I need to sort a particular query's result in a way that top 2 records are selected on a particular order and rest in some other particular order.
Basically something like this
WITH MY_TABLE AS
(
SELECT NEARBY_CITY_ID, CNT_USERS, DISTANCE_CITY
FROM MY_RELATED_CITIES
WHERE CITY_ID = :MYCITYID
)
SELECT *
FROM MY_TABLE
ORDER BY DISTANCE
LIMIT 2
UNION
SELECT *
FROM MY_TABLE
ORDER BY CNT_USERS, DISTANCE
LIMIT 48;
But this query is not syntactically right.
Can I somehow store the Result of query used to make MY_TABLE in some Json or Array or Cursor Object and then use that as a Table later in code to achieve this?
Did you try using parentheses?.
WITH my_table AS
(
SELECT nearby_city_id,
cnt_users,
distance_city
FROM my_related_cities
WHERE city_id = :MYCITYID )
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM my_table
ORDER BY distance limit 2 ) A
UNION
(
SELECT *
FROM my_table
ORDER BY cnt_users,
distance limit 48 ) B;
Related
I have code where I'm sampling 50,000 random records. I.e.,
SELECT * FROM Table1
SAMPLE 50000;
That works. However, what I really want to do is sample the number of records that are in a different table. I.e.,
SELECT * FROM Table1
SAMPLE count(*) FROM Table2;
I get an error. What am I doing wrong?
This is not randomized like sample, so bear that in mind. But there also won't be an obvious pattern, I believe it's determined by disk location (don't quote me on that).
SELECT *
FROM Table1
QUALIFY ROW_NUMBER() OVER
( PARTITION BY 1
ORDER BY 1
) <=
( SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Table2
);
Better way
SELECT TMP.* -- Or list the columns you want with "rnd"
FROM ( SELECT RANDOM(-10000000,10000000) rnd,
T1.*
FROM Table1 T1
) TMP
QUALIFY ROW_NUMBER() OVER
( ORDER BY rnd
) <=
( SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Table2
);
SELECT TOP 50000 * FROM Table1 ORDER BY NEWID()
I tried the sql query given below:
SELECT * FROM (SELECT *
FROM TABLE_A ORDER BY COLUMN_1)DUMMY_TABLE
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM TABLE_B
It results in the following error:
The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived
tables, subqueries, and common table expressions, unless TOP or FOR
XML is also specified.
I need to use order by in union all. How do I accomplish this?
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT * FROM TABLE_A
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM TABLE_B
) dum
-- ORDER BY .....
but if you want to have all records from Table_A on the top of the result list, the you can add user define value which you can use for ordering,
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT *, 1 sortby FROM TABLE_A
UNION ALL
SELECT *, 2 sortby FROM TABLE_B
) dum
ORDER BY sortby
You don't really need to have parenthesis. You can sort directly:
SELECT *, 1 AS RN FROM TABLE_A
UNION ALL
SELECT *, 2 AS RN FROM TABLE_B
ORDER BY RN, COLUMN_1
Not an OP direct response, but I thought I would jimmy in here responding to the the OP's ERROR messsage, which may point you in another direction entirely!
All these answers are referring to an overall ORDER BY once the record set has been retrieved and you sort the lot.
What if you want to ORDER BY each portion of the UNION independantly, and still have them "joined" in the same SELECT?
SELECT pass1.* FROM
(SELECT TOP 1000 tblA.ID, tblA.CustomerName
FROM TABLE_A AS tblA ORDER BY 2) AS pass1
UNION ALL
SELECT pass2.* FROM
(SELECT TOP 1000 tblB.ID, tblB.CustomerName
FROM TABLE_B AS tblB ORDER BY 2) AS pass2
Note the TOP 1000 is an arbitary number. Use a big enough number to capture all of the data you require.
There will be times when you need to do something like this :
Pull top 5 from table 1 based on a sort
and bottom 5 from table 2 based on another sort
and union these together.
solution
select * from (
-- top 5 records
select top 5 col1, col2, col3
from table1
group by col1, col2
order by col3 desc ) z
union all
select * from (
-- bottom 5 records
select top 5 col1, col2, col3
from table2
group by col1, col2
order by col3 ) z
this was the only way i was able to get around the error and worked fine for me.
SELECT * FROM (SELECT *
FROM TABLE_A ORDER BY COLUMN_1)DUMMY_TABLE
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM TABLE_B
ORDER BY 2;
2 is column number here .. In Oracle SQL you can use the column number by which you want to sort the data
This solved my SELECT statement:
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT id,name FROM TABLE_A
UNION ALL
SELECT id,name FROM TABLE_B ) dum
order by dum.id , dum.name
where id and name columns available in tables and you can use your columns .
Simply use that , no need parenthesis or anything else
SELECT *, id as TABLE_A_ID FROM TABLE_A
UNION ALL
SELECT *, id as TABLE_B_ID FROM TABLE_B
ORDER BY TABLE_A_ID, TABLE_B_ID
ORDER BY after the last UNION should apply to both datasets joined by union.
The solution shown below:
SELECT *,id AS sameColumn1 FROM Locations
UNION ALL
SELECT *,id AS sameColumn2 FROM Cities
ORDER BY sameColumn1,sameColumn2
select CONCAT(Name, '(',substr(occupation, 1, 1), ')') AS f1
from OCCUPATIONS
union
select temp.str AS f1 from
(select count(occupation) AS counts, occupation, concat('There are a total of ' ,count(occupation) ,' ', lower(occupation),'s.') As str from OCCUPATIONS group by occupation order by counts ASC, occupation ASC
) As temp
order by f1
First of all, I'm not familiar with SQL in depth, so this may be a beginner question.
I know how to select data ordered by Id: SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY id LIMIT 100 as well as how to select a random subset: SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100.
I'd like to merge these two queries into 1 in a zip manner, choosing limit/2 from each (i.e. 50). For example:
0
85
1
35
2
38
3
19
4
...
I would like to avoid duplicates. The easiest way is probably to just add a WHERE id > 100/2 to the part of the query that retrieves randomly ordered rows.
Additional info: It is unknown how many rows exist.
To get the "zip-manner" merge add a generated rownumber to each query and use an union with order by rownnumber.
Use even numbers for one and odd numbers for the other query.
Try this for MySQL
SELECT
#rownum0:=#rownum0+2 rn,
f.*
FROM ( SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY id ) f, (SELECT #rownum0:=0) r
UNION
SELECT #rownum1:=#rownum1+2 rn,
b.*
FROM ( SELECT * FROM bar ORDER BY RAND() ) b, (SELECT #rownum1:=-1) r
ORDER BY rn
LIMIT 100
This should be self-explicative but doesnt remove duplicates:
select #rownum:=#rownum+1 as rownum,
(#rownum-1) % 50 as sortc, u.id
from (
(select id from player order by id limit 50)
union all
(select id from player order by rand() limit 50)) u,
(select #rownum:=0) r
order by sortc,rownum;
If you replace "union all" with "union", you remove duplicates but get less rows as a consequence.
This will deal with duplicates, does not restrict random numbers in the ids > 50, and always return 100 rows:
SELECT #rownum := #rownum + 1 AS rownum,
( #rownum - 1 ) % 50 AS sortc,
u.id
FROM ((SELECT id
FROM foo
ORDER BY Rand()
LIMIT 50)
UNION
(SELECT id
FROM foo
WHERE id <= 100
ORDER BY id)) u,
(SELECT #rownum := 0) r
WHERE #rownum < 100
ORDER BY sortc,
rownum DESC
LIMIT 100;
SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY id LIMIT 50 UNION SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 50
If I understand your requirement correctly. UNION removes duplicates by itself
I'm using SQL Server 2005 and I'm trying to achieve something like this:
I want to get the first x rows and the last x rows in the same select statement.
SELECT TOP(5) BOTTOM(5)
Of course BOTTOM does not exist, so I need another solution. I believe there is an easy and elegant solution that I'm not getting. Doing the select again with GROUP BY DESC is not an option.
Using a union is the only thing I can think of to accomplish this
select * from (select top(5) * from logins order by USERNAME ASC) a
union
select * from (select top(5) * from logins order by USERNAME DESC) b
Check the link
SQL SERVER – How to Retrieve TOP and BOTTOM Rows Together using T-SQL
Did you try to using rownumber?
SELECT *
FROM
(SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (Order BY columnName) as TopFive
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (Order BY columnName Desc) as BottomFive
FROM Table
)
WHERE TopFive <=5 or BottomFive <=5
http://www.sqlservercurry.com/2009/02/select-top-n-and-bottom-n-rows-using.html
I think you've two main options:
SELECT TOP 5 ...
FROM ...
ORDER BY ... ASC
UNION
SELECT TOP 5 ...
FROM ...
ORDER BY ... DESC
Or, if you know how many items there are in the table:
SELECT ...
FROM (
SELECT ..., ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ... ASC) AS intRow
FROM ...
) AS T
WHERE intRow BETWEEN 1 AND 5 OR intRow BETWEEN #Number - 5 AND #Number
Is it an option for you to use a union?
E.g.
select top 5 ... order by {specify columns asc}
union
select top 5 ... order by {specify columns desc}
i guess you have to do it using subquery only
select * from table where id in (
(SELECT id ORDER BY columnName LIMIT 5) OR
(SELECT id ORDER BY columnName DESC LIMIT 5)
)
select * from table where id in (
(SELECT TOP(5) id ORDER BY columnName) OR
(SELECT TOP(5) id ORDER BY columnName DESC)
)
EDITED
select * from table where id in (
(SELECT TOP 5 id ORDER BY columnName) OR
(SELECT TOP 5 id ORDER BY columnName DESC)
)
No real difference between this and the union that I'm aware of, but technically it is a single query.
select t.*
from table t
where t.id in (select top 5 t2.id from table t2 order by MyColumn)
or
t.id in (select top 5 t2.id from table t2 order by MyColumn desc);
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT x, rank() over (order by x asc) as rown
FROM table
) temp
where temp.rown = 1
or temp.rown = (select count(x) from table)
Then you are out - doing the select again IS the only option, unless you want to pull in the complete result set and then throwing away everything in between.
ANY sql I cna think of is the same way - for the bottom you need to know first either how many items you have (materialize everything or use count(*)) or a reverse sort order.
Sorry if that does not suit you, but at the end.... reality does not care, and I do not see any other way to do that.
I had to do this recently for a very large stored procedure; if your query is quite large, and you want to minimize the amount of queries you could declare a #tempTable, insert into that #tempTable then query from that #tempTable,
DECLARE #tempTable TABLE ( columns.. )
INSERT INTO #tempTable
VALUES ( SELECT.. your query here ..)
SELECT TOP(5) columns FROM #tempTable ORDER BY column ASC -- returns first to last
SELECT TOP(5) columns FROM #tempTable ORDER BY column DESC -- returns last to first
In Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or above, I would like to get the first row, and if there is no matching row, then return a row with default values.
SELECT TOP 1 ID,Name
FROM TableName
UNION ALL
SELECT 0,''
ORDER BY ID DESC
This works, except that it returns two rows if there is data in the table, and 1 row if not.
I'd like it to always return 1 row.
I think it has something to do with EXISTS, but I'm not sure.
It would be something like:
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM Contact
WHERE EXISTS(select * from contact)
But if not EXISTS, then SELECT 0,''
What happens when the table is very full and you might want to specify which row of your top 1 to get, such as the first name? OMG Ponies' query will return the wrong answer in that case if you just change the ORDER BY clause. His query also costs about 8% more CPU than this modification (though it has equal reads)
SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM (
SELECT TOP 1 ID,Name
FROM TableName
ORDER BY Name
UNION ALL
SELECT 0,''
) X
ORDER BY ID DESC
The difference is that the inner query has a TOP 1 also, and which TOP 1 can be specified there (as shown).
Just for fun, this is another way to do it which performs very closely to the above query (-15ms to +30ms). While it's more complicated than necessary for such a simple query, it demonstrates a technique that I don't see other SQL folks using very often.
SELECT
ID = Coalesce(T.ID, 0),
Name = Coalesce(T.Name, '')
FROM
(SELECT 1) X (Num)
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT TOP 1 ID, Name
FROM TableName
ORDER BY ID DESC
) T ON 1 = 1 -- effective cross join but does not limit rows in the first table
Use:
SELECT TOP 1
x.id,
x.name
FROM (SELECT t.id,
t.name
FROM TABLENAME t
UNION ALL
SELECT 0,
'') x
ORDER BY id DESC
Using a CTE equivalent:
WITH query AS (
SELECT t.id,
t.name
FROM TABLENAME t
UNION ALL
SELECT 0,
'')
SELECT TOP 1
x.id,
x.name
FROM query x
ORDER BY x.id DESC
CREATE TABLE #sample(id INT, data VARCHAR(10))
SELECT TOP 1 id, data INTO #temp FROM #sample
IF ##ROWCOUNT = 0 INSERT INTO #temp VALUES (null, null)
SELECT * FROM #temp
put the top oustide of the UNION query
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM(
SELECT ID,Name
FROM TableName
UNION ALL
SELECT 0,''
) z
ORDER BY ID DESC
IF EXISTS ( SELECT TOP 1 ID, Name FROM TableName )
BEGIN
SELECT TOP 1 ID, Name FROM TableName
END
ELSE
BEGIN
--exists returned no rows
--send a default row
SELECT 0, ''
END