SQL Server - Setting multiple columns from another table - sql

Question

I have two tables.
Table 1
ID Code1 Code2 Code3
10 1.1 1.2 1.3
Table 2
Code Group Category
1.1 a cat1
1.2 b cat1
1.3 c cat2
1.4 d cat3
Now I need to get the outputs in two different forms from these two tables tables
Output 1
ID Group1 Group2 Group3
10 a b c
Output 2
ID cat1 cat2 cat3
10 1 1 0
Here the cat1, cat2, cat3 columns are Boolean in nature since the table 1 did not have any code corresponding to cat3 so the value for this is 0.
I was thinking of doing this with case statements but there are about 1000 codes mapped to about 50 categories. Is their a way to do this? I am struggling to come up with a query for this.

Answer 1

First off, I strongly suggest you look into an alternative. This will get messy very fast, as you're essentially treating rows as columns. It doesn't help much that Table1 is already denormalized - though if it really only has 3 columns, it's not that big of a deal to normalize it again.:
CREATE VIEW v_Table1 AS
SELECT Id, Code1 as Code FROM Table1
UNION SELECT Id, Code2 as Code FROM Table1
UNION SELECT Id, Code3 as Code FROM Table1
If we take you second query, it appears you want all possible combinations of ID and Category, and a boolean of whether that combination appears in Table2 (using Code to get back to ID in Table1).
Since there doesn't appear to be a canonical list of ID and Category, we'll generate it:
CREATE VIEW v_AllCategories AS
SELECT DISTINCT ID, Category FROM v_Table1 CROSS JOIN Table2
Getting the list of represented ID and Category is pretty straightforward:
CREATE VIEW v_ReportedCategories AS
SELECT DISTINCT ID, Category FROM Table2
JOIN v_Table1 ON Table2.Code = v_Table1.Code
Put those together, and we can then get the bool to tell us which exists:
CREATE VIEW v_CategoryReports AS
SELECT
T1.ID, T1.Category, CASE WHEN T2.ID IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE 1 END as Reported
FROM v_AllCategories as T1
LEFT OUTER JOIN v_ReportedCategories as T2 ON
T1.ID = T2.ID
AND T1.Category = T2.Category
That gets you your answer in a normalized form:
ID | Category | Reported
10 | cat1 | 1
10 | cat2 | 1
10 | cat3 | 0
From there, you'd need to do a PIVOT to get your Category values as columns:
SELECT
ID,
cat1,
cat2,
cat3
FROM v_CategoryReports
PIVOT (
MAX([Reported]) FOR Category IN ([cat1], [cat2], [cat3])
) p
Since you mentioned over 50 'Categories', I'll assume they're not really 'cat1' - 'cat50'. In which case, you'll need to code gen the pivot operation.
SqlFiddle with a self-contained example.

Answer 2

These answers assume that all 3 codes are available in table 2. If not, then you should use OUTER joins instead of INNER.
Output 1 can be achieved like this:
select t1.ID,
cd1.Group as Group1,
cd2.Group as Group2,
cd3.Group as Group3
from table1 t1
inner join table2 cd1
on t1.Code1 = cd1.Code
inner join table2 cd2
on t1.Code2 = cd2.Code
inner join table2 cd3
on t1.Code3 = cd3.Code
Output 2 is trickier. Since you want a column for every row in Table2, you could write SQL that writes SQL.
Basically start with this base statement:
select t1.ID,
//THE BELOW WILL BE GENERATED ONCE PER ROW
Case when cd1.Category = '' OR
cd2.Category = '' OR
cd3.Category = '' then convert(bit,1) else 0 end as '',
//END GENERATED CODE
from table1 t1
inner join table2 cd1
on t1.Code1 = cd1.Code
inner join table2 cd2
on t1.Code2 = cd2.Code
inner join table2 cd3
on t1.Code3 = cd3.Code
then you can generate the code in the middle like this:
select distinct 'Case when cd1.Category = '''+t2.Category+''' OR
cd2.Category = '''+t2.Category+''' OR
cd3.Category = '''+t2.Category+''' then convert(bit,1) else 0 end as ['+t2.Category+'],'
from table2 t2
Paste those results into the original SQL statement (strip off the trailing comma) and you should be good to go.

Answer 3

We can use the Pivot feature and build the query dynamically. Some what like below:
Query 1
Select * from
(SELECT Id, Code, GroupCode
FROM Table2 join Table1
ON Table1.Code1 = Table2.Code
OR Table1.Code2 = Table2.Code
OR Table1.Code3 = Table2.Code
) ps
PIVOT
(
Max (GroupCode)
FOR Code IN
( [1.1], [1.2], [1.3])
) AS Result
Query 2
Select * from
(SELECT Id, GroupCode, Category
FROM Table2 join Table1
ON Table1.Code1 = Table2.Code
OR Table1.Code2 = Table2.Code
OR Table1.Code3 = Table2.Code
) ps
PIVOT
(
Count (GroupCode)
FOR Category IN
( [cat1], [cat2], [cat3])
) AS Result

Answer 4

Unfortunately your stuck with a bad design for Table1. A better approach would have been to have 3 rows for ID 10.
But, given your current design, your query will look something like this:
SELECT ID, G1.Group Group1, G2.Group Group2, G3.Group Group3
FROM Table1 T1
INNER JOIN Table2 G1 ON T1.Code1 = G1.Code
INNER JOIN Table2 G2 ON T1.Code2 = G2.Code
INNER JOIN Table2 G3 ON T1.Code3 = G3.Code
and
SELECT ID, G1.Category Cat1, G2.Category Cat2, G3.Category Cat3
FROM Table1 T1
INNER JOIN Table2 G1 ON T1.Code1 = G1.Code
INNER JOIN Table2 G2 ON T1.Code2 = G2.Code
INNER JOIN Table2 G3 ON T1.Code3 = G3.Code

Answer 5

The PIVOT and CROSS APPLY keywords within MSSQL would help you out. Though it's not exactly clear what you are trying to accomplish. CROSS APPLY for performing a join on a correlated subquery and displaying different output for each join, and PIVOT for doing a crosstab on your data.
For table 1 it might be easier if you mash it together into a more normalized style.
WITH cteTab1 (Id, Code) AS
(
SELECT Id, Code1 FROM Table1
UNION ALL
SELECT Id, Code2 FROM Table1
UNION ALL
SELECT Id, Code3 FROM Table1)
SELECT *
FROM Table2 INNER JOIN cteTab1 ON Table2.Code = cteTab1.Code