Developing a query that will return information about an item stored across 4 tables. When all the fields have values my query works fine, however some of the data has null fields (which I can't change) that I need to perform my comparison on. When these show up, the row doesn't show up in the query results, even if all the other fields have values.
Here is what I have so far:
select [Item_NO], [Color_Name], [size_code], [style_code], [PERM_UNIT_PRICE]
FROM [USICOAL].[dbo].[ITEM], [USICOAL].[dbo].[COLOR], [USICOAL].[dbo].[SIZE], [USICOAL].[dbo].[STYLE]
where [ITEM_NO] in ('191202002944', '191202003026')
AND [USICOAL].[dbo].[ITEM].[COLOR_ID] = [USICOAL].[dbo].[COLOR].[COLOR_ID]
AND [USICOAL].[dbo].[ITEM].[SIZE_ID] = [USICOAL].[dbo].[SIZE].[SIZE_ID]
AND [USICOAL].[dbo].[ITEM].[STYLE_ID] = [USICOAL].[dbo].[STYLE].[STYLE_ID]
For these 2 items numbers, the Size_ID field is null. How can I get the results to reflect this null?
SELECT
[Item_NO]
,[Color_Name]
,[size_code]
,[style_code]
,[PERM_UNIT_PRICE]
FROM
[USICOAL].[dbo].[ITEM] i
LEFT OUTER JOIN
[USICOAL].[dbo].[COLOR] c
ON c.[COLOR_ID] = i.[COLOR_ID]
LEFT OUTER JOIN
[USICOAL].[dbo].[SIZE] s
ON s.[SIZE_ID] = i.[SIZE_ID]
LEFT OUTER JOIN
[USICOAL].[dbo].[STYLE] t
ON t.[STYLE_ID] = i.[STYLE_ID]
WHERE
[ITEM_NO] in ('191202002944', '191202003026')
Related
Consider the following tables:
Table A:
DOC_NUM
DOC_TYPE
RELATED_DOC_NUM
NEXT_STATUS
...
Table B:
DOC_NUM
DOC_TYPE
RELATED_DOC_NUM
NEXT_STATUS
...
The DOC_TYPE and NEXT_STATUS columns have different meanings between the two tables, although a NEXT_STATUS = 999 means "closed" in both. Also, under certain conditions, there will be a record in each table, with a reference to a corresponding entry in the other table (i.e. the RELATED_DOC_NUM columns).
I am trying to create a query that will get data from both tables that meet the following conditions:
A.RELATED_DOC_NUM = B.DOC_NUM
A.DOC_TYPE = "ST"
B.DOC_TYPE = "OT"
A.NEXT_STATUS < 999 OR B.NEXT_STATUS < 999
A.DOC_TYPE = "ST" represents a transfer order to transfer inventory from one plant to another. B.DOC_TYPE = "OT" represents a corresponding receipt of the transferred inventory at the receiving plant.
We want to get records from either table where there is an ST/OT pair where either or both entries are not closed (i.e. NEXT_STATUS < 999).
I am assuming that I need to use a FULL OUTER join to accomplish this. If this is the wrong assumption, please let me know what I should be doing instead.
UPDATE (11/30/2021):
I believe that #Caius Jard is correct in that this does not need to be an outer join. There should always be an ST/OT pair.
With that I have written my query as follows:
SELECT <columns>
FROM A LEFT JOIN B
ON
A.RELATED_DOC_NUM = B.DOC_NUM
WHERE
A.DOC_TYPE IN ('ST') AND
B.DOC_TYPE IN ('OT') AND
(A.NEXT_STATUS < 999 OR B.NEXT_STATUS < 999)
Does this make sense?
UPDATE 2 (11/30/2021):
The reality is that these are DB2 database tables being used by the JD Edwards ERP application. The only way I know of to see the table definitions is by using the web site http://www.jdetables.com/, entering the table ID and hitting return to run the search. It comes back with a ton of information about the table and its columns.
Table A is really F4211 and table B is really F4311.
Right now, I've simplified the query to keep it simple and keep variables to a minimum. This is what I have currently:
SELECT CAST(F4211.SDDOCO AS VARCHAR(8)) AS SO_NUM,
F4211.SDRORN AS RELATED_PO,
F4211.SDDCTO AS SO_DOC_TYPE,
F4211.SDNXTR AS SO_NEXT_STATUS,
CAST(F4311.PDDOCO AS VARCHAR(8)) AS PO_NUM,
F4311.PDRORN AS RELATED_SO,
F4311.PDDCTO AS PO_DOC_TYPE,
F4311.PDNXTR AS PO_NEXT_STATUS
FROM PROD2DTA.F4211 AS F4211
INNER JOIN PROD2DTA.F4311 AS F4311
ON F4211.SDRORN = CAST(F4311.PDDOCO AS VARCHAR(8))
WHERE F4211.SDDCTO IN ( 'ST' )
AND F4311.PDDCTO IN ( 'OT' )
The other part of the story is that I'm using a reporting package that allows you to define "virtual" views of the data. Virtual views allow the report developer to specify the SQL to use. This is the application where I am using the SQL. When I set up the SQL, there is a validation step that must be performed. It will return a limited set of results if the SQL is validated.
When I enter the query above and validate it, it says that there are no results, which makes no sense. I'm guessing the data casting is causing the issue, but not sure.
UPDATE 3 (11/30/2021):
One more twist to the story. The related doc number is not only defined as a string value, but it contains leading zeros. This is true in both tables. The main doc number (in both tables) is defined as a numeric value and therefore has no leading zeros. I have no idea why those who developed JDE would have done this, but that is what is there.
So, there are matching records between the two tables that meet the criteria, but I think I'm getting no results because when I convert the numeric to a string, it does not match, because one value is, say "12345", while the other is "00012345".
Can I pad the numeric -> string value with zeros before doing the equals check?
UPDATE 4 (12/2/2021):
Was able to finally get the query to work by converting the numeric doc num to a left zero padded string.
SELECT <columns>
FROM PROD2DTA.F4211 AS F4211
INNER JOIN PROD2DTA.F4311 AS F4311
ON F4211.SDRORN = RIGHT(CONCAT('00000000', CAST(F4311.PDDOCO AS VARCHAR(8))), 8)
WHERE F4211.SDDCTO IN ( 'ST' )
AND F4311.PDDCTO IN ( 'OT' )
AND ( F4211.SDNXTR < 999
OR F4311.PDNXTR < 999 )
You should write your query as follows:
SELECT <columns>
FROM A INNER JOIN B
ON
A.RELATED_DOC_NUM = B.DOC_NUM
WHERE
A.DOC_TYPE IN ('ST') AND
B.DOC_TYPE IN ('OT') AND
(A.NEXT_STATUS < 999 OR B.NEXT_STATUS < 999)
LEFT join is a type of OUTER join; LEFT JOIN is typically a contraction of LEFT OUTER JOIN). OUTER means "one side might have nulls in every column because there was no match". Most critically, the code as posted in the question (with a LEFT JOIN, but then has WHERE some_column_from_the_right_table = some_value) runs as an INNER join, because any NULLs inserted by the LEFT OUTER process, are then quashed by the WHERE clause
See Update 4 for details of how I resolved the "data conversion or mapping" error.
I have a table that is for PaymentRequest (PR), each PR table has two forms of pay, a WorkProgress, and a AdvanceByWarranty, the relation is like this:
I Need to create a report to get all the payment made in that (PR), and some other fields between them
The sql that I was using to join PaymentRequest with WorkProgress is this, and it works, it returns the WorkProgress of that payment
To get the Advances by warranty I use this, it also works, returns 2 Advances, as it should be
But, when I mix both, it doesnt return 3 rows, as it should be, it returns two. The result is this
I was expecting something like this (With shorter names)
How can i get the expected query?
Edit:
The sql to get the expected query is this
select
pr.ProjectId, pr.NumberPaymentState,
wp.ToCollectAmmount as WPAmmount, wp.ToCollectPercent as WPPercent,
null as AWAmmount, null as AWPercent
from PaymentRequests pr
left join WorkProgresses wp on (wp.ProjectId = pr.ProjectId and wp.NumberPaymentState = pr.NumberPaymentState)
union all
select
pr.ProjectId, pr.NumberPaymentState,
null as WPAmmount, null as WPPercent,
aw.ToCollectAmmount as AWAmmount, aw.ToCollectPercent as AWPercent
from PaymentRequests pr
left join AdvanceByWarranties aw on (aw.ProjectId = pr.ProjectId and aw.NumberPaymentState = pr.NumberPaymentState)
You might have wanted what you show, but it doesn't work like this.
Just use UNION ALL between your first two queries, and rename the columns accordingly. Here is some pseudocode hybrid to guide you:
select keycols, workercols, null as advancecols
from pr join worker
union all
select keycols, null as workercols, advancecols
from pr join advancecols
My title is probably not very clear, so I made a little schema to explain what I'm trying to achieve. The xxxx_uid labels are foreign keys linking two tables.
Goal: Retrieve a column from the grids table by giving a proj_uid value.
I'm not very good with SQL joins and I don't know how to build a single query that will achieve that.
Actually, I'm doing 3 queries to perform the operation:
1) This gives me a res_uid to work with:
select res_uid from results where results.proj_uid = VALUE order by res_uid asc limit 1"
2) This gives me a rec_uid to work with:
select rec_uid from receptor_results
inner join results on results.res_uid = receptor_results.res_uid
where receptor_results.res_uid = res_uid_VALUE order by rec_uid asc limit 1
3) Get the grid column I want from the grids table:
select grid_name from grids
inner join receptors on receptors.grid_uid = grids.grid_uid
where receptors.rec_uid = rec_uid_VALUE;
Is it possible to perform a single SQL that will give me the same results the 3 I'm actually doing ?
You're not limited to one JOIN in a query:
select grids.grid_name
from grids
inner join receptors
on receptors.grid_uid = grids.grid_uid
inner join receptor_results
on receptor_results.rec_uid = receptors.rec_uid
inner join results
on results.res_uid = receptor_results.res_uid
where results.proj_uid = VALUE;
select g.grid_name
from results r
join resceptor_results rr on r.res_uid = rr.res_uid
join receptors rec on rec.rec_uid = rr.rec_uid
join grids g on g.grid_uid = rec.grid_uid
where r.proj_uid = VALUE
a small note about names, typically in sql the table is named for a single item not the group. thus "result" not "results" and "receptor" not "receptors" etc. As you work with sql this will make sense and names like you have will seem strange. Also, one less character to type!
this is an attempted fix to a crystal reports use of 2 sub reports!
I have a query that joins 3 tables, and I wanted to use a pair of sub selects that bring in the same new table.
Here is the first of the two columns in script:
SELECT ea."LOC_ID", lo."DESCR", ea."PEGSTRIP", ea."ENTITY_OWNER"
, ea."PCT_OWNERSHIP", ea."BEG_BAL", ea."ADDITIONS", ea."DISPOSITIONS"
, ea."EXPLANATION", ea."END_BAL", ea."NUM_SHARES", ea."PAR_VALUE"
, ag."DESCR", ea."EOY", ea."FAKEPEGSTRIP",
(select sum(htb.END_FNC_CUR_US_GAAP)
from EQUITY_ACCOUNTS ea , HYPERION_TRIAL_BALANCE htb
where
htb.PEGSTRIP = ea.PEGSTRIP and
htb.PRD_NBR = 0 and
htb.LOC_ID = ea.LOC_ID and
htb.PRD_YY = ea.EOY
) firstHyp
FROM ("TAXPALL"."ACCOUNT_GROUPING" ag
INNER JOIN "TAXP"."EQUITY_ACCOUNTS" ea
ON (ag."ACCT_ID"=ea."PEGSTRIP") AND (ag."EOY"=ea."EOY"))
INNER JOIN "TAXP"."LOCATION" lo ON ea."LOC_ID"=lo."LOC_ID"
WHERE ea."EOY"=2009
ORDER BY ea."LOC_ID", ea."PEGSTRIP"
When this delivers the dataset the value of "firstHyp" fails to change by pegstrip value. It returns a single total for the join and fails to put the proper by value by pegstrip.
I thought that the where clause would have picked up the joins line by line.
I don't do Oracle syntax often so what am I missing here?
TIA
Your SQL is equivilent to the following:
SELECT ea."LOC_ID", lo."DESCR", ea."PEGSTRIP",
ea."ENTITY_OWNER" , ea."PCT_OWNERSHIP",
ea."BEG_BAL", ea."ADDITIONS", ea."DISPOSITIONS" ,
ea."EXPLANATION", ea."END_BAL", ea."NUM_SHARES",
ea."PAR_VALUE" , ag."DESCR", ea."EOY", ea."FAKEPEGSTRIP",
(select sum(htb.END_FNC_CUR_US_GAAP)
from EQUITY_ACCOUNTS iea
Join HYPERION_TRIAL_BALANCE htb
On htb.PEGSTRIP = iea.PEGSTRIP
and htb.LOC_ID = iea.LOC_ID
and htb.PRD_YY = iea.EOY
where htb.PRD_NBR = 0 ) firstHyp
FROM "TAXPALL"."ACCOUNT_GROUPING" ag
JOIN "TAXP"."EQUITY_ACCOUNTS" ea
ON ag."ACCT_ID"=ea."PEGSTRIP"
AND ag."EOY"=ea."EOY"
JOIN "TAXP"."LOCATION" lo
ON ea."LOC_ID"=lo."LOC_ID"
WHERE ea."EOY"=2009
ORDER BY ea."LOC_ID", ea."PEGSTRIP"
Notice that the subquery that generates firstHyp is not in any way dependant on the tables in the outer query... It is therefore not a Correllated SubQuery... meaning that the value it generates will NOT be different for each row in the outer query's resultset, it will be the same for every row. You need to somehow put something in the subquery that makes it dependant on the value of some row in the outer query so that it will become a correllated subquery and run over and over once for each outer row....
Also, you mention a pair of subselects, but I only see one. Where is the other one ?
Use:
SELECT ea.LOC_ID,
lo.DESCR,
ea.PEGSTRIP,
ea.ENTITY_OWNER,
ea.PCT_OWNERSHIP,
ea.BEG_BAL,
ea.ADDITIONS,
ea.DISPOSITIONS,
ea.EXPLANATION,
ea.END_BAL,
ea.NUM_SHARES,
ea.PAR_VALUE,
ag.DESCR,
ea.EOY,
ea.FAKEPEGSTRIP,
NVL(SUM(htb.END_FNC_CUR_US_GAAP), 0) AS firstHyp
FROM TAXPALL.ACCOUNT_GROUPING ag
JOIN TAXP.EQUITY_ACCOUNTS ea ON ea.PEGSTRIP = ag.ACCT_ID
AND ea.EOY = ag.EOY
AND ea.EOY = 2009
JOIN TAXP.LOCATION lo ON lo.LOC_ID = ea.LOC_ID
LEFT JOIN HYPERION_TRIAL_BALANCE htb ON htb.PEGSTRIP = ea.PEGSTRIP
AND htb.LOC_ID = ea.LOC_ID
AND htb.PRD_YY = ea.EOY
AND htb.PRD_NBR = 0
GROUP BY ea.LOC_ID,
lo.DESCR,
ea.PEGSTRIP,
ea.ENTITY_OWNER,
ea.PCT_OWNERSHIP,
ea.BEG_BAL,
ea.ADDITIONS,
ea.DISPOSITIONS,
ea.EXPLANATION,
ea.END_BAL,
ea.NUM_SHARES,
ea.PAR_VALUE,
ag.DESCR,
ea.EOY,
ea.FAKEPEGSTRIP,
ORDER BY ea.LOC_ID, ea.PEGSTRIP
I agree with Charles Bretana's assessment that the original SELECT in the SELECT clause was not correlated, which is why the value never changed per row. But the sub SELECT used the EQUITY_ACCOUNTS table, which is the basis for the main query. So I removed the join, and incorporated the HYPERION_TRIAL_BALANCE table into the main query, using a LEFT JOIN. I wrapped the SUM in an NVL rather than COALESCE because I didn't catch what version of Oracle this is for.
I am putting together a nice little database for adding values to options, all these are setup through a map (Has and Belongs to Many) table, because many options are pointing to a single value.
So I am trying to specify 3 option.ids and a single id in a value table - four integers to point to a single value. Three tables. And I am running into a problem with the WHERE part of the statement, because if multiple values share an option there are many results. And I need just a single result.
SELECT value.id, value.name FROM value
LEFT JOIN (option_map_value, option_table)
ON (value.id = option_map_value.value_id AND option_map_value.option_table_id = option_table.id)
WHERE option_table.id IN (5, 2, 3) AND value.y_axis_id = 16;
The problem with the statement seems to be the IN on the WHERE clause. If one of the numbers are different in the IN() part, then there are multiple results - which is not good.
I have tried DISTINCT, which again works if there is one result, but returns many if there is many. The closest we have gotten to is adding a count - to return to value with the most options at the top.
So is there a way to do the WHERE to be more specific. I cannot break it out into option_table.id = 5 AND option_table.id = 2 - because that one fails. But can the WHERE clause be more specifc?
Maybe it is me being pedantic, but I would like to be able to return just the single result, instead of a count of results... Any ideas?
The problem with the statement seems to be the IN on the WHERE clause. If one of the numbers are different in the IN() part, then there are multiple results - which is not good. I have tried DISTINCT, which again works if there is one result, but returns many if there is many. The closest we have gotten to is adding a count - to return to value with the most options at the top.
You were very close, considering the DISTINCT:
SELECT v.id,
v.name
FROM VALUE v
LEFT JOIN OPTION_MAP_VALUE omv ON omv.value_id = v.id
LEFT JOIN OPTION_TABLE ot ON ot.id = omv.option_table_id
WHERE ot.id IN (5, 2, 3)
AND v.y_axis_id = 16
GROUP BY v.id, v.name
HAVING COUNT(*) = 3
You were on the right track, but needed to use GROUP BY instead in order to be able to use the HAVING clause to count the DISTINCT list of values.
Caveat emptor:
The GROUP BY/HAVING COUNT version of the query is dependent on your data model having a composite key, unique or primary, defined for the two columns involved (value_id and option_table_id). If this is not in place, the database will not stop duplicates being added. If duplicate rows are possible in the data, this version can return false positives because a value_id could have 3 associations to the option_table_id 5 - which would satisfy the HAVING COUNT(*) = 3.
Using JOINs:
A safer, though more involved, approach is to join onto the table that can have multiple options, as often as you have criteria:
SELECT v.id,
v.name
FROM VALUE v
JOIN OPTION_MAP_VALUE omv ON omv.value_id = v.id
JOIN OPTION_TABLE ot5 ON ot5.id = omv.option_table_id
AND ot5.id = 5
JOIN OPTION_TABLE ot2 ON ot2.id = omv.option_table_id
AND ot2.id = 2
JOIN OPTION_TABLE ot3 ON ot3.id = omv.option_table_id
AND ot3.id = 3
WHERE v.y_axis_id = 16
GROUP BY v.id, v.name