I am using SQLFire. I am doing an assignment and when beginning the assignment I came across that I couldn't return a particular value. See this SQL Fiddle, it contains the EXACT data in the table that I am using in my assignment and it contains the SQL Statement that i have tried.
FIDDLE: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/e761ac/1
What i want to be outputted is:
Rate | RentalCode
-----------------
350 | WL
I am getting this error when I type my code into SQL Fire.
I Have been told NOT to use the ORDER BY clause and I have not learnt 'LIMIT'
Thank you
You need to have GROUP BY clause since you have non-aggregated column in the SELECT clause
SELECT MIN(Rate), Rentalcode
FROM RentalRates
GROUP BY Rentalcode
UPDATE
Since you want to get the lowest rate, I think this is the better way than using ORDER BY - LIMIT since it supports multiple records having the lowest rate.
SELECT *
FROM RentalRates
WHERE rate = (SELECT MIN(rate) FROM rentalrates)
It's not clear what you want to get with this query. I guess following will work:
SELECT Rate, Rentalcode
FROM RentalRates
order by Rate
LIMIT 1
SQLFiddle demo
As you see, even in SQLfiddle your result are quite strange - you're getting RentalCode from one record and Rate from another.
Select aggregate from table without grouping is MySQL syntax and not ANSI. If you want to get record with minimum Rate, here's a query:
select * from RentalRates order by Rate limit 1
sql fiddle demo
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I need to fetch 4 random values from each category. What should be the correct sql syntax for maria db. I have attached one image of table structure.
Please click here to check the structure
Should i write some procedure or i can do it with basic sql syntax?
You can do that with a SQL statement if you only have a few rows:
SELECT id, question, ... FROM x1 ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 1
This works fine if you have only a few rows - as soon as you have thousands of rows the overhead for sorting the rows becomes important, you have to sort all rows for getting only one row.
A trickier but better solution would be:
SELECT id, question from x1 JOIN (SELECT CEIL(RAND() * (SELECT(MAX(id)) FROM x1)) AS id) as id using(id);
Running EXPLAIN on both SELECTS will show you the difference...
If you need random value for different categories combine the selects via union and add a where clause
http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/groupwise_max#top_n_in_each_group
But then ORDER BY category, RAND(). (Your category is the blog's province.)
Notice how it uses #variables to do the counting.
If you have MariaDB 10.2, then use one of its Windowing functions.
SELECT column FROM table WHERE category_id = XXX
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 4
do it for all categories
I would like to query a DB2 table and get all the results of a query in addition to all of the rows returned by the select statement in a separate column.
E.g., if the table contains columns 'id' and 'user_id', assuming 100 rows, the result of the query would appear in this format: (id) | (user_id) | 100.
I do not wish to use a 'group by' clause in the query. (Just in case you are confused about what i am asking) Also, I could not find an example here: http://mysite.verizon.net/Graeme_Birchall/cookbook/DB2V97CK.PDF.
Also, if there is a more efficient way of getting both these results (values + count), I would welcome any ideas. My environment uses zend framework 1.x, which does not have an ODBC adapter for DB2. (See issue http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-905.)
If I understand what you are asking for, then the answer should be
select t.*, g.tally
from mytable t,
(select count(*) as tally
from mytable
) as g;
If this is not what you want, then please give an actual example of desired output, supposing there are 3 to 5 records, so that we can see exactly what you want.
You would use window/analytic functions for this:
select t.*, count(*) over() as NumRows
from table t;
This will work for whatever kind of query you have.
How can I use TOP function in SQL Server 2005 on a single column in a table along with count function?
I am getting only one count for this query, where I have 35 entries that should come.
this is my query
select top(1) room_no, count(room_no) from rooms
Seems like what you want is the following:
select room_no,count(room_no)
from rooms
group by room_no
BTW, I wonder why it would execute without the group by. Should throw an error.
COUNT function is evaluated after TOP. That is why you are only getting one for the count. What you want is something like this
SELECT TOP(1) dbo.Table.Column1, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM dbo.Table)
FROM dbo.Table
Also as mentioned you really should be ordering by something.
Edit: This also works:
SELECT TOP(1) dbo.Table.Column1, COUNT(*) OVER() AS Total
FROM dbo.Table
Seems to be more efficient as well (only tested on small dataset though).
I need to get the ID based from what ever the max amount is. Below is giving me an error
select ID from Prog
where Amount = MAX(Amount)
An aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless it is in a subquery contained in a HAVING clause or a select list, and the column being aggregated is an outer reference.
The end result is that I need to get the just the ID as I need to pass it something else that is expecting it.
You need to order by Amount and select 1 record instead...
SELECT ID
FROM Prog
ORDER BY Amount DESC
LIMIT 1;
This takes all the rows in Prog, orders them in descending order by Amount (in other words, the first sorted row has the highest Amount), then limits the query to select only one row (the one with the highest Amount).
Also, subqueries are bad for performance. This code runs on a table with 200k records in half the time as the subquery versions.
Just pass a subquery with the max value to the where clause :
select ID from Prog
where Amount = (SELECT MAX(Amount) from Prog)
If you're using SQL Server that should do it :
SELECT TOP 1 ID
FROM Prog
ORDER BY Amount DESC
This should be something like:
select P.ID from Prog P
where P.Amount = (select max(Amount) from Prog)
EDIT:
If you really want only 1 row, you should do:
select max(P.ID) from Prog P
where P.Amount = (select max(Amount) from Prog);
However, if you have multiple rows that would match amount and you only want 1 row, you should have some kind of logic behind how you pick your one row. Not just relying on this max trick, or limit 1 type logic.
Also, I don't write limit 1, because this is not ANSI sql -- it works in mysql but OP doesn't say what he wants. Every db is different -- see here: Is there an ANSI SQL alternative to the MYSQL LIMIT keyword? Don't get used to one db's extensions unless you only want to work in 1 db for the rest of your life.
select min(ID) from Prog
where Amount in
(
select max(amount)
from prog
)
The min statement ensures that you get only one result.
I have a scenario and not quite sure how to query it. As a sample, I have following table structure and want to get the history of the action for bus:
ID-----TIME---------BUSID----OPID----MOVING----STOPPED----PARKED----COUNT
1------10:10:10-----101------1101-----1---------0----------0---------15
2------10:10:11-----102------1102-----0---------1----------0---------5
3------10:11:10-----101------1101-----1---------0----------0---------15
4------10:12:10-----101------1101-----0---------1----------0---------15
5------10:13:10-----101------1101-----1---------0----------0---------19
6------10:14:10-----101------1101-----1---------0----------0---------19
7------10:15:10-----101------1101-----0---------1----------0---------19
8------10:16:10-----101------1101-----0---------0----------1---------0
9------10:17:10-----101------1101-----0---------0----------1---------0
I want to write a query to get the status of a bus like:
BUSID----OPID----STATUS-----TIME---------DURATION---COUNT
101------1101----MOVING-----10:10:10-----2-----------15
101------1101----STOPPED----10:12:10-----1-----------15
101------1101----MOVING-----10:13:10-----2-----------19
101------1101----STOPPED----10:15:10-----1-----------19
101------1101----PARKED-----10:16:10-----2-----------0
I am using SQL Server 2008.
Thanks for your help.
You can use Common Table Expressions to calculate the duration between the different rows.
WITH cte_log AS
(
SELECT
Row_Number()
OVER
(
ORDER BY time DESC
)
AS
id, time, busid, opid, moving, stopped, parked, count
FROM
log_table
WHERE
busid = 101
)
SELECT
current_rows.busid,
current_rows.opid,
current_rows.time,
DATEDIFF(second, current_rows.time, previous_rows.time) AS duration
current_rows.count
FROM
cte_log_position AS current_rows
LEFT OUTER JOIN
log_table AS previous_rows ON ((current_rows.row_id + 1) = previous_rows.row_id)
WHERE
current_rows.busid = 101
ORDER BY
current_rows.time DESC;
The WITH statement creates a temporary result set that is defined within the execution scope of this query. We are using it to fetch the previous records of each row and to calculate the time difference between the the current and the previous record.
This example was not tested, and it may not work perfectly, but I hope it gets you going in the correct direction. Feel free to leave feedback.
You may also want to check the following external links on how to use Common Table Expressions:
SQL Select Next Row and SQL Select Previous Row with Current Row using T-SQL CTE
Calculate Difference between current and previous rows... CTE and Row_Number() rocks!
4 Guys From Rolla: Common Table Expressions (CTE) in SQL Server 2005
MSDN: Using Common Table Expressions
personally i would denormalize the data so you have start_time and end_time in the one row. this will make the query much more efficient.
I don't have access to SQL Server at the moment, so there may be syntax errors in the following:
SELECT
BUSID,
OPID,
IF (MOVING = 1) 'MOVING' ELSE IF (STOPPED = 1) 'STOPPED' ELSE 'PARKED' AS STATUS
TIME,
COUNT
FROM BUS_DATA_TABLE
GROUP BY BUSID
ORDER BY TIME
You'll note that this does not include duration. Until you order your data, you don't know which is the previous entry. Once the data is ordered you can calculate the duration as the difference between the times in consecutive records. You could do this by SELECTing into a new table and then running a second query.
Grouping by BUSID, should give you your report for all buses.
Making certain assumptions about column type, etc:
SELECT
BUSID,
OPID,
STATUS,
TIME,
DURATION,
COUNT
FROM
TABLENAME
WHERE
BUSID = 1O1
ORDER BY
TIME
;