Problem with SQL FULL OUTER JOIN with WHERE date - sql

this query return result of all row with P500 & S500, except that the prj_end_dt won't work at all it simply ignore it is there a way to make it work?
thank you,
SELECT project_labour.cod_no,project.prj_no,project.prj_end_dt,project_labour.pla_hrs_budg
FROM project_labour
FULL OUTER JOIN project ON project_labour.prj_no=project.prj_no
WHERE project_labour.cod_no='S500' OR project_labour.cod_no='P500' AND prj_end_dt<'2019-01-01'

FULL JOIN is almost never necessary. I rarely use it, and I write lots of queries. Filtering is even more troublesome. I am guessing that you really want:
SELECT pl.cod_no, p.prj_no, p.prj_end_dt, pl.pla_hrs_budg
FROM project p LEFT JOIN
project_labour pl
ON pl.prj_no = p.prj_no AND pl.cod_no IN ('S500', 'P500')
WHERE p.prj_end_dt < '2019-01-01';
This will return all projects from prior to 2019. Any matching project_labour rows will be returned. If there are none, then those columns will be NULL. It is quite possible that an INNER JOIN is sufficient for the query; the IN condition fixes the problem with your logic.

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If transaction within date range, then return customer name (and not all the transactions!)

This code is taking a significant amount of time to run. It's returning every single transaction within the date range but I just need to know if the customer has had at least one transaction, then include the CustomerID, CustomerName, Type, Sign, ReportingName.
I think I need to GROUP BY 'CustomerID' but again only if there was a transaction within the date range. And of course, I'm sure there is an optimal way to execute the below TSQL because it's quite slow at present.
Thanks in advance for any help!
SELECT [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary].[RelatedNameId] AS CustomerID
,[ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary].[RelatedName] AS CustomerName
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment].[ParticluarType] AS Type
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[Sign] AS [Sign]
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[ReportingName] AS ReportingName
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction].[EffectiveDate] AS 'Date'
FROM (((([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account]
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account].[AccountId] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[AccountId])
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[ProductID] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[ProductId])
INNER JOIN [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account].[ReportingEntityId] = [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary].[RelatedNameId])
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account].[TaxTreatmentId] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment].[TaxTreatmentId])
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[PositionId] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction].[PositionId]
WHERE ((([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment].[RegistrationType]) LIKE 'NON%')
AND (([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[Sign])='XYZ2')
AND (([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[Quantity])<>0)
AND (([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction].[EffectiveDate]) between '2021-12-31' and '2022-12-31'))
Check your indexes on fragmentation, to speed up your query. And make sure you have indexes.
If you just need one result, just TOP 1
SELECT TOP 1 [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary].[RelatedNameId] AS CustomerID
,[ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary].[RelatedName] AS CustomerName
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment].[ParticluarType] AS Type
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[Sign] AS [Sign]
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[ReportingName] AS ReportingName
,[AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction].[EffectiveDate] AS 'Date'
FROM (((([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account]
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account].[AccountId] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[AccountId])
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[ProductID] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[ProductId])
INNER JOIN [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account].[ReportingEntityId] = [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary].[RelatedNameId])
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account].[TaxTreatmentId] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment].[TaxTreatmentId])
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction] ON [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[PositionId] = [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction].[PositionId]
WHERE ((([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment].[RegistrationType]) LIKE 'NON%')
AND (([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product].[Sign])='XYZ2')
AND (([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position].[Quantity])<>0)
AND (([AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction].[EffectiveDate]) between '2021-12-31' and '2022-12-31'))
If you only need to check for the existence of a row, and not actually get any data from it then use EXISTS() rather than INNER JOIN, e.g.
SELECT vpr.[RelatedNameId] AS CustomerID
,vpr.[RelatedName] AS CustomerName
,tt.[ParticluarType] AS Type
,prd.[Sign]
,prd.ReportingName
,tr.[EffectiveDate] AS [Date]
FROM [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Account] AS acc
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Position] AS pos ON acc.[AccountId] = pos.[AccountId]
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Product] AS prd ON pos.[ProductID] = prd.[ProductId]
INNER JOIN [ABC].[dbo].[vwPrimary] AS vpr ON acc.[ReportingEntityId] = vpr.[RelatedNameId]
INNER JOIN [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[TaxTreatment] AS tt ON acc.[TaxTreatmentId] = tt.[TaxTreatmentId]
WHERE tt.[RegistrationType] LIKE 'NON%'
AND prd.[Sign]='XYZ2'
AND pos.[Quantity]<>0
AND EXISTS
( SELECT 1
FROM [AFGPurchase].[IvL].[Transaction] AS tr
WHERE tr.[PositionId] = pos.[PositionId]
AND tr.[EffectiveDate] BETWEEN '2021-12-31' AND '2022-12-31'
);
N.B. I have added in table aliases and removed all the unnecessary parentheses for readability - you may disagree that it is more readable, but I would expect that most people would agree
This may not offer any performance benefits over simply grouping by the columns you are selecting and keeping your joins as they are - SQL is after all a declarative language where you tell the engine what you want, not how to get it. So you may find that the two plans are the same because you are requesting the same result. Using EXISTS does have the advance of being more semantically tied to what you are trying to do though, so gives the optimiser the best chance of getting to the right plan. If you are still having performance issues, then you may need to inspect the execution plan, and see if it suggests any indexes.
Finally, if you are really still using SQL Server 2008 then you really need to start thinking about your upgrade path. It has been completely unsupported for over 3 years now.

Access SQL query without duplicate results

I made a query and wanted to not have any duplicates but i got some times 3 duplicates and when i used DISTINCT or DISTINCTROW i got only 2 duplicates.
SELECT f.flight_code,
f.status,
a.airport_name,
a1.airport_name,
f.departing_date+f.departing_time AS SupposedDepartingTime,
f.landing_date+f.landing_time AS SupposedLandingTime,
de.actual_takeoff_date+de.actual_takeoff_time AS ActualDepartingTime,
SupposedLandingTime+(ActualDepartingTime-SupposedDepartingTime) AS ActualLandingTime
FROM
(((Flights AS f
LEFT JOIN Aireports AS a
ON a.airport_code = f.depart_ap)
LEFT JOIN Aireports AS a1
ON f.target_ap = a1.airport_code)
LEFT JOIN Irregular_Events AS ie
ON f.flight_code = ie.flight_code)
LEFT JOIN Delay_Event AS de
ON ie.IE_code = de.delay_code;
had to use LEFT JOIN because when i used INNER JOIN i missed some of the things i wanted to show because i wanted to see all the flights and not only the flights that got delayed or canceled.
This is the results when i used INNER JOIN, you can see only the flights that have the status "ביטול" or "עיכוב" and that is not what i wanted.
[the results with LEFT JOIN][2]
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/cgE2G.png
and when i used DISTINCT where you see the rows with the NUMBER 6 on the first column it appear only two times
IMPORTANT!
I just checked my query and all the tables i use there and i saw my problem but dont know how to fix it!
in the table Irregular_Events i have more the one event for flights 3,6 and 8 and that is why when i use LEFT JOIN i see more even thou i use distinct, please give me some help!
Not entirely sure without seeing the table structure, but this might work:
SELECT f.flight_code,
f.status,
a.airport_name,
a1.airport_name,
f.departing_date+f.departing_time AS SupposedDepartingTime,
f.landing_date+f.landing_time AS SupposedLandingTime,
de.actual_takeoff_date+de.actual_takeoff_time AS ActualDepartingTime,
SupposedLandingTime+(ActualDepartingTime-SupposedDepartingTime) AS ActualLandingTime
FROM
((Flights AS f
LEFT JOIN Aireports AS a
ON a.airport_code = f.depart_ap)
LEFT JOIN Aireports AS a1
ON f.target_ap = a1.airport_code)
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
ie.flight_code,
de1.actual_takeoff_date,
de1.actual_takeoff_time
FROM
Irregular_Events ie
INNER JOIN Event AS de1
ON ie.IE_code = de1.delay_code
) AS de
ON f.flight_code = de.flight_code
It is hard to tell what is the problem with your query without any sample of the output, and without any description of the structure of your tables.
But your problem is that your are querying from the flights table, which [I assume] can be linked to multiple irregular_events, which can possibly also be linked to multiple delay_event.
If you want to get only one row per flight, you need to make sure your joins return only one row too. Maybe you can do it by adding one more condition to the join, or by adding a condition in a sub-query.
EDIT
You could try to add a GROUP BY to the query:
GROUP BY
f.flight_code,
f.status,
a.airport_name,
a1.airport_name;

Two almost identical queries returning different results

I am getting different results for the following two queries and I have no idea why. The only difference is one has an IN and one has an equals.
Before I go into the queries you should know that I found a better way to do it by moving the subquery into a common table expression, but this is still driving me crazy! I really want to know what caused the issue in the first place, I am asking out of curiosity
Here's the first query:
use [DB.90_39733]
Select distinct x.uniqproducer, cn.Firstname,cn.lastname,e.code,
ecn.FirstName, ecn.LastName, ecn.entid, x.uniqline
from product x
join employ e on e.EmpID=x.uniqproducer
join contactname cn on cn.uniqentity=e.uniqentity
join [ETL_GAWR92]..idlookupentity ide on ide.enttype='EM'
and ide.UniqEntity=e.UniqEntity
left join [ETL_GAWR92]..EntConName ecn on ecn.entid=ide.empid
and ecn.opt='Y'
Where x.UniqProducer =(SELECT TOP 1 idl.UniqEntity
FROM [ETL_GAWR92]..IDLookupEntity idl
LEFT JOIN [ETL_GAWR92]..Employ e2 ON e2.ProdID = ''
WHERE idl.empID = e2.EmpID AND
idl.EntType = 'EM')
And the second one:
use [DB.90_39733]
Select distinct x.uniqproducer, cn.Firstname,cn.lastname,e.code,
ecn.FirstName, ecn.LastName, ecn.entid, x.uniqline
from product x
join employ e on e.EmpID=x.uniqproducer
join contactname cn on cn.uniqentity=e.uniqentity
join [ETL_GAWR92]..idlookupentity ide on ide.enttype='EM'
and ide.UniqEntity=e.UniqEntity
left join [ETL_GAWR92]..EntConName ecn on ecn.entid=ide.empid
and ecn.opt='Y'
Where x.UniqProducer IN (SELECT TOP 1 idl.UniqEntity
FROM [ETL_GAWR92]..IDLookupEntity idl
LEFT JOIN [ETL_GAWR92]..Employ e2 ON e2.ProdID = ''
WHERE idl.empID = e2.EmpID AND
idl.EntType = 'EM')
The first query returns 0 rows while the second query returns 2 rows.The only difference is x.UniqProducer = versus x.UniqProducer IN for the last where clause.
Thanks for your time
SELECT TOP 1 doesn't guarantee that the same record will be returned each time.
Add an ORDER BY to your select to make sure the same record is returned.
(SELECT TOP 1 idl.UniqEntity
FROM [ETL_GAWR92]..IDLookupEntity idl
LEFT JOIN [ETL_GAWR92]..Employ e2 ON e2.ProdID = ''
WHERE idl.empID = e2.EmpID AND
idl.EntType = 'EM' ORDER BY idl.UniqEntity)
I would guess (with strong emphasis on the word “guess”) that the reason is based on how equals and in are processed by the query engine. For equals, SQL knows it needs to do a comparison with a specific value, where for in, SQL knows it needs to build a subset, and find if the "outer" value is in that "inner" subset. Yes, the end results should be the same as there’s only 1 row returned by the subquery, but as #RickS pointed out, without any ordering there’s no guarantee of which value ends up “on top” – and the (sub)query plan used to build the in - driven subquery might differ from that used by the equals pull.
A follow-up question: which is the correct dataset? When you analyze the actual data, should you have gotten zero, two, or a different number of rows?

relationships produce duplicate records on query, DISTINCT does not work, any other solutions available?

I am new to this portal. I have a very simple problem to be solved. It is related to the ANSI SQL. I am writing a reports using BIRT and I am fetching the data from several tables. I understand how the SQL joins work but maybe not fully. I researched google for hours and I could not find relevant answer.
My problem is that one of the relationships in the code produce a duplicate result (the same row is copied - duplicated). I was so determined to solve it I used every type of join available. Some of this SQL was produced already. I shall post my code below. I know that one of the solutions to my problem is use of the 'DISTINCT' keyword. I have used it and it does not solve my problem.
Can anyone propose any solution to that?
Sample code:
SELECT DISTINCT
partmaster.partdesc,
partmaster.uom,
traders.name AS tradername,
worksorders.id AS worksorderno,
worksorders.partid,
worksorders.quantity,
worksorders.duedate,
worksorders.traderid,
worksorders.orderid,
routingoperations.partid,
routingoperations.methodid,
routingoperations.operationnumber,
routingoperations.workcentreid,
routingoperations.settime,
routingoperations.runtime,
routingoperations.perquantity,
routingoperations.description,
routingoperations.alternativeoperation,
routingoperations.alternativeoperationpreference,
machines.macdesc,
machines.msection,
allpartmaster.partnum,
allpartmaster.nbq,
allpartmaster.partdesc,
routingoperationtools.toolid,
tools.tooldesc,
CAST (emediadetails.data as VARCHAR(MAX)) AS cplandata
FROM worksorders
INNER JOIN partmaster ON worksorders.partid = partmaster.partnum
INNER JOIN traders traders ON worksorders.traderid = traders.id
INNER JOIN routingoperations routingoperations ON worksorders.partid = routingoperations.partid
AND worksorders.routingmethod = routingoperations.methodid
INNER JOIN allpartmaster allpartmaster ON routingoperations.partid = allpartmaster.partnum
LEFT OUTER JOIN machines machines ON routingoperations.workcentreid = machines.macid
LEFT OUTER JOIN routingoperationtools routingoperationtools ON routingoperationtools.partid = routingoperations.partid
AND routingoperationtools.routingmethod = routingoperations.methodid
AND routingoperationtools.operationnumber = routingoperations.operationnumber
LEFT OUTER JOIN tools tools ON tools.toolid = routingoperationtools.toolid
LEFT OUTER JOIN emediadetails ON emediadetails.keyvalue1 = worksorders.id
AND emediadetails.keyvalue2 = routingoperations.operationnumber
AND emediadetails.emediaid = 'worksorderoperation'
I do not have too much of the test data but I know that one row is copied twice as the result of the query below even tho I used DISTINCT keyword. I know that my problem is rather specific and not general but the solution that someone will propose may help others with the similar problem.
I can't solve your problem for you without some test data, but I have some helpful hints.
In principle, you should be really careful with DISTINCT - its a great way of hiding bugs in your query. Only use DISTINCT if you are confident that the underlying data contains legitimate duplicates. If your joins are wrong, and you're getting a cartesian product, you can remove the duplicates from the results with DISTINCT - but that doesn't stop the cartesian product being generated. You'll get very poor performance, and possibly incorrect data.
Secondly, I am pretty sure that DISTINCT works properly - you are almost certainly not getting duplicates, but it may be hard to spot the difference between two rows. Leading or trailing spaces in text columns, for instance could be to blame.
Finally, to work through this problem, I'd recommend building the query up join by join, and seeing where you get the duplicate - that's the join that's to blame.
So, start with:
SELECT
traders.name AS tradername,
worksorders.id AS worksorderno,
worksorders.partid,
worksorders.quantity,
worksorders.duedate,
worksorders.traderid,
worksorders.orderid
FROM worksorders
INNER JOIN traders traders ON
worksorders.traderid = traders.id
and build up to the next join.
Are you sure the results are exact duplicates? Makes sure there isn't one column that actually has a different value.

sql query question inner join

LEFT JOIN PatientClinics AB ON PPhy.PatientID = AB.PatientID
JOIN Clinics CL ON CL.ID = AB.ClinicID
AND COUNT(AB.ClinicID) = 1
I get error using Count(AB.ClinicID) = 1 (ClinicID has duplicate values in the table and
I want to use only 1 value of each duplicate value of ClinicId to produce result)
What mistake am I making?
I've never seen a COUNT() being used in a JOIN before. Maybe you should use:
HAVING COUNT(AB.ClinicID) = 1
instead.
Count() can't be used as a join/filter predicate. It can be used in the HAVING clause however. You should include the entire query in order to get a better example of how to rewrite it.
maybe investigate the HAVING clause instead of using COUNT where you put it.
hard to help without the full query.