SQL Server Group Records Based Another Columns - sql

I am working on a table that contains employee data. The table has historical employee records based on department and year as follows:
Now I want to consolidate records based on EmployeeId, Department and get the Min FromYear and Max ToYear like this:
I tried to use a query :
Select EmployeeId, Department, MIN(FromYear), MAX(ToYear)
from Employee
GROUP BY EmployeeId, Department
But this query fails for the employee with ID 3 as it returns me only 2 rows:
I have added a similar structure and query here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/6f1e53/5
Any help would be highly appreciated!

This is a gaps-and-islands problem. Identify the islands using lag() and a cumulative sum. Then aggregate:
select employeeid, department, min(fromyear), max(toyear)
from (select e.*,
sum(case when prev_toyear >= fromyear - 1 then 0 else 1 end) over (partition by employeeid order by fromyear) as grp
from (select e.*,
lag(toyear) over (partition by employeeid, department order by fromyear) as prev_toyear
from employee e
) e
) e
group by employeeid, department, grp
order by employeeid, min(fromyear);
Here is a db<>fiddle.

you can use self join as well
select a.employeeid, min(a.fromyear), max(b.toyear) from emp a
inner join emp b on a.employeeid=b.employeeid
group by a.employeeid

Related

Why doesn't DISTINCT work in this case? (SQL)

SELECT DISTINCT
employees.departmentname,
employees.firstname,
employees.salary,
employees.departmentid
FROM employees
JOIN (
SELECT MAX(salary) AS Highest, departmentID
FROM employees
GROUP BY departmentID
) departments ON employees.departmentid = departments.departmentid
AND employees.salary = departments.highest;
Why doesn't the DISTINCT work here?
I'm trying to have each department to show only once because the question is asking the highest salary in each department.
Use the ROW_NUMBER() function, as in:
select departmentname, firstname, salary, departmentid
from (
select e.*,
row_number() over(partition by departmentid, order by salary desc) as rn
from employees e
) x
where rn = 1
I'm trying to have each department to show only once because the question is asking the highest salary in each department.
Use window functions:
SELECT e.*
FROM (SELECT e.*,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY departmentID ORDER BY salary DESC) as seqnum
FROM employees e
) e
WHERE seqnum = 1;
This is guaranteed to return one row per department, even when there are ties. If you want all rows when there are ties, use RANK() instead.
Why doesn't the DISTINCT work here?
DISTINCT is not a function; it is a keyword that will eliminate duplicate rows when ALL the column values are duplicates. It does NOT apply to a single column.
The DISTINCT keyword has "worked" (i.e. done what it is intended to do) because there are no rows where all the column values are a duplicate of another row's values.
However, it hasn't solved your problem because DISTINCT is not the correct solution to your problem. For that, you want to "fetch the row which has the max value for a column [within each group]" (as per this question).
Gwen, Elena and Paula all have the same salary
and they are in the same department

Sql join with two tables max and count

i have two tables
employee :
employee_number employee_name salary divison_id
division :
division_id division_name
How to Show division id, division name, number of employees working in each division that has the highest number of employees.
I want to have an outcome like this :
division_id division_name total_employee
Z-100 | finance | 3
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT e.division_id,
d.division_name,
Count(1) total_employee
FROM employee e
JOIN division d
ON e.division_id = d.division_id
GROUP BY e.division_id
ORDER BY Count(1) DESC)a
LIMIT 1
If you want all the department with most employees you should consider that more than one department can have that. So I am revising my answer and instead of top I am using Rank() with CTE to get all the divisions with most number of employees.
with DivisionWithMostEmployee as
(
select Rank()over(order by count(*) desc) RowNumber, d.division_id, d.division_name, count(*) TotalEmployee
from division d, employee e where d.division_id=e.division_id
group by d.division_id,d.division_name
)
select Division_id,Division_name,TotalEmployee from DivisionWithMostEmployee where RowNumber=1

Select only one employee from every department

I want one employee from every department (EmpDepartment), for example in my table there are:
3 employees with EmpDepartment 1
2 employees with EmpDepartment 2 and
1 Employee with EmpDepartment 3
I want EmployeeId, EmployeeName and EmpDepartment of any one employee from each separate department.
Use a windowing function like this:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT
E.*,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY EmpDepartment) AS RN
FROM Employee
) X
WHERE X.RN = 1
You can add an order clause the the windowing function if you have a business rule that you want to use in picking the employee
eg
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY EmpDepartment order by EmployeeId) AS RN
This will get a random employee from each department due to ordering by NEWID()...
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT EmployeeID, EmployeeName, EmployeeEmail
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY EmpDepartment ORDER BY NEWID()) AS rn
FROM dbo.Employee
) x
WHERE x.rn = 1
You can change the order by clause to something else if you want to.
This will return the employee from each department having the minimum EmployeeID in that department (since it is not important which employee will be in the results):
SELECT e.* FROM Employee e
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM Employee
WHERE EmpDepartment = e.EmpDepartment AND EmployeeID < e.EmployeeID
)
SELECT Top(1) EmployeeID, EmployeeName, EMPDeptartment FROM Employee WHERE EmpDetpartment = 1
UNION
SELECT Top(1) EmployeeID, EmployeeName, EMPDeptartment FROM Employee WHERE EmpDetpartment = 2
UNION
SELECT Top(1) EmployeeID, EmployeeName, EMPDeptartment FROM Employee WHERE EmpDetpartment = 3
You can either use rownumber to find any employee of a particular dept change rn to any value as 1,2,...etc
Select department, employee
from (
Select department, employee,
row_number() over (partition by department order by employee) rn
)
where rn =1;
or use simple group by
Select department, max(employee)
from table
group by department

SQL Syntax on DISTINCT Query

I have an Employee Table with their DeptCode. I want list of distinct DeptCode and their first created date in the Employee Table. This will also tell which employee was first entered for a specific dept in the Employee Table.
I used:
SELECT DISTINCT DEPTCODE,
CREATEDDATE
FROM EMPLOYEE
The Date Return is incorrect.
Any specific syntax to handle this issue.
Try:
SELECT DEPTCODE,
Min(CREATEDDATE)
FROM EMPLOYEE
GROUP BY DEPTCODE
If you want the department codes, earliest creation date, and the name of the employee, then I would recommend window functions:
select deptcode, name, createddate
from (select e.*,
row_number() over (partition by deptcode order by createddate) as seqnum
from employee e
) e
where seqnum = 1;
You can use GROUP BY and MIN to achieve this.
SELECT DEPTCODE, MIN(CREATEDDATE)
from EMPLOYEE
GROUP BY DEPTCODE
Something like this.
SELECT deptcode,
employee_name,
minddate
FROM employee
JOIN (SELECT deptcode,
Min(createddate) mindate
FROM employee
GROUP BY deptcode) temp
ON employee.deptcode = temp.deptcode
AND createddate = mindate

SQL Server more columns than group by

I have the following example tables
Employee (EmpID, DepID)
Order (OrderID, EMpID, description)
What I'm trying to achieve is to select employees with most orders by department. I'm on it for like 4 hours already and can't find resolution to this perhaps easy problem.
All I get is either number of order by employee or max number of orders by one employee in one department but I'm struggling to get result as:
DepID, EmpID, Number of orders
Here's my solution for you :
WITH Temp AS (
SELECT
emp.EMpID
,emp.DepID
,COUNT(OrderId) nb_order
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY emp.DepID ORDER BY COUNT(OrderId) DESC) Ordre
FROM
Order ord
INNER JOIN
Employee emp
ON emp.EmpID = ord.EmpID
GROUP BY
emp.EMpID
,emp.DepID)
SELECT *
FROM Temp
WHERE Ordre = 1
I hope this will help you :)