I have an AWS database with multiple tables that I am trying to get the row counts for in a single query.
The ideal query output would be:
table_name row_count
table2_name row_count
etc...
So far I've been able to either get all the table names from the database or all the rowcounts of the tables (in random order), but not both in the same query.
This query returns a column of all the table names that exist in the database:
SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = '<database_name>';
This query returns all the row counts for the tables:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_name
UNION ALL
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table2_name
UNION ALL
etc..for the rest of the tables
The issue with this query is that is displays the row counts in a random order that doesn't correspond with the order of the tables in the query, and so I don't know which row count goes with which table - hence why I need both the table names and row counts.
Simply add the names of the tables as literals in your queries:
SELECT 'table_name' AS table_name, COUNT(*) AS row_count FROM table_name
UNION ALL
SELECT 'table_name2' AS table_name, COUNT(*) AS row_count FROM table_name2
UNION ALL
…
The following query generates the UNION query to produce counts of all records.
The problem to solve is that (as of December 2022) INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES incorrectly defines every table and view as a BASE TABLE so you will need some logic to eliminate the views.
In Data Warehousing it is common practise to record snapshots of the record counts of landing tables at frequent intervals. Any unexpected deviations from expected counts can be used for reporting/alerting
WITH Table_List AS (
SELECT table_schema,table_name, CONCAT('SELECT CURRENT_DATE AS run_date, ''',table_name, ''' AS table_name, COUNT(*) AS Records FROM "',table_schema,'"."', table_name, '"') AS BaseSQL
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE
table_schema = 'YOUR_DB_NAME' -- Change this
AND table_name LIKE 'YOUR TABLE PATTERN%' -- Change or remove this line
)
, Total_Records AS (
SELECT COUNT(*) AS Table_Count
FROM Table_List
)
SELECT
CASE WHEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY table_name) = Table_Count
THEN BaseSQL
ELSE CONCAT(BaseSql, ' UNION ALL') END AS All_Table_Record_count_SQL
FROM Table_List CROSS JOIN Total_Records
ORDER BY table_name;
How to get a list of missing dates from a BigQuery table. For e.g. a table(test_table) is populated everyday by some job but on few days the jobs fails and data isn't written into the table.
Use Case:
We have a table(test_table) which is populated everyday by some job( a scheduled query or cloud function).Sometimes those job fail and data isn't available for those particular dates in my table.
How to find those dates rather than scrolling through thousands of rows.
The below query will return me a list of dates and ad_ids where data wasn't uploaded (null).
note: I have used MAX(Date) as I knew dates was missing in between my boundary dates. For safe side you can also specify the starting_date and ending_date incase data hasn't been populated in the last few days at all.
WITH Date_Range AS
-- anchor for date range
(
SELECT MIN(DATE) as starting_date,
MAX(DATE) AS ending_date
FROM `project_name.dataset_name.test_table`
),
day_series AS
-- anchor to get all the dates within the range
(
SELECT *
FROM Date_Range
,UNNEST(GENERATE_TIMESTAMP_ARRAY(starting_date, ending_date, INTERVAL 1 DAY)) AS days
-- other options depending on your date type ( mine was timestamp)
-- GENERATE_DATETIME_ARRAY or GENERATE_DATE_ARRAY
)
SELECT
day_series.days,
original_table.ad_id
FROM day_series
-- do a left join on the source table
LEFT JOIN `project_name.dataset_name.test_table` AS original_table ON (original_table.date)= day_series.days
-- I only want the records where data is not available or in other words empty/missing
WHERE original_table.ad_id IS NULL
GROUP BY 1,2
ORDER BY 1
Final output will look like below:
An Alternate solution you can try following query to get desired output:-
with t as (select 1 as id, cast ('2020-12-25' as timestamp) Days union all
select 1 as id, cast ('2020-12-26' as timestamp) Days union all
select 1 as id, cast ('2020-12-27' as timestamp) Days union all
select 1 as id, cast ('2020-12-31' as timestamp) Days union all
select 1 as id, cast ('2021-01-01' as timestamp) Days union all
select 1 as id, cast ('2021-01-04' as timestamp) Days)
SELECT *
FROM (
select TIMESTAMP_ADD(Days, INTERVAL 1 DAY) AS Days, TIMESTAMP_SUB(next_days, INTERVAL 1 DAY) AS next_days from (
select t.Days,
(case when lag(Days) over (partition by id order by Days) = Days
then NULL
when lag(Days) over (partition by id order by Days) is null
then Null
else Lead(Days) over (partition by id order by Days)
end) as next_days
from t) where next_days is not null
and Days <> TIMESTAMP_SUB(next_days, INTERVAL 1 DAY)),
UNNEST(GENERATE_TIMESTAMP_ARRAY(Days, next_days, INTERVAL 1 DAY)) AS days
Output will be as :-
I used the code above but had to restructure it for BigQuery:
-- anchor for date range - this will select dates from the source table (i.e. the table your query runs off of)
WITH day_series AS(
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT MIN(DATE) as starting_date,
MAX(DATE) AS ending_date
FROM --enter source table here--
---OPTIONAL: filter for a specific date range
WHERE DATE BETWEEN 'YYYY-MM-DD' AND YYYY-MM-DD'
),UNNEST(GENERATE_DATE_ARRAY(starting_date, ending_date, INTERVAL 1 DAY)) as days
-- other options depending on your date type ( mine was timestamp)
-- GENERATE_DATETIME_ARRAY or GENERATE_DATE_ARRAY
)
SELECT
day_series.days,
output_table.date
FROM day_series
-- do a left join on the output table (i.e. the table you are searching the missing dates for)
LEFT JOIN `project_name.dataset_name.test_table` AS output_table
ON (output_table.date)= day_series.days
-- I only want the records where data is not available or in other words empty/missing
WHERE output_table.date IS NULL
GROUP BY 1,2
ORDER BY 1
So I have a list of keywords:
['xxxxl','xxxl','xxl','xl','xxxxt','xxxt','xxt','xt']
In bigquery, I want to write a regex, inside the following sql code
SELECT my_column
FROM table
REGEXP_CONTAINS(lower(my_column),regex)
so that my output table contains only the values that don't match any of the items in keywords list.
Thanks
Below is for BigQuery Standard SQL
#standardSQL
WITH `project.dataset.lookup_table` AS (
SELECT ['xxxxl','xxxl','xxl','xl','xxxxt','xxxt','xxt','xt'] keywords
)
SELECT my_column
FROM `project.dataset.table`,
(SELECT STRING_AGG(LOWER(keyword), '|') exclude_pattern
FROM `project.dataset.lookup_table`,
UNNEST(keywords) keyword)
WHERE NOT REGEXP_CONTAINS(LOWER(my_column), exclude_pattern)
You can test / play with above using below simplified example
#standardSQL
WITH `project.dataset.lookup_table` AS (
SELECT ['xxxxl','xxxl','xxl','xl','xxxxt','xxxt','xxt','xt'] keywords
), `project.dataset.table` AS (
SELECT 'xxxxl' my_column UNION ALL
SELECT 'abc'
)
SELECT my_column
FROM `project.dataset.table`,
(SELECT STRING_AGG(LOWER(keyword), '|') exclude_pattern
FROM `project.dataset.lookup_table`,
UNNEST(keywords) keyword)
WHERE NOT REGEXP_CONTAINS(LOWER(my_column), exclude_pattern)
with output
Row my_column
1 abc
I am wondering how to convert comma-delimited values into rows in Redshift. I am afraid that my own solution isn't optimal. Please advise. I have table with one of the columns with coma-separated values. For example:
I have:
user_id|user_name|user_action
-----------------------------
1 | Shone | start,stop,cancell...
I would like to see
user_id|user_name|parsed_action
-------------------------------
1 | Shone | start
1 | Shone | stop
1 | Shone | cancell
....
A slight improvement over the existing answer is to use a second "numbers" table that enumerates all of the possible list lengths and then use a cross join to make the query more compact.
Redshift does not have a straightforward method for creating a numbers table that I am aware of, but we can use a bit of a hack from https://www.periscope.io/blog/generate-series-in-redshift-and-mysql.html to create one using row numbers.
Specifically, if we assume the number of rows in cmd_logs is larger than the maximum number of commas in the user_action column, we can create a numbers table by counting rows. To start, let's assume there are at most 99 commas in the user_action column:
select
(row_number() over (order by true))::int as n
into numbers
from cmd_logs
limit 100;
If we want to get fancy, we can compute the number of commas from the cmd_logs table to create a more precise set of rows in numbers:
select
n::int
into numbers
from
(select
row_number() over (order by true) as n
from cmd_logs)
cross join
(select
max(regexp_count(user_action, '[,]')) as max_num
from cmd_logs)
where
n <= max_num + 1;
Once there is a numbers table, we can do:
select
user_id,
user_name,
split_part(user_action,',',n) as parsed_action
from
cmd_logs
cross join
numbers
where
split_part(user_action,',',n) is not null
and split_part(user_action,',',n) != '';
Another idea is to transform your CSV string into JSON first, followed by JSON extract, along the following lines:
... '["' || replace( user_action, '.', '", "' ) || '"]' AS replaced
... JSON_EXTRACT_ARRAY_ELEMENT_TEXT(replaced, numbers.i) AS parsed_action
Where "numbers" is the table from the first answer. The advantage of this approach is the ability to use built-in JSON functionality.
If you know that there are not many actions in your user_action column, you use recursive sub-querying with union all and therefore avoiding the aux numbers table.
But it requires you to know the number of actions for each user, either adjust initial table or make a view or a temporary table for it.
Data preparation
Assuming you have something like this as a table:
create temporary table actions
(
user_id varchar,
user_name varchar,
user_action varchar
);
I'll insert some values in it:
insert into actions
values (1, 'Shone', 'start,stop,cancel'),
(2, 'Gregory', 'find,diagnose,taunt'),
(3, 'Robot', 'kill,destroy');
Here's an additional table with temporary count
create temporary table actions_with_counts
(
id varchar,
name varchar,
num_actions integer,
actions varchar
);
insert into actions_with_counts (
select user_id,
user_name,
regexp_count(user_action, ',') + 1 as num_actions,
user_action
from actions
);
This would be our "input table" and it looks just as you expected
select * from actions_with_counts;
id
name
num_actions
actions
2
Gregory
3
find,diagnose,taunt
3
Robot
2
kill,destroy
1
Shone
3
start,stop,cancel
Again, you can adjust initial table and therefore skipping adding counts as a separate table.
Sub-query to flatten the actions
Here's the unnesting query:
with recursive tmp (user_id, user_name, idx, user_action) as
(
select id,
name,
1 as idx,
split_part(actions, ',', 1) as user_action
from actions_with_counts
union all
select user_id,
user_name,
idx + 1 as idx,
split_part(actions, ',', idx + 1)
from actions_with_counts
join tmp on actions_with_counts.id = tmp.user_id
where idx < num_actions
)
select user_id, user_name, user_action as parsed_action
from tmp
order by user_id;
This will create a new row for each action, and the output would look like this:
user_id
user_name
parsed_action
1
Shone
start
1
Shone
stop
1
Shone
cancel
2
Gregory
find
2
Gregory
diagnose
2
Gregory
taunt
3
Robot
kill
3
Robot
destroy
Here are two ways to achieve this.
In my example, I'm assuming that I am accepting a comma separated list of values. My values look like schema.table.column.
The first involves using a recursive CTE.
drop table if exists #dep_tbl;
create table #dep_tbl as
select 'schema.foobar.insert_ts,schema.baz.load_ts' as dep
;
with recursive tmp (level, dep_split, to_split) as
(
select 1 as level
, split_part(dep, ',', 1) as dep_split
, regexp_count(dep, ',') as to_split
from #dep_tbl
union all
select tmp.level + 1 as level
, split_part(a.dep, ',', tmp.level + 1) as dep_split_u
, tmp.to_split
from #dep_tbl a
inner join tmp on tmp.dep_split is not null
and tmp.level <= tmp.to_split
)
select dep_split from tmp;
the above yields:
|dep_split|
|schema.foobar.insert_ts|
|schema.baz.load_ts|
The second involves a stored procedure.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE so_test(dependencies_csv varchar(max))
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $$
DECLARE
dependencies_csv_vals varchar(max);
BEGIN
drop table if exists #dep_holder;
create table #dep_holder
(
avoid varchar(60000)
);
IF dependencies_csv is not null THEN
dependencies_csv_vals:='('||replace(quote_literal(regexp_replace(dependencies_csv,'\\s','')),',', '\'),(\'') ||')';
execute 'insert into #dep_holder values '||dependencies_csv_vals||';';
END IF;
END;
$$
;
call so_test('schema.foobar.insert_ts,schema.baz.load_ts')
select
*
from
#dep_holder;
the above yields:
|dep_split|
|schema.foobar.insert_ts|
|schema.baz.load_ts|
in conclusion
If you only care about one single column in your input (the X delimited values), then I think the stored procedure is easier/faster.
However, if you have other columns you care about and want to keep those columns along with your comma separated value column now transformed to rows, OR, if you want to know the argument (original list of delimited values), I think the stored procedure is the way to go. In that case, you can just add those other columns to your columns selected in the recursive query.
You can get the expected result with the following query. I'm using "UNION ALL" to convert a column to row.
select user_id, user_name, split_part(user_action,',',1) as parsed_action from cmd_logs
union all
select user_id, user_name, split_part(user_action,',',2) as parsed_action from cmd_logs
union all
select user_id, user_name, split_part(user_action,',',3) as parsed_action from cmd_logs
Here's my equally-terrible answer.
I have a users table, and then an events table with a column that is just a comma-delimited string of users at said event. eg
event_id | user_ids
1 | 5,18,25,99,105
In this case, I used the LIKE and wildcard functions to build a new table that represents each event-user edge.
SELECT e.event_id, u.id as user_id
FROM events e
LEFT JOIN users u ON e.user_ids like '%' || u.id || '%'
It's not pretty, but I throw it in a WITH clause so that I don't have to run it more than once per query. I'll likely just build an ETL to create that table every night anyway.
Also, this only works if you have a second table that does have one row per unique possibility. If not, you could do LISTAGG to get a single cell with all your values, export that to a CSV and reupload that as a table to help.
Like I said: a terrible, no-good solution.
Late to the party but I got something working (albeit very slow though)
with nums as (select n::int n
from
(select
row_number() over (order by true) as n
from table_with_enough_rows_to_cover_range)
cross join
(select
max(json_array_length(json_column)) as max_num
from table_with_json_column )
where
n <= max_num + 1)
select *, json_extract_array_element_text(json_column,nums.n-1) parsed_json
from nums, table_with_json_column
where json_extract_array_element_text(json_column,nums.n-1) != ''
and nums.n <= json_array_length(json_column)
Thanks to answer by Bob Baxley for inspiration
Just improvement for the answer above https://stackoverflow.com/a/31998832/1265306
Is generating numbers table using the following SQL
https://discourse.looker.com/t/generating-a-numbers-table-in-mysql-and-redshift/482
SELECT
p0.n
+ p1.n*2
+ p2.n * POWER(2,2)
+ p3.n * POWER(2,3)
+ p4.n * POWER(2,4)
+ p5.n * POWER(2,5)
+ p6.n * POWER(2,6)
+ p7.n * POWER(2,7)
as number
INTO numbers
FROM
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p0,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p1,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p2,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p3,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p4,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p5,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p6,
(SELECT 0 as n UNION SELECT 1) p7
ORDER BY 1
LIMIT 100
"ORDER BY" is there only in case you want paste it without the INTO clause and see the results
create a stored procedure that will parse string dynamically and populatetemp table, select from temp table.
here is the magic code:-
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE public.sp_string_split( "string" character varying )
AS $$
DECLARE
cnt INTEGER := 1;
no_of_parts INTEGER := (select REGEXP_COUNT ( string , ',' ));
sql VARCHAR(MAX) := '';
item character varying := '';
BEGIN
-- Create table
sql := 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS split_table (part VARCHAR(255)) ';
RAISE NOTICE 'executing sql %', sql ;
EXECUTE sql;
<<simple_loop_exit_continue>>
LOOP
item = (select split_part("string",',',cnt));
RAISE NOTICE 'item %', item ;
sql := 'INSERT INTO split_table SELECT '''||item||''' ';
EXECUTE sql;
cnt = cnt + 1;
EXIT simple_loop_exit_continue WHEN (cnt >= no_of_parts + 2);
END LOOP;
END ;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
Usage example:-
call public.sp_string_split('john,smith,jones');
select *
from split_table
You can try copy command to copy your file into redshift tables
copy table_name from 's3://mybucket/myfolder/my.csv' CREDENTIALS 'aws_access_key_id=my_aws_acc_key;aws_secret_access_key=my_aws_sec_key' delimiter ','
You can use delimiter ',' option.
For more details of copy command options you can visit this page
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_COPY.html