I'm trying to find an elegant way to write a query that only returns enough rows for a certain column to add up to at least n.
For example, let's say n is 50, and the table rows look like this:
id count
1 12
2 13
3 5
4 18
5 14
6 21
7 13
Then the query should return:
id count
1 12
2 13
3 5
4 18
5 14
Because the counts column adds up to n > 50. (62, to be exact)
It must return the results consecutively starting with the smallest id.
I've looked a bit into accumulators, like in this one: MySQL select "accumulated" column
But AFAIK, there is no way to have the LIMIT clause in an SQL query limit on an SUM instead of a row count.
I wish I could say something like this, but alas, this is not valid SQL:
SELECT *
FROM elements
LIMIT sum(count) > 50
Also, please keep in my the goal here is to insert the result of this query into another table atomically in an automated, performance efficient fashion, so please no suggestions to use a spreadsheet or anything that's not SQL compatible.
Thanks
There are many ways to do this. One is by using Correlated Subquery
SELECT id,
count
FROM (SELECT *,
(SELECT Isnull(Sum(count), 0)
FROM yourtable b
WHERE b.id < a.id) AS Run_tot
FROM yourtable a) ou
WHERE Run_tot < 50
Related
select * from "Test"."EMP"
id
1
2
3
4
5
Select SUM(1) FROM "Test"."EMP";
Select SUM(2) FROM "Test"."EMP";
Select SUM(3) FROM "Test"."EMP";
why the output of these queries is?
5
10
15
And
I don't understand why they write table name like this "Test"."EMP"
your table has 5 records. the statement select 1 from test.emp returns 5 records with values as 1 for all 5 records.
id
1
1
1
1
1
This is because db engine simply returns 1 for each existing record without reading the contents of the cell. and same happens for select <any static value> from test.emp
same happens for 2 and 3
id
2
2
2
2
2
hence there are 5 records returned with the static values and sum of those values will be the product of static number passed in the select statement and total records in the table
additional fact: It is always recommended to perform count(1) than count(*) as it consumes less resource and hence less load on the server
I don't think it's "Test"."EMP" with double quotes.. it's probably `Test`.`EMP` with backticks instead. The definition means its database_name.table_name. This is the recommended format to get the correct table_name from database_name; in this case, you're specifically making the syntax to query from `Test`.`EMP`. Read more about identifier qualifiers.
As for SUM(x), the x get's repeated according to the rows present in the table. So SUM(1) on 5 rows is 1+1+1+1+1, SUM(2) on 5 rows is 2+2+2+2+2, and so on.
I have a query:
select lr2.event_id as ce
from data_requests as lr2
group by lr2.event_id,
that returns 88 rows. Then I tried the following:
select count(lr2.event_id) as cc, lr2.event_id as ce
from data_requests as lr2
group by lr2.event_id
but it only returned 25 rows, so I am really puzzled, where did other 63 rows go.
I tried it in sqlfiddle, it seems to work correctly, but on my server it just doesn't, so it must be a setting or something... Feels like the server calculates the count after it select a subset of all group results. weird.
if you want to count the number of rows for each lr2.event_idyou must use count(*) , not count(lr2.event_id) . Remember, you are counting rows.
Function of GROUP BY
The SQL GROUP BY clause is used in collaboration with the SELECT statement to arrange identical/similar/equal data into groups.
Demonstration
If I have table like below, then 1st query will give same output as table definition:
ce
--
1
2
3
4
5
And 2nd query will give output as,
cc |ce
--- ---
1 1
1 2
1 3
1 4
1 5
Since, all are distinct in Table, I got 5 rows! but If some ce values are repetitive as,
ce
--
1
2
1
2
2
then, 2nd query will give output as:
cc |ce
--- ---
2 1
3 2
And here If I get shocked where did other 3 rows go? Then I need to study!
Of course, it's a spoon feeding! OP needs to study about GROUP BY in SQL.
My bad, it seems to be a phpmyadmin problem, I run the query in the phpmyadmin, and it auto added a limit in the end of every query
This is my first question. I've trying to deal with this all week long with no success.
I have the following table
ID F1 F2
1 1 10
2 3 5
3 2 8
4 7 10
5 11 20
6 12 18
7 15 20
Please note that the values of the rows 2,3,4 are between the values of the first row.
Then, rows 6 and 7 are between the values of the row 5
I need to create a query that should bring me only rows 1 and 5.
I have tried many kind of queries with no success.
I was expecting the following query to work (among many others) but it did not.
select OL.F1,OL.F2
from borrar OL,
(select F1,F2
from borrar
) IL
where
OL.F1 >= IL.F1
and OL.F2 <= IL.F2
Any ideas?.
Thanks,
You can do this with a self-join. The thing that makes rows 1 and 5 different from the other rows is that there are no rows in the table where F1 is less than Row 1&5's value for F1 and F2 is greater than Row 1&5's value for F2.
SELECT t1.*
FROM datatable t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN datatable t2
on t2.F1<=t1.F1 and t2.F2>=t1.F2 and t1.id<>t2.id
WHERE t2.ID is NULL
Self joins are always a bit confusing. Each row is combined with all other rows to find if there is some other row that "spans" it (i.e. F1 and F2 are equal to or outside it) but need to exclude the row spanning itself. Use an outer join, and search for NULL's to find the rows that have no matches.
This seems like a homework problem...
But, one thing I noticed is that F2-F1 = 9 in both cases. Perhaps using that in the Where clause will do the trick ;)
i have a table with about 100 rows , and i want every time to get rows between number and number , like this
if `i=1` i want to get the rows `0 1 2 3 4`
if `i=2` i want to get the rows `5 6 7 8 9`
if `i=3` i want to get the rows `10 11 12 13 14`
and maybe the last value of i will just take 3 or 4 rows not 5
i think the solution will be something like this
select * from question limit (i-1)*5 , i*5-1
but doesn't work , cos i don't know how to use variable in a query , and when i tried it for i=1 it doesn't work and i got a syntax error
The first parameter to LIMIT is the zero-based starting row index. The second one is the number of rows. So, if you're always looking for five rows:
SELECT * FROM question LIMIT (i-1)*5 , 5
(You'll have to calculate (i-1)*5 with whatever language you're using to build the query, and pass an actual number to MySQL).
I have a MySQL database where one column contains status codes. The column is of type int and the values will only ever be 100,200,300,400. It looks like below; other columns removed for clarity.
id | status
----------------
1 300
2 100
3 100
4 200
5 300
6 300
7 100
8 400
9 200
10 300
11 100
12 400
13 400
14 400
15 300
16 300
The id field is auto-generated and will always be sequential. I want to have a third column displaying a comma-separated string of the frequency distribution of the status codes of the previous 10 rows. It should look like this.
id | status | freq
-----------------------------------
1 300
2 100
3 100
4 200
5 200
6 300
7 100
8 400
9 300
10 300
11 100 300,100,200,400 -- from rows 1-10
12 400 100,300,200,400 -- from rows 2-11
13 400 100,300,200,400 -- from rows 3-12
14 400 300,400,100,200 -- from rows 4-13
15 300 400,300,100,200 -- from rows 5-14
16 300 300,400,100 -- from rows 6-15
I want the most frequent code listed first. And where two status codes have the same frequency it doesn't matter to me which is listed first but I did list the smaller code before the larger in the example. Lastly, where a code doesn't appear at all in the previous ten rows, it shouldn't be listed in the freq column either.
And to be very clear the row number that the frequency string appears on does NOT take into account the status code of that row; it's only the previous rows.
So what have I done? I'm pretty green with SQL. I'm a programmer and I find this SQL language a tad odd to get used to. I managed the following self-join select statement.
select *, avg(b.status) freq
from sample a
join sample b
on (b.id < a.id) and (b.id > a.id - 11)
where a.id > 10
group by a.id;
Using the aggregate function avg, I can at least demonstrate the concept. The derived table b provides the correct rows to the avg function but I just can't figure out the multi-step process of counting and grouping rows from b to get a frequency distribution and then collapse the frequency rows into a single string value.
Also I've tried using standard stored functions and procedures in place of the built-in aggregate functions, but it seems the b derived table is out of scope or something. I can't seem to access it. And from what I understand writing a custom aggregate function is not possible for me as it seems to require developing in C, something I'm not trained for.
Here's sql to load up the sample.
create table sample (
id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
PRIMARY KEY(id),
status int
);
insert into sample(status) values(300),(100),(100),(200),(200),(300)
,(100),(400),(300),(300),(100),(400),(400),(400),(300),(300),(300)
,(100),(400),(100),(100),(200),(500),(300),(100),(400),(200),(100)
,(500),(300);
The sample has 30 rows of data to work with. I know it's a long question, but I just wanted to be as detailed as I could be. I've worked on this for a few days now and would really like to get it done.
Thanks for your help.
The only way I know of to do what you're asking is to use a BEFORE INSERT trigger. It has to be BEFORE INSERT because you want to update a value in the row being inserted, which can only be done in a BEFORE trigger. Unfortunately, that also means it won't have been assigned an ID yet, so hopefully it's safe to assume that at the time a new record is inserted, the last 10 records in the table are the ones you're interested in. Your trigger will need to get the values of the last 10 ID's and use the GROUP_CONCAT function to join them into a single string, ordered by the COUNT. I've been using SQL Server mostly and I don't have access to a MySQL server at the moment to test this, but hopefully my syntax will be close enough to at least get you moving in the right direction:
create trigger sample_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON sample
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
DECLARE _freq varchar(50);
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(tbl.status ORDER BY tbl.Occurrences) INTO _freq
FROM (SELECT status, COUNT(*) AS Occurrences, 1 AS grp FROM sample ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10) AS tbl
GROUP BY tbl.grp
SET new.freq = _freq;
END
SELECT id, GROUP_CONCAT(status ORDER BY freq desc) FROM
(SELECT a.id as id, b.status, COUNT(*) as freq
FROM
sample a
JOIN
sample b ON (b.id < a.id) AND (b.id > a.id - 11)
WHERE
a.id > 10
GROUP BY a.id, b.status) AS sub
GROUP BY id;
SQL Fiddle