I'm trying to select NULL as a column in my query using JOOQ, so basically something like this:
SELECT name, NULL as 'someColumn' FROM someTable;
I need to do this, because the result needs to include someColumn (as part of a data standard), but we do not have this information in our database. This works fine in plain SQL, but I'm struggling to reproduce this using JOOQ.
Does anyone know how to do this in a query of this form?
context.select(
SOMETABLE.NAME,
... // Other columns here
DSL.NULL.as("someColumn") // <-- This doesn't exist
)
You can use an inline value
DSL.inline(null)
Depending on your database dialect or query usage, you may need to add a data type to that value, e.g.
DSL.inline(null, SQLDataType.VARCHAR)
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I'll start this off by saying I know that there are more practical ways to solve this. It's more of an intellectual curiosity than anything else.
I've inherited a MySQL database where some columns are stored as varchar(5) but actually contain the literals "True" or "False". Changing the structure of the data is not an option right now due to other issues. I'm mapping the columns to an ORM (SQLAlchemy), and I want the column to be mapped to a Boolean data type in the supporting codebase using a type adapter. (I've written this adapter already; it's not the problem.)
To help make the mapping process faster, I'm writing a small query to look at the INFORMATION_SCHEMA table and build a line of Python code defining the column using the ORM's syntax. I cannot assume that the data type varchar(5) is a Boolean column - I need to inspect the contents of that column to see if there are values contained in it besides True and False.
Can I write a query that will both get the column type from INFORMATION_SCHEMA and check the actual values stored in that column?
Here is the query I have so far:
SELECT CONCAT(
"Column(""",
col.column_name,
""", ",
(CASE
WHEN col.DATA_TYPE = "int" THEN "Integer"
-- Code in question
WHEN
col.DATA_TYPE = "varchar"
AND col.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH = 5
AND NOT EXISTS(
-- Doesn't seem to work
SELECT DISTINCT col.COLUMN_NAME
FROM col.TABLE_NAME
WHERE col.COLUMN_NAME NOT IN ("True", "False")
)
THEN "BoolStoredAsVarchar"
WHEN col.DATA_TYPE = "varchar" THEN CONCAT("String(", col.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, ")")
-- Default if it's not a recognized column type
ELSE col.DATA_TYPE
END),
"),"
) AS alchemy
FROM information_schema.columns AS col
WHERE
col.TABLE_SCHEMA = "my_schema"
AND col.TABLE_NAME = "my_table"
ORDER BY col.ORDINAL_POSITION;
Running this code gives me a permissions error: Error Code: 1142. SELECT command denied to user 'user'#'host' for table 'table_name'. Presumably it's trying to use col.TABLE_NAME as a literal instead of interpreting it.
I've also tried creating a simple stored procedure and making table_name into a variable. However, replacing the FROM clause inside the EXISTS with a variable name gives me a syntax error instead.
Again, it's easy enough to run the query myself to see what's in that column. I'd just like to know if this is possible, and if so, how to do it.
You can't do what you're trying to do in a single query.
The reason is that table names (or any other identifier) must be fixed in the query at the time it is parsed, which is before it has read any values from tables. Thus you can't read the name of a table as a string from information_schema and also read from the table with that name in the same query.
You must read the table name from information_schema and then use that result to format a second query.
This isn't a problem specific to MySQL. It's true of any SQL implementation.
I've created a MySQL sproc which returns 3 separate result sets. I'm implementing the npm mysql package downstream to exec the sproc and get a result structured in json with the 3 result sets. I need the ability to filter the json result sets that are returned based on some type of indicator in each result set. For example, if I wanted to get the result set from the json response which deals specifically with Suppliers then I could use some type of js filter similar to this:
var supplierResultSet = mySqlJsonResults.filter(x => x.ResultType === 'SupplierResults');
I think SQL Server provides the ability to include a hard-coded column value in a SQL result set like this:
select
'SupplierResults',
*
from
supplier
However, this approach appears to be invalid in MySQL b/c MySQL Workbench is telling me that the sproc syntax is invalid and won't let me save the changes. Do you know if something like what I'm trying to achieve is possible in MySQL and if not then can you recommend alternative approaches that would help me achieve my ultimate goal of including some type of fixed indicator in each result set to provide a handle for downstream filtering of the json response?
If I followed you correctly, you just need to prefix * with the table name or alias:
select 'SupplierResults' hardcoded, s.* from supplier s
As far as I know, this is the SQL Standard. select * is valid only when no other expression is added in the selec clause; SQL Server is lax about this, but most other databases follow the standard.
It is also a good idea to assign a name to the column that contains the hardcoded value (I named it hardcoded in the above query).
In MySQL you can simply put the * first:
SELECT *, 'SupplierResults'
FROM supplier
Demo on dbfiddle
To be more specific, in your case, in your query you would need to do this
select
'SupplierResults',
supplier.* -- <-- this
from
supplier
Try this
create table a (f1 int);
insert into a values (1);
select 'xxx', f1, a.* from a;
Basically, if there are other fields in select, prefix '*' with table name or alias
I'm working of generating sql request by parsing Excel-like formulas.
So for a given formula, I get this request :
SELECT IF(COL1='Y', SUM(EXPR),NULL)
FROM Table
I don't get the results I want. If I manually rewrite the request like this it works :
SELECT SUM(IF(COL1='Y', EXPR, NULL))
FROM Table
Also, the first request produces the right value if I add a GROUP BY statement, for COL1='Y' row :
SELECT IF(COL1='Y', SUM(EXPR),NULL)
FROM Table
GROUP BY COL1
Is there a way to keep the first syntax IF(COND, SUM(EXPR), NULL) and slightly edit it to make it works without a GROUP BY statement ?
You have to use GROUP BY since you are using SUM - otherwise SQL engine is not able to tell how do you want to summarize the column.
Alternatively you could summarize this column only:
SELECT SUM(EXPR)
FROM Table
WHERE COL1='Y'
But then you would have to run separate query for each such column, read: not recommended for performance reasons.
I have this union statement when I try to take parameters from a form and pass it to a union select statement it says too many parameters. This is using MS ACCESS.
SELECT Statement FROM table 1 where Date = Between [Forms]![DateIN]![StartDate]
UNION
SELECT Statement FROM table 2 where Date = Between [Forms]![DateIN]![StartDate]
This is the first time I am using windows DB applications to do Database apps. I am Linux type of person and always use MySQL for my projects but for this one have to use MS Access.
Is there anther way to pass parameters to UNION Statement because this method of defining values in a form can work on Single SELECT statements. But I don't know why this problem exist.
Between "Determines whether the value of an expression falls within a specified range of values" like this ...
expr [Not] Between value1 And value2
But your query only gives it one value ... Between [Forms]![DateIN]![StartDate]
So you need to add And plus another date value ...
Between [Forms]![DateIN]![StartDate] And some_other_date
Also Date is a reserved word. If you're using it as a field name, enclose it in brackets to avoid confusing the db engine: [Date]
If practical, rename the field to avoid similar problems in the future.
And as Gord pointed out, you must also bracket table names which include a space. The same applies to field names.
Still getting problems when using this method of calling the values or dates from the form to be used on the UNION statement. Here is the actual query that I am trying to use.
I don't want to recreate the wheel but I was thinking that if the Date() can be used with between Date() and Date()-6 to represent a 7 days range then I might have to right a module that takes the values from the for and then returns the values that way I can do something like Sdate() and Edate() then this can be used with Between Sdate() and Edate().
I have not tried this yet but this can be my last option I don't even know if it will work but it is worth a try. But before i do that i want to try all the resources that Access can help me make my life easy such as its OO Stuff it has for helping DB programmers.
SELECT
"Expenditure" as [TransactionType], *
FROM
Expenditures
WHERE
(((Expenditures.DateofExpe) Between [Forms]!Form1![Text0] and [Forms]![Form1]![Text11]))
UNION
SELECT
"Income" as [TransactionType], *
FROM
Income
WHERE
(((Income.DateofIncom) Between [Forms]!Form1![Text0] and [Forms]![Form1]![Text11] ));
Access VBA has great power but I don't want to use it as of yet as it will be hard to modify changes for a user that does not know how to program. trying to keep this DB app simple as possible for a dumb user to fully operate.
Any comments is much appreciated.
eg:
Table : user
column : user_id (type is int)
SELECT * FROM user WHERE user_id = '10xyz'
is giving same result of
SELECT * FROM user WHERE user_id = '10'
The input value is not integer but not giving an error in this case.
The reason why you are getting the same result is because MySQL automatically removes the trailing characters from the string and implicitly converts it to integer.
SQLFiddle Demo
SQLFiddle Demo (updated)
If you don't want to change all your code, but you have your database queries all going through one or a few subs, you can change those to check for warnings after using a statement handle (e.g. if ( $sth->{mysql_warning_count} ) ...).
Or you can create a DBI subclass that does that automatically for you, promoting warnings to errors. If you do, many others have use for such a thing. There are configuration settings to give an error instead of a warning when updating or inserting something like '10xyz' into an integer field, but not anything broader than that, and dear Oracle considers it Not a Bug. Maybe MariaDB does (or could do) better?
datatype of user_id is in database is INT
that why it giving same output and not error