I have 7 tables I am using in a view. For examples, I will be using these as my table names (The Fields within the table don't matter for this execpt that the PrimaryKey is tableName + ID)
Table 1.
Teacher
Table 2.
Student (Exception-- Student has all the ids in it, from all the other 6 tables)
Table 3.
Science
Table 4.
Math
Table 5.
History
Table 6.
German
Table 7.
Language Arts
Now, All the tables from 3-7 have a relationship to Student from Table 2. And Student has a relationship to teacher.
My view currently works if any of my tables have any fields. and some can be null, it also works if any of my tables 3-7 are completely null, it will still display.
However, my current problem is, if my teacher has no students assigned to them, making tables 2-7 null, empty, etc.... My query doesnt even return the teacher info that is filled in... First name, last name, Date of birth, etc.
How can I Accomplish this?
I tried doing all left joins from all the tables, since the teacher can have null fields, I tried doing an inner join from dbo.Teacher as Teacher Inner Join dbo.Student on dbo.Student.TeacherID = Teacher.TeacherID but that didnt work.. I am at a loss...
SELECT Teacher.TeacherID ,
Student.StudentID ,
Science.ScienceID ,
History.HistoryID ,
Math.MathID ,
German.GermanID ,
LanguageArts.LanguageArtsID
FROM dbo.Teacher AS Teacher
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.Student
ON dbo.Student.TeacherID = Teacher.TeacherID
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.Science AS Science
ON dbo.Student.ScienceID = Science.ScieneID
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.Math AS Math
ON dbo.Student.MathID = Math.MathID
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.History AS History
ON dboStudent.HistoryID = History.HistoryID
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.German AS German
ON dbo.Student.GermanID = German.GermanID
LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.LanuageArts AS LanguageArts
ON dbo.Student.LanguageArtsID = LanguageArts.LanguageArtsID
Two comments:
Do you know the use of LEFT JOIN?. This query should return all teachers, even thouse with no students.
SELECT *
FROM teacher t LEFT JOIN student s ON s.teacher_id = t.id
(RIGHT JOIN would work if you want all student even if they do not have teachers)
Remmember that in SQL 1 == NULL and 1 != NULL are both false. So the following query will not result a teacher without students or a student without teachers.
SELECT *
FROM teacher t,
student s
WHERE s.teacher_id = t.id
I figured out my answer, in my select i was using dbo.Student.TeacherID, instead of dbo.Teacher.TeacherID, therefore my query was always coming back with null TeacherID values since I was checking my view with a query like this one
Select * from MyView Where TeacherID = 1;
This returned null since my select was pulling Student.TeacherID which is null, so I Swapped out dbo.Student.TeacherID for dbo.Teacher.TeacherID and it is now resolved.
Such a bleh moment. Thanks for comments and replies.!
As I am reading back in my OP, I said I was selecting
SELECT Teacher.TeacherID ,
Student.StudentID ,
which was technically a typo, but also my answer...
Related
I am in the process of implementing an advanced search in my application. I'm sort of new with Oracle and JPA. The database structure has a many-to-many relationship (ERD) with an intermediate table that contains StudentID and CourseID.
I'm trying to return rows of students that have the list of classes/courses.
Basically, I want the results of
SELECT DISTINCT s.* FROM STUDENT s
INNER JOIN STUDENT_COURSE sc ON s.StudentID = sc.StudentID
INNER JOIN COURSE c ON c.CourseID = sc.CourseID
WHERE ( c.CourseID IN (SELECT DISTINCT CourseID FROM STUDENT_COURSE WHERE CourseID = 'A01') AND c.CourseID IN (SELECT DISTINCT CourseID FROM STUDENT_COURSE WHERE CourseID = 'A02'));
which returns the records of students that have both courses 'A01' and 'A02'.
ID
Age
Grade
1
...
...
4
...
....
9
...
....
with courses
Courses
A01,A02
A01,A02,A03,X02
A01, A02, A03
The goal is to get a similar result using Spring Data JPA. And make it more general to select any number of Course Ids.
I've tried
#Query(value="SELECT DISTINCT s.* FROM STUDENT s "
+"INNER JOIN STUDENT_COURSE sc ON s.StudentID = sc.StudentID "
+"INNER JOIN COURSE c ON c.CourseID = sc.CourseID "
+"WHERE ( s.STUDENTID IN (SELECT DISTINCT STUDENTID FROM STUDENT_COURSE WHERE CourseID =:courseIds)",nativeQuery=true))
public List<Student> advancedSearch(#Param("courseIds") String courseIds);
One example, The courseIds field contain "A01,A02". The result would be empty.
I've looked at examples where people use IN. When I tried it, it would return records of the student have courses AO1 OR A02 OR Both.
DON'T WANT THIS
ID
Age
Grade
2
...
...
3
...
....
8
...
....
With Courses
CourseID
A01,A03
A01, X01
A02
I want records of students that have both A01 AND A02 as shown in the other table.
My guess is that the query you want is
select s.name /* note this column doesn't appear in your ERD */
,s.age
,s.grade
from student s
join student_course sc
on s.studentID = sc.studentID
where sc.courseID IN ('A01', 'A02')
group by s.name /* again, this column isn't in your ERD */
,s.age
,s.grade
having count(sc.courseID) = 2
That doesn't produce the output table you say you want. But neither does the query you posted. This will return all the students that have taken both courses (you could add a distinct to the having clause if the data model were to change to allow a student to take a course multiple times). It won't give you the list of all courses that student has taken as a comma-separated list. But the query you posted doesn't return any course information either.
If this isn't what you are looking for, it would be really helpful to update your question with
The DDL for your schema in text form (so we can run it) rather than as an image
The DML to insert whatever sample data you want
The actual results you'd want the query to return (since there is a conflict between what the query you posted returns, the table of data you say you want, and the descriptive text of what you are trying to accomplish, it is confusing to try to figure out which is right).
I want to fetch all parents that have kids in a specific grade only in a school.
Below are trimmed down version of the tables.
TABLE students
id,
last_name,
grade_id,
school_id
TABLE parents_students
parent_id,
student_id
TABLE parents
id,
last_name,
school_id
I tried the below query but it doesn't really work as expected. It rather fetches all parents in a school disregarding the grade. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
SELECT DISTINCT
p.id,
p.last_name,
p.school_id,
st.school_id,
st.grade_id,
FROM parents p
INNER JOIN students st ON st.school_id = p.school_id
WHERE st.grade_id = 118
AND st.school_id = 6
GROUP BY p.id,st.grade_id,st.school_id;
I would think:
select p.*
from parents p
where exists (select 1
from parents_students ps join
students s
on ps.student_id = s.id
where ps.parent_id = p.id and
s.grade_id = 118 and
s.school_id = 6
);
Your question says that you want information about the parents. If so, I don't see why you are including redundant information about the school and grade (it is redundant because the where clause specifies exactly what those values are).
How to find city when ContactID is provided and condition is if ContactID is coming as 123 then it will look whether it is P or C, If P then it will go to Person table and returns City(USA) as output and If C then it will go to Company table and gives City(AUS) as output.
NB: all tables contain thousands of record and City value comes from run time.
Unless you're dynamically generating the query (i.e. using some language other than SQL to execute it) then you need to join on both tables anyway. If you're joining on both tables then there's no need for a CASE statement:
select *
from contacts co
left outer join person p
on co.contactid = p.contactid
and co.person_company = 'P'
left outer join company c
on co.contactid = c.contactid
and co.person_company = 'C'
You'll start noting an issue here, for every column from PERSON and COMPANY you're going to have to add some business logic to work out which table you want the information from. This can get very tiresome
select co.contactid
, case when p.id is not null then p.name else c.name end as name
from contacts co
left outer join person p
on co.contactid = p.contactid
and co.person_company = 'P'
left outer join company c
on co.contactid = c.contactid
and co.person_company = 'C'
Your PERSON and COMPANY tables seem to have exactly the same information in them. If this is true in your actual data model then there's no need to split them up. You make the determination as to whether each entity is a person or a company in your CONTACTS table.
Creating additional tables to store data in this manner is only really helpful if you need to store additional data. Even then, I'd still put the data that means the same thing for a person or a companny (i.e. name or address) in a single table.
If there's a 1-2-1 relationship between CONTACTID and PID and CONTACTID and CID, which is what your sample data implies, then you have a number of additional IDs, which have no value.
Lastly, if you're not restricting that only companies can go in the COMPANY table and individuals in the PERSON table. You need the PERSON_COMPANY column to exist in both PERSON and COMPANY, though as a fixed string. It would be more normal to set up this data model as something like the following:
create table contacts (
id integer not null
, contact_type char(1) not null
, name varchar2(4000) not null
, city varchar2(3)
, constraint pk_contacts primary key (id)
, constraints uk_contacts unique (id, contact_type)
);
create table people (
id integer not null
, contact_type char(1) not null
, some_extra_info varchar2(4000)
, constraint pk_people primary key (id)
, constraint fk_people_contacts
foreign key (id, contact_type)
references contacts (id, contact_type)
, constraint chk_people_type check (contact_type = 'P')
);
etc.
you can LEFT JOIN all 3 tables and the using a CASE statement select the one that you need based on the P or C value
SELECT
CASE c.[Person/Company]
WHEN 'P' THEN p.NAME
WHEN 'C' THEN a.Name
END AS Name
FROM Contact c
LEFT JOIN Person p on p.ContactId = c.ContactId
LEFT JOIN Company a on a.ContachId = c.ContactId
Ben's answer is almost right. You might want to check that the first join has no match before doing the second one:
select c.*, coalesce(p.name, c.name) as p.name
from contacts c left outer join
person p
on c.contactid = p.contactid and
c.person_company = 'P' left join
company co
on c.contactid = co.contactid and
c.person_company = 'C' and
p.contactid is null;
This may not be important in your case. But in the event that the second join matches multiple rows and the first matches a single row, you might not want the additional rows in the output.
Please don't downgrade this as it is bit complex for me to explain. I'm working on data migration so some of the structures look weird because it was designed by someone like that.
For ex, I have a table Person with PersonID and PersonName as columns. I have duplicates in the table.
I have Details table where I have PersonName stored in a column. This PersonName may or may not exist in the Person table. I need to retrieve PersonID from the matching records otherwise put some hardcode value in PersonID.
I can't write below query because PersonName is duplicated in Person Table, this join doubles the rows if there is a matching record due to join.
SELECT d.Fields, PersonID
FROM Details d
JOIN Person p ON d.PersonName = p.PersonName
The below query works but I don't know how to replace "NULL" with some value I want in place of NULL
SELECT d.Fields, (SELECT TOP 1 PersonID FROM Person where PersonName = d.PersonName )
FROM Details d
So, there are some PersonNames in the Details table which are not existent in Person table. How do I write CASE WHEN in this case?
I tried below but it didn't work
SELECT d.Fields,
CASE WHEN (SELECT TOP 1 PersonID
FROM Person
WHERE PersonName = d.PersonName) = null
THEN 123
ELSE (SELECT TOP 1 PersonID
FROM Person
WHERE PersonName = d.PersonName) END Name
FROM Details d
This query is still showing the same output as 2nd query. Please advise me on this. Let me know, if I'm unclear anywhere. Thanks
well.. I figured I can put ISNULL on top of SELECT to make it work.
SELECT d.Fields,
ISNULL(SELECT TOP 1 p.PersonID
FROM Person p where p.PersonName = d.PersonName, 124) id
FROM Details d
A simple left outer join to pull back all persons with an optional match on the details table should work with a case statement to get your desired result.
SELECT
*
FROM
(
SELECT
Instance=ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY PersonName),
PersonID=CASE WHEN d.PersonName IS NULL THEN 'XXXX' ELSE p.PersonID END,
d.Fields
FROM
Person p
LEFT OUTER JOIN Details d on d.PersonName=p.PersonName
)AS X
WHERE
Instance=1
Ooh goody, a chance to use two LEFT JOINs. The first will list the IDs where they exist, and insert a default otherwise; the second will eliminate the duplicates.
SELECT d.Fields, ISNULL(p1.PersonID, 123)
FROM Details d
LEFT JOIN Person p1 ON d.PersonName = p1.PersonName
LEFT JOIN Person p2 ON p2.PersonName = p1.PersonName
AND p2.PersonID < p1.PersonID
WHERE p2.PersonID IS NULL
You could use common table expressions to build up the missing datasets, i.e. your complete Person table, then join that to your Detail table as follows;
declare #n int;
-- set your default PersonID here;
set #n = 123;
-- Make sure previous SQL statement is terminated with semilcolon for with clause to parse successfully.
-- First build our unique list of names from table Detail.
with cteUniqueDetailPerson
(
[PersonName]
)
as
(
select distinct [PersonName]
from [Details]
)
-- Second get unique Person entries and record the most recent PersonID value as the active Person.
, cteUniquePersonPerson
(
[PersonID]
, [PersonName]
)
as
(
select
max([PersonID]) -- if you wanted the original Person record instead of the last, change this to min.
, [PersonName]
from [Person]
group by [PersonName]
)
-- Third join unique datasets to get the PersonID when there is a match, otherwise use our default id #n.
-- NB, this would also include records when a Person exists with no Detail rows (they are filtered out with the final inner join)
, cteSudoPerson
(
[PersonID]
, [PersonName]
)
as
(
select
coalesce(upp.[PersonID],#n) as [PersonID]
coalesce(upp.[PersonName],udp.[PersonName]) as [PersonName]
from cteUniquePersonPerson upp
full outer join cteUniqueDetailPerson udp
on udp.[PersonName] = p.[PersonName]
)
-- Fourth, join detail to the sudo person table that includes either the original ID or our default ID.
select
d.[Fields]
, sp.[PersonID]
from [Details] d
inner join cteSudoPerson sp
on sp.[PersonName] = d.[PersonName];
I have 2 tables Person an Department - where each person has multiple departments registered against him.
Person
id|name|dept1|dept2|dept3
1 |Jane|100 |102 |106
Dept
id |Name
100|Accounts
...
102|HR
...
106|Admin
Whats the most elegant sql to display Jane's record as follows:
Jane|Accounts|HR|Admin
Use this. And work on your naming convention to make all column names unique independent of table.
SELECT
Person.id, Person.name, dept1.Name, dept2.Name, dept3.Name
LEFT JOIN Dept dept1 ON dept1.id = Person.dept1
LEFT JOIN Dept dept2 ON dept2.id = Person.dept2
LEFT JOIN Dept dept3 ON dept3.id = Person.dept3
Something like this will let you join the same table multiple times. You just give each join a different alias
SELECT *
FROM Person AS P
INNER JOIN Dept AS D1 ON P.dept1 = D1.id
INNER JOIN Dept AS D2 ON P.dept2 = D2.id
WHERE P.name = 'Jane'
Ideally you would normalise the data in your Person table and have a linking table between Person and Dept e.g. PersonDepartmentLinking (or whatever convention you have for linking table naming conventions), assuming you have any control over the schema and it's possible to add the relationship that way.
You can use STUFF in this case
Select name,
Stuff((Select distinct ', ' + cast(Name as varchar(20))
From #Dept t2
Where t2.Id = t1.Id
FOR XML PATH('')),1,1,'')
From Person t1
The only way that I know is a join for each column.
But if you are in the way of designing the tables, i suggest you to normalize the DB.
If a person need an extra dept column, you need to alter the table to add a new property of person.
For me, 3 entities are needed:
- Person
- Department
- person_department_assignation