I got a quick question that has been bugging me. How can I combine a column in two different table into a single column
Example of table:
Employee
emp_no emp_name
1 frieza
2 bulma
3 goku`
gender
emp_no emp_gender
1 unknown
2 female
3 male
I want to combine column emp_name and emp_gender into one column like this:
column emp_name_gender:frieze,bulma,goku,unknown,female,male
Been trying to format this question so it easy to understand, but it takes my time while im doing my work. so im apologize for this simple format question.
It's a join, but with a group_concat or two thrown in.
select concat(group_concat(emp_name), ',', group_concat(emp_gender))
from employee
inner join gender
on employee.emp_no = gender.emp_no
Or if you don't really want it all into a single column and row it would just be
select concat(emp_name, ',', emp_gender)
from employee
inner join gender
on employee.emp_no = gender.emp_no
demo here
What about a UNION :
SELECT emp_name AS emp_name_gender ◄─
FROM employee
UNION ◄█■■
SELECT emp_gender AS emp_name_gender ◄─
FROM gender
You get exactly the result you ask for :
There's a comment from pala_ that worths to answer.
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Here is a table
id date name
1 180101 josh
2 180101 peter
3 180101 julia
4 180102 robert
5 180103 patrick
6 180104 josh
7 180104 adam
I need to get all the names whom having the same days as 'josh'. how can i achieve it without groupping the whole table together. i need to keep it efficient (this is not my real table, i just simplified my problem here, and i have hundred thousands of records, and 99% of the rows have different dates, so groupable rows by date is kind of rare).
So basicaly what i want is: if 'josh' is the target, i need to get 'josh,peter,julia,adam' (actually the first 10 distinct names sharing the same date with josh).
SELECT
COUNT(date) as datecount,
GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT name) as names,
FROM
table
GROUP BY
date
HAVING
datecount>1
// && name IN ('josh') would work nice for me, but im getting error because 'name' is not in GROUPED BY
LIMIT 10
Any idea ? As i mentioned it needs to be fast, and most of the rows have unique dates
Join the table with itself on date:
select distinct t1.name
from tbl t1
join tbl t2 using (date)
where t2.name = 'josh'
Demo
For the best performance you would have indexes on (name) and (date, name).
I have table with, following structure.
id name
1 john
2 ana
3 john
4 ana
5 peter
6 ana
7 Abrar
8 Raju
Duplicate entries in the table are as follows
john(2) duplicate
ana(3) duplicate
The names which are duplicates are john and ana.
My question is how would I count the records in total which are duplicate here it is '5' records
Note : I also followed the similar question in community but it explains how we can add the number of duplicates exists for that particular name in the table and adds up the third column in table representing the duplicates records with same name but in my case I wanted to know the number of all duplicates exist in the table (here the result of the query is just number "5") irrespective of the names.
Just take a count subquery on the query you already have in mind (or perhaps have already written):
SELECT SUM(cnt) AS total_duplicates
FROM
(
SELECT COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM yourTable
GROUP BY name
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
) t;
Demo
I've tried to search for a solution to this but have been unable to find one. I guess it's basic SQL, but I can't seem to figure it out.
I have a table called people, this table has several columns:
ID Firstname Lastname Birthdate
1 John Stevenson 1860-07-30
2 Eric Johnson 1918-08-25
3 Adam Efron 1914-02-02
4 Michael Gray 1870-07-18
Now I want to make a query that looks at the Birthdate column, finds the lowest value and returns the firstname of the person that has the lowest birthdate (is oldest).
Can someone guide me in the right direction?
THanks in advance!
Use order by like
select Firstname
from people
order by Birthdate
limit 1
This will account for 2 paople having the same birthdate, returning 2 rows.
select Firstname
from people
where birthdate = (select min(birthdate) from people);
Another way to do it efficiently would be this (sqlfiddle):
select p.*, min(p.birthdate) from people p;
NOTE: You will have 1 extra column in the output.
To make it more clear, If I have this data in MySql:
name | allowance | age
----------------------
khan | 50 | 20
aal | 60 | 22
hyme | 50 | 21
khan | 61 | 20
notice that there are two 'khan' in the database with different allowance. I want to only show the name and the age but if I show it using the mysqli select statement, there would be two 'khan' but I only want to show only 1 'khan'. How can I do it?
You need to use GROUP_CONCAT to see agges of all Khans;
select name, GROUP_CONCAT(age) ages from Table group by name
or for minimum aged khan
select name , min(age) MiniumAge from Table group by name
or for elder khan
select name , max(age) MaxAge from Table group by name
or any khan
select name , age from Table group by name
.
Please try below query:-
SELECT name, age FROM table_name WHERE group by name
If you want any from multiple same record then simply used group by query.
I think you could do this:
SELECT name, age FROM table_name WHERE group by name,age
First thing: if both those "khan"s are the same person with two different allowances then your schema is not properly normalized and it will give you big troubles later - imagine you want to change "khan" to "Khan" - now you have to update it in multiple places instead once. Depending on your actual needs you may want one table of people (person_id, name, age), and table of allowances (person_id, allowance, [..some other parameters?..]).
Second, to really get what you want, either you use group by, to get one "random" row per each name as suggested in other answers, or you can do
SELECT DISTINCT name, age FROM table;
which will give you one row per each name-age combination, so khan-20 will be there only once - but if there were khan-25 then that is probably different person and you would have two khans returned, each with their own age.
You can try this mate:
SELECT DISTINCT
name, age
FROM
<your_table>;
or this one
SELECT
name, age
FROM
<your_table>
GROUP BY
name;
Q: Is there any chance that if there are 2 records of tha same name have difference value of age? If so, kindly update the question so that better answers will be given. Cheers!
I have two tables.
Table Emp
id name
1 Ajay
2 Amol
3 Sanjay
4 Vijay
Table Sports
Sport_name Played by
Cricket ^2^,^3^,^4^
Football ^1^,^3^
Vollyball ^4^,^1^
Now I want to write a query which will give me output like
name No_of_sports_played
Ajay 2
Amol 1
Sanjay 2
Vijay 2
So what will be Mysql query for this?
I agree with the above answers/comments that you are not using a database for what a database is for, but here is how you could calculate your table from your current structure in case you have no control over that:
SELECT Emp.name, IF(Played_by IS NULL,0,COUNT(*)) as Num_Sports
FROM Emp
LEFT JOIN Sports
ON Sports.Played_by RLIKE CONCAT('[[:<:]]',Emp.id,'[[:>:]]')
GROUP BY Emp.name;
See it in action here.
UPDATE: added the IF(Played_by IS NULL,0,COUNT(*)) instead of COUNT(*). This means that if an employee doesn't play anything they'll have a 0 as their Num_Sports. See it here (I also added in those ^ characters and it still works.
What it does is joins the Emp table to the Sports table if it can find the Emp.id in the corresponding Played_by column.
For example, if we wanted to see what sports Ajay played (id=1), we could do:
SELECT *
FROM Emp, Sports
WHERE Sports.Played_by LIKE '%1%'
AND Emp.id=1;
The query I gave as my solution is basically the query above, with a GROUP BY Emp.name to perform it for each employee.
The one modification is the use of RLIKE instead of LIKE.
I use RLIKE '[[:<:]]employeeid[[:>:]]' instead of LIKE '%employeeid%. The [[:<:]] symbols just mean "make sure the employeeid you match is a whole word".
This prevents (e.g.) Emp.id 1 matching the 1 in the Played_by of 3,4,11,2.
You do not want to store your relationships in a column like that. Create this table:
CREATE TABLE player_sports (player_id INTEGER NOT NULL, sport_id INTEGER NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(player_id, sport_id));
This assumes you have an id column in your sports table. So now a player will have one record in player_sports for each sport they play.
Your final query will be:
SELECT p.name, COUNT(ps.player_id)
FROM players p, player_sports ps
WHERE ps.player_id = p.id
GROUP BY p.name;