I had a working sample query earlier in my code as mentioned below.
SELECT DISTINCT
nombre_aplicacion,
APLICACION,
NOMBRE_APLCODE,
DESCRIPCION,
AREAFUNC
FROM (
select **CODAPLICATION nombre_aplicacion**,
APLICACION,
NOMBRE_APLCODE,
DESCRPTION,
AREAFUNC
from admin.VW_APLICACIONES#dblink,
admin.VW_PRODUCTOS#dblink
where **nombre_aplicacion (+) = CODAPLICATION**
)
WHERE 1=1
ORDER BY nombre_aplicacion ASC;
When I try similar type of query with different tables I was getting error as invalid ORA-00904: "NOMBRE_APLICACION": invalid identifier.
If I remove nombre_aplicacion (+) = CODAPLICATION in where condition query is fetching the result. Can any one suggest why I was facing error as its working earlier with sample query and I was getting error? Is this join is valid?
The query is not valid as:
In the inner sub-query you select areafunc and in the outer query you use area which does not appear in the inner sub-query so will not be available.
In the inner sub-query, you define CODAPLICATION to have the alias nombre_aplicacion and then you try to use that alias in the WHERE clause as a join condition; that will not work.
You have not described which column belongs to which table but you want something like:
SELECT DISTINCT
a.codaplication AS nombre_aplicacion,
a.aplicacion,
a.nombre_aplcode,
p.descrption,
p.areafunc
from APLICACIONES a
LEFT OUTER JOIN PRODUCTOS p
ON (a.primary_key_column = p.foreign_key_column)
ORDER BY nombre_aplicacion ASC;
Note: you are going to have to correct the code to give the correct table aliases for each column and give the correct columns for the join condition.
Here is the T-SQL. The code has been around for years and it was handed to me to migrate to another SQL server. It apparently works, but I don't know why. The execution plan doesn't show any predicates being used, so how does it know which rows to exclude. If I run the subquery I get 1146 rows with the value 1
SELECT EM.PERSON_ID
FROM EMP_BEN_ELECTS EBE, EMPLOYEE_MAP EM
WHERE EBE.BW_ID = EM.BW_ID
AND CHANGE_BENEFIT_EVENT_DATE IS NULL
AND OPTION_ID <> 'WAIVE'
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM EMPLOYEE_BILLING WHERE BILLING_GROUPING_ID
IN('HWMONTHLY','HWINDIVIDUALBILLED') AND END_DATE IS NULL)
I plan rewrite it without the subquery and use a left join instead, but this just boggled me that it works. The only time I seen code written like this without the join being qualified was when I seen code coming from an Oracle developer.
The subquery of NOT EXISTS is not used to return any (of the 1146) rows.
It is used to check if at least 1 row exists in the table EMPLOYEE_BILLING with the specified conditions:
BILLING_GROUPING_ID IN('HWMONTHLY','HWINDIVIDUALBILLED') AND END_DATE IS NULL
If there is such a row, then NOT EXISTS returns FALSE and since all the conditions in the WHERE clause of the main query are linked with the operator AND, then the final result is WHERE FALSE, making the query to not return any rows.
Don't rewrite the query with a LEFT join.
EXISTS and NOT EXISTS provide usually better performance than joins.
What you must change though, is that archaic join syntax with the ,.
Change it to a proper INNER join with an ON clause:
SELECT EM.PERSON_ID
FROM EMP_BEN_ELECTS EBE INNER JOIN EMPLOYEE_MAP EM
ON EBE.BW_ID = EM.BW_ID
WHERE CHANGE_BENEFIT_EVENT_DATE IS NULL
AND OPTION_ID <> 'WAIVE'
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM EMPLOYEE_BILLING
WHERE BILLING_GROUPING_ID IN('HWMONTHLY','HWINDIVIDUALBILLED')
AND END_DATE IS NULL
)
Also, you should qualify all the column names with the table's name/alias they belong to (CHANGE_BENEFIT_EVENT_DATE and OPTION_ID which I left unqualified because I don't know which alias to use).
SQL Masters,
I don't understand part of this query. In the select statement there are what look like independent 'select statements'almost like a function. This code is vendor written Blackbaud CRM. As independent code there is no join in the code for the info they bring into the data set as you can see in the from clause. One last odd item is that in the column aliased Spouse_id the column SPOUSE.RECIPROCALCONSTITUENTID dose not even exist in the table referred to. Any BBCRM people out there that can explain this?
Thanks
select
CONSTITUENT.ID,
CONSTITUENT.ISORGANIZATION,
CONSTITUENT.KEYNAME,
CONSTITUENT.FIRSTNAME,
CONSTITUENT.MIDDLENAME,
CONSTITUENT.MAIDENNAME,
CONSTITUENT.NICKNAME,
(select SPOUSE.RECIPROCALCONSTITUENTID
from dbo.RELATIONSHIP as SPOUSE
where SPOUSE.RELATIONSHIPCONSTITUENTID = CONSTITUENT.ID
and SPOUSE.ISSPOUSE = 1) as [SPOUSE_ID],
(select MARITALSTATUSCODE.DESCRIPTION
from dbo.MARITALSTATUSCODE
where MARITALSTATUSCODE.ID = CONSTITUENT.MARITALSTATUSCODEID) as [MARITALSTATUSCODEID_TRANSLATION]
From
dbo.constituent
left join
dbo.ORGANIZATIONDATA on ORGANIZATIONDATA.ID = CONSTITUENT.ID
where
(CONSTITUENT.ISCONSTITUENT = 1)
These are correlated subqueries. Although there is no explicit JOIN, there is a link to the outer table which behaves like a join (although more constrained than explicit JOINs):
(select SPOUSE.RECIPROCALCONSTITUENTID
from dbo.RELATIONSHIP as SPOUSE
where SPOUSE.RELATIONSHIPCONSTITUENTID = CONSTITUENT.ID AND
-------^ correlation clause connecting to outer table
SPOUSE.ISSPOUSE = 1
) as [SPOUSE_ID],
This behaves like a LEFT JOIN. If no rows match, then the result is NULL.
Note that in this context, the correlated subquery is also a scalar subquery. That means that it returns exactly one column and at most one row.
If the query returned more than one column, you would get a compile-time error on the query. If the query returns more than one row, you will get a run-time error on the query.
I run the following query:
SELECT
orderdetails.sku,
orderdetails.mf_item_number,
orderdetails.qty,
orderdetails.price,
supplier.supplierid,
supplier.suppliername,
supplier.dropshipfees,
cost = (SELECT supplier_item.price
FROM supplier_item,
orderdetails,
supplier
WHERE supplier_item.sku = orderdetails.sku
AND supplier_item.supplierid = supplier.supplierid)
FROM orderdetails,
supplier,
group_master
WHERE invoiceid = '339740'
AND orderdetails.mfr_id = supplier.supplierid
AND group_master.sku = orderdetails.sku
I get the following error:
Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
Any ideas?
Try this:
SELECT
od.Sku,
od.mf_item_number,
od.Qty,
od.Price,
s.SupplierId,
s.SupplierName,
s.DropShipFees,
si.Price as cost
FROM
OrderDetails od
INNER JOIN Supplier s on s.SupplierId = od.Mfr_ID
INNER JOIN Group_Master gm on gm.Sku = od.Sku
INNER JOIN Supplier_Item si on si.SKU = od.Sku and si.SupplierId = s.SupplierID
WHERE
od.invoiceid = '339740'
This will return multiple rows that are identical except for the cost column. Look at the different cost values that are returned and figure out what is causing the different values. Then ask somebody which cost value they want, and add the criteria to the query that will select that cost.
Check to see if there are any triggers on the table you are trying to execute queries against. They can sometimes throw this error as they are trying to run the update/select/insert trigger that is on the table.
You can modify your query to disable then enable the trigger if the trigger DOES NOT need to be executed for whatever query you are trying to run.
ALTER TABLE your_table DISABLE TRIGGER [the_trigger_name]
UPDATE your_table
SET Gender = 'Female'
WHERE (Gender = 'Male')
ALTER TABLE your_table ENABLE TRIGGER [the_trigger_name]
SELECT COLUMN
FROM TABLE
WHERE columns_name
IN ( SELECT COLUMN FROM TABLE WHERE columns_name = 'value');
note: when we are using sub-query we must focus on these points:
if our sub query returns 1 value in this case we need to use (=,!=,<>,<,>....)
else (more than one value), in this case we need to use (in, any, all, some )
cost = Select Supplier_Item.Price from Supplier_Item,orderdetails,Supplier
where Supplier_Item.SKU=OrderDetails.Sku and
Supplier_Item.SupplierId=Supplier.SupplierID
This subquery returns multiple values, SQL is complaining because it can't assign multiple values to cost in a single record.
Some ideas:
Fix the data such that the existing subquery returns only 1 record
Fix the subquery such that it only returns one record
Add a top 1 and order by to the subquery (nasty solution that DBAs hate - but it "works")
Use a user defined function to concatenate the results of the subquery into a single string
The fix is to stop using correlated subqueries and use joins instead. Correlated subqueries are essentially cursors as they cause the query to run row-by-row and should be avoided.
You may need a derived table in the join in order to get the value you want in the field if you want only one record to match, if you need both values then the ordinary join will do that but you will get multiple records for the same id in the results set. If you only want one, you need to decide which one and do that in the code, you could use a top 1 with an order by, you could use max(), you could use min(), etc, depending on what your real requirement for the data is.
I had the same problem , I used in instead of = , from the Northwind database example :
Query is : Find the Companies that placed orders in 1997
Try this :
SELECT CompanyName
FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerID IN (
SELECT CustomerID
FROM Orders
WHERE YEAR(OrderDate) = '1997'
);
Instead of that :
SELECT CompanyName
FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerID =
(
SELECT CustomerID
FROM Orders
WHERE YEAR(OrderDate) = '1997'
);
Either your data is bad, or it's not structured the way you think it is. Possibly both.
To prove/disprove this hypothesis, run this query:
SELECT * from
(
SELECT count(*) as c, Supplier_Item.SKU
FROM Supplier_Item
INNER JOIN orderdetails
ON Supplier_Item.sku = orderdetails.sku
INNER JOIN Supplier
ON Supplier_item.supplierID = Supplier.SupplierID
GROUP BY Supplier_Item.SKU
) x
WHERE c > 1
ORDER BY c DESC
If this returns just a few rows, then your data is bad. If it returns lots of rows, then your data is not structured the way you think it is. (If it returns zero rows, I'm wrong.)
I'm guessing that you have orders containing the same SKU multiple times (two separate line items, both ordering the same SKU).
The select statement in the cost part of your select is returning more than one value. You need to add more where clauses, or use an aggregation.
The error implies that this subquery is returning more than 1 row:
(Select Supplier_Item.Price from Supplier_Item,orderdetails,Supplier where Supplier_Item.SKU=OrderDetails.Sku and Supplier_Item.SupplierId=Supplier.SupplierID )
You probably don't want to include the orderdetails and supplier tables in the subquery, because you want to reference the values selected from those tables in the outer query. So I think you want the subquery to be simply:
(Select Supplier_Item.Price from Supplier_Item where Supplier_Item.SKU=OrderDetails.Sku and Supplier_Item.SupplierId=Supplier.SupplierID )
I suggest you read up on correlated vs. non-correlated subqueries.
As others have suggested, the best way to do this is to use a join instead of variable assignment. Re-writing your query to use a join (and using the explicit join syntax instead of the implicit join, which was also suggested--and is the best practice), you would get something like this:
select
OrderDetails.Sku,
OrderDetails.mf_item_number,
OrderDetails.Qty,
OrderDetails.Price,
Supplier.SupplierId,
Supplier.SupplierName,
Supplier.DropShipFees,
Supplier_Item.Price as cost
from
OrderDetails
join Supplier on OrderDetails.Mfr_ID = Supplier.SupplierId
join Group_Master on Group_Master.Sku = OrderDetails.Sku
join Supplier_Item on
Supplier_Item.SKU=OrderDetails.Sku and Supplier_Item.SupplierId=Supplier.SupplierID
where
invoiceid='339740'
Even after 9 years of the original post, this helped me.
If you are receiving these types of errors without any clue, there should be a trigger, function related to the table, and obviously it should end up with an SP, or function with selecting/filtering data NOT USING Primary Unique column. If you are searching/filtering using the Primary Unique column there won't be any multiple results. Especially when you are assigning value for a declared variable. The SP never gives you en error but only an runtime error.
"System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
The statement has been terminated."
In my case obviously there was no clue, but only this error message. There was a trigger connected to the table and the table updating by the trigger also had another trigger likewise it ended up with two triggers and in the end with an SP. The SP was having a select clause which was resulting in multiple rows.
SET #Variable1 =(
SELECT column_gonna_asign
FROM dbo.your_db
WHERE Non_primary_non_unique_key= #Variable2
If this returns multiple rows, you are in trouble.
Hi I need to know how to get a result from an query (which connects 2 tables with a outer join) even if my where-clause which points in an empty table get's no result.
Example:
How the result currently looks SQLFiddle.
How the result should looks like SQLFiddle.
When using Outer Join for this example dont use WHERE clause as it treats it as an inner join.
so instead just say AND instead of where
SELECT *
FROM FilledTable
LEFT OUTER JOIN EmptyTable
ON FilledTable.Id = EmptyTable.RefFilledTableId
and EmptyTable.Value = 5
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/7a96a/9