In postgresql I can use subquery in join condition
SELECT *
FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2
ON table1.id1 = (SELECT id2 FROM table2 LIMIT 1);
But when I try to use it in Access
SELECT *
FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2
ON table1.id1 = (SELECT TOP 1 id2 FROM table2);
I get syntax error. Is it actually impossible in Access or just my mistake?
I know that I can get the same result with WHERE, but my question is about possibilities of JOIN in Access.
It's not possible, per the MSDN documentation:
Syntax
FROM table1 [ LEFT | RIGHT ] JOIN table2 ON table1.field1 compopr table2.field2
And (emphasis mine):
field1, field2: The names of the fields that are joined. The fields must be of the same data type and contain the same kind of data, but they do not need to have the same name.
It appears you can't even have hard-coded values in your join; you must specify the column name to join against.
In your case, you would want:
SELECT *
FROM Table1
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 1 ID
FROM Table2
ORDER BY ID
) Table2Derived ON Table1.ID = Table2Derived.ID
Related
I want to join two tables in Access based on different wildcards for different rows.
The first, table1, contains rows with different wildcards and table2 contains the column that should be matched with the wildcards in table1.
I imagine the SQL code to look like:
SELECT *
FROM table2
LEFT JOIN table1
ON table2.subject LIKE table1.wildcard
The tables look like this: https://imgur.com/a/O9OPAL6
The third pictures shows the result that I want.
How do I execute the join or is there an alternative?
I don't think MySQL support non-equality conditions for JOINs. So, you can do this as:
SELECT * -- first get the matches
FROM table2 as t2, -- ugg, why doesn't it support CROSS JOIN
table1 as t1
WHERE t2.subject LIKE t1.wildcard
UNION ALL
SELECT * -- then get the non-matches
FROM table2 as t2 LEFT JOIN
table1 as t1
ON 1 = 0 -- always false but gets the same columns
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM table1 as t1
WHERE t2.subject LIKE t1.wildcard
);
I have two tables.
Table1 is 1591 rows. Table2 is 270 rows.
I want to fetch specific column data from Table2 based on some condition between them and also exclude duplicates which are in Table2. Which I mean to join the tables but get only one value from Table2 even if the condition has occurred more than time. The result should be exactly 1591 rows.
I tried to make Left,Right, Inner joins but the data comes more than or less 1591.
Example
Table1
type,address,name
40,blabla,Adam
20,blablabla,Joe
Table2
type,currency
40,usd
40,gbp
40,omr
Joining on 'type'
Result
type,address,name,currency
40,blabla,name,usd
20,blblbla,Joe,null
try this it has to work
select *
from
Table1 h
inner join
(select type,currency,ROW_NUMBER()over (partition by type order by
currency) as rn
from
Table2
) sr on
sr.type=h.type
and rn=1
Try this. It's standard SQL, therefore, it should work on your rdbms system.
select * from Table1 AS t
LEFT OUTER JOIN Table2 AS y ON t.[type] = y.[type] and y.currency IN (SELECT MAX(currency) FROM Table2 GROUP BY [type])
If you want to control which currency is joined, consider altering Table2 by adding a new column active/non active and modifying accordingly the JOIN clause.
You can use outer apply if it's supported.
select a.type, a.address, a.name, b.currency
from Table1 a
outer apply (
select top 1 currency
from Table2
where Table2.type = a.type
) b
I typical way to do this uses a correlated subquery. This guarantees that all rows in the first table are kept. And it generates an error if more than one row is returned from the second.
So:
select t1.*,
(select t2.currency
from table2 t2
where t2.type = t1.type
fetch first 1 row only
) as currency
from table1 t1;
You don't specify what database you are using, so this uses standard syntax for returning one row. Some databases use limit or top instead.
I want to get a value from an IN subquery with two columns, without needing to do two queries.
Sample:
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id IN(SELECT id, flags FROM table2);
Now I want to get flags directly. Is it possible, and if yes, how?
Any help is appreciated :)
It sounds like you are trying to achieve one of two things:
1) Select every field of records in table1 (and the associated table 2 flag) where the record's id is also found in the id column of table2. If that is the case, then yes, a join will accomplish what you want:
SELECT t1.*,
t2.flags
FROM table1 t1
JOIN table2 t2
ON t1.id = t2.id;
Note that JOIN is used here (rather than other types of joins such as LEFT JOIN) because JOIN will return only table1 records with a match in table2.id. LEFT JOIN, on the other hand, would return every table1 record, and table1 ids without a match in table2 would simply have null in the flags column of your returned table.
2) Select every field of records in table1 where the record's id is also found in either the id column of table2 or the flags column of table2. If that is the case, there are a few ways you could get the desired result, but achieving this using a subquery similar to the question
SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM table2 UNION DISTINCT SELECT flags FROM table2)
You do this using join:
SELECT t1.*, t2.flags
FROM table1 t1 JOIN
table2 t2
ON t1.id = t2.id;
For example, there are two tables:
create table Table1 (id int, Name varchar (10))
create table Table2 (id int, Name varchar (10))
Table1 data as follows:
Id Name
-------------
1 A
2 B
Table2 data as follows:
Id Name
-------------
1 A
2 B
3 C
If I execute both below mentioned SQL statements, both outputs will be the same:
select *
from Table1
left join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
select *
from Table2
right join Table1 on Table1.id = Table2.id
Please explain the difference between left and right join in the above SQL statements.
Select * from Table1 left join Table2 ...
and
Select * from Table2 right join Table1 ...
are indeed completely interchangeable. Try however Table2 left join Table1 (or its identical pair, Table1 right join Table2) to see a difference. This query should give you more rows, since Table2 contains a row with an id which is not present in Table1.
Table from which you are taking data is 'LEFT'.
Table you are joining is 'RIGHT'.
LEFT JOIN: Take all items from left table AND (only) matching items from right table.
RIGHT JOIN: Take all items from right table AND (only) matching items from left table.
So:
Select * from Table1 left join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
gives:
Id Name
-------------
1 A
2 B
but:
Select * from Table1 right join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
gives:
Id Name
-------------
1 A
2 B
3 C
you were right joining table with less rows on table with more rows
AND
again, left joining table with less rows on table with more rows
Try:
If Table1.Rows.Count > Table2.Rows.Count Then
' Left Join
Else
' Right Join
End If
You seem to be asking, "If I can rewrite a RIGHT OUTER JOIN using LEFT OUTER JOIN syntax then why have a RIGHT OUTER JOIN syntax at all?" I think the answer to this question is, because the designers of the language didn't want to place such a restriction on users (and I think they would have been criticized if they did), which would force users to change the order of tables in the FROM clause in some circumstances when merely changing the join type.
select fields
from tableA --left
left join tableB --right
on tableA.key = tableB.key
The table in the from in this example tableA, is on the left side of relation.
tableA <- tableB
[left]------[right]
So if you want to take all rows from the left table (tableA), even if there are no matches in the right table (tableB), you'll use the "left join".
And if you want to take all rows from the right table (tableB), even if there are no matches in the left table (tableA), you will use the right join.
Thus, the following query is equivalent to that used above.
select fields
from tableB
right join tableA on tableB.key = tableA.key
Your two statements are equivalent.
Most people only use LEFT JOIN since it seems more intuitive, and it's universal syntax - I don't think all RDBMS support RIGHT JOIN.
I feel we may require AND condition in where clause of last figure of Outer Excluding JOIN so that we get the desired result of A Union B Minus A Interaction B.
I feel query needs to be updated to
SELECT <select_list>
FROM Table_A A
FULL OUTER JOIN Table_B B
ON A.Key = B.Key
WHERE A.Key IS NULL AND B.Key IS NULL
If we use OR , then we will get all the results of A Union B
select *
from Table1
left join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
In the first query Left join compares left-sided table table1 to right-sided table table2.
In Which all the properties of table1 will be shown, whereas in table2 only those properties will be shown in which condition get true.
select *
from Table2
right join Table1 on Table1.id = Table2.id
In the first query Right join compares right-sided table table1 to left-sided table table2.
In Which all the properties of table1 will be shown, whereas in table2 only those properties will be shown in which condition get true.
Both queries will give the same result because the order of table declaration in query are different like you are declaring table1 and table2 in left and right respectively in first left join query, and also declaring table1 and table2 in right and left respectively in second right join query.
This is the reason why you are getting the same result in both queries. So if you want different result then execute this two queries respectively,
select *
from Table1
left join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
select *
from Table1
right join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
Select * from Table1 t1 Left Join Table2 t2 on t1.id=t2.id
By definition: Left Join selects all columns mentioned with the "select" keyword from Table 1 and the columns from Table 2 which matches the criteria after the "on" keyword.
Similarly,By definition: Right Join selects all columns mentioned with the "select" keyword from Table 2 and the columns from Table 1 which matches the criteria after the "on" keyword.
Referring to your question, id's in both the tables are compared with all the columns needed to be thrown in the output. So, ids 1 and 2 are common in the both the tables and as a result in the result you will have four columns with id and name columns from first and second tables in order.
*select *
from Table1
left join Table2 on Table1.id = Table2.id
The above expression,it takes all the records (rows) from table 1 and columns, with matching id's from table 1 and table 2, from table 2.
select *
from Table2
right join Table1 on Table1.id = Table2.id**
Similarly from the above expression,it takes all the records (rows) from table 1 and columns, with matching id's from table 1 and table 2, from table 2. (remember, this is a right join so all the columns from table2 and not from table1 will be considered).
I am a little confused as to how to approach this SQL query.
I have two tables (equal number of records), and I would like to return a column with which is the division between the two.
In other words, here is my not-working-correctly query:
SELECT( (SELECT v FROM Table1) / (SELECT DotProduct FROM Table2) );
How would I do this? All I want it a column where each row equals the same row in Table1 divided by the same row in Table2. The resulting table should have the same number of rows, but I am getting something with a lot more rows than the original two tables.
I am at a complete loss. Any advice?
It sounds like you have some kind of key between the two tables. You need an Inner Join:
select t1.v / t2.DotProduct
from Table1 as t1
inner join Table2 as t2
on t1.ForeignKey = t2.PrimaryKey
Should work. Just make sure you watch out for division by zero errors.
You didn't specify the full table structure so I will assume a common ID column to link rows in the tables.
SELECT table1.v/table2.DotProduct
FROM Table1 INNER JOIN Table2
ON (Table1.ID=Table2.ID)
You need to do a JOIN on the tables and divide the columns you want.
SELECT (Table1.v / Table2.DotProduct) FROM Table1 JOIN Table2 ON something
You need to substitue something to tell SQL how to match up the rows:
Something like: Table1.id = Table2.id
In case your fileds are both integers you need to do this to avoid integer math:
select t1.v / (t2.DotProduct*1.00)
from Table1 as t1
inner join Table2 as t2
on t1.ForeignKey = t2.PrimaryKey
If you have multiple values in table2 relating to values in table1 you need to specify which to use -here I chose the largest one.
select t1.v / (max(t2.DotProduct)*1.00)
from Table1 as t1
inner join Table2 as t2
on t1.ForeignKey = t2.PrimaryKey
Group By t1.v