I have a table that I wish to select a subset of columns from but also add on the end a computed column based upon where you are located in a queue. There are the following fields (that are pertinent):
id: int, auto increment, primary key
answertime: datetime, nullable
By default, when something is submitted to the queue, its answertime is NULL. So, I wish to select the ID of the thing in the queue as well as its rank in the queue (i.e. rank 1 is the next item that is unanswered, etc). Here's what I was thinking:
rank - id - COUNT(ids below my id where answertime is not null). However, I'm having an issue with the syntax of this query:
SELECT id AS outerid, COUNT(
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE id<outerid AND answertime IS NOT NULL
)
FROM tablename
WHERE answertime IS NULL;
Now, obviously, this is wrong because I'm fairly confident you can't embed a select inside of an aggregate function, likewise flipping the SELECT and COUNT doesn't work as you can't embed a SELECT at that point in the code (it can only be used in a WHERE clause).
Is this even possible to do with just SQL or do I need to add some logic on the program end?
If it helps, I'm doing this on SQL Server 2008, although I doubt that would add any value.
You can do that, you just can't use SELECT * in an aggregate sub-query. Try this, which gets the COUNT value as a scalar result:
SELECT
id AS outerid,
(SELECT COUNT(Id) FROM tablename
WHERE id<outie.id AND answertime IS NOT NULL)
FROM tablename outie
WHERE answertime IS NULL;
You may need to choose for yourself between using COUNT(*), COUNT(Id) or some other column depending on what you're really after.
SELECT id AS outerid,
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tablename WHERE id < outerid AND answertime IS NOT NULL) AS othercol
FROM tablename -- ?
WHERE answertime IS NULL;
also, where's the FROM statement?
As suggested by #HLGEM, you could use ROW_NUMBER() to obtain your results. The method involves ranking the rows in tablename by id without partitioning and by id with partitioning by answertime. The difference between the rankings for every row where answertime is NULL would give you the same value as the one you are calculating using COUNT() in the subquery.
Here's an implementation of the method:
;
WITH ranked AS (
SELECT
*,
Rnk = ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY id),
PartRnk = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY answertime ORDER BY id)
FROM tablename
)
SELECT
id, /* AS outerid, if you like */
Cnt = Rnk - PartRnk
FROM ranked
WHERE answertime IS NULL
Related
select
TV.ATTRIBUTE
FROM
TABLE_VALUE TV
WHERE
TV.NUMBERS IN (SELECT MAX(TV1.NUMBERS) FROM TABLE_VALUE TV1
WHERE TV.UNIQUE_ID=TV1.UNIQUE_ID GROUP BY UNIQUE_ID )
I'm not sure exists would help here, because - as you put it - for each unique_id there be many numbers values, and you want to select attribute for highest numbers for that particular unique_id.
exists is useful when you want to check whether something ... well, exists, but that's not the case here.
You do not want EXISTS, instead you can use the RANK or DENSE_RANK analytic functions:
SELECT attribute
FROM (
SELECT attribute,
DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY unique_id ORDER BY numbers DESC) AS rnk
FROM table_value
)
WHERE rnk = 1
or use the MAX analytic function:
SELECT attribute
FROM (
SELECT attribute,
numbers,
MAX(numbers) OVER (PARTITION BY unique_id) AS max_numbers
FROM table_value
)
WHERE numbers = max_numbers;
Either option will only read from the table once.
If you really did want to use EXISTS (or IN) then it will be less efficient as you will query the same table twice but you can do it with a HAVING clause:
SELECT tv.attribute
FROM table_value tv
WHERE EXISTS(
SELECT 1
FROM table_value tv1
WHERE tv1.unique_id = tv.unique_id
HAVING MAX(tv1.numbers) = tv.numbers
)
fiddle
I have a table like this
and i want my output to look like this
I need to look at the ID and then take max created date and max completed date for that ID. There is also some cases where completed date is still empty so in that case i just need to look at the max created date. Im not sure how to tackle this, doing a group by doesnt account for my multiple scenarios
Use ROW_NUMBER:
WITH cte AS (
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY QUOTE_NUMBER
ORDER BY WORKBOOK_CREATED_DATE DESC) rn
FROM yourTable
)
SELECT *
FROM yourTable
WHERE rn = 1;
(select ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_TYPE,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID ORDER BY ID ) AS SEQNUM
from AC_POS_TRANSACTION_TRK aptt WHERE [RESULT] ='Success'
GROUP BY ID, EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_TYPE )
Hello,
On above query, I want to get rows of transaction id's which has seqnum=1 and seqnum=2
But if that transaction id has no second row (seqnum=2), I dont want to get any row for that transaction id.
Thanks!!
Something like this
Not 100% sure if this is correct without you table definition, but my understanding is that you want to EXCLUDE records if that record has an entry with seqnum=2 -- you can't use a where clause alone because that would still return seqnum = 1.
You can use an exists /not exists or in/not in clause like this
(select ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_TYPE,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID ORDER BY ID ) AS SEQNUM
from AC_POS_TRANSACTION_TRK aptt WHERE [RESULT] ='Success'
and not exists ( select 1 from AC_POS_TRANSACTION_TRK a where a.id = aptt.id
and a.seqnum = 2)
GROUP BY ID, EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_TYPE )
basically what this does is it excludes records if a record exists as specified in the NOT EXISTS query.
One option you can try is to add a count of rows per group using the same partioning critera and then filter accordingly. Not entirely sure about your query without seeing it in context and with sample data - there's no aggregation so why use group by?
However can you try something along these lines
select * from (
select ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID,EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_TYPE,
Row_Number() over(partition by EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID order by ID) as SEQNUM,
Count(*) over(partition by EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID) Qty
from AC_POS_TRANSACTION_TRK
where [RESULT] ='Success'
)x
where SEQNUM in (1,2) and Qty>1
This should do the job.
With Qry As (
-- Your original query goes here
),
Select Qry.*
From Qry
Where Exists (
Select *
From Qry Qry1
Where Qry1.EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID = Qry.EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID
And Qry1.SEQNUM = 1
)
And Exists (
Select *
From Qry Qry2
Where Qry2.EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID = Qry.EXTERNAL_TRANSACTION_ID
And Qry2.SEQNUM = 2
)
BTW, your original query looks problematic to me, specifically I think that instead of a GROUP BY columns those columns should be in the PARTITION BY clause of the OVER statement, but without knowing more about the table structures and what you're trying to achieve, I could not say for sure.
I'm trying to implement pagination in a query that is built using information from a view, and I need to use the row_number() function over a column when I don't know which table it is from.
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT class.ID as ID, user.ID as USERID, row_number() over (ORDER BY
ID desc) as row_number FROM class, user
) out_q WHERE row_number > #startrow ORDER BY row_number
The problem is that I only have the result column name (ID or USERID) that came from a previous query. If I execute this query, it will raise the error 'Ambiguous column name "ID"'. Is there a way to specify that I'm referencing the column ID that is being selected and not from a different table?
Is it possible to specify an alias to the query result itself?
I have already tried the following,
SELECT TOP 30 * FROM (
SELECT *, row_number() over (ORDER BY ID desc) as row_number FROM(
SELECT class.ID as ID, user.ID as USERID FROM class, user
) in_q
) out_q WHERE row_number > #startrow ORDER BY row_number
It works, but the SGBD gets confused on which query plan it has to use, because of the small row goal present in the outer query and the big set of results returned by the inner query, when #startrow is a small number, the query executes in less than one second, when it is a big number the query takes minutes to execute.
Your problem is the id in the row_number itself. If you want a stable sort, then include both ids:
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT class.ID as ID, user.ID as USERID,
row_number() over (ORDER BY class.ID desc, user.id) as row_number
FROM class CROSS JOIN user
) out_q
WHERE row_number > #startrow
ORDER BY row_number;
I assume the cartesian product is intentional. Sometimes, this indicates an error in the query. In general, I would advise you to avoid using commas in the from clause. If you do want a cartesian product, then be explicit by using CROSS JOIN.
You could try using the option you already tried, then use the OPTIMIZE FOR hint.
OPTION ( OPTIMIZE FOR (#startrow = 100000) );
See a description of the hint in MSDN docs here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181714.aspx.
I need, if possible, a t-sql query that, returning the values from an arbitrary table, also returns a incremental integer column with value = 1 for the first row, 2 for the second, and so on.
This column does not actually resides in any table, and must be strictly incremental, because the ORDER BY clause could sort the rows of the table and I want the incremental row in perfect shape always.
The solution must run on SQL Server 2000
For SQL 2005 and up
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER( ORDER BY SomeColumn ) AS 'rownumber',*
FROM YourTable
for 2000 you need to do something like this
SELECT IDENTITY(INT, 1,1) AS Rank ,VALUE
INTO #Ranks FROM YourTable WHERE 1=0
INSERT INTO #Ranks
SELECT SomeColumn FROM YourTable
ORDER BY SomeColumn
SELECT * FROM #Ranks
Order By Ranks
see also here Row Number
You can start with a custom number and increment from there, for example you want to add a cheque number for each payment you can do:
select #StartChequeNumber = 3446;
SELECT
((ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY AnyColumn)) + #StartChequeNumber ) AS 'ChequeNumber'
,* FROM YourTable
will give the correct cheque number for each row.
Try ROW_NUMBER()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186734.aspx
Example:
SELECT
col1,
col2,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY col1) AS rownum
FROM tbl
It is ugly and performs badly, but technically this works on any table with at least one unique field AND works in SQL 2000.
SELECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM myTable T1 WHERE T1.UniqueField<=T2.UniqueField) as RowNum, T2.OtherField
FROM myTable T2
ORDER By T2.UniqueField
Note: If you use this approach and add a WHERE clause to the outer SELECT, you have to added it to the inner SELECT also if you want the numbers to be continuous.