RavenDB query a scoreboard - ravendb

Given a scoreboard like this: ie (same score and user allowed)
user | score | date
user1 | 1000 | 10-05-2012
user1 | 999 | 10-05-2012
user2 | 998 | 10-05-2012
user1 | 998 | 10-05-2012
user4 | 987 | 10-05-2012
I d like to query the document for a particular score and get x results below and above
for example say I want to target user2 with score 998 and get 2 above and 2 below
The date is there but doesn't influence the query, when a new score comes in and the same value existed, it would be included below.
What would be the best way to go about it?
at the moment I m doing the worse possible thing, that is to have three queries: one that gets the score I m looking for and then another two to get the some rows above and below.
I've seen some discussion on the GG but I cant make anything that makes sense work, hopefully posting the question here is ok
Update: there is also this thread at the discussion group but it doesn't seem to resolve it either.
Thanks

Miau,
You don't really have a choice, you can drop it to two queries:
var q1 = session.Query<Score>().Where(x=>x.Value >= 998).OrderBy(x=> x.Value).Take(3).ToList();
var q2 = session.Query<Score>().Where(x=>x.Value < 998).OrderByDescending(x=> x.Value).Take(3).ToList();
You can improve on that by using lazy queries:
var q1 = session.Query<Score>().Where(x=>x.Value >= 998).OrderBy(x=> x.Value).Take(3).Lazily();
var q2 = session.Query<Score>().Where(x=>x.Value < 998).OrderByDescending(x=> x.Value).Take(3).Lazily();
Now both queries will be issued against the db in a single request.

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how to have one itempointer serialize from 1 to n across the selected rows

as shown in the example below, the output of the query contains blockid startds from 324 and it ends at 127, hence, the itempointer or the row index within the block starts from one for each new block id. in otherwords, as shown below
for the blockid 324 it has only itempointer with index 10
for the blockid 325 it has itempointers starts with 1 and ends with 9
i want to have a single blockid so that the itempointer or the row index starts from 1 and ends with 25
plese let me know how to achive that and
why i have three different blockids?
ex-1
query:
select ctid
from awanti_grid_cell_data agcd
where selectedsiteid = '202230060950'
and centerPointsOfWindowAsGeoJSONInEPSG4326ForCellsInTreatment IS NOT NULL
and centerPointsOfWindowAsGeoJSONInEPSG4326ForCellsInTreatment <> 'None'
result:
|ctid |
|--------|
|(324,10)|
|(325,1) |
|(325,2) |
|(325,3) |
|(325,4) |
|(325,5) |
|(325,6) |
|(325,7) |
|(325,8) |
|(325,9) |
|(326,1) |
|(326,2) |
|(326,3) |
|(326,4) |
|(326,5) |
|(326,6) |
|(326,7) |
|(326,8) |
|(326,9) |
|(327,1) |
|(327,2) |
|(327,3) |
|(327,4) |
|(327,5) |
|(327,6) |
You are missing the point. The ctid is the physical address of a row in the table, and it is none of your business. The database is free to choose whatever place it thinks fit for a table row. As a comparison, you cannot go to the authorities and request that your social security number should be 12345678 - it is simply assigned to you, and you have no say. That's how it is with the physical location of tuples.
Very likely you are not asking this question out of pure curiosity, but because you want to solve some problem. You should instead ask a question about your real problem, and there may be a good answer to that. But whatever problem you are trying to solve, using the ctid is probably not the correct answer, in particular if you want to control it.

Find current data set using two SQL tables storing separately historical insertions and deletions

Problem
I need to do daily syncs of our latest internal data to an external audit database that does not offer an update interface. In order to update some records, I need to first generate and send in a deletion file to remove those records, and then follow by an insertion file with the same but updated records in it.
An important detail is that all of the records in deletion files must match the external records verbatim, in order to be deleted.
Proposed approach
Currently I use two separate SQL tables to version control what I have inserted/deleted.
Let's say that right now the inserted_records table looks like this:
id | file_version | contract_id | customer_name | start_year
9 | 6 | 1 | Alice | 2015
10 | 6 | 2 | Bob | 2015
11 | 6 | 3 | Charlie | 2015
Accompanied by a separate and empty deleted_records table with identical columns.
Now, if I want to
change the customer_name from Alice to Dave on line id 9
change the start_year for Bob from 2015 to 2020 on line id 10
Two new lines in inserted_records would be generated, line 12 and 13, in turn creating a new insertion file 7.
id | file_version | contract_id | customer_name | start_year
9 | 6 | 1 | Alice | 2015
10 | 6 | 2 | Bob | 2015
11 | 6 | 3 | Charlie | 2015
12 | 7 | 1 | Dave | 2015
13 | 7 | 2 | Bob | 2020
Then their original column values in line 9 and 10 are then copied onto the previously empty deleted_records, in turn creating a new deletion file 1.
id | file_version | contract_id | customer_name | start_year
1 | 1 | 1 | Alice | 2015
2 | 1 | 2 | Bob | 2015
Now, if I were to send in the deletion file 1 first followed by the insertion file 7, I would get the result that I wanted.
Question
How can I query the current set of records, considering all insertions and deletions that have occurred? Assuming all records in deleted_records always have matches in inserted_records and if multiple, we always delete records with smaller file version numbers first.
I have tried by first writing one to query the inserted_records for the latest records grouped by contract_id.
select top 1 with ties *
from insertion_record
order by row_number() over (partition by contract_id order by file_version desc)
This would give me line 11, 12 and 13, which is what I wanted in this particular example. But if we also wanted to delete the record line 11 with Charlie, then my query wouldn't work anymore as it doesn't take deleted_records into account, and I have no idea how to do it in SQL.
Furthermore, my nut tells me that this approach isn't solid as there are two separate and moving parts, perhaps there is a better approach to solve this?
How can I query the current set of records
I don't understand your question. Every SQL query is against the current set of records, if by that you mean the data currently in the database.
I do see a couple of problems.
Unless the table you're deleting from has a key defined, even an exact match on every column risks deleting more than one row.
You're performing an ad hoc update with UPDATE's transaction guarantee. I suppose the table you're updating is otherwise idle, and as a practical matter you don't have to worry about someone else (or you) re-inserting the deleted rows before your inserts arrive. But it's problem waiting to happen.
If what you're trying to do is produce the set of rows that will be the result of a series of inserts and deletions, you haven't provided enough information to say how that could be done, or even if it's possible. There would have to be some way to uniquely identify rows, so that deletions and insertions can be associated. (They don't match on all columns, after all.) And you'd need some indication of order of operation, because it matters whether INSERT follows or precedes DELETE.

ID Extracted from string not useable for connecting to bound form - "expression ... too complex"

I have a linked table to a Outlook Mailitem folder in my Access Database. This is handy in that it keeps itself constantly updated, but I can't add an extra field to relate these records to a parent table.
My workaround was to put an automatically generated/added ID String into the Subject so I could work from there. In order to make my form work the way I need it to, I'm trying to create a query that takes the fields I need from the linked table and adds a calculated field with the extracted ID so it can be referenced for relating records in the form.
The query works fine (I get all the records and their IDs extracted) but when I try to filter records from this query by the calculated field I get:
This expression is typed incorrectly, or it is too complex to be evaluated. For example, a numeric expression may contain too many complicated elements. Try simplifying the expression by assigning parts of the expression to variables.
I tried separating the calculated field out into three fields so it's easier to read, hoping that would make it easier to evaluate for Access, but I still get the same error. My base query is currently:
SELECT InStr(Subject,"Support Project #CS")+19 AS StartID,
InStr(StartID,Subject," ") AS EndID,
Int(Mid(Subject,StartID,EndID-StartID)) AS ID,
ProjectEmails.Subject,
ProjectEmails.[From],
ProjectEmails.To,
ProjectEmails.Received,
ProjectEmails.Contents
FROM ProjectEmails
WHERE (((ProjectEmails.[Subject]) Like "*Support Project [#]CS*"));
I've tried to bind a subform to this query on qryProjectEmailWithID.ID = SupportProject.ID where the main form is bound to SupportProject, and I get the above error. I tried building a query that selects all records from that query where the ID = a given parameter and I still get the same error.
The working query that adds Support Project IDs would look like:
+----+--------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+------------+----------------------------------+
| ID | Subject | To | From | Received | Contents |
+----+--------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+------------+----------------------------------+
| 1 | RE: Support Project #CS1 ID Extra... | questions#so.com | Isaac.Reefman#so.com | 2019-03-11 | Trying to work out how to add... |
| 1 | RE: Support Project #CS1 ID Extra... | isaac.reefman#so.com | questions#so.com | 2019-03-11 | Thanks for your question. The... |
| 1 | RE: Support Project #CS1 ID Extra... | isaac.reefman#so.com | questions#so.com | 2019-03-11 | You should use a different me... |
| 2 | RE: Support Project #CS2 IT issue... | support#domain.com | someone#company.com | 2019-02-21 | I really need some help with ... |
| 2 | RE: Support Project #CS2 IT issue... | someone#company.com | support#domain.com | 2019-02-21 | Thanks for your question. The... |
| 2 | RE: Support Project #CS2 IT issue... | someone#company.com | support#domain.com | 2019-02-21 | Have you tried turning it off... |
| 3 | RE: Support Project #CS3 email br... | support#domain.com | someone#company.com | 2019-02-12 | my email server is malfunccti... |
| 3 | RE: Support Project #CS3 email br... | someone#company.com | support#domain.com | 2019-02-12 | Thanks for your question. The... |
| 3 | RE: Support Project #CS3 email br... | someone#company.com | support#domain.com | 2019-02-13 | I've just re-started the nece... |
+----+--------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+------------+----------------------------------+
The view in question would populate a datasheet that looks the same with just the items whos ID matches the ID of the current SupportProject record, updating when a new record is selected. A separate text box should show the full content of whichever record is selected in that grid, like this:
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
From: support#domain.com
On: 21/02/2019
Thanks for your question. The matter has been assigned to Support Project #CS2, and a support staff member will be in touch shortly to help you out. As it is considered of medium priority, you should expect daily updates.
Thanks,
Support
From: someone#company
On: 21/02/2019
I really need some help with my computer. It seems really slow and I can't do my work efficiently.
Neither of these things happens as when I try to use the calculated number to relate to the PK of the SupportProject table...
I don't know if this is a part of the problem, but whether I use Int(Mid(Subject... or Val(Mid(Subject... I still apparently get a Double, where the ID field (as an autoincrement ID) is a Long. I can't work out how to force it to return a Long, so I can't test whether that's the problem.
So that is output resulting from posted SQL? I really wanted raw data but close enough. If requirement is to extract number after ...CS, calculate in query and save query:
Val(Mid([Subject],InStr([Subject],"CS")+2))
Then build another query to join first query to table.
SELECT qryProjectEmailWithID.*, SupportProject.tst
FROM qryProjectEmailWithID
INNER JOIN SupportProject ON qryProjectEmailWithID.ID = SupportProject.ID;
Filter criteria can be applied to either ID field.
A subform can display the related child records synchronized with SupportProject records on main form.
I tested the ID calc with your data and then with a link to my Inbox. No issue with query join.

Rails, SQL: private chat, how to find last message in each conversation

I'v got the folowing schema
+----+------+------+-----------+---------------------+--------+
| id | from | to | message | timestamp | readed |
+----+------+------+-----------+---------------------+--------+
| 46 | 2 | 6 | 123 | 2013-11-19 19:12:19 | 0 |
| 44 | 2 | 3 | 123 | 2013-11-19 19:12:12 | 0 |
| 43 | 2 | 1 | ????????? | 2013-11-19 18:37:11 | 0 |
| 42 | 1 | 2 | adf | 2013-11-19 18:37:05 | 0 |
+----+------+------+-----------+---------------------+--------+
from/to is the ID of the user's, message – obviously, the message, timestamp and read flag.
When user open's his profile I want him to see the list of dialogs he participated with last message in this dialog.
To find a conversation between 2 people I wrote this code, it's simple (Message model):
def self.conversation(from, to)
where(from: [from, to], to: [from, to])
end
So, I can now sort the messages and get the last one. But it's not cool to fire a lot of queries for each dialog.
How could I achieve the result I'm looking for with less queries?
UPDATE:
Ok, looks like it's not really clear, what I'm trying to achieve.
For example, 4 users – Kitty, Dandy, Beggy and Brucy used that chat.
When Brucy entered in dialogs, she shall see
Beggy: hello brucy haw ar u! | <--- the last message from beggy
-------
Dandy: Hi brucy! | <---- the last message from dandy
--------
Kitty: Hi Kitty, my name is Brucy! | <–– this last message is from current user
So, three separated dialogs. Then, Brucy can enter anyone dialog to continue private conversation.
And I can't figured out how could I fetch this records without firing a query for each dialog between users.
This answer is a bit late, but there doesn't seem to be a great way to do this, in Rails 3.2.x at least.
However, here is the solution I came up with
(as I had the same problem on my website).
#sender_ids =
Message.where(recipient_id: current_user.id)
.order("created_at DESC")
.select("DISTINCT owner_id")
.paginate(per_page: 10, page: params[:page])
sql_queries =
#sender_ids.map do |user|
user_id = user.owner_id
"(SELECT * FROM messages WHERE owner_id = #{user_id} "\
"AND recipient_id = #{current_user.id} ORDER BY id DESC "\
"LIMIT 1)"
end.join(" UNION ALL ")
#messages = Message.find_by_sql(sql_queries)
ActiveRecord::Associations::Preloader.new(#messages, :owner).run
This gets the last 10 unique people you sent messages to.
For each of those people, it creates a UNION ALL query to get the last message sent to each of those 10 unique people. With 50, 000 rows, the query completes in about ~20ms. And of course to get assocations to preload, you have to use .includes will not work when using .find_by_sql
def self.conversation(from, to)
order("timestamp asc").last
end
Edit:
This railscast will be helpful..
http://railscasts.com/episodes/316-private-pub?view=asciicast
EDIT2:
def self.conversation(from, to)
select(:from, :to, :message).where(from: [from, to], to: [from, to]).group(:from, :to, :country).order("timestamp DESC").limit(1)
end

Need a feedback for matrix question table design

In the survey, there is a type of question called Matrix which it's like this:
| Is Friendly | Weather | Comments
===========================================
Sydney | Y | 5 | 'bla'
-------------------------------------------
Singapore | Y | 10 | 'test'
-------------------------------------------
Jakarta | N | 0 | 'test2
-------------------------------------------
Try to get a feedback in term of designing SQL table for question and answer. I could have a design that you can only have 3 label sets (Is Friendly, Weather, Comment) or maybe extended to 10 to be save which means I have 10 columns.
What do you think about this approach, I know this is not relation database in such but at least from query point of view for answer to pull out.
Your thought?
In Sql Server you can make use of PIVOT.
This will allow you to design the table differently.
You would then have a table with columns
EntryType (eg. IsFriendly, Weather, Comment)
City_Region (eg. Sydney, Singapore, Jakarta)
EntryValue (eg. Y, 5, bla)
This will basically give you the functionality to have "dynamic" columns.