I am trying to create a view for a UNION of 2 select statements that I have created.
The UNION is working fine when executed individually
But the problem is only the 1st part of the UNION is getting executed when I am executing it as a view.
The query I am using is as below
SELECT DISTINCT products.pid AS id,
products.pname AS name,
products.p_desc AS description,
products.p_uid AS userid,
products.p_loc AS location,
products.isaproduct AS whatisit
FROM products
UNION
SELECT DISTINCT services.s_id AS id,
services.s_name AS name,
services.s_desc AS description,
services.s_uid AS userid,
services.s_location AS location,
services.isaservice AS whatisit
FROM services
WHERE services.s_name
The above works fine when i execute it separately. But when I use it as a view, it does not give me the results of the services part.
Could someone please help me with this?
If you could give the result set for each individual query above and then also give the result set for the UNION query, we could probably provide a better answer to your question. My gut reaction is that the second query may be returning a duplicate value, and since you are using UNION, duplicates are being removed. If you used UNION ALL, then all duplicate rows would be returned. For example, if the first query returned the row:
1 name1 description1 10 Home Y
2 name2 description2 20 Work Y
and the second row returned:
1 name1 description1 10 Home Y
The resulting output would be:
1 name1 description1 10 Home Y
2 name2 description2 20 Work Y
If you want all of the rows returned:
1 name1 description1 10 Home Y
2 name2 description2 20 Work Y
1 name1 description1 10 Home Y
Then you would use a UNION ALL instead of a UNION statement.
i think your fields userid and location are swapped in the two selects from the union, if of diferent data types, you will get an error, if not, you will get wrong results...is that it?
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 data like,
ID Name ItemA ItemB ItemC
OXZ234 Adam 4 4 5
OXZ234 Adam 1 2 3
OXZ345 Tarzen 6 7 8
OXDER2 William 9 8 2
OXDER2 William 0 8 0
I need to find how much of food each person eats. For example by referring first two records I can say, Adam of ID OXZ234 ate ItemA-5, ItemB-6 and ItemC-8. But for small amount of data this kind of manual calculation is affordable. I have a million data records like this. So initially I need to find the records which is having same ID and name but only items count differing.
I have tried the query to find duplicate records by grouping all columns like below,
select ID,Name,ItemA,ItemB,ItemC, COUNT(*)
from DATA_REFRESH
group by ID,Name,ItemA,ItemB,ItemC
having COUNT(*) > 1
But Now I have to identify records having items columns differed.
So the expected output is like,
OXZ234 Adam 2
OXDER2 William 2
OXZ345 Tarzen 1
Any suggestion would be helpful!
You want SUM
select ID,
Name,
sum(ItemA) as ItA,
sum(ItemB) as ItB,
sum(ItemC) as ItC,
count(ID) as Occurrences -- Counts the number of entries per person
from DATA_REFRESH
group by ID,Name
having count(ID) >1 -- restricts this so only those with more than one entry appear
Hi, You can have a simple query without having clause,
select ID,Name,COUNT(*)
from DATA_REFRESH
group by ID,Name order by COUNT(*) desc ;
Simply try like this,
select ID,Name,COUNT(*)
from Sample_Check
group by ID,Name
having COUNT(*) > 1
I want to run a union query on qry_1 in C:\DB\DB1.mdb and qry_2 in C:\DB\DB2.mdb
All examples I have seen only show how to run a Union Query on query's in the same database, how can you do this when the query's are in different databases?
EDIT ---
Grr, not quite displaying results like I was after. That shows each entry twice. Is there a way to only show the entry one time? For example if qry_1 returns Joe 14, Jack 16, Jimmy 12 and qry_2 returns Joe 22, Jack 48, Jimmy 66 is there a way to SUM those results in the UNION Query?
I tried changing the syntax to a group by like so, but didn't work:
Select Name, Count FROM [C:\DB\DB1.mdb].qry_1
UNION ALL
SELECT Name, Count FROM [C:\DB\DB2.mdb].qry_2
GROUP BY Name, Count
For your case nothing changed, use:
SELECT * FROM [C:\DB\DB1.mdb].qry_1
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM [C:\DB\DB2.mdb].qry_2
UPD: To SUM them i would recommend GROUP BY. Let's say we saved upper query as qry_U then try smth like this:
SELECT [Name], SUM([Numbers]) FROM [qry_U] GROUP BY [Name]
I have a table in my database which contains 5 rows. I am trying to write an sql statement that will retrieve all rows which only have 1 agency assigned to them.
case_id agency_ID
1 4
2 4
3 3
4 2
4 4
To clarify I would like to select the required rows (and any further rows) but only if the case_id is unique. Any rows with duplicates would be ommited.
I have tried to use DISTINCT(case_id), COUNT(*) to count all rows but it doesn't work and it's slowly sapping away my soul. It is probably an easy fix, but for the life of me I just can't see it.
Hope this is enough information to go on. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SELECT * FROM your_table GROUP BY case_id HAVING COUNT(agency_ID) = 1
You can try
SELECT case_id,agency_ID,COUNT(case_id) as c
FROM yourTable
GROUP BY case_id
HAVING (c=1)
Is it possible to sort in MySQL by "order by" using a predefined set of column values (ID) like order by (ID=1,5,4,3) so I would get records 1, 5, 4, 3 in that order out?
UPDATE: Why I need this...
I want my records to change sort randomly every 5 minutes. I have a cron task to update the table to put different, random sort order in it.
There is just one problem! PAGINATION.
I will have visitors who come to my page, and I will give them the first 20 results. They will wait 6 minutes, go to page 2 and have the wrong results as the sort order has already changed.
So I thought that if I put all the IDs into a session on page 2, we get the correct records even if the sorting had already changed.
Is there any other better way to do this?
You can use ORDER BY and FIELD function.
See http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/209784
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY FIELD(ID,1,5,4,3)
It uses Field() function, Which "Returns the index (position) of str in the str1, str2, str3, ... list. Returns 0 if str is not found" according to the documentation. So actually you sort the result set by the return value of this function which is the index of the field value in the given set.
You should be able to use CASE for this:
ORDER BY CASE id
WHEN 1 THEN 1
WHEN 5 THEN 2
WHEN 4 THEN 3
WHEN 3 THEN 4
ELSE 5
END
On the official documentation for mysql about ORDER BY, someone has posted that you can use FIELD for this matter, like this:
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY FIELD(id,1,5,4,3)
This is untested code that in theory should work.
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id='8' DESC, id='5' DESC, id='4' DESC, id='3' DESC
If I had 10 registries for example, this way the ID 1, 5, 4 and 3 will appears first, the others registries will appears next.
Normal exibition
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
With this way
8
5
4
3
1
2
6
7
9
10
There's another way to solve this. Add a separate table, something like this:
CREATE TABLE `new_order` (
`my_order` BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`my_number` BIGINT(20) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`my_order`),
UNIQUE KEY `my_number` (`my_number`)
) ENGINE=INNODB;
This table will now be used to define your own order mechanism.
Add your values in there:
my_order | my_number
---------+----------
1 | 1
2 | 5
3 | 4
4 | 3
...and then modify your SQL statement while joining this new table.
SELECT *
FROM your_table AS T1
INNER JOIN new_order AS T2 on T1.id = T2.my_number
WHERE ....whatever...
ORDER BY T2.my_order;
This solution is slightly more complex than other solutions, but using this you don't have to change your SELECT-statement whenever your order criteriums change - just change the data in the order table.
If you need to order a single id first in the result, use the id.
select id,name
from products
order by case when id=5 then -1 else id end
If you need to start with a sequence of multiple ids, specify a collection, similar to what you would use with an IN statement.
select id,name
from products
order by case when id in (30,20,10) then -1 else id end,id
If you want to order a single id last in the result, use the order by the case. (Eg: you want "other" option in last and all city list show in alphabetical order.)
select id,city
from city
order by case
when id = 2 then city else -1
end, city ASC
If i had 5 city for example, i want to show the city in alphabetical order with "other" option display last in the dropdown then we can use this query.
see example other are showing in my table at second id(id:2) so i am using "when id = 2" in above query.
record in DB table:
Bangalore - id:1
Other - id:2
Mumbai - id:3
Pune - id:4
Ambala - id:5
my output:
Ambala
Bangalore
Mumbai
Pune
Other
SELECT * FROM TABLE ORDER BY (columnname,1,2) ASC OR DESC