Creation of Oracle index date column for Oracle - sql

SELECT FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME
FROM
(SELECT Y.FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (partition by Y.WR_FILE_TRANS_INFO_ID order by Y.FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME DESC) rowByID
FROM DPDBA.WORK_REQUEST_FILE_TRANS_AUDIT Y
WHERE Y.FILE_EVENT_TYPE = 'SUBMISSION'
AND Y.FILE_SUBMT_RETRL_STATUS = 'LEVEL1 POSTED'
AND Y.FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME BETWEEN '11-DEC-2015' AND '03-FEB-2017')
WHERE rowByID = 1;
I got some performance issue and we need to add the index for this date column and i am looking for help whether its going to be straight index or any thing more than that..

You should not use STRINGS when you compare with DATE values, because it depends on current session NLS-Settings. Use DATE literal or TO_DATE(), functions (resp. TIMESTAMP and TO_TIMESTAMP).
It depends on your data whether Oracle will use an index on FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME column, post the execution plan.
I don't think subquery is required in your case, this query should return the same result.
SELECT Max(FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME)
FROM DPDBA.WORK_REQUEST_FILE_TRANS_AUDIT Y
WHERE Y.FILE_EVENT_TYPE = 'SUBMISSION'
AND Y.FILE_SUBMT_RETRL_STATUS = 'LEVEL1 POSTED'
AND Y.FILE_SUB_RET_DATE_TIME BETWEEN DATE '2015-12-11' AND DATE '2017-02-03'
GROUP BY WR_FILE_TRANS_INFO_ID;

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tdate issue I'm facing in SQL query

While fetching count from table by using following query
Select count(*)
from tab
where tdate = '17-05-19' ---> output 0
or
Select count(*)
from tab
where trunc(tdate) = '17-05-19' ---->output 0
If I use:
Select count(*)
from tab
where tdate >sysdate - 1 ---> it returns some count(yesterday+some of the today txn)
But here I want only yesterday txn whenever I fire this query.
But here I want only yesterday txn whenever I fire this query.
You may use this.
Select count (*) from tab where
tdate >= TRUNC(SYSDATE) - 1
AND tdate < TRUNC(SYSDATE)
The advantage of this over using TRUNC on the date column is that it will utilize an index if it exists over tdate
If you tried by using
Select count(*) from tab where trunc(tdate) = date'2019-05-17'
(or, you could use
Select count(*) from tab where to_char(tdate,'dd-mm-yy') = '17-05-19' by formatting through to_char function
or, you could use
Select count(*) from tab where trunc(tdate) = trunc(sysdate)-1 to get only the data for the day before
)
you'd get some results provided you have data for the date 17th May.
So, you need to provide a formatting for your literal as date'2019-05-17'(known as date literal) especially for Oracle DB, it might be used as '2019-05-17' without date part in MySQL as an example.
Btw, trunc function is used to extract the date portion, and remove the time part of a date type column value.
If your table is populated with huge data, therefore performance may matter, then you can even create functional index on trunc(tdate).
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SQL script to find previous value, not necessarily previous row

is there a way in SQL to find a previous value, not necessarily in the previous row, within the same SELECT statement?
See picture below. I'd like to add another column, ELAPSED, that calculates the time difference between TIMERSTART, but only when DEVICEID is the same, and I_TYPE is viewDisplayed. e.g. subtract 1 from 2, store difference in 3, store 0 in 4 because i_type is not viewDisplayed, subtract 2 from 5, store difference in 6, and so on.
It has to be a statement, I can't use a stored procedure in this case.
SELECT DEVICEID, I_TYPE, TIMERSTART,
O AS ELAPSED -- CASE WHEN <CONDITION> THEN TIMEDIFF() ELSE 0 END AS ELAPSED
FROM CLIENT_USAGE
ORDER BY TIMERSTART ASC
I'm using SAP HANA DB, but it works pretty much like the latest version of MS-SQL. So, if you know how to make it work in SQL, I can make it work in HANA.
You can make a subquery to find the last time entered previous to the row in question.
select deviceid, i_type, timerstart, (timerstart - timerlast) as elapsed.
from CLIENT_USAGE CU
join ( select top 1 timerstart as timerlast
from CLIENT_USAGE C
where (C.i_type = CU.i_type) and
(C.deviceid = CU.deviceid) and (C.timerstart < CU.timerstart)
order by C.timerstart desc
) as temp1
on temp1.i_type = CU.i_type
order by timerstart asc
This is a rough sketch of what the sql should look like I do not know what your primary key is on this table if it is i_type or i_type and deviceid. But this should help with how to atleast calculate the field. I do not think it would be necessary to store the value unless this table is very large or the hardware being used is very slow. It can be calculated rather easily each time this query is run.
SAP HANA supports window functions:
select DEVICEID,
TIMERSTART,
lag(TIMERSTART) over (partition by DEVICEID order by TIMERSTART) as previous_start
from CLIENT_USAGE
Then you can wrap this in parentheses and manipulate the data to your hearts' content

How to speed up SQL query with date GROUP BY?

I have a normal SQLite database table called table1 with 7 columns and of course a rowid. The first column is an custom_id number, the second is date in format YYYY-MM-DD and other 5 are real number data columns. There are about 10M rows in the database, and custom_id and date columns have indices.
What I want to do is to speed up the following query:
SELECT date,max(data1) AS maximum
FROM table1
WHERE custom_id = '1123' AND data1 <> 'NaN'
GROUP BY strftime('%Y-%m', date)
I want to find the maximum correct (not NaN) data1 value for the custom_id 1123 for each year-month-combination. The code above works actually fine, but the query lasts 10 seconds in the first run, but the second time it takes under 1 second, which is OK for me. I run the query in my home PC Apache server with PHP. I think Apache uses some caching which explains the difference.
But the question is, how to speed up the first time run performance? I have many other custom_id:s to query, not all can be cached! Do I need more indices? Another kind of query?
We are going to create an index that will support the following operations:
Retrieve the records of a specific customer
aggregate by month
Creating the following index is not possible since strftime is not a deterministic function
create index table1_ix on table1 (custom_id,strftime('%Y-%m', date));
non-deterministic functions prohibited in index expressions
So instead of strftime('%Y-%m', date) we are going to use substr(date,1,7)
create index table1_ix on table1 (custom_id,substr(date,1,7));
The query should be changed accordingly
select substr(date,1,7), max(data1) as maximum
from table1
where custom_id = '1123'
and data1 <> 'NaN'
group by substr(date,1,7)
I am guessing this is what you intend:
SELECT strftime('%Y-%m', date), max(data1) AS maximum
FROM table1
WHERE custom_id = 1123 AND data <> 'NaN'
GROUP BY strftime('%Y-%m', date)
Start with an index on table1(custom_id, date).

Query aggregate faster than MAX

I have a fairly large table in which one of the columns is a date column. The query I execute is as follows.
select max(date) from tbl where date < to_date('10/01/2010','MM/DD/YYYY')
That is, I want to find the cell value closest to and less than a particular date value. This takes considerable time because of the max on the large table. Is there a faster way to do this? maybe using LAST_VALUE?
Put an index on the date column and the query should be plenty fast.
1) Add an index to the date column. Simply put, an index allows the database engine to store information about the data so it will speed up most queries where that column is one of the clauses. Info here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/indexes003.htm
2) Consider adding a second clause to the query. You have where date < to_date('10/01/2010','MM/DD/YYYY') now, why not change it to:
where date < to_date('10/01/2010','MM/DD/YYYY') and date > to_date('09/30/2010', 'MM/DD/YYYY')
since this will reduce the number of scanned rows.
Try
select date from (
select date from tbl where date < to_date('10/01/2010','MM/DD/YYYY') order by date desc
) where rownum = 1

Possible to use SQL to sort by date but put null dates at the back of the results set?

I have a bunch of tasks in a MySQL database, and one of the fields is "deadline date". Not every task has to have to a deadline date.
I'd like to use SQL to sort the tasks by deadline date, but put the ones without a deadline date in the back of the result set. As it is now, the null dates show up first, then the rest are sorted by deadline date earliest to latest.
Any ideas on how to do this with SQL alone? (I can do it with PHP if needed, but an SQL-only solution would be great.)
Thanks!
Here's a solution using only standard SQL, not ISNULL(). That function is not standard SQL, and may not work on other brands of RDBMS.
SELECT * FROM myTable
WHERE ...
ORDER BY CASE WHEN myDate IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END, myDate;
SELECT * FROM myTable
WHERE ...
ORDER BY ISNULL(myDate), myDate
SELECT foo, bar, due_date FROM tablename
ORDER BY CASE ISNULL(due_date, 0)
WHEN 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END, due_date
So you have 2 order by clauses. The first puts all non-nulls in front, then sorts by due date after that
The easiest way is using the minus operator with DESC.
SELECT * FROM request ORDER BY -date DESC
In MySQL, NULL values are considered lower in order than any non-NULL value, so sorting in ascending (ASC) order NULLs are listed first, and if descending (DESC) they are listed last.
When a - (minus) sign is added before the column name, NULL become -NULL.
Since -NULL == NULL, adding DESC make all the rows sort by date in ascending order followed by NULLs at last.