EXPERT RESPONSE
It can be done in one. This is an example of the
"Latest X for each Y" common SQL question. See
SQL FAQ: Common SQL Questions, part 3 (5 July, 2007).
However, this one's a bit trickier since it involves a many-to-many join.
select I.industry
, A.title
, A.pubdate
from industries as I
inner
join industryarticles as IA
on IA.industry_ID = I.ID
inner
join articles as A
on A.ID = IA.article_ID
and 2 >
( select count(*)
from industryarticles as IA2
inner
join articles as A2
on A2.ID = IA2.article_ID
where IA2.industry_ID = I.ID
and A2.pubdate > A.pubdate )
order
by I.industry
, A.pubdate desc
The subquery—which is correlated to the outer query
using the I correlation variable to link industries and the A
correlation variable to link articles—counts
the number of articles in the same industry which have a later date
than the article in the outer query. This count must be less
than the number 2. In other words, it must be 1 or 0.
If the article being considered in the outer query has only 1 or 0
articles in the same industry with a later date, then it has
to be among the latest two for that industry.
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