I have a basic SQL query where I am selecting data from a core records table. I want to add an AND clause to my statement to filter out the results based on a table variable, only if data actually exists in there.
SELECT
*
FROM
TABLE
WHERE
field = '123'
AND
(gender IN (SELECT gender FROM #genders))
In this case, I am looking for all records where field = 123. My goal here is to say that if #genders contains records, filter by that as well.
However, if #genders is empty and we don't have any data in it, it should include all records.
How can I go about doing this? The temp tables are created based on the user selecting one or more optional pieces of criteria from the UI. If they choose a gender for example, I put their selections into a temp table and then I need to search records that meet that criteria. However, if they don't select a gender, I want to include all records, regardless of what the main record has for the gender field.
SELECT
*
FROM
TABLE
WHERE
field = '123'
AND ((SELECT count(1) FROM #genders) = 0 OR
(gender IN (SELECT gender FROM #genders)))
You can use IF condition:
IF EXISTS(SELECT gender FROM #genders)
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM TABLE
WHERE field = '123'
AND
(gender IN (SELECT gender FROM #genders))
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM TABLE
END
You are going to think this is odd but it is efficient
SELECT t.*
FROM TABLE t
JOIN GENDERS g
on g.gender = t.gender
and t.field = '123'
union all
SELECT t.*
FROM TABLE t
where not exists (select 1 from genders)
Maybe I'm under-thinking it, but isn't it just this?
SELECT
*
FROM
TABLE AS t
LEFT JOIN
#genders AS g
ON
g.gender = t.gender
WHERE
field = '123'
AND
(g.gender = t.gender OR g.gender IS NULL);
If your query doesn't get too complicated, I'd recommend an if statement. Once you find yourself continually adding if else statement in there, I'd recommend looking into dynamic SQL.
IF EXISTS(SELECT gender FROM #genders)
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM TABLE
WHERE field = '123'
and gender IN (SELECT distinct gender FROM #genders)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE field = '123'
END
Related
I am trying to compare each row from a select statement to a reference row.
So to put it into context I would like to find the reference row which is the account details for one of our users.
SELECT id, first_name
FROM account
WHERE id = '100'
Would return the info for the user in question
Then I want to run a SELECT statement to return all users - pretty straightforward
SELECT id,first_name
FROM account
For each row I would like to compare the first_name with the reference row. If it is the same return a '1' if it is different return a '0'
I can do this if I type in the value to compare e.g 'Paul'
SELECT id,first_name,
CASE
WHEN first_name = 'Paul' THEN '1'
ELSE '0'
END
FROM account
But obviously I want to replace Paul with whatever the first_name is from the reference row above.
My googling suggests I need to declare a variable and then something with SELECT INTO a variable
DO $$;
Declare
#reference_first_name text;
BEGIN
SELECT first_name
into #reference_first_name
FROM account
WHERE id = ‘100’
END;
But I can't seem to put it together.
Then to go a step further would it be possible to reference multiple columns?
You could do this simply in a subquery:
demo:db<>fiddle
SELECT
id,
first_name,
CASE
WHEN (SELECT first_name FROM users WHERE id = 100) = first_name THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
FROM users;
Other ways are using a CTE or a JOIN (see fiddle for these versions)
Here's another option using an outer join:
select a.id, a.first_name, case when a.first_name = b.first_name then 1 else 0 end
from account a
left join account b on b.id = 100
Online Demo
Use correlated subquery as :
select a.id, a.first_name,
( select count(*)
from personnel p
where p.id = 100
and upper(p.first_name) = upper(a.first_name) ) as flag
from account a;
provided you have a table called personnel and has an ID fixed for all comparisons.
Rextester Demo
What is better approach to check existence of an object in database?
select count(id) as count from my_table where name="searchedName";
OR
select id from my_table where name="searchedName";
And then check if count > 0 or the object is not null (ORM logic)
EDIT:
select id to be valid for Oracle.
The idea should be to that we only need to find one record in order to say that such record exists. This can be done with an EXISTS clause in standard SQL.
select exists (select * from mytable where name = 'searchedName');
returns true if the table contains a record with 'searchedName' and false otherwise.
If you want 0 for false and 1 for true instead (e.g. if the DBMS does not support booleans):
select case when exists (select * from mytable where name = 'searchedName')
then 1 else 0 end as does_exist;
You say you want this for Oracle. In Oracle you can use above query, but you'd have to select from the table dual:
select case when exists (select * from mytable where name = 'searchedName')
then 1 else 0 end as does_exist
from dual;
But for Oracle we'd usually use rownum instead:
select count(*) as does_exist
from mytable
where name = 'searchedName'
and rownum = 1; -- to find one record suffices and we'd stop then
This also returns 1 if the table contains a record with 'searchedName' and 0 otherwise. This is a very typical way in Oracle to limit lookups and the query is very readable (in my opinion).
I'd just call:
select id from my_table where name='searchedName';
Making sure there is an index for the name column.
And then check whether or not the result is empty.
Try with IF EXISTS (
if exists (select 1 from my_table where name = "searchedName")
begin
....
end
I have a SQL Server table with a column called Category. In my user interface, I have a dropdown list of the category. User can select a category and click on a Search button to filter the results by the category. In the dropdown, the first option is blank. Means if the user wants to see all records from all categories, he can select blank.
In my SQL Select I have 2 statements for this
IF #Catg IS NULL
Begin
Select *
From Table
End
Else
Begin
Select *
From Table
Where Catg = #Catg
End
The Catg column in the table will have either a NULL or a category. Is this possible to do in a single SQL statement?
You can use an OR statement to join the clauses together:
Select *
From Table
Where Catg = #Catg OR #Catg IS NULL
How about
SELECT *
FROM yourtable
WHERE (Catg = #Catg) OR (Catg IS NULL)
might be ISNULL solve your problem this will check if values is NULL then '' else your VALUE
select * from tblName
where ISNULL(Catg , '')= ISNULL(#Catg, ISNULL(Catg , ''))
I have a table with column uuid and type. I want all the uuid's 'xxxxx' such that no rows have uuid = 'xxxxx' AND type = 'buy'.
This ends up the same as if you took all uuid's in the table, and then removed all uuid's that match SELECT uuid FROM table WHERE type = 'buy'.
I approach these problems using aggregation and a having clause:
select a_uuid
from table t
group by a_uuid
having sum(case when type = 'Purchase' then 1 else 0 end) = 0;
EDIT:
If you have a table with one row per a_uuid, then the fastest is likely to be:
select a_uuid
from adtbs a
where not exists (select 1 from table t where t.a_uuid = a.a_uuid and t.type = 'Purchase');
For this query, you want an index on table(a_uuid, type).
select a_uuid
from t
group by a_uuid
having not bool_or(type = 'Purchase')
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-aggregate.html#FUNCTIONS-AGGREGATE-TABLE
I have a table with several rows, and several columns. It looks like this:
Name Description
X PASS
X PASS
X FAIL
I want it to return only one row. If all of them are PASS, return PASS.
If one or more of them are FAIL, then return FAIL.
What's the best way to go about achieving this in SQL Server 2008?
EDIT: The values in the name column will always be the same.
Depending on the database indexes, and assuming you want one row returned per unique name, I would look at the performance of
select
name,
min([description]) as description
from
tableA
group by
name
compared to the other solutions
SELECT TOP 1 CASE Description WHEN 'FAIL' THEN 'FAIL' ELSE 'PASS' END
FROM DaTable
ORDER BY Description
OP: Is it possible that the table is empty? In that case this query won't return any rows, obviously.
EDIT
According to aquinas's comment I created a modified query without ordering:
SELECT CASE COUNT(Description) WHEN 0 THEN 'FAIL' ELSE 'PASS' END
FROM DaTable
WHERE Description = 'FAIL'
This query will return PASS if DaTable is empty.
This is the simplest solution you will find:
SELECT MIN(Description) FROM tbl
If there's at least one FAIL, then our result column will contain FAIL, otherwise, it will contain PASS.
You can use EXISTS to get the existance of a row containing "FAIL".
You could also try something like:
SELECT TOP 1 COALESCE(tFail.Description,t.Description)
FROM myTable AS t
LEFT JOIN myTable AS tFail ON tFail.Name = t.Name AND tFail.Description = 'FAIL'
WHERE t.Name = 'x'
Here is the query:
--DROP TABLE result
CREATE TABLE result(Name varchar(10),Description varchar(20))
--select * from result
INSERT INTO result
VALUES('X','PASS'),('X','PASS'),('X','FAIL')
;WITH CTE(descp,cnt) as (SELECT [description],COUNT(*) as cnt FROM result group by [description])
SELECT CASE WHEN COUNT(*) > 1 then 'FAIL' when COUNT(*)=1 then MAX(descp) else 'PASS' END FROM CTE