How to get data from three or more tables - sql

I need to display distinct data between three tables. How to do this requirement.
FirstTable:
9999999999
8888888888
7777777777
6666666666
5555555555
SecondTable:
7777777777
9999999999
ThirdTable:
8888888888
i want output in this format.
6666666666
5555555555

Use LEFT JOIN
SELECT T1."Col"
FROM Table1 T1
LEFT JOIN Table2 T2
ON T1."Col" = T2."Col"
LEFT JOIN Table3 T3
ON T1."Col" = T3."Col"
WHERE T2."Col" IS NULL
AND T3."Col" IS NULL
Output:
| COL |
--------------
| 6666666666 |
| 5555555555 |
See this SQLFiddle

For the data you gave us, you can try this:
select YourColumn from Table1
minus
select Yourcolumn from Table2
minus
select YourColumn from Table3
This however wouldn't give you entries that existed in Table 3 but not tables 1 ND 2. I second the suggestion that you improve the question.

try this...
Select yourColumn
from Table1
where yourColumn not in
( select yourColumn from Table2)
and yourColumn not in
(select yourColumn from table3)

Try:
SELECT Column FROM FirstTable
WHERE Column NOT IN
(SELECT Column from SecondTable UNION
SELECT Column from ThirdTable)

YOUR result doesn't show distinct data. It shows the data which is not IN on any OTHER table
So you can write like this
CREATE TABLE FirstTable (VALUE VARCHAR(10))
CREATE TABLE SecondTable (VALUE VARCHAR(10))
CREATE TABLE ThirdTable (VALUE VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO FirstTable VALUES(9999999999)
INSERT INTO FirstTable VALUES(8888888888)
INSERT INTO FirstTable VALUES(7777777777)
INSERT INTO FirstTable VALUES(6666666666)
INSERT INTO FirstTable VALUES(5555555555)
INSERT INTO SecondTable VALUES(9999999999)
INSERT INTO SecondTable VALUES(7777777777)
INSERT INTO ThirdTable VALUES(8888888888)
SELECT a1.vALUE FROM (SELECT a.vALUE FROM FirstTable a
LEFT OUTER JOIN SecondTable b ON A.VALUE=B.VALUE
WHERE b.VALUE IS NULL) a1
LEFT OUTER JOIN ThirdTable c ON A1.VALUE=C.VALUE
WHERE c.VALUE IS NULL

Contrary to popular inclination, I think this is a good question!
The following solution finds all unique values in three tables:
with middle_tab as(
select t1.id t1_id,t2.id t2_id,t3.id t3_id from tab1 t1
full outer join tab2 t2 on t1.id=t2.id
full outer join tab3 t3 on t1.id=t3.id
)
select coalesce(t1_id,t2_id,t3_id) unique_ids from (
select t1_id,t2_id,t3_id,NVL2(t1_id,0,1)+NVL2(t2_id,0,1)+NVL2(t3_id,0,1) b
from middle_tab)
where b>1
Here is SQL Fiddle Demo!

Related

Get the list of name column values which are not common in both the tables?

recently i gave an interview where the question was
suppose there are two tables in database.
Table T1 has a column named "name" in it and few other columns
Table T2 also has a column name "name" and few other columns
suppose table T1 has values in name column as
[n1,n2,n3,n4,n5]
and values in the "name" column of table T2 are
[n2,n4]
then output should be
[n1,n3,n5] as n2 and n4 are common in both tables
we needs to find the list of names which are not common in both the tables.
The solution that i provided him was using join in the below form
select name from table1 where name not in (select t1.name from table1 t1 join table2 t2 on t1.name=t2.name)
UNION
select name from table2 where name not in (select t1.name from table1 t1 join table2 t2 on t1.name=t2.name)
But he said there is still a better solution. I was not able to come up with any different and more efficient solution. What is the other efficient way to get the list of names if there is any?
If the NAME column does not have NULL values, there is also
select distinct(coalesce(a.name, b.name)) name
from table1 a
full join table1 b on a.name = b.name
where a.name is null or b.name is null
(Corrected WHERE condition, sorry...)
Use FULL OUTER JOIN:
SELECT DISTINCT(COALESCE(t1.NAME, t2.NAME)) AS NAME
FROM TABLE1 t1
FULL OUTER JOIN TABLE2 t2
ON t2.NAME = t1.NAME
WHERE t1.NAME IS NULL OR
t2.NAME IS NULL
A FULL OUTER JOIN is similar to a LEFT OUTER JOIN unioned with a RIGHT OUTER JOIN - it returns rows where data exists in the first table but not the second, or where it data exists in the second table but not the first. You could get the same effect by using
SELECT t1.NAME
FROM TABLE1 t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN TABLE2 t2
ON t2.NAME = t1.NAME
WHERE t2.NAME IS NULL
UNION
SELECT t2.NAME
FROM TABLE1 t1
RIGHT OUTER JOIN TABLE2 t2
ON t2.NAME = t1.NAME
WHERE t1.NAME IS NULL
and in fact the above is what you'd need to do if you were using a database which doesn't support the FULL OUTER JOIN syntax (e.g. MySQL, the last time I looked).
See this dbfiddle
Union the tables and return the values that don't have a count of 2:
create table t1 (
c1 int
);
create table t2 (
c1 int
);
insert into t1 values ( 1 );
insert into t1 values ( 3 );
insert into t2 values ( 2 );
insert into t2 values ( 3 );
commit;
select c1 only_in_one_table
from (
select 'T1' t, c1 from t1
union
select 'T2' t, c1 from t2
)
group by c1
having count(*) <> 2;
ONLY_IN_ONE_TABLE
1
2
I'm not a fan of not in with subqueries, because it behaves unexpectedly with null values. And the person asking would have to explain what "better" means. Your version is actually reasonable.
I might be inclined to approach this using aggregation:
select name
from ((select distinct name, 1 as in_table1, 0 as in_table2
from table1
) union all
(select distinct name, 0 as in_table1, 0\1 as in_table2
from table2
)
) t
group by name
having max(in_table1) <> max(in_table2);
In a real world case, you would probably have a separate table with all names. If so:
select n.*
from names n
where (not exists (select 1 from table1 t1 where t1.name = n.name) and
exists (select 1 from table2 t2 where t2.name = n.name
) or
(exists (select 1 from table1 t1 where t1.name = n.name) and
not exists (select 1 from table2 t2 where t2.name = n.name
);
This is usually the fastest approach because it does not involve any aggregation or duplicate removal.
If you want to use SET operator then find the solution as below:
CREATE TABLE TABLE1(NAME VARCHAR2(100));
CREATE TABLE TABLE2(NAME VARCHAR2(100));
INSERT INTO TABLE1 VALUES('A');
INSERT INTO TABLE1 VALUES('B');
INSERT INTO TABLE1 VALUES('C');
INSERT INTO TABLE2 VALUES('A');
INSERT INTO TABLE2 VALUES('B');
INSERT INTO TABLE2 VALUES('D');
SELECT
NAME
FROM
(
SELECT
NAME
FROM
TABLE1
UNION
SELECT
NAME
FROM
TABLE2
)
WHERE
NAME NOT IN (
SELECT
NAME
FROM
TABLE1
JOIN TABLE2 USING ( NAME )
);
Cheers!!
Yet another possible solution:
Find those that are in the first table but not in the second table using the MINUS operator (which is Oracle's implementation of the standard EXCEPT). Then UNION that with those that are in the second but not in the first.
(
select name
from t1
minus
select name
from t2
)
union all
(
select name
from t2
minus
select name
from t1
);
Given this setup:
create table t1
(
name varchar(10)
);
insert into t1 values ('Arthur');
insert into t1 values ('Zaphod');
create table t2
(
name varchar(10)
);
insert into t2 values ('Tricia');
insert into t2 values ('Zaphod');
This returns:
NAME
------
Arthur
Tricia
select id from((select id from table1)
union all
(select id from table2)) as t1
group by id having count(id)=1
Using the basic set operations the following query should work.
(
select name from table1
union all
select name from table2
)
minus
(
select name from table1
intersect
select name from table2
)
;
Regards
Akash

Need to get output of 2 tables in one column using joins only

I have this scenario question which needs to be solved using joins only. can't use except,intersect or union.
sample code:
--demo setup
create table t1 (id int)
insert into t1 values (1),(2),(3)
create table t2 (id int)
insert into t2 values (4),(5),(6)
--join
select t1.id,t2.id
from t1 full outer join
t2 on t1.id=t2.id
--after join i am getting
id id
----------- -----------
1 NULL
2 NULL
3 NULL
NULL 4
NULL 5
NULL 6
--But i need is
id
-----------
1
2
3
4
5
6
Can someone help me with this ? i know this can be easily done using union but this challenge needs to be solved using joins only.
any help is appreciated ....
--solved the challenge after adding case to the code.
select case when t1.id is null then t2.id else t1.id end as id
from t1 full outer join
t2 on t1.id=t2.id
you can use this code:
SELECT case when t1.id IS NULL THEN t2.id ELSE t1.id END AS id
FROM t1 FULL OUTER JOIN t2
ON t1.id=t2.id
As you said the Use From Union
select * from t1
union
select * from t2
Although UNION ALL is the better option, you can use this following script-
SELECT
CASE WHEN C.ID1 IS NULL THEN C.ID2 ELSE C.ID1 END V
FROM
(
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT 'T1' TabName1,id ID1 FROM #t1
)A
FULL JOIN (
SELECT 'T2' TabName2,id ID2 FROM #t2
)B
ON A.TabName1 = B.TabName2
)C
ORDER BY 1

Get all records using join

I have two tables like the following:
Table1
Id Table1_Col
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E
Table2
Id Table1_Col Table2_Col
1 A Test
I want the count of (Table1_Col) in Table2 and I need query for the following output:
Expected Output
Table1_Col Count_Table2_Col
A 1
B 0
C 0
D 0
E 0
What I have tried so far:
select Table1_Col,Count(Table2_Col) from table1 t1
Left outer join table2 t2 on t1.Table1_Col = t2.Table1_Col
Please provide me a proper solution for this.
You need GROUP BY, when using aggregate methods. Also Table1_Col existing in both tables, so please use with the proper table alias for the columns.
The query below will return your expected result. Please find the demo too.
select T1.Table1_Col, Count(T2.Table2_Col) AS Table2_Col
from table1 t1
Left outer join table2 t2 on t1.Table1_Col = t2.Table1_Col
GROUP BY T1.Table1_Col
Demo on db<>fiddle
UPDATE: As per the comment in the post, based on your fiddle, the condition t3.visitno=1 should be in the LEFT OUTER JOIN and not in the WHERE clause, so the following query will work:
select t3.pvisitno, t1.DocName, count(t2.vdocid) as [count]
from Document_type t1
left outer join visitdocs t2 on t2.DocId = t1.DocId
left outer join visittbl t3 on t3.visitno = t2.visitno and t3.visitno=1
group by t3.pvisitno,t1.DocName
order by count(t2.vdocid) desc
db<>fiddle demo for the revised fiddle
Try this query:
select t1.Table1_Col,
sum(case when Table2_Col is null then 0 else 1 end) Count_Table2_Col
from Table1_Col t1
left join Table2 t2 on t1.Table1_Col = t2.Table1_Col
group by t1.Table1_Col
You can try this:
Declare #t table ( id int ,col varchar(50))
insert into #t values (1,'A')
insert into #t values (2,'B')
insert into #t values (3,'C')
Declare #t1 table ( id int ,col varchar(50),col2 varchar(50))
insert into #t1 values (1,'A','TEST')
select t.col,count(t1.id) countT2 from #t t left join #t1 t1
on t.id=t1.id
group by t.col
Here's another option:
select t1.Table1_Col, coalesce(x.cnt, 0) cnt
from table1 t1
left outer join (select Table2_Col, count(*) cnt from table2 group by Table2_Col) x
on x.Table2_Col = t1.Table1_Col;
The idea here is to create an inline view of table2 with its counts and then left join that with the original table.
The "coalesce" is necessary because the inline view will only have records for the rows in table2, so any gaps would be "null" in the query, while you specified you want "0".

JOIN TWO TABLES WITH KEY VALUES IN TABLE 1 WITH ALL KEY VALUES IN TABLE 2

I have two tables
Table 1: With Column Name Key
Values:
C1
C2
C3
C4
Table 2: with three columns Product, Category, count
P1-C1-2
P1-C3-4
P2-C1-3
P2-C2-4,
P2-C3-8,
P3-C3-10,
P3-C4-2,
Output required:
P1-C1-2
P1-C2-0
P1-C3-0
P1-C4-0
P2-C1-3
P2-C2-4,
P2-C3-8,
P2-C4-0,
P3-C1-0,
P3-C2-0,
P3-C3-10,
P3-C4-2
Is there any way to do it?
Thanks in Advance
You are looking for cross join
select distinct t2.Product, t1.Key, coalesce(t3.count, 0) as count
from table2 t2 cross join (select [Key] from table1) t1
left join table2 t3
on t3.Product = t2.Product and t1.[key] = t3.Category
Looks like you want to use the cross-join:
SELECT [* | column_list]
FROM table1
CROSS JOIN table2;
More on the subject
SELECT t2.Product,t2.Category, case when t2.Category=t1.Category then t2.count ELSE 0 END AS count
FROM table1 t1,table2 t2;

Oracle - inner and left join

create table t1 (v varchar2(500), n number);
Insert into T1 (V,N) values ('a',1);
Insert into T1 (V,N) values ('bb',2);
Insert into T1 (V,N) values ('c',3);
Insert into T1 (V,N) values ('d',4);
create table t2 (v varchar2(500), n number);
Insert into T2 (V,N) values ('a',1);
Insert into T2 (V,N) values ('bb',2);
select * from t1 join t2 on t1.v = t2.v
union all
select * from t1 LEFT join t2 on t1.v = t2.v ;
Output:
a 1 a 1
bb 2 bb 2
a 1 a 1
bb 2 bb 2
d 4 (null) (null)
c 3 (null) (null)
Can we get the same above output from single scan of T1 and T2 ie from single query without UNION ALL etc? Want to re-write the above Select query so that it scans the tables T1 and T2 only once and give the same result. See the LEFT join.
The output cant be changed as we are passing it further in the application, duplicate data is required as per the requirement.
" Want to re-write the above Select query so that it scans the tables T1 and T2 only once"
You could use subquery factoring . The WITH clauses read each table once and the UNION-ed queries read from them:
with cte1 as ( select * from t1 )
, cte2 as ( select * from t2 )
select * from cte1 join cte2 on cte1.v = cte2.v
union all
select * from cte1 LEFT join cte2 on cte1.v = cte2.v ;
Here is a SQL Fiddle demo.
You can avoid excess joins and unions by doubling the rows:
select t1.*,t2.* from t1
left join t2 on t1.v=t2.v
cross join (select 1 as dbl from dual
union select 2 as dbl from dual) dbl
where dbl=1 or t2.v is not null