I'm finding that when I try to select a column in a SQL case statement, it doesn't work unless I wrap it in a numeric function. The max(price) seems to select the value in the column, while just price, or price always returns blank.
I think its a bug.
This doesn't work:
SELECT
auction,
CASE WHEN auction='1'
THEN (select max(bid.amount) from bid where bid.auction_id = auction.id)
ELSE price
END as price_string
FROM product
This works:
SELECT
auction,
CASE WHEN auction='1'
THEN (select max(bid.amount) from bid where bid.auction_id = auction.id)
ELSE max(price)
END as price_string
FROM product
Edit: fixed comma.
This is not a bug.
In the query that doesn't work, the two halves of your CASE statement are incompatible. You have an aggregate function (MAX(bid.amount)) that returns a single value for one part of your CASE statement, and the name of a column, which will return a set, for the other part of your CASE statement. You cannot mix aggregates and sets like this.
The query that works does so because both halves of the CASE statement are returning aggregate values and are therefore compatible.
Take a simple table:
test_table
col1 | col2
1 7
5 14
8 3
3 9
If I query like this:
SELECT col1 FROM test_table
I'll get this result, a set:
col1
1
5
8
3
But if I query like this:
SELECT MAX(col1) FROM test_table
I'll get a single value:
8
Related
Given a table of random numbers as follows:
** Person table schema **
Name
Marks1
Marks2
I want to return a table with similar structure and headings, where if the sum of a column is odd, the column shows the maximum value for that column, and when the sum is even, it shows the minimum value by using a case statement.
** output table schema **
Marks1
Marks2
I've tried the following code.
select Marks1,Marks2 ,
(case
when mod(sum(Marks1),2)=0 then
min(Marks1)
else max(Marks1)
end) as Marks1 ,
(case
when mod(sum(Marks2),2)=0 then
min(Marks2)
else max(Marks2)
end) as Marks2
from numbers
group by Marks1;
Sample output -
TABLE
Ash 56 45
David 45 35
Output -
56 35
As 56+45 = 101 odd number so output 56(max number). Whereas in marks2 column, 45+35 =80, even number so output 35(min number).
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it? Thanks in advance.
Use a CTE to get your min(), max(), and sum() values. Then use case to determine what values to display.
Since your problem statement and sample results do not match, I followed your sample results to return max() on an odd sum(). You can switch this by changing the two case statements from 1 to 0.
Working fiddle
with totals as (
select sum(marks1) as marks1sum,
min(marks1) as marks1min,
max(marks1) as marks1max,
sum(marks2) as marks2sum,
min(marks2) as marks2min,
max(marks2) as marks2max
from numbers
)
select case mod(marks1sum, 2)
when 1 then marks1max
else marks1min
end as marks1,
case mod(marks2sum, 2)
when 1 then marks2max
else marks2min
end as marks2
from totals;
You are reusing marks1 and marks2 when aliasing your third and fourth column which is colliding. Try using different name.
My test table looks like this:
# select * from a;
source | target | id
--------+--------+----
1 | 2 | 1
2 | 3 | 2
3 | 0 | 3
My query is this one:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT
CASE
WHEN id<>1
THEN source
ELSE 0
END
AS source,
CASE
WHEN id<>1
THEN target
ELSE 0
END
AS target
FROM a
) x;
The query seems a bit odd because the CASE expression with the same criteria is repeated for every column. I would like to simplify this and tried the following, but it doesn't work as expected.
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT
CASE
WHEN id<>1
THEN (source, target)
ELSE (0, 0)
END
AS r
FROM a
) x;
It yields one column with a row value, but I would rather get the two original columns. Separating them with a (r).* or similar doesn't work, because the "record type has not been registered".
I found several questions here with solutions regarding functions returning RECORD values, but none regarding this example with a sub-select.
Actually, there is a quite long list of columns, so repeating the same CASE expression many times makes the whole query quite unreadable.
Since the real problem - as opposed to this simplified case - consists of several CASE expressions and several column groups, a solution with a UNION won't help, because the number of UNIONs would be large and make it unreadable as well as several CASEs.
My actual question is: How can I get the original columns from the row value?
This answers the original question.
If I understood your needs, you want 0 and 0 for source and target when id = 1:
SELECT
0 AS source,
0 AS target
FROM tablename
WHERE id = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT
source,
target
FROM tablename
WHERE id <> 1
Revised answer: You can make your query work (fixing the record type has not been registered issue) by creating a TYPE:
CREATE TYPE stpair AS (source int, target int);
And cast the composite value column to that type:
SELECT id, (cv).source, (cv).target
FROM (
SELECT id, CASE
WHEN id <> 1 THEN (source, target)::stpair
ELSE (0, 0)::stpair
END AS cv
FROM t
) AS x
Having said that, it should be far more convenient to use arrays:
SELECT id, av[1] AS source, av[2] AS target
FROM (
SELECT id, CASE
WHEN id <> 1 THEN ARRAY[source, target]
ELSE ARRAY[0, 0]
END AS av
FROM t
) AS x
Demo on db<>fiddle
Will this work for you?
select source,target,id from a where id <>1 union all select 0 as source,0 as target,id from a where id=1 order by id
I have used union all to included cases where multiple records may have ID=1
I have 2 row data which I want to make it to be 2 column,
I tried union syntax but it didn't work.
Here is the data I have:
breed 1 breed2
I tried to convert it with this sql
select a.breed union a.breed
but it didn't work.
Here is what you want from the SQL:
breed1,breed2
SELECT
[breed1],
[breed2]]
FROM
(
SELECT 'breed1' myColumn
union
select 'breed2'
) AS SourceTable
PIVOT
(
AVG(mySecondColumn) FOR
myColumn IN ([breed1], [breed2]])
) AS PivotTable;
You can use a self join. This needs a way to pair rows together (so if you have four rows you get 1 and 2 in one result and 3 and 4 in the other rather than another combination).
I'm going to assume you have sequentially numbered rows in an Id column and an odd numbered row is paired with the one greater even Id:
select odd.Data as 'First', even.Data as 'Second'
from TheData odd
inner join TheData even on odd.Id+1 = even.Id
where odd.Id % 2 = 1;
More generally for more columns use of pivot is more flexible.
How about an aggregation query?
select min(breed) as breed1, max(breed) as breed2
from t;
I have a table that has an integer column from which I am trying to get a few counts from. Basically I need four separate counts from the same column. The first value I need returned is the count of how many records have an integer value stored in this column between two values such as 213 and 9999, including the min and max values. The other three count values I need returned are just the count of records between different values of this column. I've tried doing queries like...
SELECT (SELECT Count(ID) FROM view1 WHERE ((MyIntColumn BETWEEN 213 AND 9999));)
AS Value1, (SELECT Count(ID) FROM FROM view1 WHERE ((MyIntColumn BETWEEN 500 AND 600));) AS Value2 FROM view1;
So there are for example, ten records with this column value between 213 and 9999. The result returned from this query gives me 10, but it gives me the same value of 10, 618 times which is the number of total records in the table. How would it be possible for me to only have it return one record of 10 instead?
Use the Iif() function instead of CASE WHEN
select Condition1: iif( ), condition2: iif( ), etc
P.S. : What I used to do when working with Access was have the iif() resolve to 1 or 0 and then do a SUM() to get the counts. Roundabout but it worked better with aggregation since it avoided nulls.
SELECT
COUNT(CASE
WHEN MyIntColumn >= 213 AND MyIntColumn <= 9999
THEN MyIntColumn
ELSE NULL
END) AS FirstValue
, ??? AS SecondValue
, ??? AS ThirdValue
, ??? AS FourthValue
FROM Table
This doesn't need nesting or CTE or anything. Just define via CASE your condition within COUNTs argument.
I dont really understand what You want in the second, third an fourth column. Sounds to me, its very similar to the first one.
Reformatted, your query looks like:
SELECT (
SELECT Count(ID)
FROM view1
WHERE MyIntColumn BETWEEN 213 AND 9999
) AS Value1
FROM view1;
So you are selecting a subquery expression that is not related to the outer query. For each row in view1, you calculate the number of rows in view1.
Instead, try to do the calculation once. You just have to remove your outer query:
SELECT Count(ID)
FROM view1
WHERE MyIntColumn BETWEEN 213 AND 9999;
OLEDB Connection in MS Access does not support key words CASE and WHEN .
You can only use iif() function to count two, three.. values in same columns
SELECT Attendance.StudentName, Count(IIf([Attendance]![Yes_No]='Yes',1,Null)) AS Yes, Count(IIf([Attendance]![Yes_No]='No',1,Null)) AS [No], Count(IIf([Attendance]![Yes_No]='Not',1,Null)) AS [Not], Count(IIf([Attendance]![Yes_No],1,Null)) AS Total
FROM Attendance
GROUP BY Attendance.StudentName;
I have the following query, which works great. The problem I have is that in both tables (and the aggregate unioned table), there is a field called MTGUID. I need to multiply MTGUID by a number (let's say 1.35, for ease of use) and have it return that number in the MTGUID field. I have tried a dozen ways to do this and can't get anything to play ball. I can create a new column for each calculated price, like (BKRETAIL.MTGUID * 1.35) AS MTG1, but we've got tens of thousands of lines of code that specifically use MTGUID. Any ideas?
I'm using Firebird SQL.
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT BKRETAIL.* FROM BKRETAIL WHERE BKRETAIL.MKEY='SOMEKEY'
UNION SELECT BKWHOLESALE.* FROM BKWHOLESALE WHERE MKEY='SOMEKEY')
ORDER BY
case STATUS
WHEN 'RT' then 1
WHEN 'WH' then 2
WHEN 'OL' then 3
WHEN 'OD' then 4
WHEN NULL then 5
else 6
end;
How about this:
SELECT MTGUID * 1.35 as calculatedMTGUID, SUBSEL.* FROM (
SELECT BKRETAIL.* FROM BKRETAIL WHERE BKRETAIL.MKEY='SOMEKEY'
UNION SELECT BKWHOLESALE.* FROM BKWHOLESALE WHERE MKEY='SOMEKEY') SUBSEL
ORDER BY
case STATUS
WHEN 'RT' then 1
WHEN 'WH' then 2
WHEN 'OL' then 3
WHEN 'OD' then 4
WHEN NULL then 5
else 6
end;
try this
SELECT MTGUID * 1.35 AS MTGUID,<list rest OF COLUMNS here>
FROM (
SELECT BKRETAIL.* FROM BKRETAIL WHERE BKRETAIL.MKEY='SOMEKEY'
UNION SELECT BKWHOLESALE.* FROM BKWHOLESALE WHERE MKEY='SOMEKEY')
ORDER BY
case STATUS
WHEN 'RT' then 1
WHEN 'WH' then 2
WHEN 'OL' then 3
WHEN 'OD' then 4
WHEN NULL then 5
else 6
end;
One option would be to replace the original MTGUID column with computed one, ie
rename the original MTGUID column in table(s);
add new MTGUID column with desired expression using COMPUTED BY (expr);
Advantage of this is that you don't have to alter your SQL statements, disadvantage is that you have to maintain the expression in many places (all the tables which have the column). Of course, the queries which need the original MTGUID value must be updated to use the renamed column, but if the number of such statements is significantly lower it could be worth the trouble.
I think a better solution would be to "hide" all this stuff behind a view but this requires alerting your SQL queries...