query SQL table for the same data in column for 3 times in a row - sql

Question

I have a table
Id, Response
1, Yes
2, Yes
3, No
4, No
5, Yes
6, No
7, No
8, No
I would like to be able to query the table and check for the response of No and if it occurs 3 times in a row return a value.
So I am trying
select count(response) where response = no
order by id
Basically, the theory goes, if there are 3 responses of No, I want to trigger something else to happen. So I need to query the table each time an entry is made, and if the last 3 entries are no then return value.
I only want to know if the latest values are 3 no. for example if the last 4 entries were no, no, no, yes - I don't care as there is a yes value
so the last 3 values have to be no

Answer 1

I don't know which RDBMS you use, but you can try something like that:
select count(*)
from
(select id,
response
from your_table
order by id desc
limit 3) t
where t.response = 'No';

Answer 2

Here is a solution in Bigquery. You may need to tweak the syntax for you SQL base:
SELECT
* ,
SUM( CASE WHEN response ="No" THEN 1 ELSE 0 END )
OVER (ORDER BY id RANGE BETWEEN 2 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)
FROM dataset
It returns output like this:
Which I think is what you want.
The key part is the window functions using RANGE BETWEEN 2 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW. The case statement is checking if the current row and the 2 before are "No". If they are return a 1. So when three in a row occur this will SUM to 3.

Answer 3

I would use two lag()s:
select t.*
from (select t.*,
lag(id, 2) over (order by id) as prev2_id,
lag(id, 2) over (order by id) as prev2_id_response
from t
) t
where response = 'no' and prev2_id = prev2_id_response;
The first lag() determines the id "2 back". The second determines the id "2 back" for the same response. If the response is the same for those three rows, then these are the same.
This returns each occurrence of "no" where this occurs. You can use exists if you just want to know if this ever occurs.

Answer 4

This can be done with window functions and a derived table or CTE term. The following takes you through how it can be done, step by step:
Full Example with data
WITH cte1 AS (
SELECT x.*
, CASE WHEN COALESCE(LAG(response) OVER (ORDER BY id), 'NA') <> response THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS edge
FROM xlogs AS x
)
, cte2 AS (
SELECT x.*
, SUM(edge) OVER (ORDER BY id) AS xgroup
FROM cte1 AS x
)
, cte3 AS (
SELECT x.*
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY xgroup ORDER BY id) AS xposition
FROM cte2 AS x
)
, cte4 AS (
SELECT x.*
, CASE WHEN xposition >= 3 AND response = 'No' THEN 1 END AS xtrigger
FROM cte3 AS x
)
, cte5 AS (
SELECT x.*
FROM cte4 AS x
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1
)
SELECT *
FROM cte5
WHERE response = 'No'
;
The result of cte4 provides useful detail about the logic:
+----+----------+------+--------+-----------+----------+
| id | response | edge | xgroup | xposition | xtrigger |
+----+----------+------+--------+-----------+----------+
| 1 | Yes | 1 | 1 | 1 | NULL |
| 2 | Yes | 0 | 1 | 2 | NULL |
| 3 | No | 1 | 2 | 1 | NULL |
| 4 | No | 0 | 2 | 2 | NULL |
| 5 | Yes | 1 | 3 | 1 | NULL |
| 6 | No | 1 | 4 | 1 | NULL |
| 7 | No | 0 | 4 | 2 | NULL |
| 8 | No | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
+----+----------+------+--------+-----------+----------+