Sql 数据库设计是否规范化

我有下列表格

Groups
- Id
- Name

People
- Id
- GroupId
- EntryDate (DateTime)

现在我想检索所有按组的最新人员entrydate排序的组

//pseudo code

select * from groups order by (select top 1 from people order by entrydate desc)

是否最好在组中添加LatestEntryDate字段，并在添加人员时更新该字段？因为这将是一个常见的查询

SELECT g.Id, g.Name, MAX(p.EntryDate) AS LatestPeopleEntryDate
FROM Groups g
    INNER JOIN People p
        ON p.GroupId = g.Id
GROUP BY g.Id, g.Name
ORDER BY MAX(p.EntryDate)

不，我不会将

LatestEntryDate

字段添加到

Groups

表中。这很容易计算

正如@danihp指出的，您可能需要在此处使用左连接。上面的查询将要求

People

表中存在一个值。您选择使用什么取决于您的具体要求

SELECT g.Id, g.Name, MAX(p.EntryDate) AS LatestPeopleEntryDate
FROM Groups g
    LEFT JOIN People p
        ON p.GroupId = g.Id
GROUP BY g.Id, g.Name
ORDER BY MAX(p.EntryDate)

更新

要回答您关于在Linq中执行此操作的问题，我认为应该是这样的：

var result = groups.Select(g => 
    new {
            g.Id, 
            g.Name, 
            LatestPeopleEntryDate = g.People.Max(p => p.EntryDate)
        });

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下面是一个带有非常小样本数据的测试示例，它显示了三种方法

要获取最佳查询计划，请执行以下操作：

按（GroupID、EntryDate）为人员设置非唯一索引

A.使用原始伪代码（按顺序执行，但不显示日期）或

B.使用前1个子查询获取并显示日期

A和B的查询计划相同

使用People表的左连接和max（）将导致扫描（最多在GroupID中）获得最大值，而不是探测索引中的单个行

set nocount on
if object_id('Groups') is not null drop table Groups
if object_id('People') is not null drop table People
go

-- set up tables
create table Groups
(
    ID int primary key,
    Name varchar(20)
)

create table People 
(
    ID int,
    GroupID int,
    EntryDate datetime
)
-- make an index that is ordered by Group, EntryDate
create index IE_GroupDate on People(GroupID, EntryDate)

-- Sample data
insert into Groups (ID, Name)
values
    (1, 'Group1'),
    (2, 'Group2'),
    (3, 'GroupC')

insert into People (ID, GroupID, EntryDate)
values 
    (1, 1, '2012-01-01'),
    (2, 1, '2012-02-01'),
    (1, 3, '2007-12-31')

-- Queries
-- Equivalent to the original poster's intent.  Note that it doesn't actually
-- show the entry date
select *
from Groups G
order by (
    select top 1 EntryDate
    from People P
    where P.GroupID = G.ID order by EntryDate desc)

-- Same query (by query plan) but includes the EntryDate in the result set
select
    G.ID,
    G.Name,
    LatestEntryDate = Latest.EntryDate
from Groups G
outer apply (
    select top 1 EntryDate
    from People P
    where P.GroupID = G.ID
    order by EntryDate desc
) Latest
order by LatestEntryDate

-- Query using left join.  This causes a scan of the left join table to
-- compute the max.  (The optimizer isn't smart enough to turn this into 
-- a TOP 1)
select
    G.ID,
    G.Name,
    LatestEntryDate = max(P.EntryDate)
from Groups G
left join People P on P.GroupID = G.ID
group by G.ID, G.Name
order by max(P.EntryDate)

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Requestions是‘所有组’：“现在我想检索所有按组排序的组，其中包含最新的人员entrydate。”现在是正确的+1我认为应该是‘order by LatestPeopleEntryDate desc’对吗？因为你的问题是“Sorded by group”，所以我按组名对查询进行排序。如果要按日期排序，可以使用

orderbymax（p.EntryDate）

。