I have an empty table that I would like to fill with rows from a second table, based off a third table, Ill call them A,B,C respectively.
Table C has ID numbers that match ID numbers for rows in Table B. For every ID in table C, I want to add the corresponding row from table B into Table A.
This is what I have, and I am getting an error saying that I cannot use the last statement.
INSERT INTO TABLEA
SELECT * FROM TABLEB
WHERE ID FROM TABLEB = ID FROM TABLEC;
DSNT408I SQLCODE = -199, ERROR: ILLEGAL USE OF KEYWORD FROM. TOKEN ( . AT
MICROSECONDS MICROSECOND SECONDS SECOND MINUTES MINUTE WAS EXPECTED
DSNT418I SQLSTATE = 42601 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE
Any help would be appreciated.
INSERT INTO TableA
SELECT B.*
FROM TableB AS B
JOIN TableC AS C ON B.ID = C.ID
Or possibly that will give you too many duplicates (if there are multiple rows in C that match a given row in B), in which case you might need:
INSERT INTO TableA
SELECT B.*
FROM TableB AS B
WHERE B.ID IN (SELECT C.ID FROM TableC AS C)
Or:
INSERT INTO TableA
SELECT DISTINCT B.*
FROM TableB AS B
JOIN TableC AS C ON B.ID = C.ID
Both of those give you one row in A for each row in B that matches one or more rows in C.
How would I add a WHEN clause to this? Let's say Table C has another column called VALUE, and I want to add all the ID numbers that have a value of 'x' or greater. How would I do that, I tried adding JOIN TableC AS C ON B.ID = C.ID AND C.VALUE > 5 but I still got all the values from TABLE C.
Working with the first query (fixing the others being left as an 'exercise for the reader'), then what I think you should be doing is just:
INSERT INTO TableA
SELECT B.*
FROM TableB AS B
JOIN TableC AS C ON B.ID = C.ID
WHERE C.Value > 5
The optimizer should translate that to an equivalent expression:
INSERT INTO TableA
SELECT B.*
FROM TableB AS B
JOIN TableC AS C ON B.ID = C.ID AND C.Value > 5
I'm not clear from your comment whether you somehow added a second reference to TableC in the one query, or you modified your query as shown in this second example. If you were not using LEFT JOIN anywhere, then adding the AND C.Value > 5 term to the ON clause or as a WHERE clause should have yielded the correct data.
When debugging this sort of problem, it is worth noting that this INSERT statement has a perfectly good SELECT statement in it that you can run on its own to review what is going to be added to TableA. You might want to augment the select-list to include (at least) C.ID and C.Value just to make sure nothing is going haywire.
Related
I want to INNER JOIN some tables and then insert a condition where the entries of a table are dependant on another table (that was not joined with the others)
Something like this:
SELECT * FROM TABLE_A AS a
INNER JOIN TABLE_B AS b ON b.id_b=a.id_a
INNER JOIN TABLE_C AS c ON c.id_c=b.id_b
Now I want to add a condition (possibly a "WHERE" clause) that only selects the values in a field in TABLE_C that match another condition, the existence of a value in a field in TABLE_D
Possible statement:
WHERE c.code=d.another_code AND d.reg_number LIKE 999%
How do i declare in the query the TABLE_D, since I do not want to Join it with the others?
In other words, I want to intersect 3 sets (A,B,C) and the other one (set D) is intersected only with set C
The title of the question Run-time error '13': ... doesn't seem to match the content so I'll just answer the SQL part.
Maybe this is what you want?
SELECT * FROM TABLE_A AS a
INNER JOIN TABLE_B AS b ON b.id_b=a.id_a
INNER JOIN TABLE_C AS c ON c.id_c=b.id_b
WHERE c.code = -- or possiby IN instead of =
(SELECT another_code FROM TABLE_D WHERE another_code LIKE '999%')
If the subquery can return multiple rows you need to use WHERE c.code IN instead of WHERE c.code =
I've 3 tables, viz A, B & c.
B & C has forign key of A.
Now I want to run a query on A, in such a way, that only records of B are returned.
That is, I want to exclude all the results of C and show only results of B, when a query is executed on all the records of A.
Hope, I've the question makes sense.
If you want to return all records of A and any matching records from B then something a left outer join is appropriate:
SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM a, b
WHERE a.id = b.id
This will return each record from A and populate values from B where there is a match. This will also return multiple rows for records that occur in A if there are multiple rows in B that match.
Just because there is a foreign key in C that references something in table A, it won't be returned unless you use it in your query.
If you just want to return all records from B when the foreign key appears in A then maybe you want:
SELECT *
FROM B
WHERE B.id in (SELECT id FROM A)
AND B.id not in (SELECT id FROM C)
or
SELECT *
FROM B
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM A JOIN B on A.id = B.id)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM C JOIN B on C.id = B.id)
All these assume that id is the key which is common.
Is this what you want?
select a.*
from a
where exists (select 1 from b where b.aid = a.aid) and
not exists (select 1 from c where c.aid = c.aid);
I am not sure if this can be done with a single JOIN, but I basically have two tables with an ID column in common. To make it simple I'll say Table A just contains an ID while Table B contains an ID and Code. There is a 1:M relationship between Table A and Table B, however it's also possible an ID from Table A is not contained in Table B at all. I was hoping to have a query return every ID that exists in Table B within a particular code range, or does not exist in Table B at all.
I tried using a LEFT JOIN with something like:
SELECT A.id FROM A LEFT JOIN B ON A.id = B.id AND b.code BETWEEN '000' AND '123'
But, this still gives me the IDs that exist in Table B outside of the code range.
Use a left join, and filter the result to contain the codes in the range, and also the lines where there is no matching record in table B:
select
A.id
from
A
left join B on B.id = A.id
where
B.code between '000' and '123' or B.id is null
What about
SELECT id FROM A LEFT JOIN B ON A.id = B.id
WHERE b.code IS NULL OR b.code BETWEEN ' ' AND '123'
I have a simple SQL question, I thought it would be quite straight forward but have got myself in a muddle. Any help would be appreciated
I have table A which contains a last updated
Table A has a one to many with Table B
Table B has a one to many with Table C
I want to show all rows of table C with the last updated time from table A. I have tried some joins but they dont seem to be quite working. Ideally I want somehting like
select a.lastUpdated c.* from TableA a, TableC c where
a.id in (select a_id from TableB where (select b_id from TableC where c_id = select
id from TableC where XXXX=YYYY))
so I can pass in an id for table C and then get one row returned with the last updated time present.
XXX=YYY would be my criteria for returning one row of table C.
Any help or pointers appreciated
Thanks
Something like
SELECT c.*
FROM TableA AS a
INNER JOIN TableB AS b
ON a.a_id = b.b_id
INNER JOIN TableC AS c
ON b.b_id = c.c_id
WHERE a.lastUpdated = c.lastUpdated;
Should work. This is a situation where a striaght INNER JOIN should suffice; unless of course I have missed something.
I hope this helps.
You should be able to do this by joining A and B together, aggregating the results at the c_id level, and then joining in C:
select tc.*, maxlastupdated
from tablec tc left outer join
(select tb.c_id, max(lastupdated) as maxlastupdated
from tablea ta join
tableb tb
on ta.b_id = tb.b_id
group by ta.id
) ta
on tc.c_id = ta.c_id
You need to drive your SQL query from Table C.
The query below displays the updated timestamp column from table A.
Since it is a one-to-many in the direction of tables A --> B --> C
You will inevitably end-up with a lot of rows in table C - all with the same timestamp.
SELECT c.*, a1.update_timestamp
FROM table_c c, table_b b, table_a a1
WHERE c.join_column = b.join_column
AND b.join_column = a1.join_column
AND a1.update_timestamp =
(SELECT max(a2.update_timestamp) FROM table_a a2
WHERE a2.<identifying columns> = a1.<identifying columns>
);
Hello I Have a problem in getting rows from one table after comparing both. Detail of Both Table are as follows:-
I am using Ms Access database.
TableA is having a data of numeric type (Field Name is A it is primary key)
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Field A
==========
1
2
3
4
5
Table B is having data of numeric type ( Field Name is A it is foreign key)
--------
Field A
========
2
4
Now I am using below query which is this
select a.a
from a a
, b b
where a.a <> b.b
I want to show all the data from Table A which is not equal to Table B. But the above query is not working as I described.
Can you help me in this regard.
Regards,
Fawad Munir
In an attempt at clarity, I've used upper case for tables and lower case for fields:
Select A.a
FROM A LEFT OUTER JOIN B ON A.a=B.b
WHERE B.b is null
This will show all the records in A that are not in B (I assume that's what you want).
Read up on Access outer joins. In the query designer you double click the join and select something like "all records from table a and only the matching records in table b".
In your question you said that the name of the field in table B is 'A'. Given that, I'd say that your query should be something like
select a.a
from a, b
where a.a <> b.a
But I'm not sure this will do what you want. I think you're trying to find rows in table A which do not have a matching row in table B, in which case you might try
SELECT A.A
FROM A
LEFT OUTER JOIN B
ON (B.A = A.A)
WHERE B.A IS NULL
Try that and see if it does what you want.
Share and enjoy.
I don't know exactly if Access would accept the syntax, but here how I would do in SQL Server.
select a.a
from TableA a
where a.a NOT IN (
select b.a
from TableB b
)
or even as above-mentioned:
select a.a
from TableA a
left outer join TableB b on b.a = a.a
where b.a IS NULL
Its not entirely clear what you are trying to achieve, but its sounds like you are attempting to solve the common problem of finding rows in Table A missing associated data in Table B. If this is the case, it appears you misunderstand the semantics of the join you tried. In which case, you have 2 problems, because the understanding the the JOIN operation is critical to working with relational databases.
In relation to the first problem, please research how to express a subquery using the IN operator. Something like
... WHERE a NOT IN (SELECT a from b)
In relation to the second problem, try your query without the WHERE restriction, and see what is returned. Once you understand what the join is doing, you will see why applying a WHERE restriction to it will not solve your problem.
If I understand you correctly, you want to see every row in A for which column a contains a value that cannot be found in any column b value of B. You can get this data in several ways.
I think using NOT IN is the clearest, personally:
SELECT * FROM tableA WHERE columnA NOT IN
(SELECT columnB FROM tableB WHERE columnB IS NOT NULL)
Many people prefer a filtered JOIN:
SELECT tableA.* FROM tableA LEFT OUTER JOIN tableB
ON tableA.columnA = tableB.columnB WHERE tableB.columnB IS NULL
There is a NOT EXISTS variant as well:
SELECT * FROM tableA WHERE columnA NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM tableB WHERE columnB = tableA.columnA)