Find last job change date with JOB_TITLE and EVENT_DATE - sql

Question

Hi I am working in an Azure Databricks and I am looking for a SQL query solution.
Assuming that my db has five columns:
ID
EVENT_DATE
JOB_TITLE
PAY
12345
2021-01-01
VP1
100,000
12345
2020-01-10
VP1
90,000
12345
2019-01-20
Analyst1
80,000
12346
2021-02-01
VP2
200,000
12346
2020-02-10
Analyst2
150,000
12346
2020-01-20
Analyst2
110,000
Basically I want the EVENT_DATE when JOB_TITLE changed the last time. This is my desired output:
ID
JOB_TITLE
PAY
LAST_JOB_CHANGE_DATE
12345
VP1
90,000
2021-01-10
12346
VP2
200,000
2021-02-01
For the last column LAST_JOB_CHANGE_DATE, we are pulling from the 2nd and 4th row of the table because that's the date when they changed job the last time.
Thank you!

Answer 1

You can just use INNER JOIN to accomplish that, ie
%sql
SELECT a.*
FROM yourTable a
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT id, MAX(event_date) event_date
FROM yourTable b
GROUP BY id
) b ON a.id = b.id
AND a.event_date = b.event_date
The ROW_NUMBER approach would also work well:
%sql
WITH cte AS
(
SELECT
ROW_NUMBER() OVER( PARTITION BY id ORDER BY event_date DESC ) AS rn,
*
FROM yourTable a
)
SELECT *
FROM cte
WHERE rn = 1
My results:

Answer 2

There's probably a simpler solution for this but the following should work.
I'm assuming you wanted the MOST resent job change for each employee. To illustrate this, I added an extra row for an Engineer1. The ROW_NUMBER() window function helps us with this.
ID
EVENT_DATE
JOB_TITLE
PAY
12345
2021-01-01
VP1
100,000
12345
2020-01-10
VP1
90,000
12345
2019-01-20
Analyst1
80,000
12345
2018-01-04
Engineer1
75,000
12346
2021-02-01
VP2
200,000
12346
2020-02-10
Analyst2
150,000
12346
2020-01-20
Analyst2
110,000
Here is the query:
SELECT <---- (4)
c.ID,
c.JOB_TITLE,
c.PAY,
c.last_job_change_date
FROM
(
SELECT <---- (3)
b.ID,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY b.ID ORDER BY b.last_job_change_date DESC) AS row_id,
b.JOB_TITLE,
b.PAY,
b.last_job_change_date
FROM
(
SELECT <---- (2)
a.ID,
a.JOB_TITLE,
a.PAY,
a.EVENT_DATE as last_job_change_date
FROM
(
SELECT <---- (1)
ID,
EVENT_DATE,
PAY,
JOB_TITLE,
LEAD(JOB_TITLE, 1) OVER (
PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY EVENT_DATE DESC) job_change
FROM yourtable
) a
WHERE JOB_TITLE <> job_change
) b
) c
WHERE row_id = 1
I used a 4 step process and annotated the query with each step:
Returns a table with a column for the subsequent job title (ordered by most recent title) of each employee.
Returns the table from (1) but removes rows where the employee did not change their job
Add row numbers so we can get the most recent job change of each employee
Return most recent job changes for each employee