UPDATE table using IN and COUNT - mysql

I am updating my table setting a field named "status" based on the condition that the total number of distinct rows should be more than 10 and less than 13. The query is as follows:
update myTable set status='Established'
where id IN(select id, count(*) as c
from myTable
where year>=1996 and year<=2008
group by id
having count(distinct year)>=10 and count(distinct year)<=13)
The problem is, I'm getting error1241 that is "operand should contain 1 column"! Could you please advise how can I solve this? Thanks!

The result of the sub query must return only 1 column :
update myTable set status='Established'
where id IN(select id
from myTable
group by id
having count(distinct year)>=10 and count(distinct year)>=13)

In MySQL, an update with a join often performs better than an update with a subquery in the where clause.
This version might have better performance:
update myTable join
(select id, count(*) as c
from myTable
where year >= 1996 and year <= 2008
group by id
having count(distinct year) >= 10 and count(distinct year) <= 13
) filter
on myTable.id = filter.id
set status = 'Established';
I will also note that you have a table where a column called id is not unique among the rows. Typically, such a column would be a primary key, so the having clause would always fail (there would only be one row).

update myTable
set status='Established'
where id IN(select id from myTable
group by id
having count(distinct year)>=10
and count(distinct year)>=13)
You are using IN operator and then you inner query returns two columns id and count(*) it should return only one column back.

Related

why the sql correct and the inner mechanism for run it?

the sql as follows come from mysql document. it is:
SELECT * FROM t1 AS t
WHERE 2 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1.id = t.id);
The document say It finds all rows in table t1 containing a value that occurs twice in a given column , and doesnot explain the sql.
t1 and t is the same table, so the
count(*) in subquery == select count(*) from t
, isn't it?
count(*) in subquery == select count(*) from t
is wrong. because in mysql you can't use it like that. so you have to run it like that to get result of same id having two rows.
if you want to get count of same occurrence,
SELECT id, name, count(*) AS all_count FROM t1 GROUP BY id HAVING all_count > 1 ORDER BY all_count DESC
And also you can get values as your query like this as well,
select * from t1 where id in ( select id from t1 group by id having count(*) > 1 )
The query contains a correlated subquery in WHERE clause:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1.id = t.id
It is called correlated because it is related to the main query via t.id. So, this subquery counts the number of records having an id value that is equal to the current id value of the record returned by the main query.
Thus, predicate
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1.id = t.id) = 2
evaluates to true for any row with an id value that occurs twice in the table.
SELECT * FROM t1 AS t
WHERE 2 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t1 WHERE t1.id = t.id);
This query goes through each record in t1 and then in the subquery looks into t1 again to see if in this case id is found 2 times (and only 2 times). You can do the same for any other column in t1 (or any table for that matter).
When you would like to see all values that are multiple times in the table, change WHERE 2 = by WHERE 1 <. This will also give you the values that are 3 times, 4 times, etc. in the table.
{
SELECT id,count( * )
FROM
MyTable
group by id
having count( * )>1
}
with this code, you can see the rows which repet more than one,
and you can change this query by yourself
How about using GROUP BY and HAVING:
SELECT id, count(1) as Total FROM MyTable AS t1
GROUP BY t1.id
HAVING Total = 2

Count number of times, a number appears and update it to a different column

I am not sure how to do this in mysql, i have searched but I can't seem to find a solution.
,
I have a table like so.
id pid occurrence
1 23 blank
2 23 blank
3 44 blank
Basically, occurrence should have the value of 2, for id 1,2 and a value of 1 for id 3.
Any help would be appreciated. I can easily call count and GROUP BY, and get the number of times each one occurance, but I would like to update column occurrence in the right place for each pid.
To get the correct occurrence value you can do
select pid, count(*) as occurrence
from your_table
group by pid
To update the table do
update your_table t1
join
(
select pid, count(*) as occurrence
from your_table
group by pid
) t2 on t1.pid = t2.pid
set t1.occurrence = t2.occurrence
If you want to set the value in the table, use update with a join:
update table t join
(select pid, count(*) as cnt
from table
group by pid
) tt
on tt.pid = t.pid
set t.occurrence = tt.cnt;

Obtain a list with the items found the minimum amount of times in a table

I have a MySQL table where I have a certain id as a foreign key coming from another table. This id is not unique to this table so I can have many records holding the same id.
I need to find out which ids are seen the least amount of times in this table and pull up a list containing them.
For example, if I have 5 records with id=1, 3 records with id=2 and 3 records with id=3, I want to pull up only ids 2 & 3. However, the data in the table changes quite often so I don't know what that minimum value is going to be at any given moment. The task is quite trivial if I use two queries but I'm trying to do it with just one. Here's what I have:
SELECT id
FROM table
GROUP BY id
HAVING COUNT(*) = MIN(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table GROUP BY id)
If I substitute COUNT(*) = 3, then the results come up but using the query above gives me an error that MIN is not used properly. Any tips?
I would try with:
SELECT id
FROM table
GROUP BY id
HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table GROUP BY id ORDER BY COUNT(*) LIMIT 1);
This gets the minimum selecting the first row from the set of counts in ascendent order.
You need a double select in the having clause:
SELECT id
FROM table
GROUP BY id
HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT MIN(cnt) FROM (SELECT COUNT(*) as cnt FROM table GROUP BY id) t);
The MIN() aggregate function is suposed to take a column, not a query. So, I see two ways to solve this:
To properly write the subquery, or
To use temp variables
First alternative:
select id
from yourTable
group by id
having count(id) = (
select min(c) from (
select count(*) as c from yourTable group by id
) as a
)
Second alternative:
set #minCount = (
select min(c) from (
select count(*) as c from yourTable group by id
) as a
);
select id
from yourTable
group by id
having count(*) = #minCount;
You need to GROUP BY to produce a set of grouped values and additional select to get the MIN value from that group, only then you can match it against having
SELECT * FROM table GROUP BY id
HAVING COUNT(*) =
(SELECT MIN(X.CNT) AS M FROM(SELECT COUNT(*) CNT FROM table GROUP BY id) AS X)

Get last but one row for each ID

I am using query like
select * from audittable where a_id IN (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);
For each ID its returning 5-6 records. I wanted to get the last but one record for each ID.
Can i do this in one sql statement.
Try this query
SELECT
*
FROM
(SELECT
#rn:=if(#prv=a_id, #rn+1, 1) as rId,
#prv:=a_id as a_id,
---Remaining columns
FROM
audittable
JOIN
(SELECT #rn:=0, #prv:=0) t
WHERE
a_id IN (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
ORDER BY
a_id, <column> desc)tmp --Replace column with the column with which you will determine it is the last record
WHERE
rId=1;
If your database is having DateCreated or any column in which you are saving the DateTime as well like when your data is inserted for a particular row then you may use query like
select at1.* from audittable at1 where
datecreated in( select max(datecreated) from audittable at2
where
at1.id = at2.id
order by datecreated desc
);
You may also use LIMIT function as well.
Hope you understand and works for you.
In SQLite, you have the columns a_id and b. For each a_id you get a set of b's. Let you want
to get the latest/highest (maximum in terms of row_id, date or another naturally increasing index) one of b's
SELECT MAX(b), *
FROM audittable
GROUP BY a_id
Here MAX help to get the maximum b from each group.
Bad news that MySQL doesn't associate MAX b with other *-columns of the table. But it still can be used in case of simple table with a_id and b columns!

Delete records from a table where < max number for a field and keep highest number

I know this sounds rather confusing but I'm at a loss how to explain it better. I have a table simplified below:
DB Type ID
================
Table1 1
Table1 2
Table1 3
Table1 4
Table1 5
Table2 6
Table2 7
Table2 8
Table2 9
Table2 10
what i am trying to achieve is to basically clean out this table but keep the record with the highest ID for each DB Type if that makes sense - so in this case it would be (Table1,5) and (Table2,10) with all other records being deleted. Is it possible to do this exclusively through MySQL?
*EDIT***
Answer thanks to tips from Yogendra Singh
DELETE FROM MyTable WHERE ID NOT IN (SELECT * FROM (SELECT MAX(ID) from MyTable GROUP BY DB Type) AS tb1 ) ORDER BY ID ASC
TRY selecting the max ID group by db_type first and then use it as sub query with not in.
DELETE FROM MyTable
WHERE ID NOT IN
(SELECT ID FROM
(SELECT MAX(ID) AS ID from MyTable GROUP BY DB Type) AS tb1
)
EDIT:
DELETE FROM MyTable
HAVING MAX(ID) > ID;
delete your_table
from
your_table left join
(select max(id) max_id from your_table group by type) mx
on your_table.id=mx.max_id
where mx.max_id is null
Subquery returns the maximum id for every type, and those are the values to keep. With an left join i'm selecting all the rows from your table that don't have an in in max_ids, and those are the rows to delete. This will work only if id is primary key, otherwise we have to join also the type.
Is the combination DB Type - ID unique?
If so, you can attack this in two stages:
Get only the rows you want
SELECT [DB Type], Max(ID) AS MaxID
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY [DB Type]
Delete the rest (Wrapping the previous statement into a more complicated statement; don't mean that)
DELETE FROM YourTable
FROM
YourTable
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT [DB Type], Max(ID) AS MaxID
FROM YourTable GROUP BY [DB Type]) DontDelete
ON
YourTable.[DB Type]=DontDelete.[DB Type] AND
YourTable.ID=DontDelete.MaxID
WHERE
DontDelete.[DB Type] IS NULL
DELETE FROM MyTable del
WHERE EXISTS (
(SELECT *
FROM MyTable xx
WHERE xx."db Type" = del."db Type"
AND xx.id > del.id
);
delete from my_Table
where Day in (select MAX(day) d from my_Table where id='id')