My goal is to extract from my database all of the records that fall NOT on the end of the month, but on the last date that exists in each month within the data (although some of these may so happen to be the end of the month).
Currently, just to simply get the latest dates for each month, using the following code alone takes 26 minutes:
SELECT Max(DATE)
FROM Accounts
GROUP BY Year(Date), Month(Date);
The point being that for the 16M rows that we have, running this as a subquery for the FROM statement within a temp_table is just not the speed improvement we were looking for (currently it takes about 40 minutes to read in the whole table anyway).
Any suggestions?
One method is to use window functions:
select a.*
from (select a.*,
rank() over (partition by year(date), month(date)
order by day(date) desc) as seqnum
from accounts a
) a
where seqnum = 1;
Note: the use of rank() (or equivalently dense_rank()) will return all rows for the last day of each month. If you only wanted one record, you can use row_number() instead.
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My table consists of user_id, revenue, publish_month columns.
Right now I use group_by user_id and sum(revenue) to get revenue for all individual users.
Is there a single SQL query I can use to query for user revenue across a time period conditionally? If for a specific user, there is a row for this month, I want to query for this month, last month and the month before. If there is not yet a row for this month, I want to query for last month and the two months before.
Any advice with which approach to take would be helpful. If I should be using cases, if-elses with exists or if this is do-able with a single SQL query?
UPDATE---since I did a bad job of describing the question, I've come to include some example data and expected results
Where current month is not present for user 33
Where current month is present
Assuming publish_month is a DATE datatype, this should get the most recent three months of data per user...
SELECT
user_id, SUM(revenue) as s_revenue
FROM
(
SELECT
user_id, revenue, publish_month,
MAX(publish_month) OVER (PARTITION BY user_id) AS user_latest_publish_month
FROM
yourtableyoudidnotname
)
summarised
WHERE
publish_month >= DATEADD(month, -2, user_latest_publish_month)
GROUP BY
user_id
If you want to limit that to the most recent 3 months out of the last 4 calendar months, just add AND publish_month >= DATEADD(month, -3, DATE_TRUNC(month, GETDATE()))
The ambiguity here is why it is important to include a Minimal Reproducible Example
With input data and require results, we could test our code against your requirements
If you're using strings for the publish_month, you shouldn't be, and should fix that with utmost urgency.
You can use a windowing function to "number" the months. In this way the most recent one will have a value of 1, the prior 2, and the one before 3. Then you can only select the items with a number of 3 or less.
Here is how:
SELECT user_id, revienue, publish_month,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY user_id ORDER BY publish_month DESC) as RN
FROM yourtableyoudidnotname
now you just select the items with RN less than 3 and do your sum
SELECT user_id, SUM(revenue) as s_revenue
FROM (
SELECT user_id, revenue, publish_month,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY user_id ORDER BY publish_month DESC) as RN
FROM yourtableyoudidnotname
) X
WHERE RN <= 3
GROUP BY user_id
You could also do this without a sub query if you use the windowing function for SUM and a range, but I think this is easier to understand.
From the comment -- there could be an issue if you have months from more than one year. To solve this make the biggest number in the order by always the most recent. so instead of
ORDER BY publish_month DESC
you would have
ORDER BY (100*publish_year)+publish_month DESC
This means more recent years will always have a higher number so january of 2023 will be 202301 while december of 2022 will be 202212. Since january is a bigger number it will get a row number of 1 and december will get a row number of 2.
**Is there a way to count how many strings in a specific column are seen for
Since the value in the column 2 gets repeated sometimes due to the fact that some clients make several transactions in different times (the client can make a transaction in the 1st month then later in the next year).
Is there a way for me to count how many IDs are completely new per month through a group by (never seen before)?
Please let me know if you need more context.
Thanks!
A simple way is two levels of aggregation. The inner level gets the first date for each customer. The outer summarizes by year and month:
select year(min_date), month(min_date), count(*) as num_firsts
from (select customerid, min(date) as min_date
from t
group by customerid
) c
group by year(min_date), month(min_date)
order by year(min_date), month(min_date);
Note that date/time functions depends on the database you are using, so the syntax for getting the year/month from the date may differ in your database.
You can do the following which will assign a rank to each of the transactions which are unique for that particular customer_id (rank 1 therefore will mean that it is the first order for that customer_id)
The above is included in an inline view and the inline view is then queried to give you the month and the count of the customer id for that month ONLY if their rank = 1.
I have tested on Oracle and works as expected.
SELECT DISTINCT
EXTRACT(MONTH FROM date_of_transaction) AS month,
COUNT(customer_id)
FROM
(
SELECT
date_of_transaction,
customer_id,
RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY customer_id
ORDER BY
date_of_transaction ASC
) AS rank
FROM
table_1
)
WHERE
rank = 1
GROUP BY
EXTRACT(MONTH FROM date_of_transaction)
ORDER BY
EXTRACT(MONTH FROM date_of_transaction) ASC;
Firstly you should generate associate every ID with year and month which are completely new then count, while grouping by year and month:
SELECT count(*) as new_customers, extract(year from t1.date) as year,
extract(month from t1.date) as month FROM table t1
WHERE not exists (SELECT 1 FROM table t2 WHERE t1.id==t2.id AND t2.date<t1.date)
GROUP BY year, month;
Your results will contain, new customer count, year and month
I want to do a rolling mean of a calculated field on a week basis out of data whose precision is at the second. This is why I first truncate the date to the week.
So my provisional query is
SELECT week, AVG(my_value) OVER(ORDER BY week ASC ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS avg_my_value
FROM
(SELECT id,
DATE_TRUNC('week', created_at) AS week,
my_value
FROM my_table
ORDER BY week ASC
)
GROUP BY week
The problem I have is that the AVG works but it's done separately for all rows which have got the same week! I think this is because there must be some sort of inner grouping added but the problem I have is to conceive it for the case of an average.
If that counts, I am looking for a solution working for Redshift, or PostgreSQL.
If you want a cumulative average, then:
SELECT week,
AVG(AVG(my_value)) OVER (ORDER BY week ASC) AS avg_my_value
FROM (SELECT id, DATE_TRUNC('week', created_at) AS week, my_value
FROM my_table
) t
GROUP BY week;
Notes:
The ORDER BY in the subquery is superfluous.
Note the nesting of the aggregation functions.
I'm trying to write a SQL query for Oracle SQL in order to retrieve the last records for a certain period frequency. For example, say the frequency is Quarterly, (I'd also like monthly and annually to work), I can provide the start dates and end dates for the quarters if necessary, but I need to retrieve the last entry within each quarter. How can I do this? I've had limited luck so far without writing lots of subqueries.
Try something like:
select * from
(select t.*,
row_number() over (partition by trunc(date_field, 'MON')
order by date_field desc) rn
from my_table t)
where rn = 1
for months. (Use 'Q' or 'Y' instead of 'MON' in the trunc clause for quarters or years.)
SELECT col1, col2, col3...colN
FROM TableA
WHERE (colX = (SELECT MAX(Date) AS LastDate
FROM TableA
WHERE QuarterDate Between (BeginningDate AND EndingDate)
colX is the date column that is your date you need to be checking if in the quarter.
I think that should work.
I would appreciate a little expert help please.
in an SQL SELECT statement I am trying to get the last day with data per month for the last year.
Example, I am easily able to get the last day of each month and join that to my data table, but the problem is, if the last day of the month does not have data, then there is no returned data. What I need is for the SELECT to return the last day with data for the month.
This is probably easy to do, but to be honest, my brain fart is starting to hurt.
I've attached the select below that works for returning the data for only the last day of the month for the last 12 months.
Thanks in advance for your help!
SELECT fd.cust_id,fd.server_name,fd.instance_name,
TRUNC(fd.coll_date) AS coll_date,fd.column_name
FROM super_table fd,
(SELECT TRUNC(daterange,'MM')-1 first_of_month
FROM (
select TRUNC(sysdate-365,'MM') + level as DateRange
from dual
connect by level<=365)
GROUP BY TRUNC(daterange,'MM')) fom
WHERE fd.cust_id = :CUST_ID
AND fd.coll_date > SYSDATE-400
AND TRUNC(fd.coll_date) = fom.first_of_month
GROUP BY fd.cust_id,fd.server_name,fd.instance_name,
TRUNC(fd.coll_date),fd.column_name
ORDER BY fd.server_name,fd.instance_name,TRUNC(fd.coll_date)
You probably need to group your data so that each month's data is in the group, and then within the group select the maximum date present. The sub-query might be:
SELECT MAX(coll_date) AS last_day_of_month
FROM Super_Table AS fd
GROUP BY YEAR(coll_date) * 100 + MONTH(coll_date);
This presumes that the functions YEAR() and MONTH() exist to extract the year and month from a date as an integer value. Clearly, this doesn't constrain the range of dates - you can do that, too. If you don't have the functions in Oracle, then you do some sort of manipulation to get the equivalent result.
Using information from Rhose (thanks):
SELECT MAX(coll_date) AS last_day_of_month
FROM Super_Table AS fd
GROUP BY TO_CHAR(coll_date, 'YYYYMM');
This achieves the same net result, putting all dates from the same calendar month into a group and then determining the maximum value present within that group.
Here's another approach, if ANSI row_number() is supported:
with RevDayRanked(itemDate,rn) as (
select
cast(coll_date as date),
row_number() over (
partition by datediff(month,coll_date,'2000-01-01') -- rewrite datediff as needed for your platform
order by coll_date desc
)
from super_table
)
select itemDate
from RevDayRanked
where rn = 1;
Rows numbered 1 will be nondeterministically chosen among rows on the last active date of the month, so you don't need distinct. If you want information out of the table for all rows on these dates, use rank() over days instead of row_number() over coll_date values, so a value of 1 appears for any row on the last active date of the month, and select the additional columns you need:
with RevDayRanked(cust_id, server_name, coll_date, rk) as (
select
cust_id, server_name, coll_date,
rank() over (
partition by datediff(month,coll_date,'2000-01-01')
order by cast(coll_date as date) desc
)
from super_table
)
select cust_id, server_name, coll_date
from RevDayRanked
where rk = 1;
If row_number() and rank() aren't supported, another approach is this (for the second query above). Select all rows from your table for which there's no row in the table from a later day in the same month.
select
cust_id, server_name, coll_date
from super_table as ST1
where not exists (
select *
from super_table as ST2
where datediff(month,ST1.coll_date,ST2.coll_date) = 0
and cast(ST2.coll_date as date) > cast(ST1.coll_date as date)
)
If you have to do this kind of thing a lot, see if you can create an index over computed columns that hold cast(coll_date as date) and a month indicator like datediff(month,'2001-01-01',coll_date). That'll make more of the predicates SARGs.
Putting the above pieces together, would something like this work for you?
SELECT fd.cust_id,
fd.server_name,
fd.instance_name,
TRUNC(fd.coll_date) AS coll_date,
fd.column_name
FROM super_table fd,
WHERE fd.cust_id = :CUST_ID
AND TRUNC(fd.coll_date) IN (
SELECT MAX(TRUNC(coll_date))
FROM super_table
WHERE coll_date > SYSDATE - 400
AND cust_id = :CUST_ID
GROUP BY TO_CHAR(coll_date,'YYYYMM')
)
GROUP BY fd.cust_id,fd.server_name,fd.instance_name,TRUNC(fd.coll_date),fd.column_name
ORDER BY fd.server_name,fd.instance_name,TRUNC(fd.coll_date)