Creating a BIRT using query params - sql

I'm to a query multiple times from a single query in BIRT. For example, my DB2 query could be SELECT * FROM GROUPS and my dataset would look like
id | name
1 | group 1
2 | group 2
From that dataset I'd like to run another query for each row. So maybe something like SELECT * FROM ORDERS WHERE group_id = params['id'] where id is id of the current GROUP record.
The actual report would look something like:
Order for Group 1
01/01/2015 Order #321
01/15/2015 Order #948
Orders for Group 2
01/02/2015 Order #123
01/23/2015 Order #456
I'm fairly new to BIRT and have seen examples of using scripts on certain events (beforeOpen, etc), but I wanted to make sure that was the proper way to go for something this rudimentary.

Grouping on Groups in my example and OP's question, read carefully.
From what I understand of your requirements probably the easiest way to get what you want it to group on the table.
Put your fields in the data set and on the table then 'group by' elements of the table.
The report below is grouped by date and UPMC_Assign, then I count the number of INCIDENT_ID (ticket owner is criteria that is not displayed)
Create your 'Data Set', drop the Data Set on the Layout, a table is auto created.
Add a 'Group' (red circle lower part of second image), in my case I grouped by Date then by Group, in your case you would group by your 'Group'
I added an aggregation from the Palette to get counts. You can delete anything from the table you don't want. In my case i started out with a line for every ticket, but I deleted the entire row, and just show the groups and counts.
See my answer here for suggestions on versioning reports during development.

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(Hive) SQL retrieving data from a column that has 1 to N relationship in another column

How can I retrieve rows where BID comes up multiple times in AID
You can see the sample below, AID and BID columns are under the PrimaryID, and BIDs are under AID. I want to come up with an output that only takes records where BIDs had 1 to many relationship with records on AIDs column. Example output below.
I provided a small sample of data, I am trying to retrieve 20+ columns and joining 4 tables. I have unqiue PrimaryIDs and under those I have multiple unique AIDs, however under these AIDs I can have multiple non-unqiue BIDs that can repeatedly come up under different AIDs.
Hive supports window functions. A window function can associate every row in a group with an attribute of the group. Count() being one of the supported functions. In your case you can use that a and select rows for which that count > 1
The partition by clause you specify which columns define the group, tge same way that you would in the more familiar group by clause.
Something like this:
select * from
(
Select *,
count(*) over (partition by primaryID,AID) counts
from mytable
) x
Where counts>1

ORDER BY an aggregated column in Report Builder 3.0

On a report builder 3.0, i retreived some items and counted them using a Count aggregate. Now i want to order them from highest to lowest. How do i use the ORDER BY function on the aggregated column? The picture below show the a column that i want to ORDER BY it, it is ticked.
Pic
The code is vers simple as shown bellow:
SELECT DISTINCT act_id,NameOfAct,
FROM Acts
Your picture indicates you also want a Total row at the bottom:
SELECT
COALESCE(NameOfAct,'Total') NameOfAct,
COUNT(DISTINCT act_id) c
FROM Acts
GROUP BY ROLLUP(NameOfAct)
ORDER BY
CASE WHEN NameOfAct is null THEN 1 ELSE 0 END,
c DESC;
Result of example data:
NameOfAct count
-------------- -------
Act_B 3
Act_A 2
Act_Z 1
Total 6
Try it with example rows at: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!18/dbd6c/2
I looked at the Pic. So you might have duplicate acts with the same name. And you want to know the number of acts that have the same unique name.
You might want to group the results by name:
GROUP BY NameOfAct
And include the act names and their counts in the query results:
SELECT NameOfAct, COUNT(*) AS ActCount
(Since the act_id column is not included in the groups, you need to omit it in the SELECT. The DISTINCT is also not necessary anymore, since all groups are unique already.)
Finally, you can sort the data (probably descending to get the acts with the largest count on top):
ORDER BY ActCount DESC
Your complete query would become something like this:
SELECT NameOfAct, COUNT(*) AS ActCount
FROM Acts
GROUP BY NameOfAct
ORDER BY ActCount DESC
Edit:
By the way, you use field "act_id" in your SELECT clause. That's somewhat confusing. If you want to know counts, you want to look at either the complete table data or group the table data into smaller groups (with the GROUP BY clause). Then you can use aggregate functions to get more information about those groups (or the whole table), like counts, average values, minima, maxima...
Single record information, like an act's ID in your case, is typically not important if you want to use statistic/aggregate methods on grouped data. Suppose your query returns an act name which is used 10 times. Then you have 10 records in your table, each with a unique act_id, but with the same name.
If you need just one act_id that represents each group / act name (and assuming act_id is an autonumbering field), you might include the latest / largest act_id value in the query using the MAX aggregate function:
SELECT NameOfAct, COUNT(*) AS ActCount, MAX(act_id) AS LatestActId
(The rest of the query remains the same.)

Grouping records from one table into one

Basically, I'm trying to retrieve only 1 record from a table based on catalog_no and packing_list_no. However, the table I'm retrieving the information from has additional details that I don't need but makes the 1 record I need into 3 distinct records.
I tried summing and grouping the info, but I'm still getting 3 records instead of 1.
Any ideas of how to solve this issue?
Your GROUP BY groups your result on the columns quantity picked, quantity shipped and weight shipped. A different value in any of those columns will result into a different row.
You can drop the GROUP BY clause all together, if the desirable result is the packing list and catalog no that you have specified. You can use the GROUP BY clause to columns that you do not use sum to group the result set.
SELECT catalog_no, sum(qty_picked), sum(qty_shipped), sum(weight_shipped), packing_list_no, bay_no, carrier_code, tracking_no FROM oeorder_shipping
WHERE packing_list_no='CP12618525' AND catalog_no='437656500'
GROUP BY bay_no, carrier_code, tracking_no;

Sum column total based on criteria sql

I am not even sure if I am asking this question correctly. Algorithmically I know what I want to do, but don't know the appropriate syntax in SQL.
I have created a table that contains total online session times by customer number, IP, session start time, and total session length. Here is an example of what this table looks like(ip and CustNo is masked, also not sure how to make tables so excuse the weirdness):
CustNo minDate maxDate ClientIp timeDiff
123456 2017-11-14-02:39:27.093 2017-11-14-02:39:59.213 1.1.1.1 0.000372
I then create another table looking for a specific type of activity and want to know how long this specific user has used that IP for before this specific activity. The second table contains each activity as a separate row, customerID, IP and a timestamp.
Up to here no issue and the tables look fine.
I now need to write the part that will look into the first table based on customer ID and IP, then sum all usage of that IP for that customer as long as session min start time is less than the activity time but I have no idea how to do this. Here is the current function (not working obviously). I am doing a left join because it is possible this will be a new IP and it may not be in the first table.
SELECT
*,
SUM(##finalSessionSums.timeDiff)
FROM
##allTransfersToDiffReceip
LEFT JOIN
##finalSessionSums ON ##allTransfersToDiffReceip.CustNo = ##finalSessionSums.CustNo
AND ##allTransfersToDiffReceip.ClientIp = ##finalSessionSums.ClientIp
AND ##allTransfersToDiffReceip.[DateTime] < ##finalSessionSums.minDate
I get an aggregate function error here but I don't know how to approach this at all.
You have a SELECT * (return all columns) and an aggregate function (In this case SUM). Whenever you combine specific columns for return alongside aggregate, summarised values you need to stipulate each column specified in the SELECT clause in the GROUP BY clause. For example
SELECT
A, B, SUM(C) as CSum
FROM
Table
GROUP BY
A, B
In cause of the few information, I can't provide a perfect solution, but I'll give it a try:
First, like Alan mentioned, you have to select only columns that you need for your aggregate-function, which is CustomerNo and Ip. To get the sums of the query, you have to group it like this:
SELECT sum(s.timeDiff) as Sum, s.custNo, s.Ip
FROM ##finalSessionSums s
INNER JOIN ##allTransfersToDiffReceip a on a.CustNo = s.CustNo
AND a.ClientIp = s.ClientIp
AND a.[DateTime] < s.minDate
GROUP BY s.custNo, s.Ip;

access select distinct on certain column

I have a table with some search results. The search results maybe repeated because each result may be found using a different metric. I want to then query this table select only the distinct results using the ID column. So to summarize I have a table with an ID column but the IDs may be repeated and I want to select only one of each ID with MS Access SQL, how should I go about doing this?
Ok I have some more info after trying a couple of the suggestions. The Mins, and Maxes won't work because the column they are operating on cannot be shown. I get an error like You tried to execute a query that does not include the specified expression... I now have all my data sorted, here is what it looks like
ID|Description|searchScore
97 test 1
97 test .95
120 ball .94
97 test .8
120 ball .7
so the problem is that since the rows were put into the table using different search criteria I have duplicated rows with different scores. What I want to do is select only one of each ID sorted by the searchScore descending. Any ideas?
SELECT DISTINCT ID
FROM Search_Table;
Based on the last update to your question, the following query seems appropriate.
SELECT ID, [Description], Max(searchScore)
FROM Search_Table
GROUP BY ID, [Description];
However that's nearly the same as Gordon's suggestion from yesterday, so I'm unsure whether this is what you want.
Here is a way where you can get one of the search criteria:
select id, min(search_criteria)
from t
group by id
This will always return the first one alphabetically. You can also easily get the last one using max().
You could also use:
select id, first(search_criteria)
from t
group by id