Commutative property describes itself as for example a(bc) = (ab)c.
Considering this example, how can we get commutative relation from SELECT statement in MySQL particularly. So far, I am clearly unable to execute the following query.
SELECT name from (
SELECT name from employee WHERE id = 5;
)
Related
I've studied and tried days worth of SQL queries to find "something" that will work. I have a table, apj32_facileforms_subrecords, that uses 7 columns. All the data I want to display is in 1 column - "value". The "record" displays the number of the entry. The "title" is what I would like to appear in the header row, but that's not as important as "value" to display in 1 row based upon "record" number.
I've tried a lot of CONCAT and various Pivot queries, but nothing seems to do more than "get close" to what I'd like as the end result.
Here's a screen shot of the table:
The output "should" be linear, so that 1 row contains 9 columns:
Project; Zipcode; First Name; Last Name; Address; City; Phone; E-mail; Trade (in that order). And the values in the 9 columns come from "value" as they relate to the "record" number.
I know there are LOT of examples that are similar, but nothing I've found covers taking all the values from "value" and CONCAT to 1 row.
This works to get all the data I want - SELECT record,value FROM apj32_facileforms_subrecords WHERE (record IN (record,value)) ORDER BY record
But the values are still in multiple rows. I can play with that query to get just the values, but I'm still at a loss to get them into 1 row. I'll keep playing with that query to see if I can figure it out before one of the experts here shows me how simple it is to do that.
Any help would be appreciated.
Using SQL to flatten an EAV model representation into a relational representation can be somewhat convoluted, and not very efficient.
Two commonly used approaches are conditional aggregation and correlated subqueries in the SELECT list. Both approaches call out for careful indexing for suitable performance with large sets.
correlated subqueries example
Here's an example of the correlated subquery approach, to get one value of the "zipcode" attribute for some records
SELECT r.id
, ( SELECT v1.value
FROM `apj32_facileforms_subrecords` v1
WHERE v1.record = r.id
AND v1.name = 'zipcode'
ORDER BY v1.value LIMIT 0,1
) AS `Zipcode`
FROM ( SELECT 1 AS id ) r
Extending that, we repeat the correlated subquery, changing the attribute identifier ('firstname' in place of 'zipcode'. looks like we we could also reference it by element, e.g. v2.element = 2
SELECT r.id
, ( SELECT v1.value
FROM `apj32_facileforms_subrecords` v1
WHERE v1.record = r.id
AND v1.name = 'zipcode'
ORDER BY v1.value LIMIT 0,1
) AS `Zipcode`
, ( SELECT v2.value
FROM `apj32_facileforms_subrecords` v2
WHERE v2.record = r.id
AND v2.name = 'firstname'
ORDER BY v2.value LIMIT 0,1
) AS `First Name`
, ( SELECT v3.value
FROM `apj32_facileforms_subrecords` v3
WHERE v3.record = r.id
AND v3.name = 'lastname'
ORDER BY v3.value LIMIT 0,1
) AS `Last Name`
FROM ( SELECT 1 AS id UNION ALL SELECT 2 ) r
returns something like
id Zipcode First Name Last Name
-- ------- ---------- ---------
1 98228 David Bacon
2 98228 David Bacon
conditional aggregation approach example
We can use GROUP BY to collapse multiple rows into one row per entity, and use conditional tests in expressions to "pick out" attribute values with aggregate functions.
SELECT r.id
, MIN(IF(v.name = 'zipcode' ,v.value,NULL)) AS `Zip Code`
, MIN(IF(v.name = 'firstname' ,v.value,NULL)) AS `First Name`
, MIN(IF(v.name = 'lastname' ,v.value,NULL)) AS `Last Name`
FROM ( SELECT 1 AS id UNION ALL SELECT 2 ) r
LEFT
JOIN `apj32_facileforms_subrecords` v
ON v.record = r.id
GROUP
BY r.id
For more portable syntax, we can replace MySQL IF() function with more ANSI standard CASE expression, e.g.
, MIN(CASE v.name WHEN 'zipcode' THEN v.value END) AS `Zip Code`
Note that MySQL does not support SQL Server PIVOT syntax, or Oracle MODEL syntax, or Postgres CROSSTAB or FILTER syntax.
To extend either of these approaches to be dynamic, to return a resultset with a variable number of columns, and variety of column names ... that is not possible in the context of a single SQL statement. We could separately execute SQL statements to retrieve information, that would allow us to dynamically construct a SQL statement of a form show above, with an explicit set of columns to be returned.
The approaches outline above return a more traditional relational model, (individual columns each with a value).
non-relational munge of attributes and values into a single string
If we have some special delimiters, we could munge together a representation of the data using GROUP_CONCAT function
As a rudimentary example:
SELECT r.id
, GROUP_CONCAT(v.title,'=',v.value ORDER BY v.name) AS vals
FROM ( SELECT 1 AS id ) r
LEFT
JOIN `apj32_facileforms_subrecords` v
ON v.record = r.id
AND v.name in ('zipcode','firstname','lastname')
GROUP
BY r.id
To return two columns, something like
id vals
-- ---------------------------------------------------
1 First Name=David,Last Name=Bacon,Zip Code=98228
We need to be aware that the return from GROUP_CONCAT is limited to group_concat_max_len bytes. And here we have just squeezed the balloon, moving the problem to some later processing, to parse the resulting string. If we have any equal signs or commas that appear in the values, it's going to make a mess of parsing the result string. So we will have to properly escape any delimiters that appear in the data, so that GROUP_CONCAT expression is going to get more involved.
I'm trying to show staff_code, staff_name and dept_name for those who have taken one book.
Here's my query:
SELECT SM.STAFF_CODE,SM.STAFF_NAME,DM.DEPT_NAME,BT.BOOK_CODE
FROM STAFF_MASTER SM,DEPARTMENT_MASTER DM,BOOK_TRANSACTIONS BT
WHERE SM.DEPT_CODE =DM.DEPT_CODE
AND SM.STAFF_CODE = (
SELECT STAFF_CODE
FROM BOOK_TRANSACTIONS
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
GROUP BY STAFF_CODE)
It gives the error:
single-row subquery returns more than one row.
How to solve this?
Change = to IN:
WHERE SM.STAFF_CODE IN (SELECT ...)
Because the select returns multiple values, using equals won't work, but IN returns true if any of the values in a list match. The list can be a hard-coded CSV list, or a select with one column like your query is.
That will fix the error, but you also need to remove BOOK_TRANSACTIONS from the table list and remove BOOK_CODE from the select list.
After making these changes, your query would look like this:
SELECT SM.STAFF_CODE,SM.STAFF_NAME,DM.DEPT_NAME
FROM STAFF_MASTER SM,DEPARTMENT_MASTER DM
WHERE SM.DEPT_CODE =DM.DEPT_CODE
AND SM.STAFF_CODE IN (
SELECT STAFF_CODE
FROM BOOK_TRANSACTIONS
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
GROUP BY STAFF_CODE)
I recommend learning the modern (now over 25 year old) JOIN syntax.
How to find position of User in query ?
I have ( I am using MySQL)
session.query(UserModel).order_by(desc(UserModel.age)).all()
and I have user id, how to find position of that specific id is ordered array ?
( I can return all and iterate but is there uicker way to solve this on database level, need to run fast)
Database should support window functions to do this. Raw SQL query will look like this:
SELECT pos FROM
(SELECT id, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY age DESC) AS pos FROM user) AS sub
WHERE sub.id = :id;
In SQLAlchemy:
from sqlalchemy import func, desc
user_id = 42
sub = (session
.query(
UserModel.id,
func.row_number().over(order_by=desc(UserModel.age)).label('pos'))
.subquery())
pos = session.query(sub.c.pos).filter(sub.c.id==user_id).scalar()
Note that returned index is 1-based.
Among popular RDBMS this will work in PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, but not in MySQL or SQLite.
I work on a dataset with three different columns: pile, position and info.
There is no duplicate in the database, but it can happen, that for one combination of pile and position there is one or two different texts in the info column. And those are the entries I tried to find.
I tried the following
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(`pile`, `position`)) FROM db;
But received an error message
ERROR 1241 (21000): Operand should contain 1 column(s)
Is there a way to find distinct combinations of values in two columns?
This works even without subselects.
SELECT
`pile`,
`position`,
COUNT(*) AS c
FROM
db
GROUP BY
`pile`,
`position`
HAVING c > 1;
The command above shows all combinations of pile and position that occur more than once in the table db.
To get the count of distinct duplicates (group by used in preference here)
select count(*)
from (
select pile, position
from db
group by pile, position
) x
To find the actual duplicate records
select db.*
from (
select pile, position
from db
group by pile, position
having count(*) > 1
) x
join db on db.pile = x.pile and db.position = x.position
SELECT *
FROM db x
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM db y
WHERE y.pile = x.pile
AND y.position =x.postion
AND y.other_field <> x.other_field
);
Now, for other_field you can use some unique id column, or any combination of fields (except for {pole, postion} of course)
I have 2 tables: tbl_taxclasses, tbl_taxclasses_regions
This is a one to many relationship, where the main record ID is classid.
I have a column inside the first table called regionscount
So, I create a Tax Class, in table 1. Then I add regions/states in table 2, assigning the classid to each region.
I perform a SELECT statement to count the regions with that same classid, and then I perform an UPDATE statement on tbl_taxclasses with that number. I update the regionscount column.
This means I'm writing 2 queries. Which is fine, but I was wondering if there was a way to do a SELECT statement inside the UPDATE statement, like this:
UPDATE `tbl_taxclasses` SET `regionscount` = [SELECT COUNT(regionsid) FROM `tbl_taxclasses_regions` WHERE classid = 1] WHERE classid = 1
I'm reaching here, since I'm not sure how robust MySQL is, but I do have the latest version, as of today. (5.5.15)
You could use a non-correlated subquery to do the work for you:
UPDATE
tbl_taxclasses c
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
COUNT(regionsid) AS n
FROM
tbl_taxclasses_regions
GROUP BY
classid
) r USING(classid)
SET
c.regionscount = r.n
WHERE
c.classid = 1
Turns out I was actually guessing right.
This works:
UPDATE `tbl_taxclasses`
SET `regionscount` = (
SELECT COUNT(regionsid) AS `num`
FROM `tbl_taxclasses_regions`
WHERE classid = 1)
WHERE classid = 1 LIMIT 1
I just needed to replace my brackets [] with parenthesis ().