I have a table A with ID's only and another table B with two columns, ID and Product Number. The ID column in table B has nulls and Product Number has Product Numbers. I would like to update table B with the ID's in column in no specific order just so that the Product Number has ID's.
I have tried to use update but that has not worked, have tried insert but it just adds the ID's in A to the bottom of the list in B. Would like to do this in Microsoft SQL.
SQL code tried:
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#ProductNum') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #ProductNum
SELECT ID
INTO #ProductNum
FROM Products
UPDATE [ProductCatalogue] PC
SET
PC.ID = Pn.ID
FROM #ProductNum Pn
INNER JOIN
[ProductCatalogue] PC
ON Pc.ID = Pn.ID
WHERE Pc.ID IS NULL
It sounds a lot like you would be better off having the ID-Column Autoincrement, instead of giving it the IDs from table A. This is already explained in this answer.
In case you actually need the specific IDs from table A, this SO thread might help you.
Solved the issue by creating auto increment columns on each table and called it Row_ID. Then I used Row_ID to join the tables together with some logic provided by #Chris above.
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I have a table called Target where I have 5 columns:
ProductLevel
ProductName
CustomerLevel
CustomerName
Target
In another table called Products I have 3 columns:
ProductId
ProductCategory
ProductBrand
In the 3rd table called Customer I have 3 columns:
CustomerID
CustomerName
SubCustomerName
Is there a way to do a dynamic join where I select the column I will use in the JOIN based on the value that I have in the 1st table?
Example: If in the first table I have Category in ProductLevel, I'll join the table product using ProductCategory field. If I have Brand, I'll join using ProductBrand... The same happens with Customer table.
PS: I'm looking for a way to create it dynamically in a way I can add new columns to that tables without changing my code, then in the future I can have ProductSegment column in Product Table and Segment as a value in ProductLevel in Target table.
Yes, like this:
SELECT * FROM
Target t
INNER JOIN
Product p
ON
(t.ProductLevel = 'Category' AND t.??? = p.ProductCategory)
OR
(t.ProductLevel = 'Brand' AND t.??? = p.ProductBrand)
You didn't say which column in Target holds your product category/brand hence the ??? in the query above. Replace ??? with something sensible
PS; you can't do as you ask in your PS, and even this structure above is an indicator that your data model is broken. You can at least put the code in for it now even if there are no rows with t.ProductLevel = 'Segment'
Don't expect this to perform well or scale.. You might be able to improve performance by doing it as a set of UNION queries rather than OR, but you may run into issues where indexes aren't used, crippling performance
Sorry if the title is a bit confusing... I'm trying to fix some data. Here goes the explanation:
Say I have two tables.
The first is a lookup table that is no longer in use.
The second has one varchar(50) column that sometimes has product names and
sometimes has product ids from the old lookup table.
The idea is to convert all the PID values in the Product table into the product names. Here's a pic i made up to help illustrate it:
The lookup table is much larger, that's just an example. So i'd guess it would be an update statement that would use the ProductsLookup.Name value if the Product value was found to be in the ProductsLookup.PID set? How would this look in SQL?
Thanks much for the help,
Carlos
You need to put inner join with both these tables "ProductsLookup" and "Products" on PID and Product column. But Product column in "Products" table is varchar so you have to apply ISNUMERIC function on this column to make sure that join works fine. below is example
UPDATE
P
SET
P.Product=PL.Name
FROM
Products P
INNER JOIN ProductsLookup PL ON PL.PID=CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(P.Product)=1 THEN P.Product ELSE -1 END
You can do this with an update and join:
update p
set product = pl.name
from products p join
productslookup pl
on pl.pid = p.id;
A left join is not needed, because you only need to update the values that match in the lookup table.
I will caution you that performance might be an issue. The problem is the types between the two tables -- presumably pid is a number not a string. If so, you can create a computed column to change the type and an index on that column.
I am trying to join two tables and update the results in the third table.
So table A is the results table and it has the columns customer number and score.
Table B has customer number and ind_code and table C has ind_code and ind_score.
So the output of the query should be such that the ind_code in table B and C should join together based on the first two digits and ind_score should be updated in Table A in the score column. Table A and Table B should be joined on the basis of customer number.
Could anyone please help. I tried multiple queries but nothing seems to work. i am using oracle sql developer
Generally, the JOIN operation mustn't cut field information but if your structure (for me not correct) is that ...
If I understand better:
UPDATE TableA
SET score =
(SELECT MAX(C.ind_score)
FROM TableC C
JOIN TableB B
ON C.ind_code = SUBSTRING(B.ind_code, 1, 2)
WHERE B.customernumber = TableA.customernumber)
I use on subquery MAX aggregate function, because I don't know if your cut of ind_code of TableB can be not unique (i.e. you have ind_code 5555 and 5554)
I have a table I need to update the price field in. I need to update this field from a different price field from a different table. The only way I can get to the required table for the update is by joining another table into this query.
So in all I need to join 3 tables in the update.
Table A has the price field that needs to be updated. In this table I have the foreign key of the product.
Table A structure
-PK_TABLE_A,
-FK_TABLE_B,
-ITEM_COST,
-ITEM_PRICE (needs to be updated from Table C)
Table B is the product table which has the PK of the product. This table is used to access Table C.
I also need to filter Table B to only update a certain stock type.
Table B structure
-PK_TABLE_B,
-FK_TABLE_C,
-DESCRIPTION,
-QUANTITY,
-ITEM_TYPE (a string that needs to be added in where clause to only update records with certain type).
Table C has a foreign key back to Table B. It also contains the price field that I need to use to update the price field in table A
Table C structure
-PK_TABLE_C,
-FK_TABLE_B,
-PRICE (this is the field that I need to use to update the price field in table A)
-USED_DATE,
-ID
The DBMS I am using is Firebird.
I have tried to use sub queries to no avail. I regularly use a sub-select when using two tables to update, so something like
UPDATE table1 AS t1
SET t1.FK = (select table2.PK
FROM table2 INNER JOIN
table1
ON table2.FK = table2.PK
WHERE table2.name = t1.name)
I'm just struggling to use the same technique with a 3rd table incorporated.
I am not even sure if this is the correct way to go about this situation. I have looked on google, but most examples I have come across don't utilise the 3rd table.
Any help would be appreciated.
**edited to included more detail on table structure.
are you able to show us the table structures in more detail?
if both tableA and tableC have a foreign key that points back to tableB I don't think you need to include a three table join. you just need to
update tableA set ITEM_PRICE = SELECT(PRICE FROM TableC WHERE
TableA.FK_TABLE_B = TableC.FK_TABLE_B;
unless I'm missing something?
edited to reflect a better understanding of the problem
alright, I think I've got it this time:
update tableA set price =
(select price from tableC where tableA.fk_tableB = tableC.fk_tableB) where
(Select item_type from tableB where tableB.pk_tableB = tableA.fk_tableB) =
'$itemTypeVariable';
edited again with a better understanding of the problem
my table contains category_name and parent_category_Id column
My parent_category data contains, the same table primary key id.
i need to select the all rows and insted my parent_category_Id i need to select the catogry_name
I think this is what you're after, though it's hard to discern from the question:
Select c.*
From category c
Join parent_category pc ON c.parent_category_id = pc.id
Where pc.category_name = 'Some Name'
Try something like:
SELECT c.category_name, p.category_name
FROM categories c LEFT JOIN parent_categories p
ON c.parent_id = p.id
PS: you may think about restructuring your database, it would make more sense to store all the categories in the same table. See for instance: http://mikehillyer.com/articles/managing-hierarchical-data-in-mysql/
You should restructure your database to have one table with:
id, name, and parent columns, with the parent column referencing the same table's id column. Your current database is not normalized and will likely cause issues in the future.
At a minimum you should have an auto_increment id column in the categories table.
The other answers here are correct (depending on the SQL server you are using).