Cannot query an alias table - sql

I'm doing something like:
SELECT T1.NAME, T2.DATE
FROM T1
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT * FROM OTHERTABLE
) AS T2 ON T2.USERID = T1.USERID
Which works, but if I query the alias table, I get an error saying that T2 is an invalid object name.
Example:
SELECT
T1.NAME,
T2.DATE,
CASE
WHEN EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 1 FROM T2 WHERE T2.THISFIELD = T1.THISFIELD) THEN 'HELLO'
ELSE 'BYE'
END AS COMMENT -- THIS ALSO FAILS
FROM T1
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT * FROM OTHERTABLE
) AS T2 ON T2.USERID = T1.USERID
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM T2) > 0
I thought that's what I did, "create" T2. Is there any way I can use T2 like such ?
My goal is to scrape all the related data from OTHERTABLE once because I'll have many CASE in the SELECT clause depending whether data exists in T2 or not. I don't want to do EXISTS for every field since that'll launch a new query in a huge table everytime.

Your query using a sub-query of SELECT * FROM OTHERTABLE which doesn't make sense. You can modify it like;
SELECT
T1.NAME,
T2.DATE,
...
FROM T1
JOIN OTHERTABLE T2 ON T2.USERID = T1.USERID
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM OTHERTABLE ) > 0
You cannot use a sub-query multiple times in the same query. Instead use a Common Table Expression (CTE) for that purpose. T2 is a CTE in the following example.
;WITH T2 AS
(
SELECT UserId, col1, col2, [Date]
FROM OtherTable
)
SELECT T1.NAME, T2.DATE
FROM T1
JOIN T2 ON T2.USERID = T1.USERID
WHERE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM T2) > 0

Related

Displaying records only when there are more than same three values

Is there a way to display only records where one email corresponds to more than 3 names?
I have tried the code below, but it does not return anything.
SELECT
t1.Name, t2.Email
FROM
Table1 t1
JOIN Table2 t2 on t1.ID=t2.PersonID
GROUP BY
t1.Name, t2.Email
HAVING COUNT(t2.Email) > 3
If your version supports window function then you can do :
select t.*
from (select t1.name, t2.email,
count(t2.email) over (partition by t1.name) as cnt
from t1 inner join
t2
on t2.personid = t1.id
) t
where cnt > 3;
I think you want:
SELECT t1.Name, GROUP_CONCAT(t2.Email)
FROM Table1 t1 JOIN
Table2 t2
ON t1.ID = t2.PersonID
GROUP BY t1.Name
HAVING COUNT(t2.Email) > 3;
The big change is to the GROUP BY -- this does not have EMAIL. You seem to want the emails returns on each row, so this concatenates them together.
EDIT:
In SQL Server, you would use string_agg():
SELECT t1.Name, STRING_AGG(t2.Email, ',')
FROM Table1 t1 JOIN
Table2 t2
ON t1.ID = t2.PersonID
GROUP BY t1.Name
HAVING COUNT(t2.Email) > 3;
Or, if you want individual rows:
SELECT n.*
FROM (SELECT t1.Name, t2.Email,
COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY t1.Name) as cnt
FROM Table1 t1 JOIN
Table2 t2
ON t1.ID = t2.PersonID
) n
WHERE cnt > 3
ORDER BY Name;

How to join two tables on distinct values of a column?

SELECT table1.*
,address
,job
FROM table1
JOIN table2 ON table2.name = table1.name
The above query returns result for duplicate values of name too. How can I convert the query to get only one value for distinct values of name column?
I am using SQL Server
You can easily accomplish this with row_number window function. See query below:
select t1.id, t1.name, t1.pets, t2.address, t2.job
from (
select *,
row_number() over (partition by [name] order by id) rn
from Table1
) t1
join table2 t2 on t1.name = t2.name
where t1.rn = 1
I would recommend a lateral join -- apply -- for this purpose:
SELECT t1.*, t2.address, t2.job
FROM table2 t2 CROSS APPLY
(SELECT t1.*
FROM table1 t1
WHERE t2.name = t1.name
) t1;
Normally, the subquery would have an ORDER BY to specify the ordering. Otherwise the result is indeterminate.
This is often faster than using window functions for this purpose.

How to use outside column in subquery

I have following query-
select * from
Table1 t1 , table2 t2 ,
(select idCol from table3) t3
My question is - Can I use table t2 inside subquery?
like this
select * from
Table1 t1 , table2 t2 ,
(select idCol, t2.nameCol from table3) t3
Obviously this gives error invalid identifier t2.nameCol
But if I write as follows, it give unnecessaru extra rows
select * from
Table1 t1 , table2 t2 ,
(select idCol, t2.nameCol from table3, table2 t2) t3
any other way to do this?
EDIT
Basically what I am trying to achieve is following
select * from
Table1 t1 , table2 t2 ,
(select
case
when t2.nameCol = 'ABC' then 'ABC'
else idCol
end idCol from table3) t3
To join a table only when certain criteria is met is called an outer join. Here is how:
select *
from table1 t1
inner join table2 t2 on <join criteria here>
left outer join table3 t3 on t2.namecol <> 'ABC' and <join criteria here>;
It may suffice in your case, however, to move the subquery to your SELECT clause:
select
t1.*,
t2.*,
case when t2.namecol = 'ABC' then
'ABC'
else
(select idcol from table3 t3 where <join criteria here>)
end
from table1 t1
inner join table2 t2 on <join criteria here>;
You can try below. I am sure you have some kind of join between t1 and t2. IN such case, you can add same at the end of the statement.
SELECT t1.*,
t2.*,
( SELECT CASE
WHERE t2.nameco1 = 'ABC' THEN 'ABC'
ELSE idcol
END idcol
FROM table3) idcol
FROM table1 t1,
table2 t2

Transform select count(*) inside a inner join

My problem here is that i'm modifying an existing query and i cannot use count(*) in the query.
I have to use inner join subqueries.
What i need to "transform" into my inner join is like this (this works):
SELECT count(distinct t1.id)
FROM table1 t1
WHERE t1.column1 = 'value1' AND
t2.column2 = 'value2' AND
EXISTS(select 1 from table2 t2 where t2.id = t1.id)
My global query looks like this:
SELECT [many many column]
FROM table2 t2
INNER JOIN [...]
LEFT OUTER JOIN [...]
--[I NEED MY COUNT HERE, see below for example]
WHERE [some conditions are true]
ORDER BY [some column]
What i found to help me is something like this:
SELECT [many many column], myJoin.Count
FROM table2 t2
INNER JOIN (
SELECT tt2.id, count(distinct tt2.id) as Count
FROM table2 tt2
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM table1 tt1 where tt1.id = tt2.id)
GROUP BY tt2.id) myJoin
on t2.id = myJoin.id;
See what i'm trying to acheive? I need to count the ids, joining 2 tables, but i can't have a count in my main query, i can't possibly copy-paste all the "group by" condition that would go with it...
I'm on sql server.
If i find the answer i will come back and post it.
Thanks for any advice/tricks about this.
How about the following:
SELECT table2.*, TopQ.MyCount
FROM (
SELECT t2.id, myJoin.MyCount
FROM table2 t2
INNER JOIN (
SELECT tt2.id, count(distinct tt2.id) as MyCount
FROM table2 tt2
WHERE EXISTS
(SELECT 1 FROM table1 tt1 where tt1.id = tt2.id)
GROUP BY tt2.id) AS myJoin
on t2.id = myJoin.id
)AS TopQ
INNER JOIN table2 ON TopQ.id = table2.id
I came across this:
select count(distinct t1.id) over (partition by t1.aColumn) as myCount,
[many many column]
from table2 t2
inner join table1 t1 on [someConditions] = value1 and
[someConditions] = value2 and
t2.id = t1.id;
I get the same results as my first select i posted in my question, and without adding a "group by" anywhere and a lot of inner join that im not that familliar with. I'm gonna stick with this solution.
Thanks!

Can I use the exists function in the select part of an SQL query?

I need to run a query where one of the fields returned is a yes or no if there is a row in another table matching one of the key fields in the first table.
Sounds like a job for join, except the second table is one to many and I just need to know if there are zero or a non zero number of rows in the secondary table.
I could do something like this:
select t1.name, t1.id, (select count(1) from t2 where t1.id=t2.id) from t1
but I'd like to avoid making an aggregate subquery if possible.
It was mentioned to me that I could use the exists() function, but I'm not seeing how to do that in a select field.
This is sybase 15 by the way.
You could still do the JOIN, something like this:
SELECT t1.name, t1.id, CASE WHEN t2.id IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE 1 END Existst2
FROM t1
LEFT JOIN (SELECT id FROM t2 GROUP BY id) t2
ON t1.id = t2.id
ahhh, I got it from another stackoverflow quetion...
case when exists (select * from t2 where t1.id = t2.id) then 1 else 0 end
I am just writing down the syntax here:
if exists (select * from table1 t1 inner join table1 t2 on t1.id = t2.id )
select * from table2
How about this query ( Work with all databases )
select t1.name, t1.id, 'Y' as HasChild
from t1
where exists ( select 1 from t2 where t2.id = t1.id)
UNION
select t1.name, t1.id, 'N' as HasChild
from t1
where NOT exists ( select 1 from t2 where t2.id = t1.id)