I have a table with 3 fields: id, public, date.
How can I make a MySQL query so that the rows are ordered by date, rows having public = false are omitted, and only the 5 rows before and the 5 rows after the row with id = x are fetched? (The row with id = x can of course also be fetched.)
Assuming "before" and "after" refer to the date, then you can use union all:
(select t.*
from table t
where t.public = false and
t.date <= (select t2.date from table t2 where t2.id = x)
order by date desc
limit 6
)
union all
(select t.*
from table t
where t.public = false and
t.date > (select t2.date from table t2 where t2.id = x)
order by date asc
limit 5
)
The first subquery gets 6 rows whose date is one or before the "x" date. The second gets 5 rows strictly afterwards.
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How can you select the top n max values from a table?
For a table like this:
column1 column2
1 foo
2 foo
3 foo
4 foo
5 bar
6 bar
7 bar
8 bar
For n=2, the result needs to be:
3
4
7
8
The approach below selects only the max value for each group.
SELECT max(column1) FROM table GROUP BY column2
Returns:
4
8
For n=2 you could
SELECT max(column1) m
FROM table t
GROUP BY column2
UNION
SELECT max(column1) m
FROM table t
WHERE column1 NOT IN (SELECT max(column1)
WHERE column2 = t.column2)
for any n you could use approaches described here to simulate rank over partition.
EDIT:
Actually this article will give you exactly what you need.
Basically it is something like this
SELECT t.*
FROM
(SELECT grouper,
(SELECT val
FROM table li
WHERE li.grouper = dlo.grouper
ORDER BY
li.grouper, li.val DESC
LIMIT 2,1) AS mid
FROM
(
SELECT DISTINCT grouper
FROM table
) dlo
) lo, table t
WHERE t.grouper = lo.grouper
AND t.val > lo.mid
Replace grouper with the name of the column you want to group by and val with the name of the column that hold the values.
To work out how exactly it functions go step-by-step from the most inner query and run them.
Also, there is a slight simplification - the subquery that finds the mid can return NULL if certain category does not have enough values so there should be COALESCE of that to some constant that would make sense in the comparison (in your case it would be MIN of domain of the val, in article it is MAX).
EDIT2:
I forgot to mention that it is the LIMIT 2,1 that determines the n (LIMIT n,1).
If you are using mySQl, why don't you use the LIMIT functionality?
Sort the records in descending order and limit the top n i.e. :
SELECT yourColumnName FROM yourTableName
ORDER BY Id desc
LIMIT 0,3
Starting from MySQL 8.0/MariaDB support window functions which are designed for this kind of operations:
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT *,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY column2 ORDER BY column1 DESC) AS r
FROM tab) s
WHERE r <= 2
ORDER BY column2 DESC, r DESC;
DB-Fiddle.com Demo
This is how I'm getting the N max rows per group in MySQL
SELECT co.id, co.person, co.country
FROM person co
WHERE (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM person ci
WHERE co.country = ci.country AND co.id < ci.id
) < 1
;
how it works:
self join to the table
groups are done by co.country = ci.country
N elements per group are controlled by ) < 1 so for 3 elements - ) < 3
to get max or min depends on: co.id < ci.id
co.id < ci.id - max
co.id > ci.id - min
Full example here:
mysql select n max values per group/
mysql select max and return multiple values
Note: Have in mind that additional constraints like gender = 0 should be done in both places. So if you want to get males only, then you should apply constraint on the inner and the outer select
My table is like:
now here I want to pass limit for particular voices_id.
I mean if I want just 3 records of particular voices_id then how to do so? (3 records for voices_id=153 & 154) where to pass limit ?
This is what you can do
select *
from table_name t1
where t1.voices_id in (153,154)
and
(
select count(*) from table_name t2
where t1.voices_id = t2.voices_id and t1.id <= t2.id
) <= 3
order by t1.voices_id
;
Here the condition t1.id <= t2.id will give you last 3 entry per group, you can reverse it for first 3 entry.
It is as simple as this:
SELECT * FROM voices_talks WHERE voices_id=153 LIMIT 3
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM voices_talks WHERE voices_id=154 LIMIT 3
my DB has this structure:
ID | text | time | valid
This is my current code. I'm trying to find a way to do this as one query.
rows = select * from table where ID=x order by time desc;
n=0;
foreach rows{
if(n > 3){
update table set valid = -1 where rows[n];
}
n++
}
I'm checking how many rows exist for a given ID. Then I need to set valid=-1 for all rows where n >3;
Is there a way to do this with one query?
You can use a subquery in the WHERE clause, like this:
UPDATE table
SET valid=-1
WHERE (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM table tt
WHERE tt.time > table.time
AND tt.ID = table.ID
) > 3
The subquery counts the rows with the same ID and a later time. This count will be three or less for the three latest rows; the remaining ones would have a greater count, so their valid field would be updated.
Assuming that (id,time) has a UNIQUE constraint, i.e. no two rows have the same id and same time:
UPDATE
tableX AS tu
JOIN
( SELECT time
FROM tableX
WHERE id = #X -- the given ID
ORDER BY time DESC
LIMIT 1 OFFSET 2
) AS t3
ON tu.id = #X -- given ID again
AND tu.time < t3.time
SET
tu.valid = -1 ;
update table
set valid = -1
where id in (select id
from table
where id = GIVEN_ID
group by id
having count(1) >3)
Update: I really like dasblinkenlight's solution because is very neat, but I wanted to try also to do it in my way, a quite verbose one:
update Table1
set valid = -1
where (id, time) in (select id,
time
from (select id,time
from table1
where id in (select id
from table1
group by id
having count(1) >3)
-- and id = GIVEN_ID
order by time
limit 3, 10000000)
t);
Also in SQLFiddle
to do it for all ids, or only for one if you set a where in the a subquery
UPDATE TABLE
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT #rn:=if(#prv=id, #rn+1, 1) AS rId,
#prv:=id AS id,
TABLE.*
FROM TABLE
JOIN ( SELECT #prv:=0, #rn:=0 ) tmp
ORDER BY id, TIMESTAMP
) a
WHERE rid > 3
) ordered ON ordered.id = TABLE.id
AND ordered.TIMESTAMP = TABLE.TIMESTAMP
AND ordered.text = TIMESTAMP.text
SET VALID = -1
WHERE rid IS NOT NULL
Sample table:
id------user_id------grade_id------time_stamp
1---------100----------1001---------2013-08-29 15:07:38
2---------101----------1002---------2013-08-29 16:07:38
3---------100----------1001---------2013-08-29 17:07:38
4---------102----------1003---------2013-08-29 18:07:38
5---------103----------1004---------2013-08-29 19:07:38
6---------105----------1002---------2013-08-29 20:07:38
6---------100----------1002---------2013-08-29 21:07:38
I want to select rows whose user_id = 100 group by grade_id only if its time_stamp is least for that particular grade_id.
so, from the above table, it should be:
row 1 because its time_stamp is least for that value of grade_id(1001)
but not row 2 because I only want 1 row for a particular grade_id
also not row 6 because that particular grade_id has least value for user_id 105.
I tried few things, which are too basic and obviously not worth posting.
Thank You
You could try nested queries:
SELECT grade_id, COUNT(grade_id) FROM SAMPLE_TABLE ST WHERE time_stamp = (SELECT MIN(time_stamp) FROM SAMPLE_TABLE STT WHERE STT.grade_id = ST.grade_id) AND user_id = 100 GROUP BY grade_id;
In this case, the nested query will give you the minimun timestamp for each specific 'grade_id' and you can use it in your WHERE filter.
SELECT t.*
FROM tableX AS t
JOIN
( SELECT grade_id, MIN(time_stamp) AS time_stamp
FROM tableX
GROUP BY grade_id
) AS g
ON g.grade_id = t.grade_id
AND g.time_stamp = t.time_stamp
WHERE t.user_id = 100 ;
Basically I have this query:
( SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE type = 'word1' )
UNION
( SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE type = 'word2' ) // Run this query if there are no results with type = 1
Basically I would like to run the second query only if the first hasn't any results. is it possible?
The FIRST "PreCheck" query does a count of how many records ARE of type = 1. After that, if the count is greater than 1, then return 1, otherwise return 2.
Now, THAT answer can be used in the join (which is always a single row via COUNT(*)) which will either have a 1 or 2 value. THAT value will be the second value is the EQUALITY conditon. So, if there IS an entry of 1, the result will be as if
WHERE t1.Type = 1
Thus never allowing any 2 in the test. HOWEVER, if NO entries are found, it will have a value of 2 and thus create a WHERE clause of
WHERE t1.type = 2
select t1.*
from
( select if( count(*) > 0, 1, 2 ) IncludeType
from tbl t2
where t2.type = 1 ) preCheck,
tbl t1
where
t1.type = preCheck.IncludeType
If there is an index on the "type" column, the first query should be almost instantaneous.
You could write
select * from tbl
where type = 1
union
select * from tbl
where type = 2
and not exists( select * from tble where type = 1 )
but this probably won't perform as well as just doing it in your program
It does the trick:
SELECT tbl.* FROM tbl JOIN (SELECT min(type) min_type FROM tbl WHERE type between 1 and 2 ) on min_type = type
First, it selects the lesser of these two types, if any exists, and then oins this one number table to your table. It is actually a simple filter. You can use WHERE instead of JOIN, if you want.
SELECT tbl.* FROM tbl WHERE (SELECT min(type) FROM tbl WHERE type between 1 and 2 ) = type