I am trying to work out how much we have taken in for entry fees.
I have two separate queries both returning values but i need them be as one instead of two separate queries.
SELECT SUM(ENTRY) AS TOTAL1 FROM MONEY
SELECT SUM(ENTRY) AS TOTAL1 FROM MONEY2
I needed to use UNION in order to get the statements together. Then used the below to get one number.
SELECT SUM(X.TOTAL1) from
(
SELECT SUM(ENTRY) AS TOTAL1 FROM MONEY
UNION
SELECT SUM(ENTRY) AS TOTAL1 FROM MONEY2
) X;
select sum(entry) as grand_total
from ( select entry from money
union all
select entry from money2
);
The point being, you SHOULD use UNION ALL; and how many columns each table has is irrelevant, because you don't need to UNION ALL the two tables (all columns from each); you only need to UNION ALL the ENTRY column from the first table and the ENTRY column from the second table.
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I have written a union query but I need to eliminate the lines that are duplicated (line 2 and 3 in the column 'kods') and leave only distinct values of column 'kods'. How can that be done?
You need to decide which of the id values to discard using either min or max and group by the remaining columns. you don't need distinct and can union all since group by will perform the dedupe.
select kods, min(id) id, vards, uzvards from (
select kods, id, vards, uzvards
from dataset
union all
select kods, id, vards, uzvards
from dataset_2
)x
group by kods, vards, uzvards
I have two tables with the same fields, but a final value that is calculated slightly differently. I need to combine the data from these two tables into one but need to prioritise one record over another when there is a match. Do you know how this might be possible?
Below is a mock up of two matching records:
ID Balance Type CCY Payment Final_Balance
28 1068376.037 F - CC GBP 78124 990252.0367
28 1068376.037 F - DD GBP 982905 85470.08293
Apologies if the format comes out poorly, I'm unsure how to format table data.
I have thousands of records in these two tables but for a handful of records I have the same information in both tables. Essentially what I'm trying to get to is where there is a match I want it to select F-CC over F-DD so I end up with unique records in my final table.
Thanks
I personally use ROW_NUMBER() for things like this, but there may be a better solution.
You can re-run this SQL to show how the final answer is slowly built up:
declare #t1 table (id int)
declare #t2 table (id int, txt varchar(2))
insert into #t1
select 1 union
select 2
insert into #t2
select 1, 'FC' union
select 1, 'FD' union
select 2, 'FC' union
select 2, 'FD'
select *, row_number() over (partition by id order by txt) as we_want_the_ones
from #t2
select * from (
select id, txt, row_number() over (partition by id order by txt) as we_want_the_ones
from #t2
) z
where we_want_the_ones = 1
select *
from #t1 a
join (
select * from (
select id, txt, row_number() over (partition by id order by txt) as we_want_the_ones
from #t2
) z
where we_want_the_ones = 1
) b on a.id = b.id
My understanding of the question is that you have two tables (A and B) which have the exact same columns. You want to UNION these tables into one dataset, but sometimes you have rows in the two tables which "match" each other. In this case you only take one of the rows based on some priority.
From your example it seems that..
Match: Occurs when the ID is the same.
Priority: Is based on the Type column, prioritized by lower alphabetical order.
Also I'm assuming SQL Server, since that's what I prefer and you didn't say.
Hopefully all that is correct.. Now, here is how I would approach it.
I would start by performing the UNION of the two tables. Taking all records and not worrying about matching yet, putting them in a temp table to use later.
SELECT ID, Balance, Type, CCY, Payment, Final_Balance
INTO #AllRecords
FROM A
UNION
SELECT ID, Balance, Type, CCY, Payment, Final_Balance
FROM B
Next, I would GROUP BY the fields which determine a match, then use MIN or MAX to get the correct value for priority columns. By my understanding of your problem that means..
SELECT ID, MIN(Type) AS Type
FROM #AllRecords
GROUP BY ID
With that query you now have the natural key for all the records you want to display in your final result. All that is left to do is look up the rest of the columns using those keys, we can do this by using that query as a subquery.
SELECT ID, Balance, Type, CCY, Payment, Final_Balance
FROM #AllRecords r
INNER JOIN (
SELECT ID, MIN(Type) AS Type
FROM #AllRecords
GROUP BY ID ) final ON r.ID = final.ID AND r.Type = final.Type
So all together the resulting query is..
SELECT ID, Balance, Type, CCY, Payment, Final_Balance
INTO #AllRecords
FROM A
UNION
SELECT ID, Balance, Type, CCY, Payment, Final_Balance
FROM B
SELECT ID, Balance, Type, CCY, Payment, Final_Balance
FROM #AllRecords r
INNER JOIN (
SELECT ID, MIN(Type) AS Type
FROM #AllRecords
GROUP BY ID ) final ON r.ID = final.ID AND r.Type = final.Type
I am unioning two queries but I'm getting an ID that occurs in each query. I do not know how to keep only the first time the id occurs. Everything else about the row is different. In general, it will be hard to know which of the two queries I will have to keep a duplicate on, therefore, I need a general solution.
I was thinking about creating a temp table and choosing the min date (once the date has been converted to an int).
Any ideas on the proper syntax?
You can do this using the row_number() function. This will assign a sequential number, starting with 1, to each row with the same id (based on the partition by clause). The ordering of the sequence is determined by the order by clause. So, the following assigns 1 to the earliest date for each id:
select t.*
from (select t.*,
row_number() over (partition by id order by date asc) as seqnum
from ((select *
from <subquery1>
) union all
(select *
from <subquery2>
)
) t
) t
where seqnum = 1;
The final where clause simply filters for the first occurrence.
If you use the keyword UNION, then it will remove duplicates from the two data sets you are working with. UNION ALL preserves duplicates.
You can view the specifics here:
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_union.asp
If you want to only have one of the 2 records and they are not identical you will have to filter them yourself. You may need to do something like the following. THis may be possible to do with the one (select union select) block but this should get you started.
select *
from (
select id
, date
, otherstuf
from table_1
union all
select id
, date
, otherstuf
from table_2
) x1
, (
select id
, date
, otherstuf
from table_1
union all
select id
, date
, otherstuf
from table_2
) x2
where x1.id = x2.id
and x1.date < x2.date
Although rethinking this if you go down a path like this why bother to UNION it?
I have two tables with data. Both tables have a CUSTOMER_ID column (which is numeric). I am trying to get a list of all the unique values for CUSTOMER_ID and know whether or not the CUSTOMER_ID exists in both tables or just one (and which one).
I can easily get a list of the unique CUSTOMER_ID:
SELECT tblOne.CUSTOMER_ID
FROM tblOne.CUSTOMER_ID
UNION
SELECT tblTwo.CUSTOMER_ID
FROM tblTwo.CUSTOMER_ID
I can't do just add an identifier column to the SELECT statemtn (like: SELECT tblOne.CUSTOMER_ID, "Table1" AS DataSource) because then the records wouldn't be unique and it will get both sets of data.
I feel I need to add it somewhere else in this query but am not sure how.
Edit for clarity:
For the union query output I need an additional column that can tell me if the unique value I am seeing exists in: (1) both tables, (2) table one, or (3) table two.
If the CUSTOMER_ID appears in both tables then we'll have to arbitrarily pick which table to call the source. The following query uses "tblOne" as the [SourceTable] in that case:
SELECT
CUSTOMER_ID,
MIN(Source) AS SourceTable,
COUNT(*) AS TableCount
FROM
(
SELECT DISTINCT
CUSTOMER_ID,
"tblOne" AS Source
FROM tblOne
UNION ALL
SELECT DISTINCT
CUSTOMER_ID,
"tblTwo" AS Source
FROM tblTwo
)
GROUP BY CUSTOMER_ID
Gord Thompson's answer is correct. But, it is not necessary to do a distinct in the subqueries. And, you can return a single column with the information you are looking for:
select customer_id,
iif(min(which) = max(which), min(which), "both") as DataSource
from (select customer_id, "tblone" as which
from tblOne
UNION ALL
select customer_id, "tbltwo" as which
from tblTwo
) t
group by customer_id
We could add an identifier column with the integer data type and then do an outer query:
SELECT
CUSTOMER_ID,
sum(Table)
FROM
(
SELECT
DISTINCT CUSTOMER_ID,
1 AS Table
FROM tblOne
UNION
SELECT
DISTINCT CUSTOMER_ID,
2 AS Table
FROM tblTwo
)
GROUP BY CUSTOMER_ID`
So if the "sum is 1" then it comes from tablOne and if it is 2 then it comes from tableTwo an if it is 3 then it exists in both
If you want to add a 3rd table in the union then give it a value of 4 so that you should have a unique sum for each combination
I need to know of a way to combine multiple SELECT statements in one VIEW? I tried the UNION ALL, but it fails since I am using unique columns to aggregate the GRAND TOTAL.
I am a student this is part of a group project.
I have one table with 4 columns: account, description, short_description, and balance. The COA (chart of accounts) is an excel spreadsheet that is imported.
CREATE VIEW [account_balance_sums]
AS
SELECT SUM(balance) AS total,
SUBSTRING (Account,0,2) AS account_group
FROM COA
GROUP BY account_group
GO
SELECT * FROM [account_balance_sums]
SELECT SUM(total) AS Grand_total
FROM [account_balance_sums]
Assuming that you are trying to create a view that gives account group and total balance with a single extra row for the total across all accounts then this view should help:
CREATE VIEW [account_balance_sums] AS
SELECT SUM(balance) AS total, SUBSTRING (Account,0,2) AS account_group
FROM COA
GROUP BY account_group
UNION ALL
SELECT SUM(balance), 'Grand Total'
FROM account_group
By the way, the sub-string of the first characters of the account name suggests that you have more than one piece of data in a single column. This indicates a data that is not properly normalised, which you should probably address if you want top marks. See wikipedia on normal form
In a UNION'd statement, there must be:
The same number of columns in each SELECT statement
The data types must match at each position in the SELECT statement
Use:
SELECT *
FROM [account_balance_sums]
UNION ALL
SELECT SUM(total),
NULL AS account_group
FROM [account_balance_sums]
UNION ALL should work. basic structure like this
select a,b,c,d
from t1
union all
select a,b,c,e
from t2
so long as d and e are the same data type.
to do the sum, then you wrap this with the aggregation layer - using this structure as an inline view (among other methods)
something like:
select sum( d )
from (
select a,b,c,d
from t1
union all
select a,b,c,e
from t2
)