CASE Statment and IN() Operator in JOIN Condition - sql

I'm trying to create a join that follows the following logic:
If our company is the Plaintiff, join to the following role types in
the table: Defense Firm, Defense Attorney
If our company is the Defendant, join to the following role types in
the table: Plaintiff Firm, Plaintiff Attorney
So far, I have this code written in the join, but it always produces an error for every syntax I've tried:
WHERE
TRIAL.TRIAL_ID = OPPOSITION.TRIAL_ID
AND OPPOSITION.ROLE IN
CASE
WHEN TRIAL.POSITION = 'Plaintiff'
THEN ('Defense Firm','Defense Attorney' )
WHEN TRIAL.POSITION = 'Defendant'
THEN ('Plaintiff Firm','Plaintiff Attorney')
END
We are currently running on Oracle (??)g.
Is this sort of join logic even possible?
EDITS:
Fixed the Defendant/Plaintiff mixup in the code section
Not sure what version of Oracle we're on.

You can use AND/OR logic, with appropriate parenthetical grouping, to achieve this (if I'm following what you need), something like:
WHERE TRIAL.TRIAL_ID = OPPOSITION.TRIAL_ID
AND (
(TRIAL.POSITION = 'Plaintiff'
AND OPPOSITION.ROLE IN ('Defense Firm', 'Defense Attorney')
OR
(TRIAL.POSITION = 'Defendant'
AND OPPOSITION.ROLE IN ('Plaintiff Firm', 'Plaintiff Attorney')
)
Although these look like they should be part of an ANSI JOIN clause, rather than a WHERE clause...

Related

SQL Query (Oracle SQL)

I need a little help with the following SQL Query:
SELECT AUF_EK.FIRM, AUF_EK.customer, AUF_EK.cnr, k.name1,
k.name2, k.name3, k.street, k.pin, k.loc, r.name1,
r.name2, r.name3, lo_gpname1,
.....
First the selected columns, I get that so far.
FROM AUFT, PARTNER r, PARTNER k, .... skp_ARTIKEL_Z,
then we have the from clause, but why is there an Partner r and Partner k? Does it mean the table name is "Partner r" or is the a other reason I don't know yet?
WHERE (
AUF.FIRM BETWEEN 123 AND 456 AND AUF.FIRM = k.FIRM AND AUF.customer = k.gpnr AND AUF.FIRM
= k.FIRM AND AUF.customer = k.gpnr AND AUF.art_nr = ART.art_nr
The where clause makes sense to me till here, so it basically matches columns from the selected tables...
AND EK_POS.art_nr =
ARTIKEL_Z.art_nr(+) AND NVL
(POS.pos_nr_zuo, 0) = (NVL (
_EK_POS_PREIS.pos_nr_zuo(+), 0)) )
But here the part I don't get. I'm not an SQL Pro.... What does the (+) is doing? And what is ,0 meaning?
Partner r and Partner k
You can refer this answer What's the best way to join on the same table twice?
What does the (+) is doing?
Refer the answer of OMG Ponies
That's Oracle specific notation for an OUTER JOIN, because the ANSI-89 format (using a comma in the FROM clause to separate table references) didn't standardize OUTER joins.
The query would be re-written in ANSI-92 syntax as:
SELECT ...
FROM a
LEFT JOIN b ON b.id = a.id
It should also be noted that even though the (+) works, Oracle recommends not using it
And what is ,0 meaning?
NVL(POS.pos_nr_zuo, 0) if value of POS.pos_nr_zuo is null, it return 0 as default value
You asked several questions:
about the PARTNER r:
In your query you want to reference the table PARTNER twice, so you give it an alias, first one is r,second is k.
It's hard to say what exactly it's used for because I can't see the whole query. But a simple example is : suppose you have a ADDRESSES table and an ORDERS table. ORDERS has two references to people : BILLING_ADDR_ID and SHIPPING_ADDR_ID. If you want to display both addresses in a query, you need two aliases.
About the (+) - It's an old syntax for LEFT OUTER JOIN.
About the ',0 - It's part of the NVL(...,0) expression.

SQL Server : multi-join with tuple IN clause

I'm trying to join 4 tables that have a somewhat complex relationship. Because of where this will be used, it needs to be contained in a single query, but I'm having trouble since the primary query and the IN clause query both join 2 tables together and the lookup is on two columns.
The goal is to input a SalesNum and SalesType and have it return the Price
Tables and relationships:
sdShipping
SalesNum[1]
SalesType[2]
Weight[3]
sdSales
SalesNum[1]
SalesType[2]
Zip[4]
spZones
Zip[4]
Zone[5]
spPrices
Zone[5]
Price
Weight[3]
Here's my latest attempt in T-SQL:
SELECT
spp.Price
FROM
spZones AS spz
LEFT OUTER JOIN
spPrices AS spp ON spz.Zone = spp.Zone
WHERE
(spp.Weight, spz.Zip) IN (SELECT ship.Weight, sales.Zip
FROM sdShipping AS ship
LEFT OUTER JOIN sdSales AS sales ON sales.SalesNum = ship.SalesNum
AND sales.SalesType = ship.SalesType
WHERE sales.SalesNum = (?)
AND ship.SalesType = (?));
SQL Server Management Studio says I have an error in my syntax near ',' (appropriately useless error message). Does anybody have any idea whether this is even allowed in Microsoft's version of SQL? Is there perhaps another way to accomplish it? I've seen the multi-key IN questions answered on here, but never in the case where both sides require a JOIN.
Many databases do support IN on tuples. SQL Server is not one of them.
Use EXISTS instead:
SELECT spp.Price
FROM spZones spz LEFT OUTER JOIN
spPrices spp
ON spz.Zone = spp.Zone
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM sdShipping ship LEFT JOIN
sdSales sales
ON sales.SalesNum = ship.SalesNum AND
sales.SalesType = ship.SalesType
WHERE spp.Weight = ship.Weight AND spz.Zip = sales.Zip AND
sales.SalesNum = (?) AND
ship.SalesType = (?)
);

Nested Query Alternatives in AWS Athena

I am running a query that gives a non-overlapping set of first_party_id's - ids that are associated with one third party but not another. This query does not run in Athena, however, giving the error: Correlated queries not yet supported.
Was looking at prestodb docs, https://prestodb.io/docs/current/sql/select.html (Athena is prestodb under the hood), for an alternative to nested queries. The with statement example given doesn't seem to translate well for this not in clause. Wondering what the alternative to a nested query would be - Query below.
SELECT
COUNT(DISTINCT i.third_party_id) AS uniques
FROM
db.ids i
WHERE
i.third_party_type = 'cookie_1'
AND i.first_party_id NOT IN (
SELECT
i.first_party_id
WHERE
i.third_party_id = 'cookie_2'
)
There may be a better way to do this - I would be curious to see it too! One way I can think of would be to use an outer join. (I'm not exactly sure about how your data is structured, so forgive the contrived example, but I hope it would translate ok.) How about this?
with
a as (select *
from (values
(1,'cookie_n',10,'cookie_2'),
(2,'cookie_n',11,'cookie_1'),
(3,'cookie_m',12,'cookie_1'),
(4,'cookie_m',12,'cookie_1'),
(5,'cookie_q',13,'cookie_1'),
(6,'cookie_n',13,'cookie_1'),
(7,'cookie_m',14,'cookie_3')
) as db_ids(first_party_id, first_party_type, third_party_id, third_party_type)
),
b as (select first_party_type
from a where third_party_type = 'cookie_2'),
c as (select a.third_party_id, b.first_party_type as exclude_first_party_type
from a left join b on a.first_party_type = b.first_party_type
where a.third_party_type = 'cookie_1')
select count(distinct third_party_id) from c
where exclude_first_party_type is null;
Hope this helps!
You can use an outer join:
SELECT
COUNT(DISTINCT i.third_party_id) AS uniques
FROM
db.ids a
LEFT JOIN
db.ids b
ON a.first_party_id = b.first_party_id
AND b.third_party_id = 'cookie_2'
WHERE
a.third_party_type = 'cookie_1'
AND b.third_party_id is null -- this line means we select only rows where there is no match
You should also use caution when using NOT IN for subqueries that may return NULL values since the condition will always be true. Your query is comparing a.first_party_id to NULL, which will always be false and so NOT IN will lead to the condition always being true. Nasty little gotcha.
One way to avoid this is to avoid using NOT IN or to add a condition to your subquery i.e. AND third_party_id IS NOT NULL.
See here for a longer explanation.

The "where" condition worked not as expected ("or" issue)

I have a problem to join thoses 4 tables
Model of my database
I want to count the number of reservations with different sorts (user [mrbs_users.id], room [mrbs_room.room_id], area [mrbs_area.area_id]).
Howewer when I execute this query (for the user (id=1) )
SELECT count(*)
FROM mrbs_users JOIN mrbs_entry ON mrbs_users.name=mrbs_entry.create_by
JOIN mrbs_room ON mrbs_entry.room_id = mrbs_room.id
JOIN mrbs_area ON mrbs_room.area_id = mrbs_area.id
WHERE mrbs_entry.start_time BETWEEN "145811700" and "1463985000"
or
mrbs_entry.end_time BETWEEN "1458120600" and "1463992200" and mrbs_users.id = 1
The result is the total number of reservations of every user, not just the user who has the id = 1.
So if anyone could help me.. Thanks in advance.
Use parentheses in the where clause whenever you have more than one condition. Your where is parsed as:
WHERE (mrbs_entry.start_time BETWEEN "145811700" and "1463985000" ) or
(mrbs_entry.end_time BETWEEN "1458120600" and "1463992200" and
mrbs_users.id = 1
)
Presumably, you intend:
WHERE (mrbs_entry.start_time BETWEEN 145811700 and 1463985000 or
mrbs_entry.end_time BETWEEN 1458120600 and 1463992200
) and
mrbs_users.id = 1
Also, I removed the quotes around the string constants. It is bad practice to mix data types, and in some databases, the conversion between types can make the query less efficient.
The problem you've faced caused by the incorrect condition WHERE.
So, should be:
WHERE (mrbs_entry.start_time BETWEEN 145811700 AND 1463985000 )
OR
(mrbs_entry.end_time BETWEEN 1458120600 AND 1463992200 AND mrbs_users.id = 1)
Moreover, when you use only INNER JOIN (JOIN) then it be better to avoid WHERE clause, because the ON clause is executed before the WHERE clause, so criteria there would perform faster.
Your query in this case should be like this:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM mrbs_users
JOIN mrbs_entry ON mrbs_users.name=mrbs_entry.create_by
JOIN mrbs_room ON mrbs_entry.room_id = mrbs_room.id
AND
(mrbs_entry.start_time BETWEEN 145811700 AND 1463985000
OR ( mrbs_entry.end_time BETWEEN 1458120600 AND 1463992200 AND mrbs_users.id = 1)
)
JOIN mrbs_area ON mrbs_room.area_id = mrbs_area.id

Whats wrong with this nested query?

I am trying to write a query to return the id of the latest version of a market index stored in a database.
SELECT miv.market_index_id market_index_id from ref_market_index_version miv
INNER JOIN ref_market_index mi ON miv.market_index_id = mi.id
WHERE mi.short_name='dow30'
AND miv.version_num = (SELECT MAX(m1.version_num) FROM ref_market_index_version m1 INNER JOIN ref_market_index m2 ON m1.market_index_id = m2.id )
The above SQL statement can be (roughly) translated into the form:
SELECT some columns FROM SOME CRITERIA MATCHED TABLES
WHERE mi.short_name='some name'
AND miv.version_num = SOME NUMBER
What I don't understand is that when I supply an actual number (instead of a sub query), the SQL statement works - also, when I test the SUB query used to determine the latest version number, that also works - however, when I attempt to use the result returned by sub query in the outer (parent?) query, it returns 0 rows - what am I doing wrong here?
Incidentally, I also tried an IN CLAUSE instead of the strict equality match i.e.
... AND miv.version_num IN (SUB QUERY)
That also resulted in 0 rows, although as before, when running the parent query with a hard coded version number, I get 1 row returned (as expected).
BTW I am using postgeresql, but I prefer the solution to be db agnostic.
The problem is probably that the max(version_num) doesn't exist for 'dow30'.
Try the following correlated subquery:
SELECT miv.market_index_id market_index_id
from ref_market_index_version miv INNER JOIN
ref_market_index mi
ON miv.market_index_id = mi.id
WHERE mi.short_name='dow30' AND
miv.version_num = (SELECT MAX(m1.version_num)
FROM ref_market_index_version m1 INNER JOIN
ref_market_index m2
ON m1.market_index_id = m2.id
where m1.short_name = 'dow30'
)
I added the where clause in the subquery.