It appears that MySQL doesn't have array variables. What should I use instead?
There seem to be two alternatives suggested: A set-type scalar and temporary tables. The question I linked to suggests the former. But is it good practice to use these instead of array variables? Alternatively, if I go with sets, what would be the set-based idiom equivalent to foreach?
Well, I've been using temporary tables instead of array variables. Not the greatest solution, but it works.
Note that you don't need to formally define their fields, just create them using a SELECT:
DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS my_temp_table;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE my_temp_table
SELECT first_name FROM people WHERE last_name = 'Smith';
(See also Create temporary table from select statement without using Create Table.)
You can achieve this in MySQL using WHILE loop:
SET #myArrayOfValue = '2,5,2,23,6,';
WHILE (LOCATE(',', #myArrayOfValue) > 0)
DO
SET #value = ELT(1, #myArrayOfValue);
SET #myArrayOfValue= SUBSTRING(#myArrayOfValue, LOCATE(',',#myArrayOfValue) + 1);
INSERT INTO `EXEMPLE` VALUES(#value, 'hello');
END WHILE;
EDIT:
Alternatively you can do it using UNION ALL:
INSERT INTO `EXEMPLE`
(
`value`, `message`
)
(
SELECT 2 AS `value`, 'hello' AS `message`
UNION ALL
SELECT 5 AS `value`, 'hello' AS `message`
UNION ALL
SELECT 2 AS `value`, 'hello' AS `message`
UNION ALL
...
);
Try using FIND_IN_SET() function of MySql
e.g.
SET #c = 'xxx,yyy,zzz';
SELECT * from countries
WHERE FIND_IN_SET(countryname,#c);
Note: You don't have to SET variable in StoredProcedure if you are passing parameter with CSV values.
Nowadays using a JSON array would be an obvious answer.
Since this is an old but still relevant question I produced a short example.
JSON functions are available since mySQL 5.7.x / MariaDB 10.2.3
I prefer this solution over ELT() because it's really more like an array and this 'array' can be reused in the code.
But be careful: It (JSON) is certainly much slower than using a temporary table. Its just more handy. imo.
Here is how to use a JSON array:
SET #myjson = '["gmail.com","mail.ru","arcor.de","gmx.de","t-online.de",
"web.de","googlemail.com","freenet.de","yahoo.de","gmx.net",
"me.com","bluewin.ch","hotmail.com","hotmail.de","live.de",
"icloud.com","hotmail.co.uk","yahoo.co.jp","yandex.ru"]';
SELECT JSON_LENGTH(#myjson);
-- result: 19
SELECT JSON_VALUE(#myjson, '$[0]');
-- result: gmail.com
And here a little example to show how it works in a function/procedure:
DELIMITER //
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION example() RETURNS varchar(1000) DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN
DECLARE _result varchar(1000) DEFAULT '';
DECLARE _counter INT DEFAULT 0;
DECLARE _value varchar(50);
SET #myjson = '["gmail.com","mail.ru","arcor.de","gmx.de","t-online.de",
"web.de","googlemail.com","freenet.de","yahoo.de","gmx.net",
"me.com","bluewin.ch","hotmail.com","hotmail.de","live.de",
"icloud.com","hotmail.co.uk","yahoo.co.jp","yandex.ru"]';
WHILE _counter < JSON_LENGTH(#myjson) DO
-- do whatever, e.g. add-up strings...
SET _result = CONCAT(_result, _counter, '-', JSON_VALUE(#myjson, CONCAT('$[',_counter,']')), '#');
SET _counter = _counter + 1;
END WHILE;
RETURN _result;
END //
DELIMITER ;
SELECT example();
Dont know about the arrays, but there is a way to store comma-separated lists in normal VARCHAR column.
And when you need to find something in that list you can use the FIND_IN_SET() function.
I know that this is a bit of a late response, but I recently had to solve a similar problem and thought that this may be useful to others.
Background
Consider the table below called 'mytable':
The problem was to keep only latest 3 records and delete any older records whose systemid=1 (there could be many other records in the table with other systemid values)
It would be good if you could do this simply using the statement
DELETE FROM mytable WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM `mytable` WHERE systemid=1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 3)
However this is not yet supported in MySQL and if you try this then you will get an error like
...doesn't yet support 'LIMIT & IN/ALL/SOME subquery'
So a workaround is needed whereby an array of values is passed to the IN selector using variable. However, as variables need to be single values, I would need to simulate an array. The trick is to create the array as a comma separated list of values (string) and assign this to the variable as follows
SET #myvar = (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(id SEPARATOR ',') AS myval FROM (SELECT * FROM `mytable` WHERE systemid=1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 3 ) A GROUP BY A.systemid);
The result stored in #myvar is
5,6,7
Next, the FIND_IN_SET selector is used to select from the simulated array
SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE FIND_IN_SET(id,#myvar);
The combined final result is as follows:
SET #myvar = (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(id SEPARATOR ',') AS myval FROM (SELECT * FROM `mytable` WHERE systemid=1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 3 ) A GROUP BY A.systemid);
DELETE FROM mytable WHERE FIND_IN_SET(id,#myvar);
I am aware that this is a very specific case. However it can be modified to suit just about any other case where a variable needs to store an array of values.
I hope that this helps.
DELIMITER $$
CREATE DEFINER=`mysqldb`#`%` PROCEDURE `abc`()
BEGIN
BEGIN
set #value :='11,2,3,1,';
WHILE (LOCATE(',', #value) > 0) DO
SET #V_DESIGNATION = SUBSTRING(#value,1, LOCATE(',',#value)-1);
SET #value = SUBSTRING(#value, LOCATE(',',#value) + 1);
select #V_DESIGNATION;
END WHILE;
END;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
Maybe create a temporary memory table with columns (key, value) if you want associative arrays. Having a memory table is the closest thing to having arrays in mysql
Here’s how I did it.
First, I created a function that checks whether a Long/Integer/whatever value is in a list of values separated by commas:
CREATE DEFINER = 'root'#'localhost' FUNCTION `is_id_in_ids`(
`strIDs` VARCHAR(255),
`_id` BIGINT
)
RETURNS BIT(1)
NOT DETERMINISTIC
CONTAINS SQL
SQL SECURITY DEFINER
COMMENT ''
BEGIN
DECLARE strLen INT DEFAULT 0;
DECLARE subStrLen INT DEFAULT 0;
DECLARE subs VARCHAR(255);
IF strIDs IS NULL THEN
SET strIDs = '';
END IF;
do_this:
LOOP
SET strLen = LENGTH(strIDs);
SET subs = SUBSTRING_INDEX(strIDs, ',', 1);
if ( CAST(subs AS UNSIGNED) = _id ) THEN
-- founded
return(1);
END IF;
SET subStrLen = LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(strIDs, ',', 1));
SET strIDs = MID(strIDs, subStrLen+2, strLen);
IF strIDs = NULL or trim(strIds) = '' THEN
LEAVE do_this;
END IF;
END LOOP do_this;
-- not founded
return(0);
END;
So now you can search for an ID in a comma-separated list of IDs, like this:
select `is_id_in_ids`('1001,1002,1003',1002);
And you can use this function inside a WHERE clause, like this:
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE `is_id_in_ids`('1001,1002,1003',table1_id);
This was the only way I found to pass an "array" parameter to a PROCEDURE.
I'm surprised none of the answers mention ELT/FIELD.
ELT/FIELD works very similar to an array especially if you have static data.
FIND_IN_SET also works similar but doesn't have a built in complementary
function but it's easy enough to write one.
mysql> select elt(2,'AA','BB','CC');
+-----------------------+
| elt(2,'AA','BB','CC') |
+-----------------------+
| BB |
+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select field('BB','AA','BB','CC');
+----------------------------+
| field('BB','AA','BB','CC') |
+----------------------------+
| 2 |
+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select find_in_set('BB','AA,BB,CC');
+------------------------------+
| find_in_set('BB','AA,BB,CC') |
+------------------------------+
| 2 |
+------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX('AA,BB,CC',',',2),',',-1);
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX('AA,BB,CC',',',2),',',-1) |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| BB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
Is an array variable really necessary?
I ask because I originally landed here wanting to add an array as a MySQL table variable. I was relatively new to database design and trying to think of how I'd do it in a typical programming language fashion.
But databases are different. I thought I wanted an array as a variable, but it turns out that's just not a common MySQL database practice.
Standard Practice
The alternative solution to arrays is to add an additional table, and then reference your original table with a foreign key.
As an example, let's imagine an application that keeps track of all the items every person in a household wants to buy at the store.
The commands for creating the table I originally envisioned would have looked something like this:
#doesn't work
CREATE TABLE Person(
name VARCHAR(50) PRIMARY KEY
buy_list ARRAY
);
I think I envisioned buy_list to be a comma-separated string of items or something like that.
But MySQL doesn't have an array type field, so I really needed something like this:
CREATE TABLE Person(
name VARCHAR(50) PRIMARY KEY
);
CREATE TABLE BuyList(
person VARCHAR(50),
item VARCHAR(50),
PRIMARY KEY (person, item),
CONSTRAINT fk_person FOREIGN KEY (person) REFERENCES Person(name)
);
Here we define a constraint named fk_person. It says that the 'person' field in BuyList is a foreign key. In other words, it's a primary key in another table, specifically the 'name' field in the Person table, which is what REFERENCES denotes.
We also defined the combination of person and item to be the primary key, but technically that's not necessary.
Finally, if you want to get all the items on a person's list, you can run this query:
SELECT item FROM BuyList WHERE person='John';
This gives you all the items on John's list. No arrays necessary!
This is my solution to use a variable containing a list of elements.
You can use it in simple queries (no need to use store procedures or create tables).
I found somewhere else on the site the trick to use the JSON_TABLE function (it works in mysql 8, I dunno of it works in other versions).
set #x = '1,2,3,4' ;
select c.NAME
from colors c
where
c.COD in (
select *
from json_table(
concat('[',#x,']'),
'$[*]' columns (id int path '$') ) t ) ;
Also, you may need to manage the case of one or more variables set to empty_string.
In this case I added another trick (the query does not return error even if x, y, or both x and y are empty strings):
set #x = '' ;
set #y = 'yellow' ;
select c.NAME
from colors
where
if(#y = '', 1 = 1, c.NAME = #y)
and if(#x = '', 1, c.COD) in (
select *
from json_table(
concat('[',if(#x = '', 1, #x),']'),
'$[*]' columns (id int path '$') ) t) ;
This works fine for list of values:
SET #myArrayOfValue = '2,5,2,23,6,';
WHILE (LOCATE(',', #myArrayOfValue) > 0)
DO
SET #value = ELT(1, #myArrayOfValue);
SET #STR = SUBSTRING(#myArrayOfValue, 1, LOCATE(',',#myArrayOfValue)-1);
SET #myArrayOfValue = SUBSTRING(#myArrayOfValue, LOCATE(',', #myArrayOfValue) + 1);
INSERT INTO `Demo` VALUES(#STR, 'hello');
END WHILE;
Both versions using sets didn't work for me (tested with MySQL 5.5). The function ELT() returns the whole set. Considering the WHILE statement is only avaible in PROCEDURE context i added it to my solution:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS __main__;
DELIMITER $
CREATE PROCEDURE __main__()
BEGIN
SET #myArrayOfValue = '2,5,2,23,6,';
WHILE (LOCATE(',', #myArrayOfValue) > 0)
DO
SET #value = LEFT(#myArrayOfValue, LOCATE(',',#myArrayOfValue) - 1);
SET #myArrayOfValue = SUBSTRING(#myArrayOfValue, LOCATE(',',#myArrayOfValue) + 1);
END WHILE;
END;
$
DELIMITER ;
CALL __main__;
To be honest, i don't think this is a good practice. Even if its realy necessary, this is barely readable and quite slow.
Isn't the point of arrays to be efficient? If you're just iterating through values, I think a cursor on a temporary (or permanent) table makes more sense than seeking commas, no? Also cleaner. Lookup "mysql DECLARE CURSOR".
For random access a temporary table with numerically indexed primary key. Unfortunately the fastest access you'll get is a hash table, not true random access.
Another way to see the same problem.
Hope helpfull
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE ARR(v_value VARCHAR(100))
BEGIN
DECLARE v_tam VARCHAR(100);
DECLARE v_pos VARCHAR(100);
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS split (split VARCHAR(50));
SET v_tam = (SELECT (LENGTH(v_value) - LENGTH(REPLACE(v_value,',',''))));
SET v_pos = 1;
WHILE (v_tam >= v_pos)
DO
INSERT INTO split
SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(v_value,',',v_pos),',', -1);
SET v_pos = v_pos + 1;
END WHILE;
SELECT * FROM split;
DROP TEMPORARY TABLE split;
END$$
CALL ARR('1006212,1006404,1003404,1006505,444,');
If we have one table like that
mysql> select * from user_mail;
+------------+-------+
| email | user |
+------------+-------+-
| email1#gmail | 1 |
| email2#gmail | 2 |
+------------+-------+--------+------------+
and the array table:
mysql> select * from user_mail_array;
+------------+-------+-------------+
| email | user | preferences |
+------------+-------+-------------+
| email1#gmail | 1 | 1 |
| email1#gmail | 1 | 2 |
| email1#gmail | 1 | 3 |
| email1#gmail | 1 | 4 |
| email2#gmail | 2 | 5 |
| email2#gmail | 2 | 6 |
We can select the rows of the second table as one array with CONCAT function:
mysql> SELECT t1.*, GROUP_CONCAT(t2.preferences) AS preferences
FROM user_mail t1,user_mail_array t2
where t1.email=t2.email and t1.user=t2.user
GROUP BY t1.email,t1.user;
+------------+-------+--------+------------+-------------+
| email | user | preferences |
+------------+-------+--------+------------+-------------+
|email1#gmail | 1 | 1,3,2,4 |
|email2#gmail | 2 | 5,6 |
+------------+-------+--------+------------+-------------+
In MYSQL version after 5.7.x, you can use JSON type to store an array. You can get value of an array by a key via MYSQL.
Inspired by the function ELT(index number, string1, string2, string3,…),I think the following example works as an array example:
set #i := 1;
while #i <= 3
do
insert into table(val) values (ELT(#i ,'val1','val2','val3'...));
set #i = #i + 1;
end while;
Hope it help.
Here is an example for MySQL for looping through a comma delimited string.
DECLARE v_delimited_string_access_index INT;
DECLARE v_delimited_string_access_value VARCHAR(255);
DECLARE v_can_still_find_values_in_delimited_string BOOLEAN;
SET v_can_still_find_values_in_delimited_string = true;
SET v_delimited_string_access_index = 0;
WHILE (v_can_still_find_values_in_delimited_string) DO
SET v_delimited_string_access_value = get_from_delimiter_split_string(in_array, ',', v_delimited_string_access_index); -- get value from string
SET v_delimited_string_access_index = v_delimited_string_access_index + 1;
IF (v_delimited_string_access_value = '') THEN
SET v_can_still_find_values_in_delimited_string = false; -- no value at this index, stop looping
ELSE
-- DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH v_delimited_string_access_value HERE
END IF;
END WHILE;
this uses the get_from_delimiter_split_string function defined here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59666211/3068233
I Think I can improve on this answer. Try this:
The parameter 'Pranks' is a CSV. ie. '1,2,3,4.....etc'
CREATE PROCEDURE AddRanks(
IN Pranks TEXT
)
BEGIN
DECLARE VCounter INTEGER;
DECLARE VStringToAdd VARCHAR(50);
SET VCounter = 0;
START TRANSACTION;
REPEAT
SET VStringToAdd = (SELECT TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(Pranks, ',', 1)));
SET Pranks = (SELECT RIGHT(Pranks, TRIM(LENGTH(Pranks) - LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(Pranks, ',', 1))-1)));
INSERT INTO tbl_rank_names(rank)
VALUES(VStringToAdd);
SET VCounter = VCounter + 1;
UNTIL (Pranks = '')
END REPEAT;
SELECT VCounter AS 'Records added';
COMMIT;
END;
This method makes the searched string of CSV values progressively shorter with each iteration of the loop, which I believe would be better for optimization.
I would try something like this for multiple collections. I'm a MySQL beginner. Sorry about the function names, couldn't decide on what names would be best.
delimiter //
drop procedure init_
//
create procedure init_()
begin
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE if not exists
val_store(
realm varchar(30)
, id varchar(30)
, val varchar(255)
, primary key ( realm , id )
);
end;
//
drop function if exists get_
//
create function get_( p_realm varchar(30) , p_id varchar(30) )
returns varchar(255)
reads sql data
begin
declare ret_val varchar(255);
declare continue handler for 1146 set ret_val = null;
select val into ret_val from val_store where id = p_id;
return ret_val;
end;
//
drop procedure if exists set_
//
create procedure set_( p_realm varchar(30) , p_id varchar(30) , p_val varchar(255) )
begin
call init_();
insert into val_store (realm,id,val) values (p_realm , p_id , p_val) on duplicate key update val = p_val;
end;
//
drop procedure if exists remove_
//
create procedure remove_( p_realm varchar(30) , p_id varchar(30) )
begin
call init_();
delete from val_store where realm = p_realm and id = p_id;
end;
//
drop procedure if exists erase_
//
create procedure erase_( p_realm varchar(30) )
begin
call init_();
delete from val_store where realm = p_realm;
end;
//
call set_('my_array_table_name','my_key','my_value');
select get_('my_array_table_name','my_key');
Rather than Saving data as a array or in one row only you should be making diffrent rows for every value received. This will make it much simpler to understand rather than putting all together.
Have you tried using PHP's serialize()?
That allows you to store the contents of a variable's array in a string PHP understands and is safe for the database (assuming you've escaped it first).
$array = array(
1 => 'some data',
2 => 'some more'
);
//Assuming you're already connected to the database
$sql = sprintf("INSERT INTO `yourTable` (`rowID`, `rowContent`) VALUES (NULL, '%s')"
, serialize(mysql_real_escape_string($array, $dbConnection)));
mysql_query($sql, $dbConnection) or die(mysql_error());
You can also do the exact same without a numbered array
$array2 = array(
'something' => 'something else'
);
or
$array3 = array(
'somethingNew'
);
Related
I got a situation where I have to pass a comma separated string to MySQL stored procedure and split that string and insert those values as rows in to a table.
For example if I passed 'jhon,swetha,sitha' string to MySQL stored procedure then it have to split that string by comma and insert those values as 3 records into a table.
CREATE PROCEDURE new_routine (IN str varchar(30))
BEGIN
DECLARE tmp varchar(10);
DECLARE inc INT DEFAULT 0;
WHILE INSTR(str, ',') DO
SET tmp = SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,',',inc),LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,',',inc-1))+1),',','');
SET str = REPLACE(str, tmp, '');
//insert tmp into a table.
END WHILE;
END
But this does not work. Any solutions please?
You'll need to be a little more careful with your string manipulation. You can't use REPLACE() for this, because that will replace multiple occurrences, corrupting your data if one element in the comma-separated list is a substring of another element. The INSERT() string function is better for this, not to be confused with the INSERT statement used for inserting into a table.
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `insert_csv` $$
CREATE PROCEDURE `insert_csv`(_list MEDIUMTEXT)
BEGIN
DECLARE _next TEXT DEFAULT NULL;
DECLARE _nextlen INT DEFAULT NULL;
DECLARE _value TEXT DEFAULT NULL;
iterator:
LOOP
-- exit the loop if the list seems empty or was null;
-- this extra caution is necessary to avoid an endless loop in the proc.
IF CHAR_LENGTH(TRIM(_list)) = 0 OR _list IS NULL THEN
LEAVE iterator;
END IF;
-- capture the next value from the list
SET _next = SUBSTRING_INDEX(_list,',',1);
-- save the length of the captured value; we will need to remove this
-- many characters + 1 from the beginning of the string
-- before the next iteration
SET _nextlen = CHAR_LENGTH(_next);
-- trim the value of leading and trailing spaces, in case of sloppy CSV strings
SET _value = TRIM(_next);
-- insert the extracted value into the target table
INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES (_value);
-- rewrite the original string using the `INSERT()` string function,
-- args are original string, start position, how many characters to remove,
-- and what to "insert" in their place (in this case, we "insert"
-- an empty string, which removes _nextlen + 1 characters)
SET _list = INSERT(_list,1,_nextlen + 1,'');
END LOOP;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
Next, a table for testing:
CREATE TABLE `t1` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`c1` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
The new table is empty.
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
Empty set (0.00 sec)
Call the procedure.
mysql> CALL insert_csv('foo,bar,buzz,fizz');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Note the "1 row affected" does not mean what you would expect. It refers to the last insert we did. Since we insert one row at a time, if the procedure inserts at least one row, you'll always get a row count of 1; if the procedure inserts nothing, you'll get 0 rows affected.
Did it work?
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
+----+------+
| id | c1 |
+----+------+
| 1 | foo |
| 2 | bar |
| 3 | buzz |
| 4 | fizz |
+----+------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I'm trying to figure out how to create a single MySQL query that will allow me to display only the next 10 characters following the string "filter" in the Message field. The string "filter" appears at various positions in each record, so I can't use a position filter.
I've been trying to use something like like what I have below, however I've been unable to get the correct query.
SELECT RIGHT(Message,LOCATE('filter',Message) - 10) FROM table
The Message field records within the table looks like:
QgySSW8fwD25iQ.filter0019p3las1-31205-59C3D
6t2fJw.filter0010p3las1-9745-59
filter0025p3las1-13130-59C3D317
And I'm looking for them to look like this after the query:
0019p3las1
0010p3las1
0025p3las1
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Use a combination of LOCATE() within SUBSTRING(). See this SQL Fiddle
CREATE TABLE Table1
(`message` varchar(200))
;
INSERT INTO Table1
(`message`)
VALUES
('QgySSW8fwD25iQ.filter0019p3las1-31205-59C3D'),
('6t2fJw.filter0010p3las1-9745-59'),
('filter0025p3las1-13130-59C3D317')
;
Query 1:
select
SUBSTRING(message,LOCATE('filter',Message)+6,10)
from table1
Note that the +6 is to offset for the length of "filter" because LOCATE finds the position of the "f" and you then need to add 6 for the other characters "ilter". Once that number is determined then just get the next 10 characters.
Results:
| SUBSTRING(message,LOCATE('filter',Message)+6,10) |
|--------------------------------------------------|
| 0019p3las1 |
| 0010p3las1 |
| 0025p3las1 |
See SQLFiddle.
Result table structure
Create table resulttbl (
id int(6) primary key auto_increment ,
resultFIlter varchar(1000)
);
Function to split string
CREATE FUNCTION strSplit(x VARCHAR(65000), delim VARCHAR(12), pos INTEGER)
RETURNS VARCHAR(65000)
BEGIN
DECLARE output VARCHAR(65000);
SET output = REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(x, delim, pos)
, LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(x, delim, pos - 1)) + 1)
, delim
, '');
IF output = '' THEN SET output = null; END IF;
RETURN output;
END;
Stored procedure to split and insert into result table
CREATE PROCEDURE FilterTable()
BEGIN
DECLARE i INTEGER;
DECLARE endpos INTEGER;
DECLARE fullstr VARCHAR(1000);
DECLARE result VARCHAR(1000);
SET fullstr = 'QgySSW8fwD25iQ.filter0019p3las1-31205-59C3D 6t2fJw.filter0010p3las1-9745-59 filter0025p3las1-13130-59C3D317';
SET i = 2;
SET endpos=LENGTH(fullstr) - LENGTH(REPLACE(fullstr, 'filter', '')) ;
delete from resulttbl;
REPEAT
SET result=strSplit(fullstr, 'filter', i);
IF result IS NOT NULL THEN
SET result=LEFT(result,10);
INSERT INTO resulttbl (resultFIlter) values(result);
END IF;
SET i = i + 1;
UNTIL i >= endpos
END REPEAT;
END ;
Call the procedure using the statement CALL FilterTable().
Now the result of your procedure is available on the table resulttbl.
You can get the values from that table using select statement as SELECT * from resulttbl.
Result
id resultFIlter
1 0019p3las1
2 0010p3las1
3 0025p3las1
I got a situation where I have to pass a comma separated string to MySQL stored procedure and split that string and insert those values as rows in to a table.
For example if I passed 'jhon,swetha,sitha' string to MySQL stored procedure then it have to split that string by comma and insert those values as 3 records into a table.
CREATE PROCEDURE new_routine (IN str varchar(30))
BEGIN
DECLARE tmp varchar(10);
DECLARE inc INT DEFAULT 0;
WHILE INSTR(str, ',') DO
SET tmp = SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,',',inc),LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,',',inc-1))+1),',','');
SET str = REPLACE(str, tmp, '');
//insert tmp into a table.
END WHILE;
END
But this does not work. Any solutions please?
You'll need to be a little more careful with your string manipulation. You can't use REPLACE() for this, because that will replace multiple occurrences, corrupting your data if one element in the comma-separated list is a substring of another element. The INSERT() string function is better for this, not to be confused with the INSERT statement used for inserting into a table.
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `insert_csv` $$
CREATE PROCEDURE `insert_csv`(_list MEDIUMTEXT)
BEGIN
DECLARE _next TEXT DEFAULT NULL;
DECLARE _nextlen INT DEFAULT NULL;
DECLARE _value TEXT DEFAULT NULL;
iterator:
LOOP
-- exit the loop if the list seems empty or was null;
-- this extra caution is necessary to avoid an endless loop in the proc.
IF CHAR_LENGTH(TRIM(_list)) = 0 OR _list IS NULL THEN
LEAVE iterator;
END IF;
-- capture the next value from the list
SET _next = SUBSTRING_INDEX(_list,',',1);
-- save the length of the captured value; we will need to remove this
-- many characters + 1 from the beginning of the string
-- before the next iteration
SET _nextlen = CHAR_LENGTH(_next);
-- trim the value of leading and trailing spaces, in case of sloppy CSV strings
SET _value = TRIM(_next);
-- insert the extracted value into the target table
INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES (_value);
-- rewrite the original string using the `INSERT()` string function,
-- args are original string, start position, how many characters to remove,
-- and what to "insert" in their place (in this case, we "insert"
-- an empty string, which removes _nextlen + 1 characters)
SET _list = INSERT(_list,1,_nextlen + 1,'');
END LOOP;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
Next, a table for testing:
CREATE TABLE `t1` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`c1` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
The new table is empty.
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
Empty set (0.00 sec)
Call the procedure.
mysql> CALL insert_csv('foo,bar,buzz,fizz');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Note the "1 row affected" does not mean what you would expect. It refers to the last insert we did. Since we insert one row at a time, if the procedure inserts at least one row, you'll always get a row count of 1; if the procedure inserts nothing, you'll get 0 rows affected.
Did it work?
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
+----+------+
| id | c1 |
+----+------+
| 1 | foo |
| 2 | bar |
| 3 | buzz |
| 4 | fizz |
+----+------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I have a database table like this sample:
ID THINGS HAS_DUPLICATES
1 AAA, BBB, AAA NULL
2 CCC, DDD NULL
I am trying to write a stored procedure to flag duplicate values in THINGS field.
After calling the procedure the table will become like this:
ID THINGS HAS_DUPLICATES
1 AAA, BBB, AAA YES
2 CCC, DDD NO
Please be informed that I am trying to resolve it using only SQL and without normalizing my database. I am also aware of other approaches like writing PHP code.
Schema:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS evilThings; -- orig table with dupes
CREATE TABLE evilThings
( ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
THINGS TEXT NOT NULL,
HAS_DUPLICATES INT NULL
);
INSERT evilThings(ID,THINGS) VALUES
(1,"'AAA, BBB, AAA'"),
(2,"'CCC, DDD'");
CREATE TABLE notEvilAssocTable
( ai INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, -- no shuffle on inserts
ID INT NOT NULL,
THING VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY `unqK_id_thing` (ID,THING) -- no dupes, this is honorable
);
Stored Proc:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS splitEm;
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE splitEm()
BEGIN
DECLARE lv_ID,pos1,pos2,comma_pos INT;
DECLARE lv_THINGS TEXT;
DECLARE particle VARCHAR(100);
DECLARE strs_done INT DEFAULT FALSE; -- string search done
DECLARE done INT DEFAULT FALSE; -- cursor done
DECLARE cur111 CURSOR FOR SELECT ID,THINGS FROM evilThings ORDER BY ID;
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = TRUE;
-- Please note in the above, CURSOR stuff MUST come LAST else "Error 1337: Variable or condition decl aft curs"
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRUNCATE TABLE notEvilAssocTable;
OPEN cur111;
read_loop: LOOP
SET strs_done=FALSE;
FETCH cur111 INTO lv_ID,lv_THINGS;
IF done THEN
LEAVE read_loop;
END IF;
SET pos1=1,comma_pos=0;
WHILE !strs_done DO
SET pos2=LOCATE(',', lv_THINGS, comma_pos+1);
IF pos2=0 THEN
SET pos2=LOCATE("'", lv_THINGS, comma_pos+1);
IF pos2!=0 THEN
SET particle=SUBSTRING(lv_THINGS,comma_pos+1,pos2-comma_pos-1);
SET particle=REPLACE(particle,"'","");
SET particle=TRIM(particle);
INSERT IGNORE notEvilAssocTable (ID,THING) VALUES (lv_ID,particle);
END IF;
SET strs_done=1;
ELSE
SET particle=SUBSTRING(lv_THINGS,comma_pos+1,pos2-comma_pos-1);
SET particle=REPLACE(particle,"'","");
SET particle=TRIM(particle);
INSERT IGNORE notEvilAssocTable (ID,THING) VALUES (lv_ID,particle);
SET comma_pos=pos2;
END IF;
END WHILE;
END LOOP;
CLOSE cur111; -- close the cursor
END$$
DELIMITER ;
Test:
call splitEm();
See results of split:
select * from notEvilAssocTable;
Note that position 3, the InnoDB gap (from INSERT IGNORE). It is simply the innodb gap anomaly, an expected side effect like so many of InnoDB. In this case driven by the IGNORE part that creates a gap. No problem though. It forbids duplicates in our new table for split outs. It is common. It is there to protect you.
If you did not mean to have the single quote at the beginning and end of the string in the db, then change the routine accordingly.
Here is the answer to my question, assuming the data in THINGS field are separated by a bar '|'. Our original table will be myTABLE:
ID THINGS THINGSCount THINGSCountUnique HAS_DUPLICATES
1 AAA|BBB|AAA NULL NULL NULL
2 CCC|DDD NULL NULL NULL
Step 1. Check the maximum number of values separated by a bar '|' in THINGS field:
SELECT ROUND((CHAR_LENGTH(THINGS) - CHAR_LENGTH(REPLACE(THINGS,'|',''))) / CHAR_LENGTH('|')) + 1 FROM myTABLE;
Step 2. Assuming the answer from step 1 was 7, now use the following SQL to split the data in THINGS field into rows, there are many other approaches which you can Google to do the split:
CREATE TABLE myTABLE_temp
SELECT ID, SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(myTABLE.THINGS, '|', n.n), '|', -1) THINGS
FROM myTABLE JOIN
( SELECT n FROM
( SELECT 1 AS N UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 ) a ) n
ON CHAR_LENGTH(THINGS) - CHAR_LENGTH(REPLACE(THINGS, '|', '')) >= n - 1
ORDER BY ID;
Our myTABLE_temp table will be something like:
ID THINGS
1 AAA
1 BBB
1 AAA
2 CCC
2 DDD
Step 3. Here we create two new tables to hold COUNT(THINGS) and COUNT(DISTINCT THINGS) as following:
# THINGSCount
CREATE TABLE myTABLE_temp_2
SELECT ID, COUNT(THINGS) AS THINGSCount FROM myTABLE_temp GROUP BY ID;
# Remember to ADD INDEX to ID field
UPDATE myTABLE A INNER JOIN myTABLE_temp_2 B ON(A.ID = B.ID) SET A.THINGSCount = B.THINGSCount;
# THINGSCountUnique
CREATE TABLE myTABLE_temp_3
SELECT ID, COUNT(THINGS) AS THINGSCountUnique FROM myTABLE_temp GROUP BY ID;
# Remember to ADD INDEX to ID field
UPDATE myTABLE A INNER JOIN myTABLE_temp_3 B ON(A.ID = B.ID) SET A.THINGSCountUnique = B.THINGSCountUnique;
Final Step: Flag duplicate values:
UPDATE myTABLE SET HAS_DUPLICATES = IF(THINGSCount>THINGSCountUnique, 'DUPLICATES', 'NO');
I got a situation where I have to pass a comma separated string to MySQL stored procedure and split that string and insert those values as rows in to a table.
For example if I passed 'jhon,swetha,sitha' string to MySQL stored procedure then it have to split that string by comma and insert those values as 3 records into a table.
CREATE PROCEDURE new_routine (IN str varchar(30))
BEGIN
DECLARE tmp varchar(10);
DECLARE inc INT DEFAULT 0;
WHILE INSTR(str, ',') DO
SET tmp = SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,',',inc),LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str,',',inc-1))+1),',','');
SET str = REPLACE(str, tmp, '');
//insert tmp into a table.
END WHILE;
END
But this does not work. Any solutions please?
You'll need to be a little more careful with your string manipulation. You can't use REPLACE() for this, because that will replace multiple occurrences, corrupting your data if one element in the comma-separated list is a substring of another element. The INSERT() string function is better for this, not to be confused with the INSERT statement used for inserting into a table.
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `insert_csv` $$
CREATE PROCEDURE `insert_csv`(_list MEDIUMTEXT)
BEGIN
DECLARE _next TEXT DEFAULT NULL;
DECLARE _nextlen INT DEFAULT NULL;
DECLARE _value TEXT DEFAULT NULL;
iterator:
LOOP
-- exit the loop if the list seems empty or was null;
-- this extra caution is necessary to avoid an endless loop in the proc.
IF CHAR_LENGTH(TRIM(_list)) = 0 OR _list IS NULL THEN
LEAVE iterator;
END IF;
-- capture the next value from the list
SET _next = SUBSTRING_INDEX(_list,',',1);
-- save the length of the captured value; we will need to remove this
-- many characters + 1 from the beginning of the string
-- before the next iteration
SET _nextlen = CHAR_LENGTH(_next);
-- trim the value of leading and trailing spaces, in case of sloppy CSV strings
SET _value = TRIM(_next);
-- insert the extracted value into the target table
INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES (_value);
-- rewrite the original string using the `INSERT()` string function,
-- args are original string, start position, how many characters to remove,
-- and what to "insert" in their place (in this case, we "insert"
-- an empty string, which removes _nextlen + 1 characters)
SET _list = INSERT(_list,1,_nextlen + 1,'');
END LOOP;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
Next, a table for testing:
CREATE TABLE `t1` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`c1` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
The new table is empty.
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
Empty set (0.00 sec)
Call the procedure.
mysql> CALL insert_csv('foo,bar,buzz,fizz');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Note the "1 row affected" does not mean what you would expect. It refers to the last insert we did. Since we insert one row at a time, if the procedure inserts at least one row, you'll always get a row count of 1; if the procedure inserts nothing, you'll get 0 rows affected.
Did it work?
mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
+----+------+
| id | c1 |
+----+------+
| 1 | foo |
| 2 | bar |
| 3 | buzz |
| 4 | fizz |
+----+------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)