Oracle case when NOT null? - sql

I see a lot of queries made for Oracle using CASE columnX WHEN NULL
how to design query if
CASE columnX WHEN NOT NULL ?
SQL developer throws an error on the query so how to make condition query using CASE... WHEN...?
WITH dates_list AS
(SELECT TO_DATE('02-19-2018','MM-dd-yyyy') + ROWNUM - 1 AS DAY,
rownum AS row_num
FROM dual
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= (TO_DATE('03-29-2018','MM-dd-yyyy') - TO_DATE('02-19-2018','MM-dd-yyyy')+1)
)
SELECT dates1.day, dates2.*, count(case dates2.day when null then 1 else 0 end)
over (partition by dates2.day order by dates1.day) as cnt
FROM dates_list dates1
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT *
FROM dates_list
WHERE TO_CHAR(DAY,'D') NOT IN (7,1)
) dates2 ON dates1.day = dates2.day
ORDER BY dates1.day;
above query gives error when I change when null to when not null

You can't use the CASE sentence in that way with NULL values, because columnX is never "equal" to NULL. You should use instead:
CASE WHEN columnX IS NULL THEN
or
CASE WHEN columnX IS NOT NULL THEN

You now have a function NVL that can turn this:
CASE WHEN columnX IS NOT NULL THEN columnX ELSE 'No value' END
Into this:
NVL(columnX, 'No value')
If columnX is a select, it make everything a lot cleaner

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SQL - Subselect in select clause - how to create column which decides uniqity logic

I am trying to write subselect which will run through returned data, then checks status of all and then decides uniquity logic.
Is there any way to find out following ?
case any of data has 'Active' status first one will be marked as 1 everything else as 0
case there is no 'Active' status then first 'Expired' status will by marked as 1 and everything else as 0
case there is no 'Active' and 'Expired' status then first 'In Progress' will be marked as 1 and everything else as 0
I was trying to write it like this but i need to have it in one case statement
SELECT a.id, a.status,
,(SELECT
CASE WHEN b.STATUS = 'Active' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
CASE WHEN b.STATUS = 'Expired' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
FROM b.TABLE
WHERE a.id=b.id )AS unique
FROM my.TABLE
Result should look like https://i.stack.imgur.com/qCA74.png picture for expired case
Thank you in advance for any tips.
Use a window function:
select t.*,
(case when row_number() over (partition by id
order by case status when 'Active' then 1 when 'Expired' then 2 else 3 end
) = 1
then 1 else 0
end) as unique_flag
from my.table t;
If the lookup table is the same as source table, then you can use LAG function with constant and use its default value to mark the first row with 1 and others with 0. But you need to order your rows by some fields to deal with duplicates on status.
select a.id, a.status,
lag(0, 1, 1) over(
partition by a.id
order by
case a.status
when 'Active' then 0
when 'Expired' then 1
else 3
end asc,
a.some_more_columns asc /*To find that first row when there are duplicates by status*/
) as unique_flag
from MY_TABLE a
And what about object naming: never use keywords as identifiers. Calling column with date as date, table with users as users and some unknown table as table makes you design error prone.

CASE or IF statement in WHERE clause

How can I use CASE statement or IF statement in WHERE clause ?
I am trying to apply a check on the basis of COUNT
SELECT * FROM sometable
WHERE CASE WHEN (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sometable s WHERE SP = 2 AND sometable.id = s.id) > 2 THEN sometable.SP IS NOT NULL END
So basically if the count of rows is more than 1 it should apply IS NOT NULL condition else it should not.
Your logic suggests something like:
SELECT s.*
FROM (SELECT s.*,
SUM(CASE WHEN sp = 2 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) OVER (PARTITION BY id) as cnt_2
FROM sometable s
) s
WHERE cnt_2 <= 2 OR s.sp is not null;
That seems equivalent. The logic doesn't seem particularly useful though.

ORACLE: USE RESULT OF CASE-WHEN-STATEMENT

I have a huge query and I am wondering if it is in Oracle possible
to get the result of a case-when-statement and use it for comparison? My CASE-STATEMENT is declared in the Select-Statement and it looks like this.
SELECT........
(CASE
WHEN (Select 1 from DUAL) = 1 THEN 'TEST'
ELSE 'TEST2'
END) AS TEST;
Now I want to get the result of this case-statement and use it in the where part? Is it possible? (Sry this may be a dumb question)
If you define your CASE statement in either an inline-view or a common table expression (aka WITH clause), you can refer to it by whatever alias you give it.
For example (inline-view):
SELECT ...
FROM ( SELECT .....
(CASE
WHEN (Select 1 from DUAL) = 1 THEN 'TEST'
ELSE 'TEST2'
END) AS TEST
FROM...
) v
WHERE v.test = 'TEST2';
As a common table expression, it would be:
WITH cte AS ( SELECT........
(CASE
WHEN (Select 1 from DUAL) = 1 THEN 'TEST'
ELSE 'TEST2'
END) AS TEST
FROM ... )
SELECT ...
FROM cte
WHERE test = 'TEST2';
You can use a case statement in the where clause, for eg.:
select * from table
where table.field = (CASE
WHEN (Select 1 from DUAL) = 1 THEN 'TEST'
ELSE 'TEST2'
END)
This will compare the value returned from the case statement with the table field.

Can Oracle PL/SQL CASE statement include a SELECT query?

I'm trying to do something similar to this:
CASE
WHEN number IN (1,2,3) THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N' END;
Instead I want to have a query in the place of the list, like so:
CASE
WHEN number IN (SELECT num_val FROM some_table) THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N' END;
I can't seem to get this to work. Also, here is an example of the query.
SELECT number, (CASE
WHEN number IN (SELECT num_val FROM some_table) THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N' END) AS YES_NO
FROM some_other_table;
Yes, it's possible. See an example below that would do what you are intending. The difference is that it uses EXISTS instead of IN.
SELECT a.number,
(CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT null FROM some_table b where b.num_val = a.number)
THEN 'Y'
ELSE 'N'
END) AS YES_NO
FROM some_other_table a;
EDIT:
I confess: I like the answers given by the others better personally.
However, there will be a difference between this query and the others depending on your data.
If for a value number in the table some_other_table you can have many matching entries of num_val in the table some_table, then the other answers will return duplicate rows. This query will not.
That said, if you take the left join queries given by the others, and add a group by, then you won't get the duplicates.
I suggest using an OUTER JOIN instead of trying to use a subquery in a CASE expression:
SELECT t.NUMBER,
CASE
WHEN s.NUM_VAL IS NOT NULL THEN 'Y'
ELSE 'N'
END AS YES_NO
FROM SOME_OTHER_TABLE t
LEFT OUTER JOIN SOME_TABLE s
ON s.NUM_VAL = t.NUMBER
Best of luck.
Seems like you just need to join the tables and do a decode.
with x as
(
select 1 as num from dual
union
select 2 as num from dual
union
select 3 as num from dual
),
y as
(
select 1 as num from dual
union
select 2 as num from dual
union
select 4 as num from dual
)
select x.num, decode(y.num, null, 'N','Y') as yes_no
from x
left outer join y on (x.num = y.num)
Output:
NUM YES_NO
1 Y
2 Y
3 N
You can use subquery in case statement:
select
case dummy
when 'X' then (select 'TRUE' from dual)
else 'FALSE'
end TEST
from dual;
TEST
TRUE
select
case (select 'XXX' from dual)
when 'XXX' then 'TRUE'
else 'FALSE'
end TEST
from dual;
TEST
TRUE

Counting null and non-null values in a single query

I have a table
create table us
(
a number
);
Now I have data like:
a
1
2
3
4
null
null
null
8
9
Now I need a single query to count null and not null values in column a
This works for Oracle and SQL Server (you might be able to get it to work on another RDBMS):
select sum(case when a is null then 1 else 0 end) count_nulls
, count(a) count_not_nulls
from us;
Or:
select count(*) - count(a), count(a) from us;
If I understood correctly you want to count all NULL and all NOT NULL in a column...
If that is correct:
SELECT count(*) FROM us WHERE a IS NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT count(*) FROM us WHERE a IS NOT NULL
Edited to have the full query, after reading the comments :]
SELECT COUNT(*), 'null_tally' AS narrative
FROM us
WHERE a IS NULL
UNION
SELECT COUNT(*), 'not_null_tally' AS narrative
FROM us
WHERE a IS NOT NULL;
Here is a quick and dirty version that works on Oracle :
select sum(case a when null then 1 else 0) "Null values",
sum(case a when null then 0 else 1) "Non-null values"
from us
for non nulls
select count(a)
from us
for nulls
select count(*)
from us
minus
select count(a)
from us
Hence
SELECT COUNT(A) NOT_NULLS
FROM US
UNION
SELECT COUNT(*) - COUNT(A) NULLS
FROM US
ought to do the job
Better in that the column titles come out correct.
SELECT COUNT(A) NOT_NULL, COUNT(*) - COUNT(A) NULLS
FROM US
In some testing on my system, it costs a full table scan.
As i understood your query, You just run this script and get Total Null,Total NotNull rows,
select count(*) - count(a) as 'Null', count(a) as 'Not Null' from us;
usually i use this trick
select sum(case when a is null then 0 else 1 end) as count_notnull,
sum(case when a is null then 1 else 0 end) as count_null
from tab
group by a
Just to provide yet another alternative, Postgres 9.4+ allows applying a FILTER to aggregates:
SELECT
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE a IS NULL) count_nulls,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE a IS NOT NULL) count_not_nulls
FROM us;
SQLFiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!17/80a24/5
This is little tricky. Assume the table has just one column, then the Count(1) and Count(*) will give different values.
set nocount on
declare #table1 table (empid int)
insert #table1 values (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9),(10),(NULL),(11),(12),(NULL),(13),(14);
select * from #table1
select COUNT(1) as "COUNT(1)" from #table1
select COUNT(empid) "Count(empid)" from #table1
Query Results
As you can see in the image, The first result shows the table has 16 rows. out of which two rows are NULL. So when we use Count(*) the query engine counts the number of rows, So we got count result as 16. But in case of Count(empid) it counted the non-NULL-values in the column empid. So we got the result as 14.
so whenever we are using COUNT(Column) make sure we take care of NULL values as shown below.
select COUNT(isnull(empid,1)) from #table1
will count both NULL and Non-NULL values.
Note: Same thing applies even when the table is made up of more than one column. Count(1) will give total number of rows irrespective of NULL/Non-NULL values. Only when the column values are counted using Count(Column) we need to take care of NULL values.
I had a similar issue: to count all distinct values, counting null values as 1, too. A simple count doesn't work in this case, as it does not take null values into account.
Here's a snippet that works on SQL and does not involve selection of new values.
Basically, once performed the distinct, also return the row number in a new column (n) using the row_number() function, then perform a count on that column:
SELECT COUNT(n)
FROM (
SELECT *, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY [MyColumn] ASC) n
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT [MyColumn]
FROM [MyTable]
) items
) distinctItems
Try this..
SELECT CASE
WHEN a IS NULL THEN 'Null'
ELSE 'Not Null'
END a,
Count(1)
FROM us
GROUP BY CASE
WHEN a IS NULL THEN 'Null'
ELSE 'Not Null'
END
Here are two solutions:
Select count(columnname) as countofNotNulls, count(isnull(columnname,1))-count(columnname) AS Countofnulls from table name
OR
Select count(columnname) as countofNotNulls, count(*)-count(columnname) AS Countofnulls from table name
Try
SELECT
SUM(ISNULL(a)) AS all_null,
SUM(!ISNULL(a)) AS all_not_null
FROM us;
Simple!
If you're using MS Sql Server...
SELECT COUNT(0) AS 'Null_ColumnA_Records',
(
SELECT COUNT(0)
FROM your_table
WHERE ColumnA IS NOT NULL
) AS 'NOT_Null_ColumnA_Records'
FROM your_table
WHERE ColumnA IS NULL;
I don't recomend you doing this... but here you have it (in the same table as result)
use ISNULL embedded function.
All the answers are either wrong or extremely out of date.
The simple and correct way of doing this query is using COUNT_IF function.
SELECT
COUNT_IF(a IS NULL) AS nulls,
COUNT_IF(a IS NOT NULL) AS not_nulls
FROM
us
SELECT SUM(NULLs) AS 'NULLS', SUM(NOTNULLs) AS 'NOTNULLs' FROM
(select count(*) AS 'NULLs', 0 as 'NOTNULLs' FROM us WHERE a is null
UNION select 0 as 'NULLs', count(*) AS 'NOTNULLs' FROM us WHERE a is not null) AS x
It's fugly, but it will return a single record with 2 cols indicating the count of nulls vs non nulls.
This works in T-SQL. If you're just counting the number of something and you want to include the nulls, use COALESCE instead of case.
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#us') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #us
CREATE TABLE #us
(
a INT NULL
);
INSERT INTO #us VALUES (1),(2),(3),(4),(NULL),(NULL),(NULL),(8),(9)
SELECT * FROM #us
SELECT CASE WHEN a IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'NON-NULL' END AS 'NULL?',
COUNT(CASE WHEN a IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'NON-NULL' END) AS 'Count'
FROM #us
GROUP BY CASE WHEN a IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'NON-NULL' END
SELECT COALESCE(CAST(a AS NVARCHAR),'NULL') AS a,
COUNT(COALESCE(CAST(a AS NVARCHAR),'NULL')) AS 'Count'
FROM #us
GROUP BY COALESCE(CAST(a AS NVARCHAR),'NULL')
Building off of Alberto, I added the rollup.
SELECT [Narrative] = CASE
WHEN [Narrative] IS NULL THEN 'count_total' ELSE [Narrative] END
,[Count]=SUM([Count]) FROM (SELECT COUNT(*) [Count], 'count_nulls' AS [Narrative]
FROM [CrmDW].[CRM].[User]
WHERE [EmployeeID] IS NULL
UNION
SELECT COUNT(*), 'count_not_nulls ' AS narrative
FROM [CrmDW].[CRM].[User]
WHERE [EmployeeID] IS NOT NULL) S
GROUP BY [Narrative] WITH CUBE;
SELECT
ALL_VALUES
,COUNT(ALL_VALUES)
FROM(
SELECT
NVL2(A,'NOT NULL','NULL') AS ALL_VALUES
,NVL(A,0)
FROM US
)
GROUP BY ALL_VALUES
select count(isnull(NullableColumn,-1))
if its mysql, you can try something like this.
select
(select count(*) from TABLENAME WHERE a = 'null') as total_null,
(select count(*) from TABLENAME WHERE a != 'null') as total_not_null
FROM TABLENAME
Just in case you wanted it in a single record:
select
(select count(*) from tbl where colName is null) Nulls,
(select count(*) from tbl where colName is not null) NonNulls
;-)
for counting not null values
select count(*) from us where a is not null;
for counting null values
select count(*) from us where a is null;
I created the table in postgres 10 and both of the following worked:
select count(*) from us
and
select count(a is null) from us
In my case I wanted the "null distribution" amongst multiple columns:
SELECT
(CASE WHEN a IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'NOT-NULL' END) AS a_null,
(CASE WHEN b IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'NOT-NULL' END) AS b_null,
(CASE WHEN c IS NULL THEN 'NULL' ELSE 'NOT-NULL' END) AS c_null,
...
count(*)
FROM us
GROUP BY 1, 2, 3,...
ORDER BY 1, 2, 3,...
As per the '...' it is easily extendable to more columns, as many as needed
Number of elements where a is null:
select count(a) from us where a is null;
Number of elements where a is not null:
select count(a) from us where a is not null;