I have Query in Access that I'm building in SQL Server.
Access:
DELETE DISTINCT * from [TableA] INNER JOIN TableB
ON [TableA].[Column1]=[TableB].[column1]
AND [TableA].[Column2]=[TableB].[column2]
I know I could use
Delete from tableA where ID in (
Select * from from [TableA] INNER JOIN TableB
ON [TableA].[Column1]=[TableB].[column1]
AND [TableA].[Column2]=[TableB].[column2])
But I get an error saying "Only one expression can be specified in the select list when the subquery is not introduced with EXISTS"
My Goal is to delete the Distinct records from the Access query mentioned at the top.
You want to delete the rows in TableA that are in TableB, according to the column matches. How about doing this:
delete from tableA
where exists (select 1
from tableB
where tableA.Column1 = tableB.Column1 and tableA.column2 = tableB.column2
);
This seems to be the intent of what you are trying to do.
In the sub-query u have to select the ID column from the respective table that is the only column u need
DELETE a
FROM tableA a
JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT Column1 ,column2
FROM tableA
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM tableB
WHERE tableA.Column1 = tableB.Column1
AND tableA.column2 = tableB.column2)) b
ON A.Column1 = B.Column1
AND A.column2 = B.column2
Related
I have a pair of tables I need to join, I want to return any record that's in tableA, tableB or both. I think I need a FULL OUTER JOIN
This query return 1164 records
SELECT name FROM tableA
WHERE reportDay = '2022-Apr-05'
And this one return 3339 records
SELECT name FROM tableB
WHERE reportDay = '2022-Apr-05'
And this one returns 3369 records (so there must be 30 records in tableA that aren't in tableB)
select distinct name FROM tableA where reportDay = '2022-Apr-05'
union distinct
select distinct name FROM tableB where reportDay = '2022-Apr-05'
I want to obtain a list of all matching records in either table. The query above returns 3369 records, so a FULL OUTER JOIN should also return 3369 rows (I think). My best effort so far is shown below. It returns 1164 rows and returns what looks to me to be a left join between tableA and tableB.
SELECT tableA.name.*, tableB.name.*
FROM tableA
FULL OUTER JOIN tableB
ON (tableA.name = tableB.name and tableB.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05')
WHERE tableA.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05'
Help appreciated. (if this looks question looks familiar, it's a follow-on question to this one )
UPDATE - Sorry (#forpas) to keep moving the goalposts - I'm trying to match test data to real-data scenario's.
DROP TABLE tableA;
DROP TABLE tableB;
CREATE TABLE tableA (name VARCHAR(10),
reportDay DATE,
val1 INTEGER,
val2 INTEGER);
CREATE TABLE tableB (name VARCHAR(10),
reportDay DATE,
test1 INTEGER,
test2 INTEGER);
INSERT INTO tableA values ('A','2022-Apr-05',1,2),
('B','2022-Apr-05',3,4), ('C','2022-Apr-05',5,6),
('A','2022-Apr-06',1,2), ('B','2022-Apr-06',3,4),
('C','2022-Apr-06',5,6), ('Z','2022-Apr-04',5,6),
('Z','2022-Apr-06',5,6) ;
INSERT INTO tableB values ('A','2022-Apr-03',5,6),
('B','2022-Apr-04',11,22), ('B','2022-Apr-05',11,22),
('C','2022-Apr-05',33,44), ('D','2022-Apr-05',55,66),
('B','2022-Apr-06',11,22), ('C','2022-Apr-06',33,44),
('D','2022-Apr-06',55,66), ('Q','2022-Apr-06',5,6);
SELECT tableA.*, tableB.*
FROM tableA
FULL OUTER JOIN tableB
ON (tableA.name = tableB.name and tableB.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05'
AND tableA.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05' )
For this data, I'd hope to see 4 rows of data 'A' from tableA only, 'B' and 'C' from both tables, and 'D' from table B only. I'm after the 5th April records only! The query (shown above) suggested by #forpas works except that the 'A' record in tableA doesn't get returned.
UPDATE - FINAL EDIT AND ANSWER!
Ok, the solution seem to be to concetenate the two fields together before joining....
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM tableA a FULL OUTER JOIN tableB b
ON (b.name || b.reportDay) = (a.name || a.reportDay)
WHERE (a.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05' OR a.reportDay IS NULL)
AND (b.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05' OR b.reportDay IS NULL);
The condition for the date should be placed in a WHERE clause:
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM tableA a FULL OUTER JOIN tableB b
ON b.name = a.name AND a.reportDay = b.reportDay
WHERE '2022-Apr-05' IN (a.reportDay, b.reportDay);
or:
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM tableA a FULL OUTER JOIN tableB b
ON b.name = a.name
WHERE (a.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05' OR a.reportDay IS NULL)
AND (b.reportDay = '2022-Apr-05' OR b.reportDay IS NULL);
See the demo.
Lets say I have two tables.
First table shown below:
tableA
Second table
tableB
Now I want to write a query That will join the two tables above on either name OR email OR phone.
Something like:
SELECT * FROM tableA
LEFT JOIN tableB
ON
(tableA.name_A = tableB.name_B OR tableA.email_A = tableB.email_B OR tableA.phone_A = tableB.phone_B)
And it should produce a table something like this
If you notice,
John matches rows between tableA and tableB on name.
Ally/allie matches rows between tableA and tableB on email.
Sam/Samual matches rows between tableA and tableB on phone
When I try to do this same query though I receive an
error that says LEFT OUTER JOIN cannot be used without a condition that is an equality of fields from both sides of the join.
I am using BigQuery.
Please help, cheers
Try INNER JOIN
SELECT * FROM tableA
INNER JOIN tableB
ON
(tableA.name_A = tableB.name_B OR tableA.email_A = tableB.email_B OR tableA.phone_A = tableB.phone_B)
or CROSS JOIN:
SELECT * FROM tableA
CROSS JOIN tableB
WHERE
tableA.name_A = tableB.name_B
OR tableA.email_A = tableB.email_B
OR tableA.phone_A = tableB.phone_B
or UNION DISTINCT:
SELECT * FROM tableA
LEFT JOIN tableB
ON tableA.name_A = tableB.name_B
UNION DISTINCT
SELECT * FROM tableA
LEFT JOIN tableB
ON tableA.email_A = tableB.email_B
UNION DISTINCT
SELECT * FROM tableA
LEFT JOIN tableB
ON tableA.phone_A = tableB.phone_B
could you try by using parenthesis
SELECT * FROM tableA
LEFT JOIN tableB
ON
(tableA.name_A = tableB.name_B) OR
(tableA.email_A = tableB.email_B) OR
(tableA.phone_A = tableB.phone_B)
I have two tables which handles stock and have been getting out of sync recently.
The data needs to be updated to be in sync again and tableB is always correct so we base the update on this table and use the data from this table to update tableA.
I am attempting to update via a join.
With the below code I have tried multiple different ways to update, for example using a where statement on the xcolumn2, removing the selecting part etc.
Is there a piece of syntax I am missing or am I going the wrong way about it?
update tableA
set tableA.columnA = tableB.columnA
--select
--tableA.xcolumn2,
--tableA.columnA,
--tableB.columnA,
--from tableA as tableA
left join
(select xcolumn1, xcolumn2, sum(columnA) as columnA, sum(xcolumn3) as xcolumn3
from tableB as tableB group by xcolumn1, xcolumn2) as tableB
on tableA.xcolumn2 = tableB.xcolumn2
group by
tableA.xcolumn2,
tableA.columnA,
tableB.columnA,
having sum(tableA.columnA) != sum(tableB.columnA)
I would imagine your update should look something like this:
UPDATE tableA
SET tableA.columnA = tableB.columnA
FROM tableA
JOIN ( SELECT xcolumn1 ,
xcolumn2 ,
SUM(columnA) AS columnA
FROM tableB AS tableB
GROUP BY xcolumn1 ,
xcolumn2
) AS tableB
ON tableA.xcolumn2 = tableB.xcolumn2
AND tableA.xcolumn1 = tableB.xcolumn1
AND (tableA.columnA <> tableB.columnA
OR tableA.columnA IS NULL)
It is possible to delete records based on a satisfied condition with a join query?
For instance, I have a linking table joining 3 records. The query I have at the moment deletes records from this table where one of the id's isn't IN() an imploded Php array. I've come to realise that the query should only remove records from this table if the id's don't exist in the array and they belong to a certain other table based on the a link to another table.
For SQL Server, the command is slightly different:
DELETE FROM TableA
FROM TableA LEFT OUTER JOIN TableB ON TableA.Column = TableB.Column
WHERE TableB.Column IS NULL
No, that's not a typo, yes, you do need "FROM TableA" twice. At least, you need the second FROM (the first is optional). The following has the advantage that it works for both SQL Server and MySQL:
DELETE TableA
FROM TableA LEFT OUTER JOIN TableB ON TableA.Column = TableB.Column
WHERE TableB.Column IS NULL
I like to use EXISTS clauses for this:
DELETE FROM TableA
WHERE
<<put your array condition here>>
AND NOT EXISTS
(SELECT 1 FROM TableB Where TableB.ID=TableA.ID)
You can use :
DELETE Based on a Join:
DELETE A
FROM TableA AS A
LEFT OUTER JOIN TableB As B ON A.Id = B.TabaleAId
WHERE B.Column IS NULL
Delete With SubQuery:
DELETE
FROM TableA AS A
Where
A.id not in ( Select B.TabaleAId From Tab;eB As B )
or
DELETE FROM TableA
WHERE Not EXISTS
(
SELECT *
FROM TableB As B
Where B.TableAId = TableA.Id
)
DELETE Using Table Expressions:
With A
As
(
Select TableA.*
FROM TableA AS A
LEFT OUTER JOIN TableB As B ON A.Id = B.TabaleAId
WHERE B.Column IS NULL
)
Delete From A
DELETE FROM TableA
LEFT OUTER JOIN TableB
WHERE TableB.Column IS NULL
Will delete the records in tableA that don't have a corresponding record in TableB. Is that like what you are after?
DELETE FROM a
FROM TableA AS a LEFT OUTER JOIN TableB AS b
on a.CALENDAR_DATE = b.CALENDAR_DATE AND a.ID = b.ID
Where b.ID is null
You can first use the select statement and verify your records that you want to delete and then remove the select statement and add Delete FROM tablename with the above query syntax.
The easiest way to Delete based on join is as follow:
1.Write your query using SELECT statement instead of DELETE statement
SELECT COLUMNS
FROM Table1
INNER JOIN Table2 ON Table1.YYY = Table2.XXX
2.Replace SELECT COLUMNS with DELETE FROM TABLE
DELETE FROM Table1
FROM Table1
INNER JOIN Table2 ON Table1.YYY = Table2.XXX
Note that we need to specify FROM twice, one for DELETE part and one for JOIN part.
delete from TableA
where id in
(
select id from TableA
except select id from TableB
)
Which means "delete from tableA where id in table a but not in table b)
Otherwise a Merge statement might help you (when matched/not matched delete etc)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510625.aspx
I have two tables, A and B.
Both have the exact same columns.
I need to select all the items in TableA that ARE NOT in TableB.
This is intersection, right? How can I do this?
assuming TableA and TableB have a primary key of name id.
select TableA.*
from TableA
left outer join TableB on TableB.id = TableA.id
where TableB.id is null;
This will find all entries where table b does not have an instance of table a's id.
You could use the EXISTS clause
SELECT * FROM TableA
WHERE NOT Exists
(
SELECT Column1 FROM TableB
WHERE TableA.Column1 = Table2.Column1
AND TableA.Column2 = Table2.Column2
....
)
Replace .... with the rest of the columns in the two tables.
SELECT ColumnA, ColumnB
FROM TableA
EXCEPT
SELECT ColumnA, ColumnB
FROM TableB
You have your terminology wrong. The intersection would be the rows that are in both Table A and Table B. What you are actually looking for is the relative complement of A and B. To get a relative complement you want to do an antijoin:
SELECT * FROM TableA EXCEPT SELECT * FROM TableB.
or NOT IN
SELECT *
FROM TableA
WHERE TableA.Id NOT IN (SELECT TableB.Id FROM TableB)