What is the simplest SQL query to find the second largest integer value in a specific column?
There are maybe duplicate values in the column.
SELECT MAX( col )
FROM table
WHERE col < ( SELECT MAX( col )
FROM table )
SELECT MAX(col)
FROM table
WHERE col NOT IN ( SELECT MAX(col)
FROM table
);
In T-Sql there are two ways:
--filter out the max
select max( col )
from [table]
where col < (
select max( col )
from [table] )
--sort top two then bottom one
select top 1 col
from (
select top 2 col
from [table]
order by col) topTwo
order by col desc
In Microsoft SQL the first way is twice as fast as the second, even if the column in question is clustered.
This is because the sort operation is relatively slow compared to the table or index scan that the max aggregation uses.
Alternatively, in Microsoft SQL 2005 and above you can use the ROW_NUMBER() function:
select col
from (
select ROW_NUMBER() over (order by col asc) as 'rowNum', col
from [table] ) withRowNum
where rowNum = 2
I see both some SQL Server specific and some MySQL specific solutions here, so you might want to clarify which database you need. Though if I had to guess I'd say SQL Server since this is trivial in MySQL.
I also see some solutions that won't work because they fail to take into account the possibility for duplicates, so be careful which ones you accept. Finally, I see a few that will work but that will make two complete scans of the table. You want to make sure the 2nd scan is only looking at 2 values.
SQL Server (pre-2012):
SELECT MIN([column]) AS [column]
FROM (
SELECT TOP 2 [column]
FROM [Table]
GROUP BY [column]
ORDER BY [column] DESC
) a
MySQL:
SELECT `column`
FROM `table`
GROUP BY `column`
ORDER BY `column` DESC
LIMIT 1,1
Update:
SQL Server 2012 now supports a much cleaner (and standard) OFFSET/FETCH syntax:
SELECT [column]
FROM [Table]
GROUP BY [column]
ORDER BY [column] DESC
OFFSET 1 ROWS
FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY;
I suppose you can do something like:
SELECT *
FROM Table
ORDER BY NumericalColumn DESC
LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1
or
SELECT *
FROM Table ORDER BY NumericalColumn DESC
LIMIT (1, 1)
depending on your database server. Hint: SQL Server doesn't do LIMIT.
The easiest would be to get the second value from this result set in the application:
SELECT DISTINCT value
FROM Table
ORDER BY value DESC
LIMIT 2
But if you must select the second value using SQL, how about:
SELECT MIN(value)
FROM ( SELECT DISTINCT value
FROM Table
ORDER BY value DESC
LIMIT 2
) AS t
you can find the second largest value of column by using the following query
SELECT *
FROM TableName a
WHERE
2 = (SELECT count(DISTINCT(b.ColumnName))
FROM TableName b WHERE
a.ColumnName <= b.ColumnName);
you can find more details on the following link
http://www.abhishekbpatel.com/2012/12/how-to-get-nth-maximum-and-minimun.html
MSSQL
SELECT *
FROM [Users]
order by UserId desc OFFSET 1 ROW
FETCH NEXT 1 ROW ONLY;
MySQL
SELECT *
FROM Users
order by UserId desc LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1
No need of sub queries ... just skip one row and select second rows after order by descending
A very simple query to find the second largest value
SELECT `Column`
FROM `Table`
ORDER BY `Column` DESC
LIMIT 1,1;
SELECT MAX(Salary)
FROM Employee
WHERE Salary NOT IN ( SELECT MAX(Salary)
FROM Employee
)
This query will return the maximum salary, from the result - which not contains maximum salary from overall table.
Old question I know, but this gave me a better exec plan:
SELECT TOP 1 LEAD(MAX (column)) OVER (ORDER BY column desc)
FROM TABLE
GROUP BY column
This is very simple code, you can try this :-
ex :
Table name = test
salary
1000
1500
1450
7500
MSSQL Code to get 2nd largest value
select salary from test order by salary desc offset 1 rows fetch next 1 rows only;
here 'offset 1 rows' means 2nd row of table and 'fetch next 1 rows only' is for show only that 1 row. if you dont use 'fetch next 1 rows only' then it shows all the rows from the second row.
Simplest of all
select sal
from salary
order by sal desc
limit 1 offset 1
select * from (select ROW_NUMBER() over (Order by Col_x desc) as Row, Col_1
from table_1)as table_new tn inner join table_1 t1
on tn.col_1 = t1.col_1
where row = 2
Hope this help to get the value for any row.....
Use this query.
SELECT MAX( colname )
FROM Tablename
where colname < (
SELECT MAX( colname )
FROM Tablename)
select min(sal) from emp where sal in
(select TOP 2 (sal) from emp order by sal desc)
Note
sal is col name
emp is table name
select col_name
from (
select dense_rank() over (order by col_name desc) as 'rank', col_name
from table_name ) withrank
where rank = 2
SELECT
*
FROM
table
WHERE
column < (SELECT max(columnq) FROM table)
ORDER BY
column DESC LIMIT 1
It is the most esiest way:
SELECT
Column name
FROM
Table name
ORDER BY
Column name DESC
LIMIT 1,1
As you mentioned duplicate values . In such case you may use DISTINCT and GROUP BY to find out second highest value
Here is a table
salary
:
GROUP BY
SELECT amount FROM salary
GROUP by amount
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1 , 1
DISTINCT
SELECT DISTINCT amount
FROM salary
ORDER BY amount DESC
LIMIT 1 , 1
First portion of LIMIT = starting index
Second portion of LIMIT = how many value
Tom, believe this will fail when there is more than one value returned in select max([COLUMN_NAME]) from [TABLE_NAME] section. i.e. where there are more than 2 values in the data set.
Slight modification to your query will work -
select max([COLUMN_NAME])
from [TABLE_NAME]
where [COLUMN_NAME] IN ( select max([COLUMN_NAME])
from [TABLE_NAME]
)
select max(COL_NAME)
from TABLE_NAME
where COL_NAME in ( select COL_NAME
from TABLE_NAME
where COL_NAME < ( select max(COL_NAME)
from TABLE_NAME
)
);
subquery returns all values other than the largest.
select the max value from the returned list.
This is an another way to find the second largest value of a column.Consider the table 'Student' and column 'Age'.Then the query is,
select top 1 Age
from Student
where Age in ( select distinct top 2 Age
from Student order by Age desc
) order by Age asc
select age
from student
group by id having age< ( select max(age)
from student
)
order by age
limit 1
SELECT MAX(sal)
FROM emp
WHERE sal NOT IN ( SELECT top 3 sal
FROM emp order by sal desc
)
this will return the third highest sal of emp table
select max(column_name)
from table_name
where column_name not in ( select max(column_name)
from table_name
);
not in is a condition that exclude the highest value of column_name.
Reference : programmer interview
Something like this? I haven't tested it, though:
select top 1 x
from (
select top 2 distinct x
from y
order by x desc
) z
order by x
See How to select the nth row in a SQL database table?.
Sybase SQL Anywhere supports:
SELECT TOP 1 START AT 2 value from table ORDER BY value
Using a correlated query:
Select * from x x1 where 1 = (select count(*) from x where x1.a < a)
select * from emp e where 3>=(select count(distinct salary)
from emp where s.salary<=salary)
This query selects the maximum three salaries. If two emp get the same salary this does not affect the query.
Related
I have mysql table like this
I want to get row that has minimum 2 or more than 2 (multiple) row only from this table, so the result would be like this
What do i do?
thank you
Use GROUP BY and HAVING clauses
SELECT t.* FROM my_table t
JOIN (
SELECT cust_id, MIN(transaction_no) AS transaction_no
FROM my_table
GROUP BY cust_id
HAVING COUNT(cust_id) > 1
) agg ON t.transaction_no = agg.transaction_no
I have a query that gets rows ordered by column a and limited to 100. Then I want to run a query on that result that gets rows ordered by column b and limited by 50.
How can I do this?
Do the first order by/limit in a derived table. Then do the second order by/limit on the derived table's result:
select * from
(
select * from tablename
order by a
limit 100
) dt
order by b
limit 50
You should use select from select statement:
select a, b
from (
select a, b
from table1
order by a
limit 100
)
order by b
limit 50
I have a table with 3 columns (id, name, code) and 10 rows. Some of the rows don't have a code so that column is empty for some. What I'm trying to accomplish is SELECT the rows with code column not empty first ordered by last inserted followed by all rows with code column empty ordered by last inserted.
I have tried
(SELECT * from tablename WHERE code <> '' ORDER BY ID DESC) UNION
(SELECT * from tablename WHERE code = '' ORDER BY ID DESC)
The UNION works but the order does not. I have read here about other questions and found out adding ORDER BY like I added will not work and I should add it at the end but that would not help me accomplish what I want and will mix rows that have a code with rows that don't.
Is there a way to succeed with what I'm looking for?
I think you just need to put your sort logic in the ORDER BY clause
SELECT id, name, code
FROM tablename
ORDER BY code = '', ID desc;
Try this:
SELECT * FROM
(
(SELECT * from tablename WHERE code <> '' ORDER BY ID DESC)
UNION
(SELECT * from tablename WHERE code = '' ORDER BY ID DESC)
)tab ORDER BY ID DESC;
Or
SELECT * from tablename ORDER BY code DESC,ID DESC
Change ASC/DESC as per you want it to show
I have one table I want to find first and last record that satisfy criteria of particular month.
SELECT
(SELECT column FROM table WHERE [condition] ORDER BY column LIMIT 1) as 'first',
(SELECT column FROM table WHERE [condition] ORDER BY column DESC LIMIT 1) as 'last'
This worked for me when I needed to select first and the last date in the event series.
First and last make sense only when you have the output of the query sorted on a field(s).
To get the first record:
select col1 from tab1 order by col1 asc limit 1;
To get the last record:
select col1 from tab1 order by col1 desc limit 1;
How about something like:
select 'first', f1, f2, f3, f4 from tbl
order by f1 asc, f2 asc
limit 1
union all
select 'last', f1, f2, f3, f4 from tbl
order by f1 desc, f2 desc
limit 1
Obviously feel free to add whatever condition you want in a where clause but the basic premise of the order by is to reverse the order in the two select sections.
The limit clause will just get the first row in both cases. That just happens to be the last row of set in the second select due to the fact that you've reversed the ordering.
If there is only one row resulting from your conditions and you don't want it returned twice, use union instead of union all.
select * from table
where id = (select id from tab1 order by col1 asc limit 1) or
id = (select id from tab1 order by col1 desc limit 1);
Try this one: take for example you want to group your table based on group_col and get the first and last value of value_col:
select substring_index(group_concat(value_col), ',',1) as 'first',
substring_index(group_concat(value_col), ',',-1) as 'last'
from table
group by group_col
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT first_name, LENGTH(first_name) FROM Employees
ORDER BY LENGTH(first_name) ASC
FETCH FIRST 1 rows ONLY)
UNION
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT first_name, LENGTH(first_name) FROM Employees
ORDER BY LENGTH(first_name) DESC
FETCH FIRST 1 rows ONLY)
ORDER BY 2 desc;
select sum(value) as 'Value',max(value)
from table_name where sum(value)=max(sum(value)) group by id_name;
The error is: Invalid use of group function (ErrorNr. 1111)
Any idea?
Thanks.
Can you maybe try
SELECT Value, MXValue
FROM (
select sum(value) as 'Value',max(value) MXValue
from table_name
group by id_name
) as t1
order by value desc
LIMIT 0,1
From MySQL Forums :: General :: selecting MAX(SUM())
Or you could try something like
SELECT id_name,
Value
FROM (
select id_name,sum(value) as 'Value'
from table_name
group by id_name
) t
WHERE Value = (
SELECT TOP 1 SUM(Value) Mx
FROM table_name
GROUP BY id_name
ORDER BY SUM(Value) DESC
)
Or even with an Inner join
SELECT id_name,
Value
FROM (
select id_name,sum(value) as Value
from table_name
group by id_name
) t INNER JOIN
(
SELECT TOP 1 SUM(Value) Mx
FROM table_name
GROUP BY id_name
ORDER BY SUM(Value) DESC
) m ON Value = Mx
The =max(sum(value)) part requires comparing the results of two grouped selects, not just one. (The max of the sum.)
Let's step back, though: What information are you actually trying to get? Because the sum of the values in the table is unique; there is no minimum or maximum (or, depending on your viewpoint, there is -- the value is its own minimum and maximum). You'd need to apply some further criteria in there for the results to be meaningful, and in doing so you'd probably need to be doing a join or a subselect with some criteria.