Consider this SQL table
id | name | numbers
------------------------
1 | bob | 1 3 5
2 | joe | 7 2 15
This query returns the whole table as its result:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE numbers LIKE '%5%'
Is there an SQL operator so that it only returns row 1 (only columns with the number 5)?
Use regexp with word boundaries. (But you should ideally follow Gordon's comment)
where numbers REGEXP '[[:<:]]5[[:>:]]'
It's a pity that you are not using the comma as a separator in your numbers column, because it would be possible to use the FIND_IN_SET function, but you can use it together with REPLACE, like this:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE FIND_IN_SET(5, REPLACE(numbers, ' ', ','));
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I have a MySQL database with a varchar column (although the column type can be changed if needed).
The column stores some ids separated with underscores like so:
Row 1: 1
Row 2: 1_2_3
Row 3: 10_2
Row 4: 4_5_1
Is there anyway in this structure to query that column for 1 and return all rows with 1 (but not Row 3 which contains 1 but the ID is 10).
To get the current results I am attempting to search the column LIKE %1%.
Or do I need to change the structure to achieve the result I want?
Maybe you can try:
select *
from t
where c like '1\_%'
or c like '%\_1'
or c like '%\_1\_%'
or c = '1'
You need to escape the underscore as \_, since SQL defines it as a wildcard and will match any character.
If we had a comma separator, then we could use MySQL FIND_IN_SET function.
We can use MySQL REPLACE function to change the underscores to commas,
e.g.
SELECT t.*
FROM t
WHERE FIND_IN_SET('1',REPLACE( t.id ,'_',','))
Reference:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_find-in-set
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace
NOTE:
Storing underscore separated lists is an antipattern. See Chapter 2 of Bill Karwin's book "SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming"
https://www.amazon.com/SQL-Antipatterns-Programming-Pragmatic-Programmers/dp/1934356557
With the operator like:
select * from tablename
where concat('_', id, '_') like '%#_1#_%' escape '#'
See the demo.
Results:
| id |
| ----- |
| 1 |
| 1_2_3 |
| 4_5_1 |
If, I have a string:
'#name#user#user2#laugh#cry'
I would like to print,
name
user
user2
laugh
cry
All the strings are different and have a different number of '#'.
I have tried using Regex but it's not working. What logic has to be applied for this query?
The first thing to say is that storing delimited list of values in text columns is, in many ways, not a good database design. You should basically rework your database structure, or prepare for a potential world of pain.
A quick and dirty solution is to use a numbers table, or an inline suquery, and to cross join it with the table ; REGEXP_SUBSTR() (available in MySQL 8.0), lets you select a given occurence of a particular pattern.
Here is a query that will extract up to 10 values from the column:
SELECT
REGEXP_SUBSTR(t.val, '[^#]+', 1, numbers.n) name
FROM
mytable t
INNER JOIN (
SELECT 1 n UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4
UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7
UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9 UNION ALL SELECT 10
) numbers
ON REGEXP_SUBSTR(t.val, '[^#]+', 1, numbers.n) IS NOT NULL
Regexp [^#]+ means: as many consecutive characters as possible other than #.
Ths demo on DB Fiddle, when given input string '#name#user#user2#laugh#cry', returns:
| name |
| ----- |
| name |
| user |
| user2 |
| laugh |
| cry |
I'm currently working on a MySQL database that stores lots of unique postcodes. This is how it looks like:
postcode_id | postcode
------ | ------
1 | BA10EJ
2 | TR96PY
3 | TA64RD
4 | EX54NA
5 | EX167DT
I'd like to select the first couple characters and only list the unique ones, so if there are two EXs I just need to display EX once.
This is what I'm trying to get:
postcode
------
BA
TR
TA
EX
Select distinct substr(postcode,1,2)
from my_table;
Managed to solve my problem by using this query:
SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(postcode, 2) FROM cc_postcodes
Thank you all for your help!
This can be achieved by MySql left(str, len) function. This function returns the leftmost len characters from the string str, or NULL if any argument is NULL.
select distinct left(<mycolumn>, <no_of_chars>) as <myColumn> from <mytable>
To know more about MySql Left()
Use left() with SELECT DISTINCT to get the unique entries.
SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(postcode,2) FROM postcodes;
See this working SQL Fiddle
I have a mysql database table with rows like this
id | values
1 | 5,6,8,1,9
2 | 12,22,5,20
3 | 18,55,3,2
I want a help in SELECT statement
To select rows that contain Numbers 1 OR 2
Without selecting rows that contain numbers like 12 or 22
SELECT * FROM test WHERE values REGEXP '/(^[,])?(1)(^[,])?/';
This is the regex you should use: (^|,)[12]($|,)
SELECT * FROM test WHERE values REGEXP '/(^|,)[12]($|,)/';
I have a mysql table that looks something like this:
id | PO | DAP | MEDIA
---|----|-------|------
1 | 2 | 34 | 64
2 | 6 | 53 | 23
I would like to be able to query get multiple rows, one for each column. E.g:
SELECT column_name as column, column_value as value FROM my_table;
Which would give me:
PO=2,DAP=34,MEDIA=54,PO=6,DAP=53,MEDIA=23
What would I need to use to formulate a query like this?
You have to first CONCAT the data of each specified field and apply GROUP_CONCAT ON the result.
Query
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(temp_col) FROM
(
SELECT 1 as 'temp_id',
CONCAT(
CONCAT('PO=', PO),
',',
CONCAT('DAP=', DAP),
',',
CONCAT('MEDIA=', MEDIA)
) AS 'temp_col'
FROM test
) temp
GROUP BY temp_id
Check Out SQLFIDDLE
Not exactly sure what you mean. But this is traditionally done in this manner
SELECT * FROM my_table;
You'll get your array like this
array(0=>array('PO'=>2,'DAP'=>34,'MEDIA'=54), 1=>array('PO'=>6, 'DAP'=>53, 'MEDIA'=> 23))
.. like so.