Group items by 2 columns - sql

Let's say we have a Sqlite table containing:
name;city;age;id
Alice;New-York;25;13782749
Eve;Chicago;23;1938679
Bob;New-York;25;824697624
How to group by h=CONCAT(city,age):
h;name;id
group1;Alice;13782749
group1;Bob;824697624
group2;Eve;1938679
Instead of group1, group2, it's ok to have 1, 2, or even a hash f68ac46, c3155a0 for each group.
The closest I could get is:
select (city||age) as h, * from mytable order by h;
but I'd like a group number or a hash instead, and not display city||age (which in my real case can be long).

You could enumerate the groups using dense_rank():
select dense_rank() over (order by city, age) as grpnum, name, id
from t;

Related

Filter by number of occurrences in a SQL Table

Given the following table where the Name value might be repeated in multiple rows:
How can we determine how many times a Name value exists in the table and can we filter on names that have a specific number of occurrances.
For instance, how can I filter this table to show only names that appear twice?
You can use group by and having to exhibit names that appear twice in the table:
select name, count(*) cnt
from mytable
group by name
having count(*) = 2
Then if you want the overall count of names that appear twice, you can add another level of aggregation:
select count(*) cnt
from (
select name
from mytable
group by name
having count(*) = 2
) t
It sounds like you're looking for a histogram of the frequency of name counts. Something like this
with counts_cte(name, cnt) as (
select name, count(*)
from mytable
group by name)
select cnt, count(*) num_names
from counts_cte
group by cnt
order by 2 desc;
You need to use a GROUP BY clause to find counts of name repeated as
select name, count(*) AS Repeated
from Your_Table_Name
group by name;
If You want to show only those Which are repeated more than one times. Then use the below query which will show those occurrences which are there more than one times.
select name, count(*) AS Repeated
from Your_Table_Name
group by name having count(*) > 1;

Nested partitioning and ranking in google big query

Below is how the data looks like-
I want to sort this data on different levels to achieve the final output.
Level 1:
Whenever there are duplicate values for name, I want to get the least ranking for each distinct (id, name,last_name, gender) tuple.
Level 1 Result:
Level 2:
In level 2, I want to get the least ranking for each gender category for a particular name.
Level 2 Result:
Final output:
For each name, if 'male' and 'female' rank is the same then return the whichever occurs first in the table. If it is different return the record with the least rank.
Final result expected-
Below is for BigQuery Standard SQL
#standardSQL
SELECT AS VALUE ARRAY_AGG(t ORDER BY ranking, id LIMIT 1)[OFFSET(0)]
FROM `project.dataset.table` t
GROUP BY name
I do suspect that you can just partition by name:
select *
from (
select
t.*,
row_number() over(partition by name order by ranking, id) rn
from mytable t
) t
where rn = 1
The second sort criteria on id breaks the tie.

sql query finding most often level appear

I have a table Student in SQL Server with these columns:
[ID], [Age], [Level]
I want the query that returns each age value that appears in Students, and finds the level value that appears most often. For example, if there are more 'a' level students aged 18 than 'b' or 'c' it should print the pair (18, a).
I am new to SQL Server and I want a simple answer with nested query.
You can do this using window functions:
select t.*
from (select age, level, count(*) as cnt,
row_number() over (partition by age order by count(*) desc) as seqnum
from student s
group by age, level
) t
where seqnum = 1;
The inner query aggregates the data to count the number of levels for each age. The row_number() enumerates these for each age (the partition by with the largest first). The where clause then chooses the highest values.
In the case of ties, this returns just one of the values. If you want all of them, use rank() instead of row_number().
One more option with ROW_NUMBER ranking function in the ORDER BY clause. WITH TIES used when you want to return two or more rows that tie for last place in the limited results set.
SELECT TOP 1 WITH TIES age, level
FROM dbo.Student
GROUP BY age, level
ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY age ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC)
Or the second version of the query using amount each pair of age and level, and max values of count pair age and level per age.
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT age, level, COUNT(*) AS cnt,
MAX(COUNT(*)) OVER(PARTITION BY age) AS mCnt
FROM dbo.Student
GROUP BY age, level
)x
WHERE x.cnt = x.mCnt
Demo on SQLFiddle
Another option but will require later version of sql-server:
;WITH x AS
(
SELECT age,
level,
occurrences = COUNT(*)
FROM Student
GROUP BY age,
level
)
SELECT *
FROM x x
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM x y
WHERE x.occurrences > y.occurrences
)
I realise it doesn't quite answer the question as it only returns the age/level combinations where there are more than one level for the age.
Maybe someone can help to amend it so it includes the single level ages aswell in the result set: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/d597b/9
with combinations as (
select age, level, count(*) occurrences
from Student
group by age, level
)
select age, level
from combinations c
where occurrences = (select max(occurrences)
from combinations
where age = c.age)
This finds every age and level combination in the Students table and counts the number of occurrences of each level.
Then, for each age/level combination, find the one whose occurrences are the highest for that age/level combination. Return the age and level for that row.
This has the advantage of not being tied to SQL Server - it's vanilla SQL. However, a window function like Gordon pointed out may perform better on SQL Server.

Group by every N records in T-SQL

I have some performance test results on the database, and what I want to do is to group every 1000 records (previously sorted in ascending order by date) and then aggregate results with AVG.
I'm actually looking for a standard SQL solution, however any T-SQL specific results are also appreciated.
The query looks like this:
SELECT TestId,Throughput FROM dbo.Results ORDER BY id
WITH T AS (
SELECT RANK() OVER (ORDER BY ID) Rank,
P.Field1, P.Field2, P.Value1, ...
FROM P
)
SELECT (Rank - 1) / 1000 GroupID, AVG(...)
FROM T
GROUP BY ((Rank - 1) / 1000)
;
Something like that should get you started. If you can provide your actual schema I can update as appropriate.
Give the answer to Yuck. I only post as an answer so I could include a code block. I did a count test to see if it was grouping by 1000 and the first set was 999. This produced set sizes of 1,000. Great query Yuck.
WITH T AS (
SELECT RANK() OVER (ORDER BY sID) Rank, sID
FROM docSVsys
)
SELECT (Rank-1) / 1000 GroupID, count(sID)
FROM T
GROUP BY ((Rank-1) / 1000)
order by GroupID
I +1'd #Yuck, because I think that is a good answer. But it's worth mentioning NTILE().
Reason being, if you have 10,010 records (for example), then you'll have 11 groupings -- the first 10 with 1000 in them, and the last with just 10.
If you're comparing averages between each group of 1000, then you should either discard the last group as it's not a representative group, or...you could make all the groups the same size.
NTILE() would make all groups the same size; the only caveat is that you'd need to know how many groups you wanted.
So if your table had 25,250 records, you'd use NTILE(25), and your groupings would be approximately 1000 in size -- they'd actually be 1010 in size; the benefit being, they'd all be the same size, which might make them more relevant to each other in terms of whatever comparison analysis you're doing.
You could get your group-size simply by
DECLARE #ntile int
SET #ntile = (SELECT count(1) from myTable) / 1000
And then modifying #Yuck's approach with the NTILE() substitution:
;WITH myCTE AS (
SELECT NTILE(#ntile) OVER (ORDER BY id) myGroup,
col1, col2, ...
FROM dbo.myTable
)
SELECT myGroup, col1, col2...
FROM myCTE
GROUP BY (myGroup), col1, col2...
;
Answer above does not actually assign a unique group id to each 1000 records. Adding Floor() is needed. The following will return all records from your table, with a unique GroupID for each 1000 rows:
WITH T AS (
SELECT RANK() OVER (ORDER BY your_field) Rank,
your_field
FROM your_table
WHERE your_field = 'your_criteria'
)
SELECT Floor((Rank-1) / 1000) GroupID, your_field
FROM T
And for my needs, I wanted my GroupID to be a random set of characters, so I changed the Floor(...) GroupID to:
TO_HEX(SHA256(CONCAT(CAST(Floor((Rank-1) / 10) AS STRING),'seed1'))) GroupID
without the seed value, you and I would get the exact same output because we're just doing a SHA256 on the number 1, 2, 3 etc. But adding the seed makes the output unique, but still repeatable.
This is BigQuery syntax. T-SQL might be slightly different.
Lastly, if you want to leave off the last chunk that is not a full 1000, you can find it by doing:
WITH T AS (
SELECT RANK() OVER (ORDER BY your_field) Rank,
your_field
FROM your_table
WHERE your_field = 'your_criteria'
)
SELECT Floor((Rank-1) / 1000) GroupID, your_field
, COUNT(*) OVER(PARTITION BY TO_HEX(SHA256(CONCAT(CAST(Floor((Rank-1) / 1000) AS STRING),'seed1')))) AS CountInGroup
FROM T
ORDER BY CountInGroup
You can also use Row_Number() instead of rank. No Floor required.
declare #groupsize int = 50
;with ct1 as ( select YourColumn, RowID = Row_Number() over(order by YourColumn)
from YourTable
)
select YourColumn, RowID, GroupID = (RowID-1)/#GroupSize + 1
from ct1
I read more about NTILE after reading #user15481328 answer
(resource: https://www.sqlservertutorial.net/sql-server-window-functions/sql-server-ntile-function/ )
and this solution allowed me to find the max date within each of the 25 groups of my data set:
with cte as (
select date,
NTILE(25) OVER ( order by date ) bucket_num
from mybigdataset
)
select max(date), bucket_num
from cte
group by bucket_num
order by bucket_num

How do I use ROW_NUMBER()?

I want to use the ROW_NUMBER() to get...
To get the max(ROW_NUMBER()) --> Or i guess this would also be the count of all rows
I tried doing:
SELECT max(ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId)) FROM Users
but it didn't seem to work...
To get ROW_NUMBER() using a given piece of information, ie. if I have a name and I want to know what row the name came from.
I assume it would be something similar to what I tried for #1
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) From Users WHERE UserName='Joe'
but this didn't work either...
Any Ideas?
For the first question, why not just use?
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM myTable
to get the count.
And for the second question, the primary key of the row is what should be used to identify a particular row. Don't try and use the row number for that.
If you returned Row_Number() in your main query,
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (Order by Id) AS RowNumber, Field1, Field2, Field3
FROM User
Then when you want to go 5 rows back then you can take the current row number and use the following query to determine the row with currentrow -5
SELECT us.Id
FROM (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY id) AS Row, Id
FROM User ) us
WHERE Row = CurrentRow - 5
Though I agree with others that you could use count() to get the total number of rows, here is how you can use the row_count():
To get the total no of rows:
with temp as (
select row_number() over (order by id) as rownum
from table_name
)
select max(rownum) from temp
To get the row numbers where name is Matt:
with temp as (
select name, row_number() over (order by id) as rownum
from table_name
)
select rownum from temp where name like 'Matt'
You can further use min(rownum) or max(rownum) to get the first or last row for Matt respectively.
These were very simple implementations of row_number(). You can use it for more complex grouping. Check out my response on Advanced grouping without using a sub query
If you need to return the table's total row count, you can use an alternative way to the SELECT COUNT(*) statement.
Because SELECT COUNT(*) makes a full table scan to return the row count, it can take very long time for a large table. You can use the sysindexes system table instead in this case. There is a ROWS column that contains the total row count for each table in your database. You can use the following select statement:
SELECT rows FROM sysindexes WHERE id = OBJECT_ID('table_name') AND indid < 2
This will drastically reduce the time your query takes.
You can use this for get first record where has clause
SELECT TOP(1) * , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) AS rownum
FROM Users
WHERE UserName = 'Joe'
ORDER BY rownum ASC
ROW_NUMBER() returns a unique number for each row starting with 1. You can easily use this by simply writing:
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY 'Column_Name' DESC) as ROW_NUMBER
May not be related to the question here. But I found it could be useful when using ROW_NUMBER -
SELECT *,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 100)) AS Any_ID
FROM #Any_Table
select
Ml.Hid,
ml.blockid,
row_number() over (partition by ml.blockid order by Ml.Hid desc) as rownumber,
H.HNAME
from MIT_LeadBechmarkHamletwise ML
join [MT.HAMLE] h on ML.Hid=h.HID
SELECT num, UserName FROM
(SELECT UserName, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) AS num
From Users) AS numbered
WHERE UserName='Joe'
You can use Row_Number for limit query result.
Example:
SELECT * FROM (
select row_number() OVER (order by createtime desc) AS ROWINDEX,*
from TABLENAME ) TB
WHERE TB.ROWINDEX between 0 and 10
--
With above query, I will get PAGE 1 of results from TABLENAME.
If you absolutely want to use ROW_NUMBER for this (instead of count(*)) you can always use:
SELECT TOP 1 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Id)
FROM USERS
ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Id) DESC
Need to create virtual table by using WITH table AS, which is mention in given Query.
By using this virtual table, you can perform CRUD operation w.r.t row_number.
QUERY:
WITH table AS
-
(SELECT row_number() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) rn, * FROM Users)
-
SELECT * FROM table WHERE UserName='Joe'
-
You can use INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE in last sentence by in spite of SELECT.
SQL Row_Number() function is to sort and assign an order number to data rows in related record set. So it is used to number rows, for example to identify the top 10 rows which have the highest order amount or identify the order of each customer which is the highest amount, etc.
If you want to sort the dataset and number each row by seperating them into categories we use Row_Number() with Partition By clause. For example, sorting orders of each customer within itself where the dataset contains all orders, etc.
SELECT
SalesOrderNumber,
CustomerId,
SubTotal,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY CustomerId ORDER BY SubTotal DESC) rn
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader
But as I understand you want to calculate the number of rows of grouped by a column. To visualize the requirement, if you want to see the count of all orders of the related customer as a seperate column besides order info, you can use COUNT() aggregation function with Partition By clause
For example,
SELECT
SalesOrderNumber,
CustomerId,
COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY CustomerId) CustomerOrderCount
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader
This query:
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY UserId) From Users WHERE UserName='Joe'
will return all rows where the UserName is 'Joe' UNLESS you have no UserName='Joe'
They will be listed in order of UserID and the row_number field will start with 1 and increment however many rows contain UserName='Joe'
If it does not work for you then your WHERE command has an issue OR there is no UserID in the table. Check spelling for both fields UserID and UserName.