So i have a quite strange need. I have to add none existing record to outcome of select query. Why? Query is a source of dropdown options in my Access application and i want to add one other option that is not in any table (as a form of default).
So now i have simple:
SELECT rowName FROM verySpecialTable
and i want to have
(SELECT rowName FROM verySpecialTable) + "default"
Can i do it by SQL? or do i have to add dummy record to verySpecialTable
You can use a UNION to the Dual table.
SELECT rowName FROM verySpecialTable
UNION
SELECT 'default' AS rowName FROM Dual
Since the Dual table might not exist in your access instance, you can emulate it as explained here: Table-less UNION query in MS Access (Jet/ACE)
or you can use existing table itself
SELECT rowName FROM verySpecialTable
UNION
SELECT top 1 'default' AS rowName FROM verySpecialTable
Related
I have 2 queries that I want to combine before exporting to Excel. I used a UNION query to do so, which worked great. Now I want to create a column that says the name of the table it came from. What would be the best way to do this? In the 2 separate queries or the joined query?
For reference:
SELECT qry_xxx.Sold_Date, qry_xxx.Sold_Year, qry_xxx.Sold_Month
FROM qry_xxx
UNION SELECT qry_yyy.Sold_Date, qry_yyy.Sold_Year, qry_yyy.Sold_Month
FROM qry_yyy;
Please try the query below:
SELECT qry_xxx.Sold_Date, qry_xxx.Sold_Year, qry_xxx.Sold_Month, 'qry_xxx' as NameOfTable
FROM qry_xxx
UNION
SELECT qry_yyy.Sold_Date, qry_yyy.Sold_Year, qry_yyy.Sold_Month, 'qry_yyy' as NameOfTable
FROM qry_yyy;
EDIT:
You can use "group by" after using your first query as a subquery like below:
Select max(Sold_Date) as MaxSoldDate,
max(Sold_Year) as MaxSoldYear,
max(Sold_month) as MaxSoldMonth,
NameOfTable
FROM (
SELECT qry_xxx.Sold_Date, qry_xxx.Sold_Year, qry_xxx.Sold_Month, 'qry_xxx' as NameOfTable
FROM qry_xxx
UNION
SELECT qry_yyy.Sold_Date, qry_yyy.Sold_Year, qry_yyy.Sold_Month, 'qry_yyy' as NameOfTable
FROM qry_yyy;
) x
group by NameOfTable
I am guessing that you do not need to remove duplicates. If so, you should use union all and not union.
Then, just add the table name as a string column:
SELECT 'qry_xxx' as which, qry_xxx.Sold_Date, qry_xxx.Sold_Year, qry_xxx.Sold_Month
FROM qry_xxx
UNION ALL
SELECT 'qry_yyy' as which qry_yyy.Sold_Date, qry_yyy.Sold_Year, qry_yyy.Sold_Month
FROM qry_yyy;
I want to access some table like Toyota_Corolla, Toyota_Camry, Toyota_Prius, Toyota_Rav4
Instead of typing out multiple SELECT statements like the following:
SELECT * FROM Toyota_Corolla;
SELECT * FROM Toyota_Camry;
SELECT * FROM Toyota_Prius;
SELECT * FROM Toyota_Rav4;
Is there a way to create a list of strings like ['Corolla', 'Camry', 'Prius', Rav4'] and iterate through the list after the FROM line to something similar to:
SELECT * FROM 'Toyota_'` + 'some loop to iterate the list of car model'
I know for my example, it's easier to just type out the whole thing, but what about the situation when Toyota has hundred of models?
This is MS SQL Server DBMS
No. First, you should fix your data model so you have a single table with an additional column for the Toyota model. That is the right way to store the data.
With the data you have, you can emulate this with a view:
create view vw_toyota as
select 'Corolla' as toyota_model, t.* from Toyota_Corolla t union all
select 'Camry' as toyota_model, t.* from Toyota_Camry t union all
select 'Prius' as toyota_model, t.* from Toyota_Prius t union all
select 'Rav4' as toyota_model, t.* from Toyota_Rav4 t;
This also adds the source table information.
And then do:
select *
from vw_toyota;
In Oracle, is there a way to query the same, structurally identical table out of multiple schema within the same database in single line? Obviously assuming the user has permissions to access all schema, I could build a query like:
select * from schema1.SomeTable
union all
select * from schema2.SomeTable
But is it possible, given the right permissions to say something like:
select * from allSchema.SomeTable
...and bring back all rows for all the schema? And related to this, is it possible to pick which schema, such as:
select * from allSchema.SomeTable where schemaName in ('schema1','schema2')
The simplest option, as far as I can tell, is to create a VIEW (as UNION of all tables across all those users), and then SELECT FROM VIEW.
For example:
create or replace view my_view as
select 'schema_1' source_schema, id, name from schema_1.table union
select 'schema_2' source_schema, id, name from schema_2.table union
...
-- select all
select * from my_view;
-- select all that belongs to one of schemas
select * from my_view where source_schema = 'schema_1';
I have the Following problem , I have a form for which I created a combobox that I use to Filter. My Row Source SQL Query looks like this :
SELECT Employee_ComboBox.LastName,Employee_ComboBox.FirstName, Employee_ComboBox.ID,Employee_ComboBox.OperatingEntity,Employee_ComboBox.OrganisationNameFull
FROM Employee_ComboBox
ORDER BY Employee_ComboBox.[ID];
I Would like to Add UNION SELECT "(All)" FROM so that I get (All) in my combobox.The Problem is I don't know how to add more than 1 Column to the SQL Query. I tried something like :
SELECT Employee_ComboBox.LastName FROM Employee_ComboBox UNION SELECT "(All)" FROM Employee_ComboBox;
This Works ,but when I try to Add other Columns I Do something wrong..Example :
SELECT Employee_ComboBox.LastName,Employee_ComboBox.FirstName FROM Employee_ComboBox UNION SELECT "(All)" FROM Employee_ComboBox;
Any Ideas on how I can Add all the columns and the (All) Value in my Combobox?
Br,
This may work. no of columns should be equal in both candidates of joins
SELECT Employee_ComboBox.LastName, Employee_ComboBox.FirstName
FROM Employee_ComboBox
UNION ALL
SELECT "(All)" as LastName,"" as FirstName FROM Employee_ComboBox;
You need to add values for them so the subqueries for the UNION have the same number of columns. NULL is often a reasonable value:
SELECT Employee_ComboBox.LastName, Employee_ComboBox.FirstName
FROM Employee_ComboBox
UNION ALL
SELECT "(All)", NULL FROM Employee_ComboBox;
You might want the empty string instead. Also, use UNION ALL instead of UNION. UNION incurs the overhead of removing duplicates, which is unnecessary in this case.
I've been playing around with the sample on Jeff' Server blog to compare two tables to find the differences.
In my case the tables are a backup and the current data. I can get what I want with this SQL statement (simplified by removing most of the columns). I can then see the rows from each table that don't have an exact match and I can see from which table they come.
SELECT
MIN(TableName) as TableName
,[strCustomer]
,[strAddress1]
,[strCity]
,[strPostalCode]
FROM
(SELECT
'Old' as TableName
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCustomer]
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strAddress1]
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCity]
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strPostalCode]
FROM
[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
UNION ALL
SELECT
'New' as TableName
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCustomer]
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strAddress1]
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCity]
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strPostalCode]
FROM
[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]) tmp
GROUP BY
[strCustomer]
,[strAddress1]
,[strCity]
,[strPostalCode]
HAVING
COUNT(*) = 1
This Stack Overflow Answer gives me a much cleaner SQL query but does not tell me from which table the rows come.
SELECT * FROM [JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
UNION
SELECT * FROM [JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
EXCEPT
SELECT * FROM [JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
INTERSECT
SELECT * FROM [JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
I could use the first version but I have many tables that I need to compare and I think that there has to be an easy way to add the source table column to the second query. I've tried several things and googled to no avail. I suspect that maybe I'm just not searching for the correct thing since I'm sure it's been answered before.
Maybe I'm going down the wrong trail and there is a better way to compare the databases?
Could you use the following setup to accomplish your goal?
SELECT 'New not in Old' Descriptor, *
FROM
(
SELECT * FROM [JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
EXCEPT
SELECT * FROM [JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
) a
UNION
SELECT 'Old not in New' Descriptor, *
FROM
(
SELECT * FROM [JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
EXCEPT
SELECT * FROM [JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
) b
You can't add the table name there because union, except, and intersection all compare all columns. This means you can't differentiate between them by adding the table name to the query. A group by gives you control over what columns are considered in finding duplicates so you can exclude the table name.
To help you with the large number of tables you need to compare you could write a sql query off the metadata tables that hold table names and columns and generate the sql commands dynamically off those values.
Derive one column using table names like below
SELECT MIN(TableName) as TableName
,[strCustomer]
,[strAddress1]
,[strCity]
,[strPostalCode]
,table_name_came
FROM
(SELECT 'Old' as TableName
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCustomer]
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strAddress1]
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCity]
,[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strPostalCode]
,'[JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]' as table_name_came
FROM [JAS001].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
UNION ALL
SELECT 'New' as TableName
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCustomer]
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strAddress1]
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strCity]
,[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses].[strPostalCode]
,'[JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]' as table_name_came
FROM [JAS001new].[dbo].[AR_CustomerAddresses]
) tmp
GROUP BY [strCustomer]
,[strAddress1]
,[strCity]
,[strPostalCode]
,table_name_came
HAVING COUNT(*) = 1