I currently have a situation where I will have 2 tables:
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| OriginalID | NewID | FirstName | lastName |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 123456 | | billy | bob |
| 234567 | | tommy | smith |
| 987654 | | sarah | anders |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ etc etc
and
+--------------+-----------------+
| OriginalID | NewID |
+--------------+-----------------+
| 123456 | 1111111 |
| 234567 | 1111112 |
| 987654 | 1111113 |
+--------------+-----------------+
Without going in-depth into the process itself, I take a record from the first table and insert it into a different system, which gives a record in the form of the second table (generates a custom ID for it).
What I want to do is for every record in the second table, take the NewID and place it into the row with the same OriginalID in the first table (so that it looks like this:
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| OriginalID | NewID | FirstName | lastName |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 123456 | 1111111 | billy | bob |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
As a note, the only values I care about dealing with are the OriginalID and NewID, none of the other values are needed. This will happen for multiple tables with different names, so I have given a generic example. For this example the tables can be called
ContactRecords (first table) and NewContact (second table)
I have read over several examples on SO about this type of problem, but none of them quite fit the solution I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance!
This looks like a join update which we had here many times.
update old
set NewID = new.NewID
from ContactRecords as old
inner join NewContact as New on new.OriginalID = old.OriginalID
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I'm trying to merge 2 queries into 1 (cuts the number of daily queries in half): I have 2 tables, I want to do a query against 1 table, then the same query against the other table that has the same list just less entries.
Basically its a list of (let's call it for obfuscation) people and hobby. One table is ALL people & hobby, the other shorter list is people & hobby that I've met. Table 2 would all be found in table 1. Table 1 includes entries (people I have yet to meet) not found in table 2
The tables are synced up from elsewhere, what I'm looking to do is print a list of ALL people in the first column then print the hobby ONLY of people that are on both lists. That way I can see the lists merged, and track the rate at which the gap between both lists is closing. I have tried a number of SQL combinations but they either filter out the first table and match only items that are true for both (i.e. just giving me table 2) or just adding table 2 to table 1.
Example of what I'm trying to do below:
+---------+----------+--+----------+---------+--+---------+----------+
| table1 | | | table2 | | | query | |
+---------+----------+--+----------+---------+--+---------+----------+
| name | hobby | | activity | person | | name | hobby |
| bob | fishing | | fishing | bob | | bob | fishing |
| bill | vidgames | | hiking | sarah | | bill | |
| sarah | hiking | | planking | sabrina | | sarah | hiking |
| mike | cooking | | | | | mike | |
| sabrina | planking | | | | | sabrina | planking |
+---------+----------+--+----------+---------+--+---------+----------+
Normally I'd just take the few days to learn SQL a bit better however I'm stretched pretty thin at work as it is!
I should mention the table 2 is flipped and the headings are all unique (don't think this matters)!
I think you just want a left join:
select t1.name, t2.activity as hobby
from table1 t1 left join
table2 t2
on t1.name = t2.person;
What I mean is the following.
I have a database containing people. These people van a name and a role.
It looks like this:
-----------------------------
| (PK) id | name | role |
-----------------------------
| 1 | ben | fireman |
| 2 | ron | cook |
| 3 | chris | coach |
| 4 | remco | barber |
-----------------------------
Ive created a searchbar where you can search for people in the database. When you press search, it looks for name and roles, for example:
When I type in 'co', the result I get is:
-----------------------------
| (PK) id | name | role |
-----------------------------
| 3 | chris | coach |
| 4 | remco | barber |
| 2 | ron | cook |
-----------------------------
This is because its looking for matches in the name and role column.
The query I use is:
SELECT * FROM people WHERE name LIKE '$search' OR role LIKE '$search' ORDER BY name";
The only issue with this is that it just order by name.
I want it to first order every result from the name column by name and then order every remaining result from the role column by name, so it ends up looking like this:
-----------------------------
| (PK) id | name | role |
-----------------------------
| 4 | remco | barber | <- 'co' found in name column, ordered by name
| 3 | chris | coach | <- 'co' found in role column, ordered by name
| 2 | ron | cook | <- 'co' found in role column, ordered by name
-----------------------------
How can I do this?
Edit: $search is the output from the searchbar
Use a case expression to put the 'co' names first:
order by case when name LIKE '$search' then 0 else 1 end, name, role
Sorry, I'm very new to SQL. I just learned it few hours ago. I'm using MariaDB + InnoDB Engine with HeidiSQL software + CodeIgniter 3. Let's say I have a table named disciples with the following data:
-------------------
| sort_id | name |
-------------------
| 1 | Peter |
| 4 | John |
| 3 | David |
| 5 | Petrus |
| 2 | Matthew |
-------------------
I'm fully aware that it's better to have a column called sort_id to be able to fetch the data using ORDER BY if I prefer a custom sorting. But if I delete row 3, the new table will look like this:
-------------------
| sort_id | name |
-------------------
| 1 | Peter |
| 4 | John |
| 5 | Petrus |
| 2 | Matthew |
-------------------
The thing is I'm having OCD (imagine there are 1000 rows), it hurts my eyes to see this mess with some missing numbers (in this case number 3 - see the above table) under sort_id. I think it has something to do with "relational database". Is there a way to quickly and automatically "re-assign/reset" new sort_id numbers to given rows and sort them ASC order according to the name using SQL code without having to do it manually?
-------------------
| sort_id | name |
-------------------
| 1 | John |
| 2 | Matthew |
| 3 | Peter |
| 4 | Petrus |
-------------------
I figured this out after reading the answer from Lynn Crumbling.
She made me realized I need a primary key in order to have a better management for my rows which is exactly what I was looking for. It happens that InnoDB automatically creates a primary key and is hidden from HeidiSQL interface unless I specify a specific column for example id. Now, I can re-organize my table rows by editing the primary key id and the table row will automatically sort itself the way I want. Before this, I edited the sort_id but the data did not update accordingly because it was not the primary key.
------------------------
| id | sort_id | name |
------------------------
| 1 | 1 | Peter |
| 2 | 4 | John |
| 3 | 5 | Petrus |
| 4 | 2 | Matthew |
------------------------
Thank you.
Parent table
+====+===========+
| id | firstname |
+====+===========+
| 1 | abc |
+----+-----------+
| 2 | bcd |
+----+-----------+
| 3 | cde |
+----+-----------+
StudentRelationship table
+==========+==========+===========+
| relation | parentid | studentid |
+==========+==========+===========+
| father | 1 | s0001 |
+----------+----------+-----------+
| mother | 2 | s0001 |
+----------+----------+-----------+
| father | 3 | s0002 |
+----------+----------+-----------+
STUDENT table
+=======+===========+==========+=========+======+
| id | firstname | lastname | address | sex |
+=======+===========+==========+=========+======+
| s0001 | shdj | khb | jxx | male |
+-------+-----------+----------+---------+------+
It would be great if you could help me create a query which will return studentid ,name,father name,mother name,sex,address.
Based on what you've posted, then updated in your comments, I think this should work for you. I am sure someone with more advanced SQL skills can post a more elegant way to do this. But this is what I came up with:
SELECT DISTINCT cte.studentid
,studentFirstName
,studentLastName
,father.fatherFirstName
,mother.motherFirstName
,sex
,address
FROM cte
LEFT JOIN father ON cte.studentid = father.studentid
LEFT JOIN mother ON cte.studentid = mother.studentid
The following is an example where a student (Jeff Jones) has two fathers (let's say one of them is the step-father):
A few recommendations here:
Take a course on SQL syntax fundamentals (any type MySQL, T-SQL, etc..)
Read about FROM and JOIN
When posting your question here, the table examples should have better test data. "asdfkj", "shdsf", "Asdjkfdjkf" are horribly hard to
use to test code against because there is no context of what you are
looking at. I realize you are just posting an example, and the context
of the rows is partly insignificant, but it just makes for easier
question answering, and doesn't scare off people who would want to
answer your question.
Here is an DEMO you can play with, that has reasonable data in the fields you've mentioned.
First, I'm sorry for the ambiguous title.
Here's my problem :
I'm using Access and I have this table :
+--------+-----------+
| PARENT | CHILD |
+--------+-----------+
| JOHN | TANIA |
| JOHN | ROBERT |
| JOHN | APRIL |
| HELEN | TOM |
| HELEN | GABRIELLE |
+--------+-----------+
And I would like to add a column like this with queries or VBA code :
+--------+-----------+---------+
| PARENT | CHILD | LIST |
+--------+-----------+---------+
| JOHN | TANIA | CHILD 1 |
| JOHN | ROBERT | CHILD 2 |
| JOHN | APRIL | CHILD 3 |
| HELEN | TOM | CHILD 1 |
| HELEN | GABRIELLE | CHILD 2 |
+--------+-----------+---------+
I want to do this because at the end, I want to run a cross tab query. I'm only missing that last column to create that query.
I tried to do it in a recordset, but my database starts bloating after a couple of rst.Update (I have 700k+ rows)
I created a temporary table and used UPDATE queries but it just takes too much time.
I think there might be a SQL code that would do what I need, but I just can't figure it out. I hope you could help me, thanks :)
You can do something like the below, but it would be much better with some sort of IDs:
SELECT Parent.PARENT,
Parent.CHILD,
(SELECT Count(*)
FROM Parent p
WHERE p.Parent=Parent.Parent
AND p.Child<=Parent.Child) AS ChildNo
FROM Parent
ORDER BY Parent.PARENT, Parent.CHILD;
Parent is the name of the table.