I'm using Grafana to plot data from a MySQL datasource. Is it possible to, in a panel's query editor, use an IF ... THEN ... type statement. I would like to create a variable that I could put in the IF. I want the variable to be a condition, not necessarily to be used directly in the query.
For example:
//IN THE DATA SOURCE:
CREATE TABLE Example (Id INT, ANIMALS VARCHAR(15));
INSERT INTO Example VALUES (1,'Dog'), (2,'Fish'), (3,'Cat'), (4,'Lizard')
For a variable Test with values "Mammal',"Reptile", "Other":
//WHAT I'D LIKE IN GRAFANA QUERY EDITOR:
IF($Test = "Mammal") THEN
SELECT * FROM Example WHERE Id = 1 OR Id =3;
ELSE
SELECT * FROM Example WHERE Id = 2 OR Id =4;
END IF;
Is this kind of condition based query even possible? If so, what is the proper syntax to get it to work? Is there any way I can use Grafana variables to have a similar effect?
Use query. Query starts with SELECT keyword. Don't use any IF ELSE conditions before query, e.g.:
SELECT *
FROM Example
WHERE
Data IN ( ${variable:csv} )
This WHERE condition syntax will work with single value, multi value Grafana dashboard variables and also with All value (no custom All value, but blank=auto). Of course this condition is mainly for INT column types. STRING types may need different one (e.g. with LIKE and regexp matching).
Code all your logic (dependency on the dashboard variable) in the WHERE section. Use query inspector to see SQL which is generated and tweak it to correct SQL syntax.
Instead of an if, you can use or. It's really useful for conditionally checking variables:
select * from Example
where (Id in (1,3) or '$Test' != 'Mammal')
and (Id in (2,4) or '$Test' == 'Mammal')
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I'm using Report Builder and want to add more than one value against a Label (Available Values > Specify Values):
Example:
Label = "labelone" Value = Value1, Value2...
When I run the report, I get a message saying Parameter1 is missing.
I have tried following against value: Value1, Value2 and 'Value1', 'Value2'
My query has following in the where clause: WHERE (FIELD in (#Parameter1))
Basically, I want to specify multiple values against one label under the parameter.
Thank you
You cannot do this directly as what will get passed to the query would be
WHERE Field IN ('Value1, Value2')
or
WHERE Field IN ('''Value1'', ''Value2''')
The way to do this would be split the label using a table valued function, you could use string_split if you have a fairly recent version of SQL Server (I think this was introduced in SQL2016). If you have an older version there are loads of sample of string splitting functions around tha you could use.
Once you have you function you can join to the results of that, the query would be something like
DECLARE #pValues TABLE (myValues varchar(10))
INSERT INTO #pValues
SELECT * FROM string_split(#myReportParameter, ',')
SELECT *
FROM myTable a
JOIN #pValues p on a.Field = p.myValues
This case is similar to: S.O Question; mySQL returns all rows when field=0, and the Accepted answer was a very simple trick, to souround the ZERO with single quotes
FROM:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE email=0
TO:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE email='0'
However, my case is slightly different in that my Query is something like:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE email=(
SELECT my_column_value FROM myTable WHERE my_column_value=0 AND user_id =15 LIMIT 1 )
Which in a sense, becomes like simply saying: SELECT * FROM table WHERE email=0, but now with a Second Query.
PLEASE NOTE: It is a MUST that I use the SECOND QUERY.
When I tried: SELECT * FROM table WHERE email='( SELECT my_column_value FROM myTable WHERE my_column_value=0 LIMIT 1 )' (Notice the Single Quotes on the second query)
MySql SCREAMED Errors near '(.
How can this be achieved
Any Suggestion is highly honored
EDIT1: For a visual perspective of the Query
See the STEN_TB here: http://snag.gy/Rq8dq.jpg
Now, the main aim is to get the sten_h where rawscore_h = 0;
The CURRENT QUERY as a whole.
SELECT sten_h
FROM sten_tb
WHERE rawscore_h = (
SELECT `for_print_stens_rowscore`
FROM `for_print_stens_tb`
WHERE `for_print_stens_student_id` =3
AND `for_print_stens_factor_name` = 'Factor H' )
The result of the Second Query can be any number including ZERO.
Any number from >=1 Works and returns a single corresponding value from sten_h. Only =0 does not Work, it returns all rows
That's the issue.
CORRECT ANSWER OR SOLUTION FOR THIS
Just in case someone ends up in this paradox, the Accepted answer has it all.
SEE STEN_TB: http://snag.gy/Rq8dq.jpg
SEE The desired Query result here: http://snag.gy/wa4yA.jpg
I believe your issue is with implicit datatype conversions. You can make those datatype conversions explicit, to gain control.
(The "trick" with wrapping a literal 0 in single quotes, that makes the literal a string literal, rather than a numeric.)
In the more general case, you can use a CAST or CONVERT function to explicitly specify a datatype conversion. You can use an expression in place of a column name, wherever you need to...
For example, to get the value returned by my_column_value to match the datatype of the email column, assuming email is character type, something like:
... email = (SELECT CONVERT(my_column_value,CHAR(255)) FROM myTable WHERE ...
or, to get the a literal integer value to be a string value:
... FROM myTable WHERE my_column_value = CONVERT(0,CHAR(30)) ...
If email and my_column_value are just indicating true or false then they should almost certainly be both BIT NOT NULL or other two-value type that your schema uses for booleans. (Your ORM may use a particular one.) Casting is frequently a hack made necessary by a poor design.
If it should be a particular user then you shouldn't use LIMIT because tables are unordered and that doesn't return a particular user. Explain in your question what your query is supposed to return including exactly what you mean by "15th".
(Having all those similar columns is bad design: rawscore_a, sten_a, rawscore_b, sten_b,... . Use a table with two columns: rawscore, sten.)
I'm trying to run a SQL SELECT statement against a column that is of type SET. The table is called myTable and the columns in myTable are called base_props and names. The base_props column is of type SET. The values in base_prop are vb,nt, cnt,poss and loc. So I would like to SELECT entries from the column 'name' where base_props have both the values, vb and poss. The results I'm looking to get may have values other than just vb and poss. So to be clear I would like to select all entries that have the values vb and poss regardless if they have other values as well. I've tried the following SQL queries but I can't get the desired results.
SELECT name from myTable WHERE base_props = 'vb' AND base_props = 'poss'
That query returns an empty result set. I've tried using FIND_IN_SET() and IN() but I couldn't get anywhere with that. I've written SQL statements before but never had to deal with columns that are type SET. Any help is appreciated.
The only thing I can come up with is using the LIKE keyword:
SELECT name FROM myTable WHERE (base_props LIKE '%vb%' AND base_props LIKE '%poss%');
This will make sure both vb and cnt are in the base_props column. Of course you can use cnt, nt and loc in there, or any number of base_props values in the sql, just add more AND statements.
OR as a deleted answer by samitha pointed out, you can use FIND_IN_SET:
SELECT name from myTable WHERE FIND_IN_SET('vb', base_props) AND FIND_IN_SET('poss', base_props);
Comment (by spencer7593): "both of these work, but there is a slight difference. The LIKE operator will actually match any member that includes the search string anywhere in a term; the FIND_IN_SET function will only match an exact member. It's also possible to search for members in set by the order they appear in the SET definition, using the MySQL BITAND operator: for example, to match the 1st and 4th members of the set: WHERE base_props & 1 AND base_props & 8". So for example, if you have 'a' and 'aaa' in your set, then using the LIKE "%a%" method will also return rows containing 'aaa'.
Conclusion: use the FIND_IN_SET solution since it will work for all cases.
FIND_IN_SET return index, Try this
SELECT name from myTable WHERE FIND_IN_SET(base_props, 'vb') > 0 AND
FIND_IN_SET(base_props, 'poss') > 0
So my query is the following, which may return many results:
SELECT P_CODE, NAME FROM TEST.dbo.PEOPLE
WHERE NAME LIKE '%JA%'
AND P_CODE LIKE '%003%'
AND DOB LIKE '%1958%'
AND HKID = ''
AND (MOBILE LIKE '%28%' OR TEL LIKE '%28%')
I would like to integrate this into a Stored Procedure (or View?) so that it will only return a result if the query results in exactly 1 row. If there's 0 or > 1, then it should return no results.
If you just want to return an empty resultset in cases other than 1:
;WITH x AS
(
SELECT P_CODE, NAME, c = COUNT(*) OVER()
FROM TEST.dbo.PEOPLE
WHERE NAME LIKE '%JA%'
AND P_CODE LIKE '%003%'
AND DOB LIKE '%1958%'
AND HKID = ''
AND (MOBILE LIKE '%28%' OR TEL LIKE '%28%')
)
SELECT P_CODE, NAME FROM x WHERE c = 1;
Otherwise, you'll have to run the query twice (or dump the results to intermediate storage, such as a #temp table) - once to get the count, and once to decide based on the count whether to run the SELECT or not.
Effectively you want something akin to FirstOrDefault() from the Linq-to-SQL implementation but done on the server-side which means you will need to execute the query in a stored procedure, dumping the results into a temp table variable and then access ##ROWCOUNT afterwards to get the number of rows that were returned and then decide whether or not to forward the results on to the caller. If you do, be sure to use TOP 1 in the query from the temp table so that you only get a single result out as you desire.
UPDATE:
I described the alternate solution from what Aaron describes in his answer (which I like better).
Removed unnecessary TOP specifier in solution specification.
I would like to SELECT * FROM table where the first column is equal to a variable. It supposed that I don't know the column name.
I know I can do something like
SELECT * FROM table WHERE column_id = 1
But I can't compare the data.
How can I do that?
I found some solution with T-SQL but it doesn't interest me.
To be more accurate :
I'm developing an administration panel in my website where the "super" admin can directly modify the database. For that I can select a table and edit this table. But to do that, I'm using an only PHP script which showing all tables, we can select one and the script show all rows in the selected table. After that you select a row and you are redirected to a page where the problem is. This page can receive any table with only one row, so I want to SELECT the data contained in this row.
Images to understand:
The first one shows the tables.
The second shows the rows of a selected table.
The third shows (normally) the data of 1 row but in this picture we can see data of many rows.
selecto http://imageshack.us/g/135/selecto.png
I found a solution :
Try to explain:
First : I selected all form the specific table which was posted
$query="SELECT * FROM ".$_POST['table']."";
$result=mysql_query($query);
Second: I attributed to a variable the column name (which I didn't know)
while($fields=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$col = mysql_field_name($result,0);
$nb++;
}
Third: I selected data from the table where $col = id of the row
$sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$_POST['table']." WHERE ".$col."=".$_GET['idRow']."";
$result1=mysql_query($sql);
If you know how many columns there are, you could use this little trick here:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT null x1, null x2, ..., null xn
WHERE 1 = 0
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM my_table
) t
WHERE t.x1 = something
In other databases than MySQL, renaming "unknown" columns would be even simpler, e.g. in PostgreSQL you could rename only the first column like this:
SELECT * FROM my_table t(x) WHERE x = something
If you don't know anything about the table
... you can quickly query the information_schema first:
SELECT column_name
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name = :my_table
AND ordinal_position = 1
A note on SQL injection
Please don't, DON'T do this. EVER:
$query="SELECT * FROM ".$_POST['table']."";
I've recently written an article about SQL injection. Every single vulnerability like yours will allow any script kiddie to dump your database, or worse.
The solution is to sanitize your input first. Ideally, you'll maintain a catalog of allowed table strings, compare your $_POST variable with those, and then concatenate the pre-defined table string into your SQL statement, NOT the user input.
I think you can use SHOW CREATE TABLE table_name to fetch the schema of the table. After that, you should already know every column.
In PHP you could do something like:
$col = 'users';
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE $col = $something");