I'm getting a syntax error in my stored procedure when trying to use a variable as a reference to a tables column.
BEGIN
SET #mycolumn = (SOME SELECT STATEMENT RETURNING MY COLUMN);
SELECT a.#mycolumn FROM mytable as a;
END
Question: What is wrong with my syntax?
It looks like you're trying to do dynamic SQL. Here is one way to do it:
BEGIN
SET #mycolumn = (SOME SELECT STATEMENT RETURNING MY COLUMN);
DECLARE #sql varchar(20000);
SET #sql = CONCAT('SELECT a.', #mycolumn, ' FROM mytable as a';
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
END
Jordan,
You might need to use table variable or Dynamic SQL for this.
Here is how I do this with table variable.
Declare #table as table (columnName dataType.
Insert into #table
SOME SELECT STATEMENT RETURNING YOUR COLUMN
Results by running the below query:-
SELECT * FROM #table
Related
I am trying to executing a mysql query like this
SET #id := '47';
SET #table := #id+'_2013_2014_voucher';
SELECT * FROM #table;
Delete FROM #table where id=#id
It showing error like this
[Err] 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '#table' at line 1
How I can achieve that?
The usage of dynamic table names within the query is best with Prepared Staments,
also in mysql for concatenation the function is concat
SET #id := '47';
SET #table := concat(#id,'_2013_2014_voucher');
set #qry1:= concat('select * from ',#table);
prepare stmt from #qry1 ;
execute stmt ;
You can do it for the delete query as well
You need to use prepared statements for dynamic table name. Prepared statements support parameters, but you can't use them for table names.
Also to put strings together you have to use CONCAT().
Oh, and you have to do all this in a stored procedure.
Create one like this:
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_exec_dynStmt()
BEGIN
SET #id := 47; /*The single-quotes made it a string, that's not necessary*/
SET #table := CONCAT(#id, '_2013_2014_voucher');
SET #sql := CONCAT('SELECT * FROM ', #table, ';');
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
SET #sql = CONCAT('DELETE FROM ', #table, ' WHERE id = ?;'); /*The id can be a parameter, but not the table name*/
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt USING #id;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
Then execute it like this:
CALL sp_exec_dynStmt();
try changing that line with
SET #table = '`' + #id+'_2013_2014_voucher`';
usually I declare variable in this way
SET #id = '47'; (without :)
you should use only : with SET, := to assigning variable in a SELECT
I am trying to use the result of a query as a table.
This query works fine:
SELECT date, number FROM `table_A`
The query below as well --> its result is table_B as a string of character not the table itself
SELECT nametable FROM `list_repository` WHERE id=1
But the combined one does not:
SELECT date, number FROM (SELECT nametable FROM `list_repository` WHERE id=1) A
I expect the resulting query to be
SELECT date, number FROM `table_B`
I tried to set a variable but it does not work either:
DECLARE x VARCHAR(150) ;
SET table=( SELECT `nametable` FROM `list_repository` WHERE id=1);
SELECT * from `table`. But it would not work
Thank you for your help!
Identifiers (db, table, column names etc) in SQL are static. Therefore you can't populate them at run-time. But you can build a query as a string and execute it via dynamic SQL. Something along the lines of
SET #sql = NULL;
SELECT CONCAT("SELECT * FROM ", nametable)
INTO #sql
FROM list_repository
WHERE id = 1;
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
An example of wrapping it up into a stored procedure
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE sp1 (IN id INT)
BEGIN
SET #sql = NULL;
SELECT CONCAT("SELECT * FROM ", nametable)
INTO #sql
FROM list_repository
WHERE id = id;
SELECT #sql;
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
END//
And then invoking it
CALL sp1(1);
Myself trying to pass string variable to where condition in MySQL query as given in this stack overflow answer as given below.
select #start := ' and Id=21';
select * from myTable where 1=1 #start;
So how can I use string variable with where condition in MySQL queries. The variables are set dynamically and the query runs within procedure.
EDIT: I also tried
SET #start = ' Id=21 ';
select * from myTable where (select #start);
But no use.
No you cannot do that. The columns and the condition in the select clause needs to be fixed when you are preparing the select statement.
So you cannot make a dynamic where clause statement like the one you posted. In that example, the values in the column are dynamic not the column names.
The manual says:
A conditional object consists of one or more conditional fragments
that will all be joined by a specified conjunction. By default, that
conjunction is AND.
I believe what you are attempting is to create a Dynamic Query using EXEC command.
You can create a varchar variable with the SQL statement and then execute it with EXEC, here an example taken from
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1160/execute-dynamic-sql-commands-in-sql-server/
If you want to do something like
DECLARE #city varchar(75)
SET #city = 'London'
SELECT * FROM customers WHERE City = #city
This is the Dynamic Query creation.
DECLARE #sqlCommand varchar(1000)
DECLARE #columnList varchar(75)
DECLARE #city varchar(75)
SET #columnList = 'CustomerID, ContactName, City'
SET #city = '''London'''
SET #sqlCommand = 'SELECT ' + #columnList + ' FROM customers WHERE City = ' + #city
EXEC (#sqlCommand) --This does the magic
/*
just a heads up, the user impersonating the execution needs credentials for EXEC command.
*/
Store part of your query
SET #start = ' and Id=21';
Store your query concatenating its parts
SET #s = CONCAT('select * from myTable where 1=1 ', #start);
Prepare a statement for execution
PREPARE stmt FROM #s;
EXECUTE executes a prepared statement
EXECUTE stmt;
Release the prepared statement
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
All together:
SET #start = ' and Id=21';
SET #s = CONCAT('select * from myTable where 1=1 ', #start);
PREPARE stmt FROM #s;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
More Details on the MySQL manual: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sql-syntax-prepared-statements.html
I am trying to executing a mysql query like this
SET #id := '47';
SET #table := #id+'_2013_2014_voucher';
SELECT * FROM #table;
Delete FROM #table where id=#id
It showing error like this
[Err] 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '#table' at line 1
How I can achieve that?
The usage of dynamic table names within the query is best with Prepared Staments,
also in mysql for concatenation the function is concat
SET #id := '47';
SET #table := concat(#id,'_2013_2014_voucher');
set #qry1:= concat('select * from ',#table);
prepare stmt from #qry1 ;
execute stmt ;
You can do it for the delete query as well
You need to use prepared statements for dynamic table name. Prepared statements support parameters, but you can't use them for table names.
Also to put strings together you have to use CONCAT().
Oh, and you have to do all this in a stored procedure.
Create one like this:
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_exec_dynStmt()
BEGIN
SET #id := 47; /*The single-quotes made it a string, that's not necessary*/
SET #table := CONCAT(#id, '_2013_2014_voucher');
SET #sql := CONCAT('SELECT * FROM ', #table, ';');
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
SET #sql = CONCAT('DELETE FROM ', #table, ' WHERE id = ?;'); /*The id can be a parameter, but not the table name*/
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt USING #id;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
Then execute it like this:
CALL sp_exec_dynStmt();
try changing that line with
SET #table = '`' + #id+'_2013_2014_voucher`';
usually I declare variable in this way
SET #id = '47'; (without :)
you should use only : with SET, := to assigning variable in a SELECT
How is it possible to do the following :
(i am using mysql - phpmyadmin )
this query returns a table name :
Select table_name from Table1 where id = 1
I want to use it inside another query , like :
select val from (Select table_name from Table1 where id = 1)
but this sure does not work, and since phpmyadmin does not support calling stored procedures, could there be any possible solution for this ?
You cannot really do it in a single SQL statement.
You are trying to use data (field value) as metadata (table name), and SQL does not allow this.
You could break it in two statements or write dynamic SQL in a stored procedure. Note that not all client layers support returning resultsets from stored procedures.
you also ma execute dynamic select:
declare v_table_name VarChar(128);
BEGIN
Select table_name into v_table_name from Table1 where id = 1
SET #s = CONCAT('SELECT * FROM ', v_table_name, ' where id = 1');
PREPARE stmt1 FROM #s;
EXECUTE stmt1;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt1;
END;