MySQL order by date strange prob - mysql

I has been working in a updation of a existing website. In that there was a entry form which will save in table... table structure and sample data as follows
id | name | type | in_date | year
-----------------------------------------------------
1 | name1 | 1 | 2-July | 2011
2 | name2 | 2 | 2-June | 2011
3 | name44 | 2 | 8-Sep | 2011
Now I need to order this table in whole date wise ie ( as 2-June-2011) as a simple query
SELECT * FROM order_list order by date DESC
Is any way to do this action ? I tried a lot of query .... Any way to combine these 2 rows ..
We cant alter the DB since it contains more existing records ..

You should store your dates as MySQL DATE types, rather than as strings:
ALTER TABLE order_list ADD COLUMN new_date DATE;
UPDATE order_list
SET new_date = STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(in_date, '-', year), '%e-%b-%Y');
ALTER TABLE order_list DROP COLUMN in_date, DROP COLUMN year;
Ordering then becomes trivial (i.e. will work exactly as you have attempted):
SELECT * FROM order_list ORDER BY date DESC;
If you're unable to alter the database schema, you can perform the STR_TO_DATE operation in the ORDER BY clause (but this is not very efficient):
SELECT *
FROM order_list
ORDER BY STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(in_date, '-', year), '%e-%b-%Y') DESC

Don't do that. Put the entire date in one column, and then, if you really have to, create computed columns that will hold the year or day/month.
You can create a simple script that will integrate those two existing columns into the one united-date column in your existing database.

You can try with + (SQL SERVER) or CONCAT (MySQL)
SELECT * FROM order_list order by in_date + year DESC

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Sql Query to retrive data from table

How to retrieve odd rows from the table?
In the Base table always Cr_id is duplicated 2 times.
Base table
I want a SELECT statement that retrieves only those c_id =1 where Cr_id is always first as shown in the output table.
Output table
Just see the base table and output table you should automatically know what I want, Thanx.
Just testing min date should be enough
drop table if exists t;
create table t(c_id int,cr_id int,dt date);
insert into t values
(1,56,'2020-12-17'),(56,56,'2020-12-17'),
(1,8,'2020-12-17'),(56,8,'2020-12-17'),
(123,78,'2020-12-17'),(1,78,'2020-12-18');
select c_id,cr_id,dt
from t
where c_id = 1 and
dt = (select min(dt) from t t1 where t1.cr_id = t.cr_id);
+------+-------+------------+
| c_id | cr_id | dt |
+------+-------+------------+
| 1 | 56 | 2020-12-17 |
| 1 | 8 | 2020-12-17 |
+------+-------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.002 sec)
What you're looking for could be "partition by", at least if you're working on mssql.
(In the future, please include more background, SQL is not just SQL)
https://codingsight.com/grouping-data-using-the-over-and-partition-by-functions/
I have an old query lying around, that is able to put a sorting index on data who lacks this, although the underlying reason is 99.9% sure to be a bad data design.
Typically I use this query to remove bad data, but you may rewrite it to become a join instead, so that you can identify the data you need.
The reason why I'm not putting that answer here, is to point out, bad data design results in more work when reading it afterwards, whom seems to be the real root cause here.
DELETE t
FROM
(
SELECT ROW_NUMBER () OVER (PARTITION BY column_1 ,column_2, column_3 ORDER BY column_1,column_2 ,column_3 ) AS Seq
FROM Table
)t
WHERE Seq > 1

SQL checking duplicates in one column and deleting another

I need to delete around 300,000 duplicates in my database. I want to check the Card_id column for duplicates, then check for duplicate timestamps. Then delete one copy and keep one. Example:
| Card_id | Time |
| 1234 | 5:30 |
| 1234 | 5:45 |
| 1234 | 5:30 |
| 1234 | 5:45 |
So remaining data would be:
| Card_id | Time |
| 1234 | 5:30 |
| 1234 | 5:45 |
I have tried several different delete statements, and merging into a new table but with no luck.
UPDATE: Got it working!
Alright after many failures I got this to work for DB2.
delete from(
select card_id, time, row_number() over (partition by card_id, time) rn
from card_table) as A
where rn > 1
rn increments when there are duplicates for card_id and time. The duplicated, or second rn, will be deleted.
I strongly suggest you take this approach:
create temporary table tokeep as
select distinct card_id, time
from t;
truncate table t;
insert into t(card_id, time)
select *
from tokeep;
That is, store the data you want. Truncate the table, and then regenerate it. By truncating the table, you get to keep triggers and permissions and other things linked to the table.
This approach should also be faster than deleting many, many duplicates.
If you are going to do that, you ought to insert a proper id as well:
create temporary table tokeep as
select distinct card_id, time
from t;
truncate table t;
alter table t add column id int auto_increment;
insert into t(card_id, time)
select *
from tokeep;
If you haven't Primary key or Candidate key probably there is no option using only one command. Try solution below.
Create table with duplicates
select Card_id,Time
into COPY_YourTable
from YourTable
group by Card_id,Time
having count(1)>1
Remove duplicates using COPY_YourTable
delete from YourTable
where exists
(
select 1
from COPY_YourTable c
where c.Card_id = YourTable.Card_id
and c.Time = YourTable.Time
)
Copy data without duplicates
insert into YourTable
select Card_id,Time
from COPY_YourTabl

mysql avarge count

I have table named comments:
ID | COMMENT | DATE |
---|---------|----------|
1 | TEXT... | 01/01/12 |
2 | TEXT... | 01/01/12 |
3 | TEXT... | 15/01/12 |
4 | TEXT... | 01/01/13 |
In the table there are comments from 2012 and few from 2013. How can I select only records from 2012 and then get average comment count of 2012?
One really shouldn't store temporal values in string-type columns. I suggest that you first convert your DATE column to MySQL's DATE type:
ALTER TABLE comments ADD COLUMN new_date DATE AFTER `DATE`;
UPDATE comments SET new_date = STR_TO_DATE(`DATE`, '%d/%m/%y');
ALTER TABLE comments DROP COLUMN `DATE`;
(Obviously you will need to update your application code to use this new column).
Then:
How can I select only records from 2012
You can simply use the inequality operators in a filter:
SELECT *
FROM comments
WHERE new_date BETWEEN '2012-01-01' AND '2013-01-01'
and then get average comment count of 2012?
Not entirely sure what you mean by "average comment count", but if you want the mean number of comments per day:
SELECT COUNT(*) / DATEDIFF('2013-01-01', '2012-01-01')
FROM comments
WHERE new_date BETWEEN '2012-01-01' AND '2013-01-01'

Get the number of rows created for each month over a year

I have a db table named APPLICATION that has the following columns
applicationnumber varchar,
createddate datetime,
applicantname varchar,
material varchar,
location varchar
I am needed to write a query that would display the number of applications created for each month for the locations
Eg. The query result should be something like below
Location | Jan2012 | Feb2012 | Mar2012 | Apr2012
-----------------------------------------------------------------
London | 34322342 | 4342424 | 54353454 | 5434
Chicago| 43242345 | 9943455 | 85748294 | 544
The result is the number of applications created in each month for the specific location.
Each column will execute the same query logic, with just the month changing.
I tried using the MONTH() function, but I need the month matrix as a column and not as a row.
You can use the DATE_FORMAT function on the createddate field to only get the month and year and then GROUP BY location. Something like this should do it:
SELECT
`location`,
COUNT(`applicationnumber`),
DATE_FORMAT(`createddate`, '%M %Y') AS `date`
FROM `APPLICATION`
GROUP BY `location`;
Should give a result with the count of rows per month.

Mysql Update / Insert: copying historical data

I have some historical data tables in my Mysql database.
I want to repeat a day's historical data for another day in the same table.
Table structure, with some sample data:
Id | Date | Value
1 | 2012-04-30 | 5
2 | 2012-04-30 | 10
3 | 2012-04-30 | 15
I want to repeat those ids & values, but for a new date - e.g. 2012-05-01. i.e. adding:
1 | 2012-05-01 | 5
2 | 2012-05-01 | 10
3 | 2012-05-01 | 15
I feel that there should be a straightforward way of doing this... I've tried playing with UPDATE statements with sub-queries and using multiple LEFT JOINs, but haven't get there yet.
Any ideas on how I can do this?
EDIT: To clarify...
- I do NOT want to add these to a new table
- Nor do I want to change the existing records in the table.
- The ids are intentionally duplicated (they are a foreign_key to another table that records what the data refers to...).
INSERT INTO yourTable
SELECT ID, "2012-05-01" As Date, Value
FROM yourTable
WHERE Date = "2012-04-31"
Usually, your ID would be an autoincrement though, so having the same ID in the same table would not work. Either use a different ID, or a different table.
Different ID (next autoincrement):
INSERT INTO yourTable
SELECT NULL as ID, "2012-05-01" As Date, Value
FROM yourTable
WHERE Date = "2012-04-31"
Different table (referring to original ID)
INSERT INTO yourTable_hist
SELECT NULL as ID, ID as old_ID, "2012-05-01" As Date, Value
FROM yourTable
WHERE Date = "2012-04-31"
Maybe something like this:
UPDATE Table1
SET Date=DATE_ADD(Date, INTERVAL 1 DAY)
Or if you want to insert them to a new table:
INSERT INTO Table1
SELECT
ID,
DATE_ADD(Date, INTERVAL 1 DAY),
Value
FROM
Table2