How do I combine the resultsets to return a single result in SQL? For example -
SELECT * FROM Table1
SELECT * FROM Table2
I want to combine the two resultsets with the columns from the second resultset appended to the first.
Table 1 and Table 2 are not related to each other in any way. If Table 1 has 2 columns and Table 2 has 4 columns, I wanted 6 columns returned total in a single resultset. And if Table 1 has 4 rows and Table 2 has only 2 rows, I want NULLS in Table 2 rows for 3rd and 4th row.
Is it possible?
Edit: I do not know how many columns are present in Table1 and Table2, so cannot use UNION with nulls.
If your RDBMS supports ROW_NUMBER() you could do something like this.
WITH T1 AS
(
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY T1id) AS RN1 FROM Table1
),
T2 AS
(
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY T2id) AS RN2 FROM Table2
)
SELECT * FROM T1 FULL OUTER JOIN T2 ON RN1 =RN2
It's possible but it's probably quite a bad idea to do this. Why not just run two queries?
If you really want to do it, join the two result sets on a ROW_NUMBER() field.
Not a general solution, but works if you know your schema:
select a1, a2, null as b1, null as b2 from table1
union
select null as a1, null as a2, b1, b2 from table2
Related
Scenario:
There are 2 columns in the table with data as given in the sample below.
It is possible that the table has multiple rows for the same value of 'a' column.
In the example, Considering the 'a' column, There are three rows for '1' and one row for '2'.
Sample table 't1':
|a|b |
|1|1.1|
|1|1.2|
|1|2.2|
|2|3.1|
Requirement is to get following output:
Expected Query output:
|a|b |
|1|1.2|
|2|3.1|
Requirement:
Get the row if there is only one row for a given value for column 'a'.
If there are multiple rows for the same value for column 'a' and for all rows, FLOOR(b) == a, then get MIN(a) and MAX(b)
If there are multiple rows for column 'a' and for all rows, there is 1 row of column 'b' for which
FLOOR(b) > a, then ignore that row. from the remaining rows, get MIN(a) and MAX(b)
Query I used:
select distinct min(a) over(partition by table1.a) as a,
min(b) over(partition by table1.a) as b
from (
SELECT distinct Min(table2.a) OVER (PARTITION BY table2.a) AS a,
Max(table2.b) OVER (PARTITION BY table2.a) AS b
FROM t1 table2
union
SELECT distinct Min(table3.a) OVER (PARTITION BY table3.a) AS a,
Max(table3.b) OVER (PARTITION BY table3.a) AS b
FROM t1 table3
where table3.a = FLOOR(table3.b)
) table1;
This query is working and I am getting the desired output. Looking for inputs to improve by removing union and extra select from the above script.
Note: t1 is not a table but it's a procedure call in my case and there are additional columns that it returns. It would help if the extra call to the procedure can be avoided.
This is how I would get the data you need.
select t1.a, max(t1.b)
from (select a, b, count(1) over(partition by t1.a) cnt from t1) t1
where t1.a = floor(t1.b) or cnt = 1
group by t1.a ,cnt;
It has only one procedure call so it might run significantly faster
And please note that "union" clause not only appends two data sets, but removes duplicates as well. Removing duplicates causes additional checks between data sets and therefore is leading to performance issues.
It is in most cases better to use "union all" which doesn't check for duplicates
I have a simple SQLite table which has just one ID column.
I have some variable IDs that may be duplicates of each other like: 1,2,3,4,3,1 (These IDs are just examples, there could be hundreds of them).
And I have a simple query as follows:
SELECT ID FROM TABLE WHERE ID in (1,2,3,4,3,1)
In the usual case the answer contains only 4 rows with ids 1,2,3,4. Is there any way to force SQLite to return rows in the order of the request (1,2,3,4,3,1) even if they are duplicates?
I have n IDs in my query and I want n rows in return even if they are duplicates.
Edit: The Table Definition is:
CREATE TABLE TEST(ID TEXT PRIMARY KEY)
You can use left join:
select t.*
from (select 1 as id, 1 as ord union all
select 2 as id, 2 as ord union all
select 3 as id, 3 as ord union all
select 4 as id, 4 as ord union all
select 3 as id, 5 as ord union all
select 1 as id, 6 as ord
) ids left join
t
on t.id = ids.id
order by ids.ord;
I am trying to update a table with records from another table. Whenever I use the insert into statement, I find that the records are simply appended. Instead, I want the records to be inserted from the top of the table. What is the easiest way to do this? I am thin king I could use a update statement, but that means I will have to join the tables. One of the tables(the one I am pulling records from) has only one column. As such, I would have to include another column to do the join.I am trying not to make it so complicated. If there is a simplier way, please let me know.
Sample:
Table One
Col1
1
2
3
4
Table 2
Col1 Col2
a
b
c
d
I want to move column 1 from table 1 to column 2 in table 2 such that table 2 will be:
Table 2
Col1 Col2
a 1
b 2
c 3
d 4
You can do the update using row_number(), but the rows will be assigned in an indeterminate order:
with toupdate as (
select t2.*, row_number() over (select NULL)) as seqnum
from table2 t2
),
t1 as (
select t1.*, row_numbrer() over (select NULL)) as seqnum
from table1 t1
)
update toupdate
set col2 = t1.col1
from toupdate join
t1
on toupdate.seqnum = t1.seqnum;
Note: if you have an ordering in mind, then use the appropriate order by in the partition clauses.
Unless you explicity define an ORDER BY clause in your SELECT statements, your result set will be completely arbitrary. This is in line with how any RDBMS should operate. You should consider including a timestamp at the time of insertion to identify the latest rows.
I've two tables say table 1 and table 2,
table 1 has column names as sno and useddate
table 2 has column names as sno and recentlyuseddate
I want to compare these two columns useddate and recentlyusedate and get the most recently used date.
These tables may have many entries but I need only ONE ENTRY (mostrecent) date after comparing these tables.
SELECT MAX(useddate) AS mostrecent
FROM
(SELECT useddate FROM Table1
UNION ALL
SELECT recentlyuseddate AS useddate FROM Table2) TheUnion
You can use unions for this
SELECT MAX(col)
FROM (SELECT col FROM TABLE_1
UNION ALL
SELECT col FROM TABLE_2)
If you have an index on the two dates in the two tables, I would go for:
select top 1 sno, useddate, which
from ((select top 1 sno, useddate, 'table1' as which from table1 order by useddate desc) union all
(select top 1 sno, recentlyuseddate , 'table2' as which from table2 order by recentlyuseddate desc)
)
order by useddate desc;
This version also tells you which table the date came from.
I have a table with 10 columns.
I want to return all rows for which Col006 is distinct, but return all columns...
How can I do this?
if column 6 appears like this:
| Column 6 |
| item1 |
| item1 |
| item2 |
| item1 |
I want to return two rows, one of the records with item1 and the other with item2, along with all other columns.
In SQL Server 2005 and above:
;WITH q AS
(
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY col6 ORDER BY id) rn
FROM mytable
)
SELECT *
FROM q
WHERE rn = 1
In SQL Server 2000, provided that you have a primary key column:
SELECT mt.*
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT col6
FROM mytable
) mto
JOIN mytable mt
ON mt.id =
(
SELECT TOP 1 id
FROM mytable mti
WHERE mti.col6 = mto.col6
-- ORDER BY
-- id
-- Uncomment the lines above if the order matters
)
Update:
Check your database version and compatibility level:
SELECT ##VERSION
SELECT COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL
FROM sys.databases
WHERE name = DB_NAME()
The key word "DISTINCT" in SQL has the meaning of "unique value". When applied to a column in a query it will return as many rows from the result set as there are unique, different values for that column. As a consequence it creates a grouped result set, and values of other columns are random unless defined by other functions (such as max, min, average, etc.)
If you meant to say you want to return all rows for which Col006 has a specific value, then use the "where Col006 = value" clause.
If you meant to say you want to return all rows for which Col006 is different from all other values of Col006, then you still need to specify what that value is => see above.
If you want to say that the value of Col006 can only be evaluated once all rows have been retrieved, then use the "having Col006 = value" clause. This has the same effect as the "where" clause, but "where" gets applied when rows are retrieved from the raw tables, whereas "having" is applied once all other calculations have been made (i.e. aggregation functions have been run etc.) and just before the result set is returned to the user.
UPDATE:
After having seen your edit, I have to point out that if you use any of the other suggestions, you will end up with random values in all other 9 columns for the row that contains the value "item1" in Col006, due to the constraint further up in my post.
You can group on Col006 to get the distinct values, but then you have to decide what to do with the multiple records in each group.
You can use aggregates to pick a value from the records. Example:
select Col006, min(Col001), max(Col002)
from TheTable
group by Col006
order by Col006
If you want the values to come from a specific record in each group, you have to identify it somehow. Example of using Col002 to identify the record in each group:
select Col006, Col001, Col002
from TheTable t
inner join (
select Col006, min(Col002)
from TheTable
group by Col006
) x on t.Col006 = x.Col006 and t.Col002 = x.Col002
order by Col006
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT YourDistinctField FROM YourTable) AS A
CROSS APPLY
( SELECT TOP 1 * FROM YourTable B
WHERE B.YourDistinctField = A.YourDistinctField ) AS NewTableName
I tried the answers posted above with no luck... but this does the trick!
select * from yourTable where column6 in (select distinct column6 from yourTable);
SELECT *
FROM harvest
GROUP BY estimated_total;
You can use GROUP BY and MIN() to get more specific result.
Lets say that you have id as the primary_key.
And we want to get all the DISTINCT values for a column lets say estimated_total, And you also need one sample of complete row with each distinct value in SQL. Following query should do the trick.
SELECT *, min(id)
FROM harvest
GROUP BY estimated_total;
create table #temp
(C1 TINYINT,
C2 TINYINT,
C3 TINYINT,
C4 TINYINT,
C5 TINYINT,
C6 TINYINT)
INSERT INTO #temp
SELECT 1,1,1,1,1,6
UNION ALL SELECT 1,1,1,1,1,6
UNION ALL SELECT 3,1,1,1,1,3
UNION ALL SELECT 4,2,1,1,1,6
SELECT * FROM #temp
SELECT *
FROM(
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY C6 Order by C1) ID,* FROM #temp
)T
WHERE ID = 1