I'm currently trying to do an SQL query that can detect if a SELECT query returns nothing, and then do another one if that is the case.
Here is what I mean:
IF SELECT * FROM table WHERE criteria = criteria RETURNS NO ROWS
THEN SELECT * FROM table WHERE criteria2 = criteria2
Is this possible? I don't think that an empty reply counts as "null" so I have a bit of a trouble with that.
You can do this in one statement, assuming the columns are the same:
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE criteria = criteria
UNION ALL
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE criteria2 = criteria2 AND
NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM table WHERE criteria = criteria);
You can use NOT EXISTS:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE criteria2 = criteria2
and not exists (
SELECT * FROM table WHERE criteria = criteria
)
union all
SELECT * FROM table WHERE criteria = criteria;
Here NOT EXISTS ensures that either part of the UNION ALL is returned. If the second criteria = criteria passes, then NOT EXISTS will return false and hence, only second part of the above query returns result. If it doesn't, it means, there are no rows with criteria = criteria and NOT EXISTS will return true and hence, only the first part return data.
I Did it like this
WITH
First AS (
SELECT t1.<field1>
FROM <schema1>.<table1> t1
WHERE
<criteria1>
[Other SQL Queries Options]
OFFSET 0
LIMIT 1
),
Second AS (
SELECT t2.<field2>
FROM <schema2>.<table2> t2
WHERE
<criteria2>
[Other SQL Queries Options]
OFFSET 0
LIMIT 1
)
SELECT <field1>
FROM First
UNION ALL
SELECT <field2> as <same name as field1>
FROM Second
WHERE NOT exists(
SELECT 1 FROM First
)
;
Related
What I want to achieve is to have a switch case in the where clause. I want to test if this statement returns something, if it returns null, use this instead.
Sample:
SELECT [THIS_COLUMN]
FROM [THIS_TABLE]
WHERE (IF THIS [ID] RETURNS NULL THEN DO THIS SUBQUERY)
What I mean is that it will do this query first.
SELECT [THIS_COLUMN]
FROM [THIS_TABLE]
WHERE [ID] = 'SOMETHING'
If this returns NULL, do this query instead:
SELECT [THIS_COLUMN]
FROM [THIS_TABLE]
WHERE ID = (SELECT [SOMETHING] FROM [OTHER_TABLE]
WHERE [SOMETHING_SPECIFIC] = 'SOMETHING SPECIFIC')
Note that the expected results from the intended query varies from 30 rows up to 15k rows. Hope it helps.
Adding more information:
The results for this query will be used for another query but will just focus on this query.
Providing a real case scenario:
[THIS_COLUMN] is expected to have a list of VALUES.
[THIS_TABLE] contains the latest data only(let's say 1 year's worth of data) while the [OTHER_TABLE] contains the historical data.
What I want to achieve is when I query for a data that is not with in the 1 year's worth of data, IE 'SOMETHING' is not with in the 1 year scope(or in my case it returns NULL), I will use the other query where I query the 'SOMETHING_SPECIFIC'(Or may be 'SOMETHING' from the first statement makes more sense) from the historical table.
If I as reading through the lines correctly, this might work:
SELECT THIS_COLUMN
FROM dbo.THIS_TABLE TT
WHERE TT.ID = 'SOMETHING'
OR TT.ID = (SELECT OT.SOMETHING
FROM dbo.OTHER_TABLE OT
WHERE OT.SOMETHING_SPECIFIC = 'SOMETHING SPECIFIC'
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM dbo.THIS_TABLE sq
WHERE sq.ID = 'SOMETHING'
AND THIS_COLUMN IS NOT NULL))
Note, however, that this could easily not be particularly performant.
You an use union all and not exists:
select this_column
from this_table
where id = 'something'
union all
select this_column
from this_table
where
not exists (select this_column from this_table where id = 'something')
and id = (select something from other_table where something_specific = 'something specific')
The first union member attempts to find rows that match the first condition, while the other one uses the subquery - the not exists prevents the second member to return something if the first member found a match.
90% of the time you can use a query-batch (i.e. a sequence of T-SQL statements) in a single SqlCommand object or SQL Server client session, so with that in-mind you could do this:
DECLARE #foo nvarchar(50) = (
SELECT
[THIS_COLUMN]
FROM
[THIS_TABLE]
WHERE
[ID] = 'SOMETHING'
);
IF #foo IS NULL
BEGIN
SELECT
[THIS_COLUMN]
FROM
[THIS_TABLE]
WHERE
[ID] = (
SELECT
[SOMETHING]
FROM
[OTHER_TABLE]
WHERE
[SOMETHING_SPECIFIC] = 'SOMETHING SPECIFIC'
)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT #foo AS [THIS_COLUMN];
END
That said, SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE x IN ( SELECT y FROM ... ) is a code-smell in a query - you probably need to rethink your solution entirely.
Hi i want to create a query which does the following. When the paramter 25 is selected it only runs part A of the query, if any other number is selected run both Table A and B select queries.
Example Below:
DECLARE #Type varchar (200)
select * from
(SELECT sort_code FROM dbo.Test 1
WHERE FUNDING_YEAR = 26)
union
(SELECT sort_code FROM dbo.Test 2
WHERE FUNDING_YEAR = 26)
Where case when #Type = 25 then select * from table2 else table 1
You just need to reference the variable in the WHERE clause
SELECT *
FROM TableA
WHERE #Type = 25
UNION
SELECT *
FROM TableB
The query above will always select everything in TableB and will only select everything in TableA when the variable is equal to 25.
Since you are using SSRS, what I would do is write the query to return all of the rows and then apply a filter in the SSRS report when the Paramater is 25. I wouldn't pass a paramater value to the SQL side unless it greatly reduces the run time of the query.
(I would have put this in a comment.)
I'm going to select those provinces which intersects any railroad. So I do it like this (Using SQL Spatial):
SELECT * FROM ProvinceTable
WHERE (
SELECT count(*)
FROM RailroadTable
WHERE ProvinceTable.Shape.STIntersects(RailroadTable.Shape) > 1
) > 0
But it is not efficient because it has to check the intersection between every single railroad geometry and province geometry in order to calculate the count. However it is better to stop the where clause as soon as every first intersection detected and there is no need to check others. Here is what I mean:
SELECT * FROM ProvinceTable
WHERE (
--return true if this is true for any row in the RailroadTable:
-- "ProvinceTable.Shape.STIntersects(RailroadTable.Shape) > 1"
)
So is there a better way to rewrite this query for such a goal?
EDIT
Surprisingly This query takes the same time and returns no row:
SELECT * FROM ProvinceTable
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM RailroadTable
WHERE ProvinceTable.Shape.STIntersects(RailroadTable.Shape) > 1
)
You want to use exists:
SELECT pt.*
FROM ProvinceTable pt
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM RailroadTable rt
WHERE pt.Shape.STIntersects(rt.Shape) = 1
);
I am writing down a view in SQL server (DWH) and the use case pseudo code is:
-- Do some calculation and generate #Temp1
-- ... contains other selects
-- Select statement 1
SELECT * FROM Foo
JOIN #Temp1 tmp on tmp.ID = Foo.ID
WHERE Foo.Deleted = 1
-- Do some calculation and generate #Temp2
-- ... contains other selects
-- Select statement 2
SELECT * FROM Foo
JOIN #Temp2 tmp on tmp.ID = Foo.ID
WHERE Foo.Deleted = 1
The result of the view should be:
Select Statement 1
UNION
Select Statement 2
The intended behavior is the same as the yield returnin C#. Is there a way to tell the view which SELECT statements are actually part of the result and which are not? since the small calculations preceding what I need also contain selects.
Thank you!
Yield return in C# returns rows one at a time as they appear in some underlying function. This concept does not exist in SQL statements. SQl is set-based, returning the entire result set, conceptually as a unit. (That said, sometimes queries run slowly and you will see rows returned slowly or in batches.)
You can control the number of rows being returns using TOP (in SQL Server). You can select particular rows to be returned using WHERE statements. However, you cannot specify a UNION statement that conditionally returns rows from some components but not others.
The closest you may be able to come is something like:
if UseTable1Only = 'Y'
select *
from Table1
else if UseTable2Only = 'Y'
select *
from Table2
else
select *
from table1
union
select *
from table2
You can do something similar using dynamic SQL, by constructing the statement as a string and then executing it.
I found a better work around. It might be helpful for someone else. It is actually to include all the calculation inside WITH statements instead of doing them in the view core:
WITH Temp1 (ID)
AS
(
-- Do some calculation and generate #Temp1
-- ... contains other selects
)
, Temp2 (ID)
AS
(
-- Do some calculation and generate #Temp2
-- ... contains other selects
)
-- Select statement 1
SELECT * FROM Foo
JOIN Temp1 tmp on tmp.ID = Foo.ID
WHERE Foo.Deleted = 1
UNION
-- Select statement 2
SELECT * FROM Foo
JOIN Temp2 tmp on tmp.ID = Foo.ID
WHERE Foo.Deleted = 1
The result will be of course the UNION of all the outiside SELECT statements.
I have a sql query that I run against a sql server database eg.
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Id = 2
This may return a number of records or may return none. If it returns none, I would like to alter my sql query to return a default record, is this possible and if so, how? If records are returned, the default record should not be returned. I cannot update the data so will need to alter the sql query for this.
Another way (you would get an empty initial rowset returned);
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Id = 2
IF (##ROWCOUNT = 0)
SELECT ...
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM (
SELECT ID,1 as Flag FROM MyTable WHERE Id = 2
UNION ALL
SELECT 1,2
) qry
ORDER BY qry.Flag ASC
You can have a look to this post. It is similar to what you are asking
Return a value if no rows are found SQL
I hope that it can guide you to the correct path.
if not exists (SELECT top 1 * FROM mytable WHERE id = 2)
select * from mytable where id= 'whatever_the_default_id_is'
else
select * from mytable where id = 2
If you have to return whole rows of data (and not just a single column) and you have to create a single SQL query then do this:
Left join actual table to defaults single-row table
select
coalesce(a.col1, d.col1) as col1,
coalesce(a.col2, d.col2) as col2,
...
from (
-- your defaults record
select
default1 as col1,
default2 as col2,
...) as d
left join actual as a
on ((1 = 1) /* or any actual table "where" conditions */)
The query need to return the same number of fields, so you shouldn't do a SELECT * FROM but a SELECT value FROM if you want to return a default value.
With that in mind
SELECT value FROM MyTable WHERE Id = 2
UNION
SELECT CASE (SELECT count(*) FROM MyTable WHERE Id = 2)
WHEN 0 THEN 'defaultvalue'
END