I am attempting to select distinct (last updated) rows from a table in my database. I am trying to get the last updated row for each "Sub section". However I cannot find a way to achieve this.
The table looks like:
ID | Name |LastUpdated | Section | Sub |
1 | Name1 | 2013-04-07 16:38:18.837 | 1 | 1 |
2 | Name2 | 2013-04-07 15:38:18.837 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Name3 | 2013-04-07 12:38:18.837 | 1 | 1 |
4 | Name4 | 2013-04-07 13:38:18.837 | 1 | 3 |
5 | Name5 | 2013-04-07 17:38:18.837 | 1 | 3 |
What I am trying to get my SQL Statement to do is return rows:
1, 2, and 5.
They are distinct for the Sub, and the most recent.
I have tried:
SELECT DISTINCT Sub, LastUpdated, Name
FROM TABLE
WHERE LastUpdated = (SELECT MAX(LastUpdated) FROM TABLE WHERE Section = 1)
Which only returns the distinct row for the most recent updated Row. Which makes sense.
I have googled what I am trying, and checked relevant posts on here. However not managed to find one which really answers what I am trying.
You can use the row_number() window function to assign numbers for each partition of rows with the same value of Sub. Using order by LastUpdated desc, the row with row number one will be the latest row:
select *
from (
select row_number() over (
partition by Sub
order by LastUpdated desc) as rn
, *
from YourTable
) as SubQueryAlias
where rn = 1
Wouldn't it be enough to use group by?
SELECT DISTINCT MIN(Sub), MAX(LastUpdated), MIN(NAME) FROM TABLE GROUP BY Sub Where Section = 1
Related
I have an issue similar to the following query:
select name, number, id
from tableName
order by id
limit 10 offset 5
But in this case I only take the 10 elements from the group with offset 5
Is there a way to set limit and offset by id?
For example if I have a set:
|------------------------------------|---|---------------------------------------|
| Ana | 1 | 589d0011-ef54-4708-a64a-f85228149651 |
| Jana | 2 | 589d0011-ef54-4708-a64a-f85228149651 |
| Jan | 3 | 589d0011-ef54-4708-a64a-f85228149651 |
| Joe | 2 | 64ed0011-ef54-4708-a64a-f85228149651 |
and if I have skip 1 I should get
|------------------------------------|---|---------------------------------------|
| Jana | 2 | 589d0011-ef54-4708-a64a-f85228149651 |
| Jan | 3 | 589d0011-ef54-4708-a64a-f85228149651 |
I think that you want to filter by row_number():
select name, number, id
from (
select t.*, row_number() over(partition by name order by id) rn
from mytable t
) t
where
rn >= :number_of_records_per_group_to_skip
and rn < :number_of_records_per_group_to_skip + :number_of_records_per_group_to_keep
The query ranks records by id withing groups of records having the same name, and then filters using two parameters:
:number_of_records_per_group_to_skip: how many records per group should be skipped
:number_of_records_per_group_to_skip: how many records per group should be kept (after skipping :number_of_records_per_group_to_skip records)
This might not be the answer you are looking for but it gives you the results your example shows:
select name, number, id
from (
select * from tableName
order by id
limit 3 offset 0
) d
where id > 1;
Best regards,
Bjarni
I have a table structure with columns similar to the following:
ID | line | value
1 | 1 | 10
1 | 2 | 5
2 | 1 | 6
3 | 1 | 7
3 | 2 | 4
ideally, i'd like to pull the following:
ID | value
1 | 5
2 | 6
3 | 4
one solution would be to do something like the following:
select a.ID, a.value
from
myTable a
inner join (select id, max(line) as line from myTable group by id) b
on a.id = b.id and a.line = b.line
Given the size of the table and that this is just a part of a larger pull, I'd like to see if there's a more elegant / simpler way of pulling this directly.
This is a task for OLAP-functions:
select *
from myTable a
qualify
rank() -- assign a rank for each id
over (partition by id
order by line desc) = 1
Might return multiple rows per id if they share the same max line. If you want to return only one of them, add another column to the order by to make it unique or switch to row_number to get an indeterminate row.
I have a simple design
id | grpid | main
-----------------
1 | 1 | 1
2 | 1 | 0
3 | 1 | 0
4 | 2 | 0
5 | 2 | 1
6 | 2 | 0
The question to answer is
What is the "id" of the main in each group?
The result should be
id
---
1
5
Seriously at the moment, I'm not able to answer it on my own. Pls assist me.
Maybe i'm oversimplifying it here but couldn't you just do this:
select id,
grpid
from table
where main = 1;
The simplest way you can do this with:
select id from <table_name> where main=1
but as you have mentioned you want id with group by grpid below query will work.
select id from <table_name> group by grpid, main having main = 1
You have to apply group by on your group id and based on that check the value of main as 1. You will get the desired result.
If you want to add a column for its corresponding "MainId" then you can do this perhaps?
SELECT f.id, f.grpid, f.main, t.MainId
FROM foo f
CROSS APPLY (
SELECT grpid, id AS MainId
FROM foo f1
WHERE main = 1
AND f.grpid = f1.grpid) t
I have table with data something like this:
ID | RowNumber | Data
------------------------------
1 | 1 | Data
2 | 2 | Data
3 | 3 | Data
4 | 1 | Data
5 | 2 | Data
6 | 1 | Data
7 | 2 | Data
8 | 3 | Data
9 | 4 | Data
I want to group each set of RowNumbers So that my result is something like this:
ID | RowNumber | Group | Data
--------------------------------------
1 | 1 | a | Data
2 | 2 | a | Data
3 | 3 | a | Data
4 | 1 | b | Data
5 | 2 | b | Data
6 | 1 | c | Data
7 | 2 | c | Data
8 | 3 | c | Data
9 | 4 | c | Data
The only way I know where each group starts and stops is when the RowNumber starts over. How can I accomplish this? It also needs to be fairly efficient since the table I need to do this on has 52 Million Rows.
Additional Info
ID is truly sequential, but RowNumber may not be. I think RowNumber will always begin with 1 but for example the RowNumbers for group1 could be "1,1,2,2,3,4" and for group2 they could be "1,2,4,6", etc.
For the clarified requirements in the comments
The rownumbers for group1 could be "1,1,2,2,3,4" and for group2 they
could be "1,2,4,6" ... a higher number followed by a lower would be a
new group.
A SQL Server 2012 solution could be as follows.
Use LAG to access the previous row and set a flag to 1 if that row is the start of a new group or 0 otherwise.
Calculate a running sum of these flags to use as the grouping value.
Code
WITH T1 AS
(
SELECT *,
LAG(RowNumber) OVER (ORDER BY ID) AS PrevRowNumber
FROM YourTable
), T2 AS
(
SELECT *,
IIF(PrevRowNumber IS NULL OR PrevRowNumber > RowNumber, 1, 0) AS NewGroup
FROM T1
)
SELECT ID,
RowNumber,
Data,
SUM(NewGroup) OVER (ORDER BY ID
ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) AS Grp
FROM T2
SQL Fiddle
Assuming ID is the clustered index the plan for this has one scan against YourTable and avoids any sort operations.
If the ids are truly sequential, you can do:
select t.*,
(id - rowNumber) as grp
from t
Also you can use recursive CTE
;WITH cte AS
(
SELECT ID, RowNumber, Data, 1 AS [Group]
FROM dbo.test1
WHERE ID = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT t.ID, t.RowNumber, t.Data,
CASE WHEN t.RowNumber != 1 THEN c.[Group] ELSE c.[Group] + 1 END
FROM dbo.test1 t JOIN cte c ON t.ID = c.ID + 1
)
SELECT *
FROM cte
Demo on SQLFiddle
How about:
select ID, RowNumber, Data, dense_rank() over (order by grp) as Grp
from (
select *, (select min(ID) from [Your Table] where ID > t.ID and RowNumber = 1) as grp
from [Your Table] t
) t
order by ID
This should work on SQL 2005. You could also use rank() instead if you don't care about consecutive numbers.
Transact-SQL has a handy SELECT TOP 4 [whatever] FROM.........
I want to make a SELECT query returning the last "n" entries from a table instead of the first ones.
This is the query I would use to return the first four items entered at the table, using SELECT TOP:
sql = "SELECT TOP 4 [news_title], [news_date_added], [news_short_description],
[news_ID] FROM [Web_Xtr_News] WHERE ([news_type] = 2 OR [news_type] = 3) AND
[news_language] = '" + Language + "' ORDER BY [news_ID] ASC"
I need to return the last four.
Change the order of the table from ASC to DESC.
It's exactly this: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!3/6c813/1
with bottom as(
select top 4 *
from tbl
order by n desc
)
select *
from bottom
order by n
Data source:
| N |
|----|
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
| 4 |
| 5 |
| 6 |
| 7 |
| 8 |
| 9 |
| 10 |
Output:
| N |
|----|
| 7 |
| 8 |
| 9 |
| 10 |
Continue to use TOP, and reverse the order:
SELECT TOP 4 [news_title],
[news_date_added],
[news_short_description],
[news_ID]
FROM [Web_Xtr_News]
WHERE ([news_type] = 2
OR [news_type] = 3)
AND [news_language] = #Language
ORDER BY [news_ID] DESC
(It was rewritten to use parameters of course. Your original is vulnerable to SQL injection.)
You can reverse the ordering by using DESC instead of ASC at the end of your query.
A quick way to select batches from a list is to create a unique identifier like a (ROW ID) as (1, 2, 3, etc.) and create a nested query.
Select *
from
(select
row_number() as id
,column1
,column2
from
table1
)as D
where D.id (<>=! between)