                                  FROM a_messages2 GROUP BY profile_id)
                                AND
                                   profile_id = sender /* needs a response by staff */
                               )
                            )
and this_user='staff3'
                      GROUP BY profile_id
                      HAVING count(*) = 2

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There are numerous staff members
still does a timeout
even when I do another staff member that has 20 messages

PortletPaul

Efficiency is precisely why I suggested storing that decision. As your store of messages grows you will face an ever increasing issue determining who started what profile - each and every time you run these queries. Your data model lacks a date/time attributes as well.

How many records are currently in a_messages2 and what is the growth rate?

rgb192

ASKER

Question has been answered, Thank you .

when I do
create like
and
insert into where this_user='staff3'
subquery works

with a smaller user, the entire query works

I will open up another question about future problems.

PortletPaul

Thanks.

When you open that new question I suggest you include all details of the table(s) involved
including indexes

Cheers, Paul

rgb192

ASKER

Would indexes be the primary key auto increment column. How could i do insert with indexes

PortletPaul

By the nature of that question it appears you have much to catch-up on.

here's an introduction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_index

The purpose of indexing is to speed-up queries.

You can have more than one index on any table. You can still do inserts into a table with more than one index.

However there is a "trade-off":
Indexes speed-up queries but can slow-down inserts/updates

The reason for slowing-down inserts is that each additional index is also maintained while inserting/updating. However, I think you would find that with your table additional indexes would be of substantial benefit.

rgb192

ASKER

Indexing may speed up queries for me.

But the previous query you showed me failed (for me) because of the mysql_workbench query timeout.

I have two related question of which I think you can solve

indexing table:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28318003/create-table-statement-with-indexes.html

another query that returns profile_id where staff has never solved a message:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28318002/messages-from-profile-id-that-have-no-messages-sent-from-staff.html