How can I set multiple aliases for a single derived table in MariaDB 5.5? - mariadb

Question

Consider a database with three tables:
goods (Id is the primary key)
+----+-------+-----+
| Id | Name | SKU |
+----+-------+-----+
| 1 | Nails | 123 |
| 2 | Nuts | 456 |
| 3 | Bolts | 789 |
+----+-------+-----+
invoiceheader (Id is the primary key)
+----+--------------+-----------+---------+
| Id | Date | Warehouse | BuyerId |
+----+--------------+-----------+---------+
| 1 | '2021-10-15' | 1 | 223 |
| 2 | '2021-09-18' | 1 | 356 |
| 3 | '2021-07-13' | 2 | 1 |
+----+--------------+-----------+---------+
invoiceitems (Id is the primary key)
+----+----------+--------+-----+-------+
| Id | HeaderId | GoodId | Qty | Price |
+----+----------+--------+-----+-------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1.5 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1.3 |
+----+----------+--------+-----+-------+
What I'm trying to do is to get the MAX(invoiceheader.Date) for every invoiceitems.GoodId. Or, in everyday terms, to find out, preferably in a single query, when was the last time any of the goods were sold, from a specific warehouse.
To do that, I'm using a derived query, and the solution proposed here . In order to be able to do that, I think that I need to have a way of giving multiple (well, two) aliases for a derived table.
My query looks like this at the moment:
SELECT tmp.* /* placing the second alias here, before or after tmp.* doesn't work */
FROM ( /* placing the second alias, tmpClone, here also doesn't work */
SELECT
invoiceheader.Id,
invoiceheader.Date,
invoiceitems.HeaderId,
invoiceitems.Id,
invoiceitems.GoodId
FROM invoiceheader
LEFT JOIN invoiceitems
ON invoiceheader.Id = invoiceitems.HeaderId
WHERE invoiceheader.Warehouse = 3
AND invoiceheader.Date > '0000-00-00 00:00:00'
AND invoiceheader.Date IS NOT NULL
AND invoiceheader.Date > ''
AND invoiceitems.GoodId > 0
ORDER BY
invoiceitems.GoodId ASC,
invoiceheader.Date DESC
) tmp, tmpClone /* this doesn't work with or without a comma */
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
invoiceheader.Id,
MAX(invoiceheader.Date) AS maxDate
FROM tmpClone
WHERE invoiceheader.Warehouse = 3
GROUP BY invoiceitems.GoodId
) headerGroup
ON tmp.Id = headerGroup.Id
AND tmp.Date = headerGroup.maxDate
AND tmp.HeaderId = headerGroup.Id
Is it possible to set multiple aliases for a single derived table? If it is, how should I do it?
I'm using 5.5.52-MariaDB.

Answer 1

you can use both (inner select) and left join to achieve this for example:
select t1.b,(select t2.b from table2 as t2 where t1.x=t2.x) as 'Y' from table as t1 Where t1.y=(select t3.y from table3 as t3 where t2.a=t3.a)

Answer 2

While this doesn't answer my original question, it does solve the problem from which the question arose, and I'll leave it here in case anyone ever comes across a similar issue.
The following query does what I'd intended to do - find the newest sale date for the goods from the specific warehouse.
SELECT
invoiceheader.Id,
invoiceheader.Date,
invoiceitems.HeaderId,
invoiceitems.Id,
invoiceitems.GoodId
FROM invoiceheader
INNER JOIN invoiceitems
ON invoiceheader.Id = invoiceitems.HeaderId
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
MAX(invoiceheader.Date) AS maxDate,
invoiceitems.GoodId
FROM invoiceheader
INNER JOIN invoiceitems
ON invoiceheader.Id = invoiceitems.HeaderId
WHERE invoiceheader.Warehouse = 3
AND invoiceheader.Date > '0000-00-00 00:00:00'
AND invoiceheader.Date IS NOT NULL
AND invoiceheader.Date > ''
GROUP BY invoiceitems.GoodId
) tmpDate
ON invoiceheader.Date = tmpDate.maxDate
AND invoiceitems.GoodId = tmpDate.GoodId
WHERE invoiceheader.Warehouse = 3
AND invoiceitems.GoodId > 0
ORDER BY
invoiceitems.GoodId ASC,
invoiceheader.Date DESC
The trick was to join by taking into consideration two things - MAX(invoiceheader.Date) and invoiceitems.GoodId - since one GoodId can only appear once inside a specific invoiceheader / invoiceitems JOINing (strict limit imposed on the part of the code which inserts into invoiceitems).
Whether this is the most optimal solution (ignoring the redundant conditions in the query), and whether it would scale well, remains to be seen - it has been tested on tables with ~5000 entries for invoiceheader, ~60000 entries for invoiceitems, and ~4000 entries for goods. Execution time was < 1 sec.