While working with postgres db, I came across a situation where I will have to display column names based on their ids stored in a table with comma separated. Here is a sample:
table1 name: labelprint
id field_id
1 1,2
table2 name: datafields
id field_name
1 Age
2 Name
3 Sex
Now in order to display the field name by picking ids from table1 i.e. 1,2 from field_id column, I want the field_name to be displayed in same order as their respective ids as
Expected result:
id field_id field_name
1 2,1 Name,Age
To achieve the above result, I have written the following query:
select l.id,l.field_id ,string_agg(d.field_name,',') as field_names
from labelprint l
join datafields d on d.id = ANY(string_to_array(l.field_id::text,','))
group by l.id
order by l.id
However, the string_agg() functions sort the final string in ascending order and displays the output as shown below:
id field_id field_name
1 2,1 Age, Name
As you can see the order is not maintained in the field_name column which I want to display as per field_id value order.
Any suggestion/help is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Already mentioned in the description.
While this will probably be horrible for performance, as well as readability and maintainability, you can dynamically compute the order you want:
select l.id,l.field_id,
string_agg(d.field_name,','
order by array_position(string_to_array(l.field_id::text,','),d.id)
) as field_names
from labelprint l
join datafields d on d.id = ANY(string_to_array(l.field_id::text,','))
group by l.id
order by l.id;
You should at least store your array as an actual array, not as a comma delimited string. Or maybe use an intermediate table and don't store arrays at all.
With a small modification to your existing query you could do it as follows :
select l.id, l.field_id, string_agg(d.field_name,',') as field_names
from labelprint l
join datafields d on d.id::varchar = ANY(string_to_array(l.field_id,','))
group by l.id, l.field_id
order by l.id
Demo here
Related
SELECT lkey, max(votecount) FROM VOTES
WHERE ekey = (SELECT ekey FROM Elections where electionid='NR2019')
GROUP BY lkey
ORDER BY lkey ASC
Is there an easy way to get the pkey in this Statement?
Solution should look like this
Use DISTINCT ON:
SELECT DISTINCT ON (v.ikey) v.*
FROM VOTES v
INNER JOIN Elections e ON e.ekey = v.ekey
WHERE e.electionid = 'NR2019'
ORDER BY v.ikey, v.votecount DESC;
In plain English, the above query says to return the single record for each ikey value having the highest vote count.
Given that I have a list of repeating ids that I need to fetch some additional data to populate xls spreadsheet, how can I do that. "IN" clause returns only 1 match, but I need a row for each occurrence of an Id. I looked at PIVOT, thinking I could create a select list and then do inner join.
Select m.Id, m.LegalName, m.OtherId
from MyTable m
where m.OtherId in (1,2,1,1,3,1,4,4,2,1)
You can use VALUES clause :
SELECT t.id as OtherId, m.id, m.LegalName
FROM ( VALUES (1),(2),(1),(1),(3),(1),(4),(4),(2),(1)
) t(ID) INNER JOIN
MyTable m
ON m.OtherId = t.id;
Input data
I have the following association table:
AssociationTable
- Item ID: Integer
- Tag ID: Integer
Referring to the following example data
Item Tag
1 1
1 2
1 3
2 1
and some input list of tags T (e.g. [1, 2])
What I want
For each item, I would like to know which tags were not provided in the input list T.
With our sample data, we'd get:
Item Num missing
1 1
2 0
My thoughts
The best I've done so far is: select "ItemId", count("TagId") as "Num missing" from "AssociationTab" where "TagId" not in (1) group by "ItemId";
The problem here is that items where all tags match will not be included in the output.
You could use a calendar table with anti-join approach:
WITH cte AS (
SELECT t1.Item, t2.Tag
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT Item FROM AssociationTable) t1
CROSS JOIN (SELECT 1 AS Tag UNION ALL SELECT 2) t2
)
SELECT
t1.Item,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE t2.Item IS NULL) AS num_missing
FROM cte t1
LEFT JOIN AssociationTable t2
ON t1.Item = t2.Item AND
t1.Tag = t2.Tag AND
t2.Tag IN (1, 2)
GROUP BY
t1.Item;
Demo
The strategy here is to build a calendar/reference table in the first CTE which contains all combinations of items and tags. Then, we left join this CTE to your association table, aggregate by item, and then detect how many tags are missing for each item.
Simplest solution is
SELECT
ItemId,
count(*) FILTER (WHERE TagId NOT IN (1,2))
FROM AssociationTab
GROUP BY ItemId
Alternatively, if you already have an Items table with the item list, you could do this:
SELECT
i.ItemId,
count(a.TagId)
FROM Items i
LEFT JOIN AssociationTab a ON a.ItemId = i.ItemId AND a.TagId NOT IN (1,2)
GROUP BY i.ItemId
The key is that LEFT JOIN does not remove the Items row if no tags match.
I have a temp table with multiple rows in it and each row has a column called Categories; which contains a very simple json array of ids for categories in a different table.
A few example rows of the temp table:
Id Name Categories
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'539f7e28-143e-41bb-8814-a7b93b846007' Test 1 ["category1Id", "category2Id", "category3Id"]
'f29e2ecf-6e37-4aa9-aa56-4a351d298bfc' Test 2 ["category1Id", "category2Id"]
'34e41a0a-ad92-4cd7-bf5c-8df6bfd6ed5c' Test 3 NULL
Now what I would like to do is to select all of the category ids from all of the rows in the temp table.
What I have is the following and it's not working as it's giving me the error of :
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
SELECT
c.Id
,c.[Name]
,c.Color
FROM
dbo.Category as c
WHERE
c.Id in (SELECT [value] FROM OPENJSON((SELECT Categories FROM #TempTable)))
and c.IsDeleted = 0
Which I guess it makes sense that's failing on that because I'm selecting multiple rows and needing to parse each row's respective category ids json. I'm just not sure what to do/change to give me the results that I want. Thank you in advance for any help.
You'd need to use CROSS APPLY like so:
SELECT id ,
name ,
t.Value AS category_id
FROM #temp
CROSS APPLY OPENJSON(categories, '$') t;
And then, you can JOIN to your Categories table using the category_id column, something like this:
SELECT id ,
name ,
t.Value AS category_id,
c.*
FROM #temp
CROSS APPLY OPENJSON(categories, '$') t
LEFT JOIN Categories c ON c.Id = t.Value
I'm trying to find all IDs in TableA that are mentioned by a set of records in TableB and that set if defined in Table C. I've come so far to the point where a set of INNER JOIN provide me with the following result:
TableA.ID | TableB.Code
-----------------------
1 | A
1 | B
2 | A
3 | B
I want to select only the ID where in this case there is an entry for both A and B, but where the values A and B are based on another Query.
I figured this should be possible with a GROUP BY TableA.ID and HAVING = ALL(Subquery on table C).
But that is returning no values.
Since you did not post your original query, I will assume it is inside a CTE. Assuming this, the query you want is something along these lines:
SELECT ID
FROM cte
WHERE Code IN ('A', 'B')
GROUP BY ID
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT Code) = 2;
It's an extremely poor question, but you you probably need to compare distinct counts against table C
SELECT a.ID
FROM TableA a
GROUP BY a.ID
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT a.Code) = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TableC)
We're guessing though.