Select first matching string value in list from SQL table - sql

I'd like to query Table and return the most granular frequency in the table for a given row. Sample table and desired result are below. I've tried a few iterations of the query but haven't cracked it yet.
By "most granular frequency" I mean that I'd like to return the first match for any row in this set ['hourly', 'daily', 'weekly', 'monthly'] as a new column called min_frequency
Table
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id | name | frequency
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1 | apples | hourly
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2 | apples | daily
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3 | oranges | weekly
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4 | oranges | monthly
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Desired result:
name | min_frequency
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apples | hourly
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oranges | weekly
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Current attempt:
SELECT name, (
CASE
WHEN frequency='hourly' then frequency
WHEN frequency='daily' then frequency
WHEN frequency='weekly' then frequency
WHEN frequency='yearly' then frequency
END
) as min_frequency from Table
GROUP BY name, min_frequency

You could use distinct on with conditional sorting logic:
select distinct on (name) *
from mytable
order by
name,
case frequency
when 'hourly' then 1
when 'daily' then 2
when 'weekly' then 3
when 'monthly' then 4
end

Although you can use a giant case expression, arrays are convenient for this:
select distinct on (name) t.*
from t
order by name,
array_position(array['hourly', 'daily', 'weekly', 'monthly'], frequency)
Note if you have frequencies other than those listed, this may not work as expected.

Related

Calculate time span over a number of records

I have a table that has the following schema:
ID | FirstName | Surname | TransmissionID | CaptureDateTime
1 | Billy | Goat | ABCDEF | 2018-09-20 13:45:01.098
2 | Jonny | Cash | ABCDEF | 2018-09-20 13:45.01.108
3 | Sally | Sue | ABCDEF | 2018-09-20 13:45:01.298
4 | Jermaine | Cole | PQRSTU | 2018-09-20 13:45:01.398
5 | Mike | Smith | PQRSTU | 2018-09-20 13:45:01.498
There are well over 70,000 records and they store logs of transmissions to a web-service. What I'd like to know is how would I go about writing a script that would select the distinct TransmissionID values and also show the timespan between the earliest CaptureDateTime record and the latest record? Essentially I'd like to see what the rate of records the web-service is reading & writing.
Is it even possible to do so in a single SELECT statement or should I just create a stored procedure or report in code? I don't know where to start aside from SELECT DISTINCT TransmissionID for this sort of query.
Here's what I have so far (I'm stuck on the time calculation)
SELECT DISTINCT [TransmissionID],
COUNT(*) as 'Number of records'
FROM [log_table]
GROUP BY [TransmissionID]
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
Not sure how to get the difference between the first and last record with the same TransmissionID I would like to get a result set like:
TransmissionID | TimeToCompletion | Number of records |
ABCDEF | 2.001 | 5000 |
Simply GROUP BY and use MIN / MAX function to find min/max date in each group and subtract them:
SELECT
TransmissionID,
COUNT(*),
DATEDIFF(second, MIN(CaptureDateTime), MAX(CaptureDateTime))
FROM yourdata
GROUP BY TransmissionID
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
Use min and max to calculate timespan
SELECT [TransmissionID],
COUNT(*) as 'Number of records',datediff(s,min(CaptureDateTime),max(CaptureDateTime)) as timespan
FROM [log_table]
GROUP BY [TransmissionID]
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
A method that returns the average time for all transmissionids, even those with only 1 record:
SELECT TransmissionID,
COUNT(*),
DATEDIFF(second, MIN(CaptureDateTime), MAX(CaptureDateTime)) * 1.0 / NULLIF(COUNT(*) - 1, 0)
FROM yourdata
GROUP BY TransmissionID;
Note that you may not actually want the maximum of the capture date for a given transmissionId. You might want the overall maximum in the table -- so you can consider the final period after the most recent record.
If so, this looks like:
SELECT TransmissionID,
COUNT(*),
DATEDIFF(second,
MIN(CaptureDateTime),
MAX(MAX(CaptureDateTime)) OVER ()
) * 1.0 / COUNT(*)
FROM yourdata
GROUP BY TransmissionID;

How do I apply a function to each subgroup of a table in SQL

I want to find the minimum value of a column in a certain date range of a table.
so lets say I have a table like the following,
Date | Value
---------------
01-26 | 2
01-26 | 1
01-27 | 2
01-27 | 4
01-28 | 3
01-28 | 5
How can I apply the MIN() function to the subgroup of the Value column so that the result might be
Date | MIN(Value)
---------------
01-26 | 1
01-27 | 2
01-28 | 3
I thought about GROUP BY .. or such but couldn't figure out how to get the results into a table.
Using UNION and JOIN isn't quite scalable because the query could be using a date range of a month
Group by should work:
Select date, min( value )
From table1
Group by date
Maybe too simple, but seems like this would work
Select Min(col1), datecol from yourtable group by datecol;
HTH

Select the difference of two consecutive columns

I have a table car that looks like this:
| mileage | carid |
------------------
| 30 | 1 |
| 50 | 1 |
| 100 | 1 |
| 0 | 2 |
| 70 | 2 |
I would like to get the average difference for each car. So for example for car 1 I would like to get ((50-30)+(100-50))/2 = 35. So I created the following query
SELECT AVG(diff),carid FROM (
SELECT (mileage-
(SELECT Max(mileage) FROM car Where mileage<mileage AND carid=carid GROUP BY carid))
AS diff,carid
FROM car GROUP BY carid)
But this doesn't work as I'm not able to use current row for the other column. And I'm quite clueless on how to actually solve this in a different way.
So how would I be able to obtain the value of the next row somehow?
The average difference is the maximum minus he minimum divided by one less than the count (you can do the arithmetic to convince yourself this is true).
Hence:
select carid,
( (max(mileage) - min(mileage)) / nullif(count(*) - 1, 0)) as avg_diff
from cars
group by carid;

PostgreSQL return multiple rows with DISTINCT though only latest date per second column

Lets says I have the following database table (date truncated for example only, two 'id_' preix columns join with other tables)...
+-----------+---------+------+--------------------+-------+
| id_table1 | id_tab2 | date | description | price |
+-----------+---------+------+--------------------+-------+
| 1 | 11 | 2014 | man-eating-waffles | 1.46 |
+-----------+---------+------+--------------------+-------+
| 2 | 22 | 2014 | Flying Shoes | 8.99 |
+-----------+---------+------+--------------------+-------+
| 3 | 44 | 2015 | Flying Shoes | 12.99 |
+-----------+---------+------+--------------------+-------+
...and I have a query like the following...
SELECT id, date, description FROM inventory ORDER BY date ASC;
How do I SELECT all the descriptions, but only once each while simultaneously only the latest year for that description? So I need the database query to return the first and last row from the sample data above; the second it not returned because the last row has a later date.
Postgres has something called distinct on. This is usually more efficient than using window functions. So, an alternative method would be:
SELECT distinct on (description) id, date, description
FROM inventory
ORDER BY description, date desc;
The row_number window function should do the trick:
SELECT id, date, description
FROM (SELECT id, date, description,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY description
ORDER BY date DESC) AS rn
FROM inventory) t
WHERE rn = 1
ORDER BY date ASC;

MIN() Function in SQL

Need help with Min Function in SQL
I have a table as shown below.
+------------+-------+-------+
| Date_ | Name | Score |
+------------+-------+-------+
| 2012/07/05 | Jack | 1 |
| 2012/07/05 | Jones | 1 |
| 2012/07/06 | Jill | 2 |
| 2012/07/06 | James | 3 |
| 2012/07/07 | Hugo | 1 |
| 2012/07/07 | Jack | 1 |
| 2012/07/07 | Jim | 2 |
+------------+-------+-------+
I would like to get the output like below
+------------+------+-------+
| Date_ | Name | Score |
+------------+------+-------+
| 2012/07/05 | Jack | 1 |
| 2012/07/06 | Jill | 2 |
| 2012/07/07 | Hugo | 1 |
+------------+------+-------+
When I use the MIN() function with just the date and Score column I get the lowest score for each date, which is what I want. I don't care which row is returned if there is a tie in the score for the same date. Trouble starts when I also want name column in the output. I tried a few variation of SQL (i.e min with correlated sub query) but I have no luck getting the output as shown above. Can anyone help please:)
Query is as follows
SELECT DISTINCT
A.USername, A.Date_, A.Score
FROM TestTable AS A
INNER JOIN (SELECT Date_,MIN(Score) AS MinScore
FROM TestTable
GROUP BY Date_) AS B
ON (A.Score = B.MinScore) AND (A.Date_ = B.Date_);
Use this solution:
SELECT a.date_, MIN(name) AS name, a.score
FROM tbl a
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT date_, MIN(score) AS minscore
FROM tbl
GROUP BY date_
) b ON a.date_ = b.date_ AND a.score = b.minscore
GROUP BY a.date_, a.score
SQL-Fiddle Demo
This will get the minimum score per date in the INNER JOIN subselect, which we use to join to the main table. Once we join the subselect, we will only have dates with names having the minimum score (with ties being displayed).
Since we only want one name per date, we then group by date and score, selecting whichever name: MIN(name).
If we want to display the name column, we must use an aggregate function on name to facilitate the GROUP BY on date and score columns, or else it will not work (We could also use MAX() on that column as well).
Please learn about the GROUP BY functionality of RDBMS.
SELECT Date_,Name,MIN(Score)
FROM T
GROUP BY Name
This makes the assumption that EACH NAME and EACH date appears only once, and this will only work for MySQL.
To make it work on other RDBMSs, you need to apply another group function on the Date column, like MAX. MIN. etc
SELECT T.Name, T.Date_, MIN(T.Score) as Score FROM T
GROUP BY T.Date_
Edit: This answer is not corrected as pointed out by JNK in comments
SELECT Date_,MAX(Name),MIN(Score)
FROM T
GROUP BY Date_
Here I am using MAX(NAME), it will pick one name if two names were found with the same goal numbers.
This will find Min score for each day (no duplicates), scored by any player. The name that starts with Z will be picked first than the name that starts with A.
Edit: Fixed by removing group by name