I want to run two Oracle SQL queries together inside TOAD.
first query:
SELECT * FROM OT_SO_HEAD WHERE SOH_ANNOTATION = 'ECSO10012791'
and second:
SELECT * FROM OT_SO_ITEM WHERE SOI_SOH_SYS_ID = '30977853'
Please guide
You can use UNION or UNION ALL.
The UNION operator is used to combine the result-set of two or more SELECT statements.
Every SELECT statement within UNION must have the same number of columns
The columns must also have similar data types
The columns in every SELECT statement must also be in the same order
Syntax:
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table1
UNION
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table2;
The UNION operator selects only distinct values by default. To allow duplicate values, use UNION ALL.
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Why is the use of asterisk perfectly valid in oracle sql when the asterisk is by itself in the SELECT clause, but it results in an error when there are other expressions in the SELECT?
For example:
select * from table1 -- is ok
But:
select field, * from table -- is not ok
Oracle only allows a "bare" asterisk when there are no other columns.
Otherwise, you need to qualify it:
select t.field, t.*
from table1 t;
I suspect the reason is that Oracle considers select * to be a full clause, rather than * being an abbreviation for all columns.
I'm trying to compare two tables in a DB2 database in z/OS using SPUFI to submit SQL queries.
I'm doing this by using EXCEPT to see the difference between two SELECT queries.
I need to filter the SELECT statement from the first query with a WHERE clause.
SELECT KEY_FIELD_1,LOOKUP_FIELD_1
FROM TABLE_1
WHERE FILTER_FIELD = '1'
EXCEPT
SELECT KEY FIELD_2,LOOKUP_FIELD_2
FROM TABLE_2
I got results back, but it also returned an error -199 Is this because the WHERE clause is not present in the second SELECT statement?
ERROR: ILLEGAL USE OF KEYWORD EXCEPT.
TOKEN <ERR_STMT> <WNG_STMT> GET SQL
SAVEPOINT HOLD FREE ASSOCIATE WAS EXPECTED
Try introducing parentheses e.g.
( SELECT KEY_FIELD_1,LOOKUP_FIELD_1
FROM TABLE_1
WHERE FILTER_FIELD = '1' )
EXCEPT
( SELECT KEY FIELD_2,LOOKUP_FIELD_2
FROM TABLE_2 )
BigQuery does not seem to have support for UNION yet:
https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-reference
(I don't mean unioning tables together for the source. It has that.)
Is it coming soon?
If you want UNION so that you can combine query results, you can use subselects
in BigQuery:
SELECT foo, bar
FROM
(SELECT integer(id) AS foo, string(title) AS bar
FROM publicdata:samples.wikipedia limit 10),
(SELECT integer(year) AS foo, string(state) AS bar
FROM publicdata:samples.natality limit 10);
This is almost exactly equivalent to the SQL
SELECT id AS foo, title AS bar
FROM publicdata:samples.wikipedia limit 10
UNION ALL
SELECT year AS foo, state AS bar
FROM publicdata:samples.natality limit 10;
(note that if want SQL UNION and not UNION ALL this won't work)
Alternately, you could run two queries and append the result.
BigQuery recently added support for Standard SQL, including the UNION operation.
When submitting a query through the web UI, just make sure to uncheck "Use Legacy SQL" under the SQL Version rubric:
You can always do:
SELECT * FROM (query 1), (query 2);
It does the same thing as :
SELECT * from query1 UNION select * from query 2;
Note that, if you're using standard SQL, the comma operator now means JOIN - you have to use the UNION syntax if you want a union:
In legacy SQL, the comma operator , has the non-standard meaning of UNION ALL when applied to tables. In standard SQL, the comma operator has the standard meaning of JOIN.
For example:
#standardSQL
SELECT
column_name,
count(*)
from
(SELECT * FROM me.table1 UNION ALL SELECT * FROM me.table2)
group by 1
This helped me out very much for doing a UNION INTERSECT with big query's StandardSQL.
#standardSQL
WITH
a AS (
SELECT
*
FROM
table_a),
b AS (
SELECT
*
FROM
table_b)
SELECT
*
FROM
a INTERSECT DISTINCT
SELECT
*
FROM
b
I STOLE/MODIFIED THIS EXAMPLE FROM: https://gist.github.com/yancya/bf38d1b60edf972140492e3efd0955d0
Unions are indeed supported. An excerpt from the link that you posted:
Note: Unlike many other SQL-based systems, BigQuery uses the comma syntax to indicate table unions, not joins. This means you can run a query over several tables with compatible schemas as follows:
// Find suspicious activity over several days
SELECT FORMAT_UTC_USEC(event.timestamp_in_usec) AS time, request_url
FROM [applogs.events_20120501], [applogs.events_20120502], [applogs.events_20120503]
WHERE event.username = 'root' AND NOT event.source_ip.is_internal;
I have 2 complex sql statements but they both have the same column name.
I am trying to do a union between both but the
UNION
says Incorrect syntex near UNION.
not sure if there is anything else necessary to make it work.
Because I always terminate my SQL statements with a semicolon (), I sometimes see this error e.g.
SELECT c
FROM T1; <-- forgot to remove the terminator!
UNION
SELECT c
FROM T2;
The syntax that I usually use for unions is:
select *
from
(
(<subquery 1>)
union all
(<subquery 2>)
) t
UNION ALL is more efficient than UNION, since it doesn't check for an eliminate duplicates.