Finding SQL duplicates - two methods different results - sql

I have a table in which duplicates may appear. A duplicate is considered when:
sector_id, department_id,number_id are the same (I will add that these are foreign keys to other tables, because maybe it is important)
and valid_to is null
I did this with two queries:
1.
select count(*) from(
select sector_id, departament_id,numer_id, count(*) from tables.workspace
where valid_to is null
group by 1,2,3
having count(*) >1 ) as r
--results : 650
with duplicate_rows as
(
select *, count(id) over (partition by sector_id, departament_id, numer_id) duplicate_count from tables.workspace where valid_to is null
)
select count(*) from
(
select * from duplicate_rows where duplicate_count >1
) as t
--results : 3655
Please explain what I`m doing wrong, possibly why these two functions return different values and which of them is true

Your second query is the wrong one.
You're using a window function and selecting everything in your CTE, which means that every record will have the total COUNT for each combination of your partition by fields.
For example, if there are 3 records with sector_id = 'A', departament_id = 'RED', numer_id = 1, your CTE will look like this:
sector_id | departament_id | numer_id | duplicate_count
------------+----------------+----------+-----------------
A | RED | 1 | 3
A | RED | 1 | 3
A | RED | 1 | 3
Which means that your second query will return 3 instead of 1.
Try adding a DISTINCT to the query that selects from the CTE and it should give you the same results as your first query.
select distinct * from duplicate_rows where duplicate_count >1

Related

Select first rows where condition [duplicate]

Here's what I'm trying to do. Let's say I have this table t:
key_id | id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
2 | 18 | 2012-05-19 | y
3 | 18 | 2012-08-09 | z
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
5 | 19 | 2011-04-03 | b
6 | 19 | 2011-10-25 | c
7 | 19 | 2012-08-09 | d
For each id, I want to select the row containing the minimum record_date. So I'd get:
key_id | id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
The only solutions I've seen to this problem assume that all record_date entries are distinct, but that is not this case in my data. Using a subquery and an inner join with two conditions would give me duplicate rows for some ids, which I don't want:
key_id | id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
5 | 19 | 2011-04-03 | b
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
How about something like:
SELECT mt.*
FROM MyTable mt INNER JOIN
(
SELECT id, MIN(record_date) AS MinDate
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY id
) t ON mt.id = t.id AND mt.record_date = t.MinDate
This gets the minimum date per ID, and then gets the values based on those values. The only time you would have duplicates is if there are duplicate minimum record_dates for the same ID.
I could get to your expected result just by doing this in mysql:
SELECT id, min(record_date), other_cols
FROM mytable
GROUP BY id
Does this work for you?
To get the cheapest product in each category, you use the MIN() function in a correlated subquery as follows:
SELECT categoryid,
productid,
productName,
unitprice
FROM products a WHERE unitprice = (
SELECT MIN(unitprice)
FROM products b
WHERE b.categoryid = a.categoryid)
The outer query scans all rows in the products table and returns the products that have unit prices match with the lowest price in each category returned by the correlated subquery.
I would like to add to some of the other answers here, if you don't need the first item but say the second number for example you can use rownumber in a subquery and base your result set off of that.
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT
ROW_NUM() OVER (PARTITION BY Id ORDER BY record_date, other_cols) as rownum,
*
FROM products P
) INNER
WHERE rownum = 2
This also allows you to order off multiple columns in the subquery which may help if two record_dates have identical values. You can also partition off of multiple columns if needed by delimiting them with a comma
This does it simply:
select t2.id,t2.record_date,t2.other_cols
from (select ROW_NUMBER() over(partition by id order by record_date)as rownum,id,record_date,other_cols from MyTable)t2
where t2.rownum = 1
If record_date has no duplicates within a group:
think of it as of filtering. Simpliy get (WHERE) one (MIN(record_date)) row from the current group:
SELECT * FROM t t1 WHERE record_date = (
select MIN(record_date)
from t t2 where t2.group_id = t1.group_id)
If there could be 2+ min record_date within a group:
filter out non-min rows (see above)
then (AND) pick only one from the 2+ min record_date rows, within the given group_id. E.g. pick the one with the min unique key:
AND key_id = (select MIN(key_id)
from t t3 where t3.record_date = t1.record_date
and t3.group_id = t1.group_id)
so
key_id | group_id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
8 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | e
will select key_ids: #1 and #4
SELECT p.* FROM tbl p
INNER JOIN(
SELECT t.id, MIN(record_date) AS MinDate
FROM tbl t
GROUP BY t.id
) t ON p.id = t.id AND p.record_date = t.MinDate
GROUP BY p.id
This code eliminates duplicate record_date in case there are same ids with same record_date.
If you want duplicates, remove the last line GROUP BY p.id.
This a old question, but this can useful for someone
In my case i can't using a sub query because i have a big query and i need using min() on my result, if i use sub query the db need reexecute my big query. i'm using Mysql
select t.*
from (select m.*, #g := 0
from MyTable m --here i have a big query
order by id, record_date) t
where (1 = case when #g = 0 or #g <> id then 1 else 0 end )
and (#g := id) IS NOT NULL
Basically I ordered the result and then put a variable in order to get only the first record in each group.
The below query takes the first date for each work order (in a table of showing all status changes):
SELECT
WORKORDERNUM,
MIN(DATE)
FROM
WORKORDERS
WHERE
DATE >= to_date('2015-01-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
GROUP BY
WORKORDERNUM
select
department,
min_salary,
(select s1.last_name from staff s1 where s1.salary=s3.min_salary ) lastname
from
(select department, min (salary) min_salary from staff s2 group by s2.department) s3

Query to get all distinct lines adding a column indicating a sum of each duplicate

What I'm Looking for:
I need to have a list from SQL server getting all IDs, but each ID have multiples lines.
Some lines from each ID are systems update so do not need to take care about them in my query.
In another words:
I need to get the whole list, counting all lines that are not from system for each ID.
The Database its looks like below:
ID | linenumber| data, data, ... data|Requesto| data, data
1 | 1 |.....................|JUAN |...........
1 | 2 |.....................|SYSTEM |...........
2 | 1 |.....................|Matias |...........
2 | 2 |.....................|Matias |...........
2 | 3 |.....................|Matias |...........
And I need to get:
ID | CantRoWs |.....................|WHO is |...........
1 | 1 |.....................|JUAN |...........
2 | 3 |.....................|Matias |...........
I was thinking about using a temp query like below but it does not work.
with temp as
(
SELECT OVER (PARTITION BY szCID ORDER BY gdReceived desc) as RowNum,*
FROM TABLE1;
)
SELECT *, (Select count(szCID) from TABLE1 where szAccount <> 'system') AS Hits From temp
WHERE RowNum = 1
Any ideas?
I would suggest you start by using row_number() and count() inside the common table expression:
WITH temp
AS (
SELECT
*
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY szCID ORDER BY gdReceived DESC) AS RowNum
, COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY szCID) as hits
FROM TABLE1
WHERE szAccount <> 'system'
)
SELECT
*
FROM temp
WHERE RowNum = 1

Compare different orders of the same table

I have this following scenario, a table with these columns:
table_id|user_id|os_number|inclusion_date
In the system, the os_number is sequential for the users, but due to a system bug some users inserted OSs in wrong order. Something like this:
table_id | user_id | os_number | inclusion_date
-----------------------------------------------
1 | 1 | 1 | 2015-11-01
2 | 1 | 2 | 2015-11-02
3 | 1 | 3 | 2015-11-01
Note the os number 3 inserted before the os number 2
What I need:
Recover the table_id of the rows 2 and 3, which is out of order.
I have these two select that show me the table_id in two different orders:
select table_id from table order by user_id, os_number
select table_id from table order by user_id, inclusion_date
I can't figure out how can I compare these two selects and see which users are affected by this system bug.
Your question is a bit difficult because there is no correct ordering (as presented) -- because dates can have ties. So, use the rank() or dense_rank() function to compare the two values and return the ones that are not in the correct order:
select t.*
from (select t.*,
rank() over (partition by user_id order by inclusion_date) as seqnum_d,
rank() over (partition by user_id order by os_number) as seqnum_o
from t
) t
where seqnum_d <> seqnum_o;
Use row_number() over both orders:
select *
from (
select *,
row_number() over (order by os_number) rnn,
row_number() over (order by inclusion_date) rnd
from a_table
) s
where rnn <> rnd;
table_id | user_id | os_number | inclusion_date | rnn | rnd
----------+---------+-----------+----------------+-----+-----
3 | 1 | 3 | 2015-11-01 | 3 | 2
2 | 1 | 2 | 2015-11-02 | 2 | 3
(2 rows)
Not entirely sure about the performance on this but you could use a cross apply on the same table to get the results in one query. This will bring up the pairs of table_ids which are incorrect.
select
a.table_id as InsertedAfterTableId,
c.table_id as InsertedBeforeTableId
from table a
cross apply
(
select b.table_id
from table b
where b.inclusion_date < a.inclusion_date and b.os_number > a.os_number
) c
Both query examples given below simply check a mismatch between inclusion date and os_number:
This first query should return the offending row (the one whose os_number is off from its inclusion date)--in the case of the example row 3.
select table.table_id, table.user_id, table.os_number from table
where EXISTS(select * from table t
where t.user_id = table.user_id and
t.inclusion_date > table.inclusion_date and
t.os_number < table.os_number);
This second query will return the table numbers and users for two rows that are mismatched:
select first_table.table_id, second_table.table_id, first_table.user_id from
table first_table
JOIN table second_table
ON (first_table.user_id = second_table.user_id and
first_table.inclusion_date > second_table.inclusion_date and
first_table.os_number < second_table.os_number);
I would use WINDOW FUNCTIONS to get row numbers in orders in question and then compare them:
SELECT
sub.table_id,
sub.user_id,
sub.os_number,
sub.inclusion_date,
number_order_1, number_order_2
FROM (
SELECT
table_id,
user_id,
os_number,
inclusion_date,
row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY user_id
ORDER BY os_number
ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING
AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING
) AS number_order_1,
row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY user_id
ORDER BY inclusion_date
ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING
AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING
) AS number_order_2
FROM
table
) sub
WHERE
number_order_1 <> number_order_1
;
EDIT:
Because of a_horse_with_no_name made good point about my final answer. I've back to my first answer (look in edit history) which work also if os_number isn't gapless.
select *
from (
select a_table.*,
lag(inclusion_date) over (partition by user_id order by os_number) as last_date
from a_table
) result
where last_date is not null AND last_date>inclusion_date;
This should cover gaps as well as ties. Basically, I simply check the inclusion_date of the last os_number, and make sure it's not strictly greater than the current date (so 2 version on the same date is fine).

Group by minimum value in one field while selecting distinct rows

Here's what I'm trying to do. Let's say I have this table t:
key_id | id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
2 | 18 | 2012-05-19 | y
3 | 18 | 2012-08-09 | z
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
5 | 19 | 2011-04-03 | b
6 | 19 | 2011-10-25 | c
7 | 19 | 2012-08-09 | d
For each id, I want to select the row containing the minimum record_date. So I'd get:
key_id | id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
The only solutions I've seen to this problem assume that all record_date entries are distinct, but that is not this case in my data. Using a subquery and an inner join with two conditions would give me duplicate rows for some ids, which I don't want:
key_id | id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
5 | 19 | 2011-04-03 | b
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
How about something like:
SELECT mt.*
FROM MyTable mt INNER JOIN
(
SELECT id, MIN(record_date) AS MinDate
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY id
) t ON mt.id = t.id AND mt.record_date = t.MinDate
This gets the minimum date per ID, and then gets the values based on those values. The only time you would have duplicates is if there are duplicate minimum record_dates for the same ID.
I could get to your expected result just by doing this in mysql:
SELECT id, min(record_date), other_cols
FROM mytable
GROUP BY id
Does this work for you?
To get the cheapest product in each category, you use the MIN() function in a correlated subquery as follows:
SELECT categoryid,
productid,
productName,
unitprice
FROM products a WHERE unitprice = (
SELECT MIN(unitprice)
FROM products b
WHERE b.categoryid = a.categoryid)
The outer query scans all rows in the products table and returns the products that have unit prices match with the lowest price in each category returned by the correlated subquery.
I would like to add to some of the other answers here, if you don't need the first item but say the second number for example you can use rownumber in a subquery and base your result set off of that.
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT
ROW_NUM() OVER (PARTITION BY Id ORDER BY record_date, other_cols) as rownum,
*
FROM products P
) INNER
WHERE rownum = 2
This also allows you to order off multiple columns in the subquery which may help if two record_dates have identical values. You can also partition off of multiple columns if needed by delimiting them with a comma
This does it simply:
select t2.id,t2.record_date,t2.other_cols
from (select ROW_NUMBER() over(partition by id order by record_date)as rownum,id,record_date,other_cols from MyTable)t2
where t2.rownum = 1
If record_date has no duplicates within a group:
think of it as of filtering. Simpliy get (WHERE) one (MIN(record_date)) row from the current group:
SELECT * FROM t t1 WHERE record_date = (
select MIN(record_date)
from t t2 where t2.group_id = t1.group_id)
If there could be 2+ min record_date within a group:
filter out non-min rows (see above)
then (AND) pick only one from the 2+ min record_date rows, within the given group_id. E.g. pick the one with the min unique key:
AND key_id = (select MIN(key_id)
from t t3 where t3.record_date = t1.record_date
and t3.group_id = t1.group_id)
so
key_id | group_id | record_date | other_cols
1 | 18 | 2011-04-03 | x
4 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | a
8 | 19 | 2009-06-01 | e
will select key_ids: #1 and #4
SELECT p.* FROM tbl p
INNER JOIN(
SELECT t.id, MIN(record_date) AS MinDate
FROM tbl t
GROUP BY t.id
) t ON p.id = t.id AND p.record_date = t.MinDate
GROUP BY p.id
This code eliminates duplicate record_date in case there are same ids with same record_date.
If you want duplicates, remove the last line GROUP BY p.id.
This a old question, but this can useful for someone
In my case i can't using a sub query because i have a big query and i need using min() on my result, if i use sub query the db need reexecute my big query. i'm using Mysql
select t.*
from (select m.*, #g := 0
from MyTable m --here i have a big query
order by id, record_date) t
where (1 = case when #g = 0 or #g <> id then 1 else 0 end )
and (#g := id) IS NOT NULL
Basically I ordered the result and then put a variable in order to get only the first record in each group.
The below query takes the first date for each work order (in a table of showing all status changes):
SELECT
WORKORDERNUM,
MIN(DATE)
FROM
WORKORDERS
WHERE
DATE >= to_date('2015-01-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
GROUP BY
WORKORDERNUM
select
department,
min_salary,
(select s1.last_name from staff s1 where s1.salary=s3.min_salary ) lastname
from
(select department, min (salary) min_salary from staff s2 group by s2.department) s3

How do I write a query to delete duplicates in a table?

Given a table resembling this one, called VehicleUser:
VehicleUserId | VehicleId | UserId
1 | 1001 | 2
2 | 1001 | 2
3 | 1001 | 2
4 | 1001 | 3
5 | 1001 | 3
6 | 1001 | 3
How do I write a query that can delete the duplicates? row 2 and 3 are identical to row 1 except for a different VehicleUserId and rows 5 and 6 are identical to 4 except for a different VehicleUserId.
;with cte as (
select row_number() over
(partition by VehicleId, UserId order by VehicleUserId) as rn
from VehicleUser)
delete from cte
where rn > 1;
You could filter duplicates with a exists clause, like:
delete v1
from VehicleUser v1
where exists
(
select *
from VehicleUser v2
where v1.VehicleId = v2.VehicleId
and v1.UserId = v2.UserId
and v1.VehicleUserId > v2.VehicleUserId
)
Before you run this, check if it works by replacing the delete with a select:
select *
from VehicleUser v1
where exists
(
...
The rows that show up will be deleted.
here's your unique values:
select vehicleid, userid, min(vehicleuserid) as min_id
from vehicleuser
group by vehicleid, userid
you can put them in a new table before deleting anything to make sure you have what you want, then delete vehicleUser or use an outer join to delete rows from vehicleUser that aren't in the new table.
Debugging before deleting rows is safer.
I don't think you can do this purely in a single query.
I'd do a grouped query to find the duplicates, then iterate the results, deleting all but the first VehicleUserId row.
select VehicleId, UserId
from VehicleUser
group by VehicleId, UserId
having count(*) > 1
Will get you the VehicleId/UserId combinations for which there are duplicates.