sql query to get today new records compared with yesterday - sql

Question

i have this table:
COD (Integer) (PK)
ID (Varchar)
DATE (Date)
I just want to get the new ID's from today, compared with yesterday (the ID's from today that are not present yesterday)
This needs to be done with just one query, maximum efficiency because the table will have 4-5 millions records
As a java developer i am able to do this with 2 queries, but with just one is beyond my knowledge so any help would be so much appreciated
EDIT: date format is dd/mm/yyyy and every day each ID may come 0 or 1 times

Answer 1

Here is a solution that will go over the base data one time only. It selects the id and the date where the date is either yesterday or today (or both). Then it GROUPS BY id - each group will have either one or two rows. Then it filters by the condition that the MIN date in the group is "today". Those are the id's that exist today but did not exist yesterday.
DATE is an Oracle keyword, best not used as a column name. I changed that to DT. I also assume that your "dt" field is a pure date (as pure as it can be in Oracle, meaning: time of day, which is always present, is 00:00:00).
select id
from your_table
where dt in (trunc(sysdate), trunc(sysdate) - 1)
group by id
having min(dt) = trunc(sysdate)
;
Edit: Gordon makes a good point: perhaps you may have more than one such row per ID, in the same day? In that case the time-of-day may also be different from 00:00:00.
If so, the solution can be adapted:
select id
from your_table
where dt >= trunc(sysdate) - 1 and dt < trunc(sysdate) + 1
group by id
having min(dt) >= trunc(sysdate)
;
Either way: (1) the base table is read just once; (2) the column DT is not wrapped within any function, so if there is an index on that column, it can be used to access just the needed rows.

Answer 2

The typical method would use not exists:
select t.*
from t
where t.date >= trunc(sysdate) and t.date < trunc(sysdate + 1) and
not exists (select 1
from t t2
where t2.id = t.id and
t2.date >= trunc(sysdate - 1) and t2.date < trunc(sysdate)
);
This is a general solution. If you know that there is at most one record per day, there are better solutions, such as using lag().

Answer 3

Use MINUS. I suppose your date column has a time part, so you need to truncate it.
select id from mytable where trunc(date) = trunc(sysdate)
minus
select id from mytable where trunc(date) = trunc(sysdate) - 1;
I suggest the following function index. Without it, the query would have to full scan the table, which would probably be quite slow.
create idx on mytable( trunc(sysdate) , id );