coming back with a new question concerning SQL (Server 2016 or above).
I have a data view with 5 fields like:
ID_Card | ID_Name| ID_Details | ID_Date |ID_Validation
12345 Joe C30,C40,C50,C60 20.11.20 YES
Now I want to give out some information for ID_Details. If C30 is in the ID_Details, I want to give out some text like "Further information needed", for C40 for example I want to give out "No updates present". and so on. The Details list is limited to 5 entrys, which must not be present. The list is separated in the ID_Details field with an comma.
Thanks in advance!
Below is an example using a CASE expression with a STRING_SPLIT subquery. A better solution would be database design in (at least) first normal form.
SELECT
ID_Card
,ID_Name
,ID_Details
,ID_Date
,ID_Validation
, CASE WHEN EXISTS(
SELECT 1
WHERE 'C40' IN(
SELECT value
FROM STRING_SPLIT(ID_DETAILS,',')))
THEN 'Further information needed' END AS SomeText
FROM dbo.Example;
Related
Update: 1,2,3 are just examples it can also be 4,24,53
I have the following setup:
I store Data in BigQuery and use BigQuery as data source for my Data Studio project.
I have a column called Alarms and the data inside that column is as follow: it can be empty or 1 or 1,2 or 1,2,3 or 5,43,60 and so on. If it's empty or has 1 value then there is nothing to worry about, but if there are 2 or more values I have to do something.
name
Alarm
Mark
John
1
Eddie
1,2
Peter
1,2,3
What I need is to be able to put every value in a separate column or create a dropdown or something.
For example something like the table below or two drop down menus one to select the name and the other shows the alarms. (I prefer the drop downs).
name
Alarm
Mark
John
1
Eddie
1
2
Peter
1
2
3
Here I select Peter and the alarm drop down shows 3 alarms. or for Eddie it just shows 2 alarms and so on.
I read something about regex but I don't really understand how to put it to the test.
I found this online: (.+?)(?:,|$) but I don't know how to capture the output.
What I need is to be able to put every value in a separate column
Consider below approach
select * from (
select * except(alarm)
from your_table,
unnest(split(alarm)) flag with offset
)
pivot (min(flag) as alarm for offset in (0,1,2,3,4))
If applied to sample data in your question -output is
I have a quick question regarding writing a SQL query to obtain a complete entry from two or more entries where the data is missing in different columns.
This is the example, suppose I have this table:
Client Id | Name | Email
1234 | John | (null)
1244 | (null) | john#example.com
Would it be possible to write a query that would return the following?
Client Id | Name | Email
1234 | John | john#example.com
I am finding this particularly hard because these are 2 entires in the same table.
I apologize if this is trivial, I am still studying SQL and learning, but I wasn't able to come up with a solution for this and I although I've tried looking online I couldn't phrase the question in the proper way, I suppose and I couldn't really find the answer I was after.
Many thanks in advance for the help!
Yes, but actually no.
It is possible to write a query that works with your example data.
But just under the assumption that the first part of the mail is always equal to the name.
SELECT clients.id,clients.name,bclients.email FROM clients
JOIN clients bclients ON upper(clients.name) = upper(substring(bclients.email from 0 for position('#' in bclients.email)));
db<>fiddle
Explanation:
We join the table onto itself, to get the information into one row.
For this we first search for the position of the '#' in the email, get the substring from the start (0) of the string for the amount of characters until we hit the # (result of positon).
To avoid case-problems the name and substring are cast to uppercase for comparsion.
(lowercase would work the same)
The design is flawed
How can a client have multiple ids and different kind of information about the same user at the same time?
I think you want to split the table between clients and users, so that a user can have multiple clients.
I recommend that you read information about database normalization as this provides you with necessary knowledge for successfull database design.
I have an unusual question that seems simple but has me stumped in a SQL Server stored procedure.
I have 2 tables as described below.
tblMaster
ID, CommitDate, SubUser, OrigFileName
Sample data
ID CommitDate SubUser OrigFileName
----------------------------------------
1 2014-10-07 Test1 Test1.pdf
2 2014-10-08 Test2 Test2.pdf
3 2014-10-09 Test3 Test3.pdf
The above table is basically the header table that tracks the committed files. In addition to this, we have a details table with the following structure.
tblIndex
ID, FileID (Linking column to the header row described above), Word
Sample data:
1. 1, 1, Oil
2. 2, 1, oil
3. 3, 2, oil
4. 4, 2, tank
5. 5, 3, tank
The above rows represent the words that we want to search on and if a certain criteria matches return the corresponding filename/header row ID. What I would love to figure out to do is if I do a search for
One word (i.e. "oil"), then the system should respond with all the files that meet the criteria (easiest case and figured out)
If more than one word is searched for (i.e. "oil" and "tank"), then we should only see the second file since it is the only one that has both oil and tank as its key words.
Tried using a LIKE "%oil%" AND LIKE "%tank%" and that resulted in no rows being created since one value can't be both oil and tank.
Tried doing a LIKE "%oil%" OR LIKE "%tank%" but I get files 1, 2, and 3 since the OR is inclusive of all the other rows.
One last thing, I recognize I could just do a search for the first term and then save the results into a temp table and then search for the second term in that second table and I will get what I am looking for. The problem with that is that I don't exactly know how many items will be searched for. I don't want to have to create a structure where I am constantly having to store data into another temp table if someone does a search for 6 "keywords".
Any help/ideas will be much appreciated.
try this ! slightly differing from the previous answer
SELECT distinct FileID,COUNT(distinct t.word) FROM tblIndex t
WHERE t.Word LIKE '%oil%' OR t.Word LIKE '%tank%'
GROUP BY FileID
HAVING COUNT(distinct t.word) > 1
One simple option would be to do something like this :
SELECT FileID
FROM tblIndex t
WHERE t.Word LIKE '%oil%' OR t.Word LIKE '%tank%'
GROUP BY FileID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
This assume you do not have duplicate in your tblIndex.
I'm also unsure whether you really need the like or not. According to your sample data you don't, a basic comparison would be way more efficient and would avoid possible collisions.
In the report I'm working with, I need to display information of four columns of a database table. The first three columns of the table are SEX, AGE and NAME. The other N columns (N being like 100!) are questions, with every line of the table meaning that person's answer to that question:
SEX | AGE | NAME | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ... | Q100
In my report, I need to show four of these columns, where the first three are always the same and the fourth column varies according to the option selected by the user:
SEX | AGE | NAME | <QUESTION_COLUMN>
So far I've created a dropdown parameter (filled with "Q1", "Q2", "Q3", etc) where the user can select the question he wants to compare. I've tried to use the value of the selected option (for instance, "Q1") in the SELECT clause of my report query, without success:
SELECT sex, age, name, ${QUESTION} FROM user_answers
Pentaho Report Designer doesn't show any errors with that, it simply doesn't show any values for the question column (the other columns - sex, age and name - always return their values)
So, I would like your know:
Can I do this? I mean, use parameters in the SELECT clause?
Is there any other way have this "wildcard" column according to a parameter?
Thanks in advance!
Bruno Gama
you can use the pentaho report design to design.
First,you must bulid the param "QUESTION"on the paramers
eg: SELECT question FROM user_ansewers order by XXXX
you can use the sql
SELECT sex, age, name,question FROM user_answers
where question= ${QUESTION}
last ,you can see the "drop down" to realized the choose
I am using SQL server as database. This problem solves like this :
execute('SELECT sex, age, name, '+${QUESTION}+' as Q1 FROM user_answers')
Please note that ${QUESTION} must be a column name of user_answers. In this example I used a text box parameter name QUESTION where column name is given as input. You may need other coding if input parameter is not text box.
I've been beating my head on the desk trying to figure this one out. I have a table that stores job information, and reasons for a job not being completed. The reasons are numeric,01,02,03,etc. You can have two reasons for a pending job. If you select two reasons, they are stored in the same column, separated by a comma. This is an example from the JOBID table:
Job_Number User_Assigned PendingInfo
1 user1 01,02
There is another table named Pending, that stores what those values actually represent. 01=Not enough info, 02=Not enough time, 03=Waiting Review. Example:
Pending_Num PendingWord
01 Not Enough Info
02 Not Enough Time
What I'm trying to do is query the database to give me all the job numbers, users, pendinginfo, and pending reason. I can break out the first value, but can't figure out how to do the second. What my limited skills have so far:
select Job_number,user_assigned,SUBSTRING(pendinginfo,0,3),pendingword
from jobid,pending
where
SUBSTRING(pendinginfo,0,3)=pending.pending_num and
pendinginfo!='00,00' and
pendinginfo!='NULL'
What I would like to see for this example would be:
Job_Number User_Assigned PendingInfo PendingWord PendingInfo PendingWord
1 User1 01 Not Enough Info 02 Not Enough Time
Thanks in advance
You really shouldn't store multiple items in one column if your SQL is ever going to want to process them individually. The "SQL gymnastics" you have to perform in those cases are both ugly hacks and performance degraders.
The ideal solution is to split the individual items into separate columns and, for 3NF, move those columns to a separate table as rows if you really want to do it properly (but baby steps are probably okay if you're sure there will never be more than two reasons in the short-medium term).
Then your queries will be both simpler and faster.
However, if that's not an option, you can use the afore-mentioned SQL gymnastics to do something like:
where find ( ',' |fld| ',', ',02,' ) > 0
assuming your SQL dialect has a string search function (find in this case, but I think charindex for SQLServer).
This will ensure all sub-columns begin and start with a comma (comma plus field plus comma) and look for a specific desired value (with the commas on either side to ensure it's a full sub-column match).
If you can't control what the application puts in that column, I would opt for the DBA solution - DBA solutions are defined as those a DBA has to do to work around the inadequacies of their users :-).
Create two new columns in that table and make an insert/update trigger which will populate them with the two reasons that a user puts into the original column.
Then query those two new columns for specific values rather than trying to split apart the old column.
This means that the cost of splitting is only on row insert/update, not on _every single select`, amortising that cost efficiently.
Still, my answer is to re-do the schema. That will be the best way in the long term in terms of speed, readable queries and maintainability.
I hope you are just maintaining the code and it's not a brand new implementation.
Please consider to use a different approach using a support table like this:
JOBS TABLE
jobID | userID
--------------
1 | user13
2 | user32
3 | user44
--------------
PENDING TABLE
pendingID | pendingText
---------------------------
01 | Not Enough Info
02 | Not Enough Time
---------------------------
JOB_PENDING TABLE
jobID | pendingID
-----------------
1 | 01
1 | 02
2 | 01
3 | 03
3 | 01
-----------------
You can easily query this tables using JOIN or subqueries.
If you need retro-compatibility on your software you can add a view to reach this goal.
I have a tables like:
Events
---------
eventId int
eventTypeIds nvarchar(50)
...
EventTypes
--------------
eventTypeId
Description
...
Each Event can have multiple eventtypes specified.
All I do is write 2 procedures in my site code, not SQL code
One procedure converts the table field (eventTypeIds) value like "3,4,15,6" into a ViewState array, so I can use it any where in code.
This procedure does the opposite it collects any options your checked and converts it in
If changing the schema is an option (which it probably should be) shouldn't you implement a many-to-many relationship here so that you have a bridging table between the two items? That way, you would store the number and its wording in one table, jobs in another, and "failure reasons for jobs" in the bridging table...
Have a look at a similar question I answered here
;WITH Numbers AS
(
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 0)) AS N
FROM JobId
),
Split AS
(
SELECT JOB_NUMBER, USER_ASSIGNED, SUBSTRING(PENDING_INFO, Numbers.N, CHARINDEX(',', PENDING_INFO + ',', Numbers.N) - Numbers.N) AS PENDING_NUM
FROM JobId
JOIN Numbers ON Numbers.N <= DATALENGTH(PENDING_INFO) + 1
AND SUBSTRING(',' + PENDING_INFO, Numbers.N, 1) = ','
)
SELECT *
FROM Split JOIN Pending ON Split.PENDING_NUM = Pending.PENDING_NUM
The basic idea is that you have to multiply each row as many times as there are PENDING_NUMs. Then, extract the appropriate part of the string
While I agree with DBA perspective not to store multiple values in a single field it is doable, as bellow, practical for application logic and some performance issues. Let say you have 10000 user groups, each having average 1000 members. You may want to have a table user_groups with columns such as groupID and membersID. Your membersID column could be populated like this:
(',10,2001,20003,333,4520,') each number being a memberID, all separated with a comma. Add also a comma at the start and end of the data. Then your select would use like '%,someID,%'.
If you can not change your data ('01,02,03') or similar, let say you want rows containing 01 you still can use " select ... LIKE '01,%' OR '%,01' OR '%,01,%' " which will insure it match if at start, end or inside, while avoiding similar number (ie:101).