I am using Java DB (Java DB is Oracle's supported version of Apache Derby and contains the same binaries as Apache Derby. source: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javadb/overview/faqs-jsp-156714.html#1q2).
I am trying to update a column in one table, however I need to join that table with 2 other tables within the same database to get accurate results (not my design, nor my choice).
Below are my three tables, ADSID is a key linking Vehicles and Customers and ADDRESS and ZIP in Salesresp are used to link it to Customers. (Other fields left out for the sake of brevity.)
Salesresp(address, zip, prevsale)
Customers(adsid, address, zipcode)
Vehicles(adsid, selldate)
The goal is to find customers in the SalesResp table that have previously purchased a vehicle before the given date. They are identified by address and adsid in Customers and Vechiles respectively.
I have seen updates to a column with a single join and in fact asked a question about one of my own update/joins here (UPDATE with INNER JOIN). But now I need to take it that one step further and use both tables to get all the information.
I can get a multi-JOIN SELECT statement to work:
SELECT * FROM salesresp
INNER JOIN customers ON (SALESRESP.ZIP = customers.ZIPCODE) AND
(SALESRESP.ADDRESS = customers.ADDRESS)
INNER JOIN vehicles ON (Vehicles.ADSId =Customers.ADSId )
WHERE (VEHICLES.SELLDATE<'2013-09-24');
However I cannot get a multi-JOIN UPDATE statement to work.
I have attempted to try the update like this:
UPDATE salesresp SET PREVSALE = (SELECT SALESRESP.address FROM SALESRESP
WHERE SALESRESP.address IN (SELECT customers.address FROM customers
WHERE customers.adsid IN (SELECT vehicles.adsid FROM vehicles
WHERE vehicles.SELLDATE < '2013-09-24')));
And I am given this error: "Error code 30000, SQL state 21000: Scalar subquery is only allowed to return a single row".
But if I change that first "=" to a "IN" it gives me a syntax error for having encountered "IN" (Error code 30000, SQL state 42X01).
I also attempted to do more blatant inner joins, but upon attempting to execute this code I got the the same error as above: "Error code 30000, SQL state 42X01" with it complaining about my use of the "FROM" keyword.
update salesresp set prevsale = vehicles.selldate
from salesresp sr
inner join vehicles v
on sr.prevsale = v.selldate
inner join customers c
on v.adsid = c.adsid
where v.selldate < '2013-09-24';
And in a different configuration:
update salesresp
inner join customer on salesresp.address = customer.address
inner join vehicles on customer.adsid = vehicles.ADSID
set salesresp.SELLDATE = vehicles.selldate where vehicles.selldate < '2013-09-24';
Where it finds the "INNER" distasteful: Error code 30000, SQL state 42X01: Syntax error: Encountered "inner" at line 3, column 1.
What do I need to do to get this multi-join update query to work? Or is it simply not possible with this database?
Any advice is appreciated.
If I were you I would:
1) Turn off autocommit (if you haven't already)
2) Craft a select/join which returns a set of columns that identifies the record you want to update E.g. select c1, c2, ... from A join B join C... WHERE ...
3) Issue the update. E.g. update salesrep SET CX = cx where C1 = c1 AND C2 = c2 AND...
(Having an index on C1, C2, ... will boost performance)
4) Commit.
That way you don't have worry about mixing the update and the join, and doing it within a txn ensures that nothing can change the result of the join before your update goes through.
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I need to correct a datapoint in a pre-existing table. I am using multiple CTEs to find the bad value and the corresponding good value. I am having trouble working out how to overwrite the value in the table using the output of the CTE. Here is what I am trying:
with [extra CTEs here]....
,CTE3 AS (
SELECT c1.FIELD_1, c1.FIELD_2 AS GOOD, c2.FIELD_3 AS BAD
FROM CTE1 c1
JOIN CTE2 c2 ON c1.FIELD_1 = c2.FIELD_1
)
update TABLE1
set TABLE1.FIELD_3 = CTE3.GOOD
from CTE3
INNER JOIN TABLE1 ON CTE3.BAD = TABLE1.FIELD_3
Is it even possible to achieve this?
If so, how should I change my logic to get it to work?
Trying the above logic is throwing the following error:
SQL Error [42601]: An unexpected token "WITH CTE1 AS ( SELECT
FIELD_1" was found following "BEGIN-OF-STATEMENT". Expected tokens
may include: "<update>".. SQLCODE=-104, SQLSTATE=42601,
DRIVER=4.27.25
Table designs and expected output:
The challenge is to update a table by scanning that same table for information. In this case, I want to find how many entries I received in an Upload dataset that have the same key (effectively duplicate instructions).
I tried the obvious code:
UPDATE Base AS TAR
INNER JOIN (select cdKey, count(*) as ct FROM Base GROUP BY cdKey) AS CHK
ON TAR.cdKey = CHK.cdKey
SET ctReferences = CHK.ct
This resulted in a non-updateable complaint. Some workarounds talked about adding DISTINCTROW, but that made no difference.
I tried creating a view (query in Ms/Access parlance); same failure.
Then I projected the set (SELECT cdKey, count(*) INTO TEMP FROM Base GROUP BY cdKey), and substituted TEMP for the INNER JOIN which worked.
Conclusion: reflexive updates are also non-updateable.
An initial thought was to embed a sub-select in the update, for example:
UPDATE Base TAR SET TAR.ctReferences = (select count(*) from Base CHK where CHK.cd = TAR.cd)
This also failed.
As this is part of a job I am calling, this SQL (like the other statements) are all strings executed by CurrentDb.Execute statements. I thought maybe I could make this a DLookup, I found that as cd is a string, I had a gaggle of double- and triple-quoted elements that was too messy to read (and maintain).
Best solution was to write a function so I could avoid having to do any sort of string manipulation. Hence, in a module there's a function:
Public Function PassHelperCtOccurs(ByRef cdX As String) As Long
PassHelperCtOccurs = DLookup("count(*)", "Base", "cd='" & cdX & "'")
End Function
And the call is:
CurrentDb().Execute ("UPDATE Base SET ctOccursCd =PassHelperCtOccurs(cd)")
I have two tables I would like to call, but I am not sure if it is possible to combine them into one query or I have to some how call 2 different queries.
Basically I have 2 tables:
1) item_table: name/id etc. + category ID
2) category_table: categoryID, categoryName, categoryParentID.
The parent categories are also inside the same table with their own name.
I would like to call on my details from item_table, as well as getting the name of the category, as well as the NAME of the parent category.
I know how to get the item_table data, plus the categoryName through an INNER JOIN. But can I use the same query to get the categoryParent's name?
If not, what would be the mist efficient way to do it? The rest of the code is in C++.
SELECT item_table.item_name, c1.name AS CatName, c2.name AS ParentCatName
FROM item_table join category_table c1 on item_table.categoryID=c1.categoryID
LEFT OUTER JOIN category_table c2 ON c2.categoryID = c1.categoryParentID
SQL Fiddle: here
I have an SQL query that I have written using CTE. Now, I am moving the repository to use Entity Framework 5.
I am at a loss as to how to integrate (or rewrite) the CTE-based query using Entity Framework 5.
I am using POCO entities with the EF5 and have a bunch of Map classes. There is no EDMX file etc.
I feel like a total noob right now and would appreciate any help pointing me in the right direction.
The CTE query is as following
WITH CDE AS
(
SELECT * FROM collaboration.Workspace AS W WHERE W.Id = #WorkspaceId
UNION ALL
SELECT W.* FROM collaboration.Workspace AS W INNER JOIN CDE ON W.ParentId = CDE.Id AND W.ParentId <> '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
)
SELECT
W.Id AS Id,
W.Name AS Name,
W.Description AS Description,
MAX(WH.ActionedTimeUtc) AS LastUpdatedTimeUtc,
WH.ActorId AS LastUpdateUserId
FROM
collaboration.Workspace AS W
INNER JOIN
collaboration.WorkspaceHistory AS WH ON W.Id = WH.WorkspaceId
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT TOP 10
CDE.Id
FROM
CDE
INNER JOIN
collaboration.WorkspaceHistory AS WH ON WH.WorkspaceId = CDE.Id
WHERE
CDE.Id <> #WorkspaceId
GROUP BY
CDE.Id,
CDE.ParentId,
WH.ActorId,
WH.Action
HAVING
WH.ActorId = #UserId
AND
WH.Action <> 4
ORDER BY
COUNT(*) DESC
) AS Q ON Q.Id = WH.WorkspaceId
GROUP BY
W.Id,
W.Name,
W.Description,
WH.ActorId
HAVING
WH.ActorId = #UserId
You must create stored procedure for your SQL query (or use that query directly) and execute it through dbContext.Database.SqlQuery. You are using code-first approach where you don't have any other options. In EDMX you could use mapped table valued function but code-first doesn't have such option yet.
I have built a stored procedure which takes array of ids as input parameter and return data table using recursive cte query Take a look at the code here it's using EF and code first approach
class Log:
project = ForeignKey(Project)
msg = CharField(...)
date = DateField(...)
I want to select the four most recent Log entries where each Log entry must have a unique project foreign key. I've tries the solutions on google search but none of them works and the django documentation isn't that very good for lookup..
I tried stuff like:
Log.objects.all().distinct('project')[:4]
Log.objects.values('project').distinct()[:4]
Log.objects.values_list('project').distinct('project')[:4]
But this either return nothing or Log entries of the same project..
Any help would be appreciated!
Queries don't work like that - either in Django's ORM or in the underlying SQL. If you want to get unique IDs, you can only query for the ID. So you'll need to do two queries to get the actual Log entries. Something like:
id_list = Log.objects.order_by('-date').values_list('project_id').distinct()[:4]
entries = Log.objects.filter(id__in=id_list)
Actually, you can get the project_ids in SQL. Assuming that you want the unique project ids for the four projects with the latest log entries, the SQL would look like this:
SELECT project_id, max(log.date) as max_date
FROM logs
GROUP BY project_id
ORDER BY max_date DESC LIMIT 4;
Now, you actually want all of the log information. In PostgreSQL 8.4 and later you can use windowing functions, but that doesn't work on other versions/databases, so I'll do it the more complex way:
SELECT logs.*
FROM logs JOIN (
SELECT project_id, max(log.date) as max_date
FROM logs
GROUP BY project_id
ORDER BY max_date DESC LIMIT 4 ) as latest
ON logs.project_id = latest.project_id
AND logs.date = latest.max_date;
Now, if you have access to windowing functions, it's a bit neater (I think anyway), and certainly faster to execute:
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT logs.field1, logs.field2, logs.field3, logs.date
rank() over ( partition by project_id
order by "date" DESC ) as dateorder
FROM logs ) as logsort
WHERE dateorder = 1
ORDER BY logs.date DESC LIMIT 1;
OK, maybe it's not easier to understand, but take my word for it, it runs worlds faster on a large database.
I'm not entirely sure how that translates to object syntax, though, or even if it does. Also, if you wanted to get other project data, you'd need to join against the projects table.
I know this is an old post, but in Django 2.0, I think you could just use:
Log.objects.values('project').distinct().order_by('project')[:4]
You need two querysets. The good thing is it still results in a single trip to the database (though there is a subquery involved).
latest_ids_per_project = Log.objects.values_list(
'project').annotate(latest=Max('date')).order_by(
'-latest').values_list('project')
log_objects = Log.objects.filter(
id__in=latest_ids_per_project[:4]).order_by('-date')
This looks a bit convoluted, but it actually results in a surprisingly compact query:
SELECT "log"."id",
"log"."project_id",
"log"."msg"
"log"."date"
FROM "log"
WHERE "log"."id" IN
(SELECT U0."id"
FROM "log" U0
GROUP BY U0."project_id"
ORDER BY MAX(U0."date") DESC
LIMIT 4)
ORDER BY "log"."date" DESC