I have a requirement to load null if the total hours is less than previous total hours else the difference
iif(lesser(TOTAL_HOURS, PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS),null(),TOTAL_HOURS-PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS)
It gives me expression could not be evaluated.
Not all rows have values for these fields, some of them are null. They are numeric fields in database.
I just want to replace negative results with null
If you look at the document iif it says
iif(<condition> : boolean, <true_expression> : any, [<false_expression> : any]) => any
Based on a condition applies one value or the other. If other is
unspecified it is considered NULL. Both the values must be
compatible(numeric, string...).
Now as per your expression:
iif(lesser(TOTAL_HOURS, PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS),null(),TOTAL_HOURS-PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS)
since first value you have mentioned is of type null it expects TOTAL_HOURS-PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS must also return a same type null
What you can try is:
iif(lesser(TOTAL_HOURS, PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS),toInteger(null()),TOTAL_HOURS-PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS)
OR
case(TOTAL_HOURS < PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS, toInteger(null()), minus(TOTAL_HOURS,PREVIOUS_TOTAL_HOURS) )
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SELECT * FROM Entity e WHERE e.Status <> ANY(ARRAY[1,2,3]);
Here Status is a nullable integer column. Using the above query i am unable to fetch the records whose status value is NULL.
SELECT * FROM Entity e WHERE (e.Status is NULL OR e.Status = 4);
This query does the trick. Could someone explain me why the first query was not working as expected.
NULL kinda means "unknown", so the expressions
NULL = NULL
and
NULL != NULL
are neither true nor false, they're NULL. Because it is not known whether an "unknown" value is equal or unequal to another "unknown" value.
Since <> ANY uses an equality test, if the value searched in the array is NULL, then the result will be NULL.
So your second query is correct.
It is spelled out in the docs Array ANY:
If the array expression yields a null array, the result of ANY will be null. If the left-hand expression yields null, the result of ANY is ordinarily null (though a non-strict comparison operator could possibly yield a different result). Also, if the right-hand array contains any null elements and no true comparison result is obtained, the result of ANY will be null, not false (again, assuming a strict comparison operator). This is in accordance with SQL's normal rules for Boolean combinations of null values.
FYI:
e.Status is NULL OR e.Status = 4
can be shortened to:
e_status IS NOT DISTINCT FROM 4
per Comparison operators.
original query looks like this :
UPDATE reponse_question_finale t1, reponse_question_finale t2 SET
t1.nb_question_repondu = (9-(ISNULL(t1.valeur_question_4)+ISNULL(t1.valeur_question_6)+ISNULL(t1.valeur_question_7)+ISNULL(t1.valeur_question_9))) WHERE t1.APPLICATION = t2.APPLICATION;
I know you cannot update 2 tables in a single query so i tried this :
UPDATE reponse_question_finale t1
SET nb_question_repondu = (9-(COALESCE(t1.valeur_question_4,'')::int+COALESCE(t1.valeur_question_6,'')::int+COALESCE(t1.valeur_question_7)::int+COALESCE(t1.valeur_question_9,'')::int))
WHERE t1.APPLICATION = t1.APPLICATION;
But this query gaves me an error : invalid input syntax for integer: ""
I saw that the Postgres equivalent to MySQL is COALESCE() so i think i'm on the good way here.
I also know you cannot add varchar to varchar so i tried to cast it to integer to do that. I'm not sure if i casted it correctly with parenthesis at the good place and regarding to error maybe i cannot cast to int with coalesce.
Last thing, i can certainly do a co-related sub-select to update my two tables but i'm a little lost at this point.
The output must be an integer matching the number of questions answered to a backup survey.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
coalesce() returns the first non-null value from the list supplied. So, if the column value is null the expression COALESCE(t1.valeur_question_4,'') returns an empty string and that's why you get the error.
But it seems you want something completely different: you want check if the column is null (or empty) and then subtract a value if it is to count the number of non-null columns.
To return 1 if a value is not null or 0 if it isn't you can use:
(nullif(valeur_question_4, '') is null)::int
nullif returns null if the first value equals the second. The IS NULL condition returns a boolean (something that MySQL doesn't have) and that can be cast to an integer (where false will be cast to 0 and true to 1)
So the whole expression should be:
nb_question_repondu = 9 - (
(nullif(t1.valeur_question_4,'') is null)::int
+ (nullif(t1.valeur_question_6,'') is null)::int
+ (nullif(t1.valeur_question_7,'') is null)::int
+ (nullif(t1.valeur_question_9,'') is null)::int
)
Another option is to unpivot the columns and do a select on them in a sub-select:
update reponse_question_finale
set nb_question_repondu = (select count(*)
from (
values
(valeur_question_4),
(valeur_question_6),
(valeur_question_7),
(valeur_question_9)
) as t(q)
where nullif(trim(q),'') is not null);
Adding more columns to be considered is quite easy then, as you just need to add a single line to the values() clause
I'm using the following query to sum the entire column. In the TOREMOVEALLPRIV column, I have both integer and null values.
I want to sum both null and integer values and print the total sum value.
Here is my query which print the sum values as null:
select
sum(URT.PRODSYS) as URT_SUM_PRODSYS,
sum(URT.Users) as URT_SUM_USERS,
sum(URT.total_orphaned) as URT_SUM_TOTAL_ORPHANED,
sum(URT.Bp_errors) as URT_SUM_BP_ERRORS,
sum(URT.Ma_errors) as URT_SUM_MA_ERRORS,
sum(URT.Pp_errors) as URT_SUM_PP_ERRORS,
sum(URT.REQUIREURTCBN) as URT_SUM_CBNREQ,
sum(URT.REQUIREURTQEV) as URT_SUM_QEVREQ,
sum(URT.REQUIREURTPRIV) as URT_SUM_PRIVREQ,
sum(URT.cbnperf) as URT_SUM_CBNPERF,
sum(URT.qevperf) as URT_SUM_QEVPERF,
sum(URT.privperf) as URT_SUM_PRIVPERF,
sum(URT.TO_REMOVEALLPRIV) as TO_REMOVEALLPRIV_SUM
from
URTCUSTSTATUS URT
inner join CUSTOMER C on URT.customer_id=C.customer_id;
Output image:
Expected Output:
Instead of null, I need to print sum of rows whichever have integers.
The SUM function automatically handles that for you. You said the column had a mix of NULL and numbers; the SUM automatically ignores the NULL values and correctly returns the sum of the numbers. You can read it on IBM Knowledge Center:
The function is applied to the set of values derived from the argument values by the elimination of null values.
Note: All aggregate functions ignore NULL values except the COUNT function. Example: if you have two records with values 5 and NULL, the SUM and AVG functions will both return 5, but the COUNT function will return 2.
However, it seems that you misunderstood why you're getting NULL as a result. It's not because the column contains null values, it's because there are no records selected. That's the only case when the SUM function returns NULL. If you want to return zero in this case, you can use the COALESCE or IFNULL function. Both are the same for this scenario:
COALESCE(sum(URT.TO_REMOVEALLPRIV), 0) as TO_REMOVEALLPRIV_SUM
or
IFNULL(sum(URT.TO_REMOVEALLPRIV), 0) as TO_REMOVEALLPRIV_SUM
I'm guessing that you want to do the same to all other columns in your query, so I'm not sure why you only complained about the TO_REMOVEALLPRIV column.
What you're looking for is the COALESCE function:
select
sum(URT.PRODSYS) as URT_SUM_PRODSYS,
sum(URT.Users) as URT_SUM_USERS,
sum(URT.total_orphaned) as URT_SUM_TOTAL_ORPHANED,
sum(URT.Bp_errors) as URT_SUM_BP_ERRORS,
sum(URT.Ma_errors) as URT_SUM_MA_ERRORS,
sum(URT.Pp_errors) as URT_SUM_PP_ERRORS,
sum(URT.REQUIREURTCBN) as URT_SUM_CBNREQ,
sum(URT.REQUIREURTQEV) as URT_SUM_QEVREQ,
sum(URT.REQUIREURTPRIV) as URT_SUM_PRIVREQ,
sum(URT.cbnperf) as URT_SUM_CBNPERF,
sum(URT.qevperf) as URT_SUM_QEVPERF,
sum(URT.privperf) as URT_SUM_PRIVPERF,
sum(COALESCE(URT.TO_REMOVEALLPRIV,0)) as TO_REMOVEALLPRIV_SUM
from
URTCUSTSTATUS URT
inner join CUSTOMER C on URT.customer_id=C.customer_id;
I am using iReport designer. I have four columns in report. Value of one column will be calculated by doing sum summation and subtraction of other columns.
My result formula looks like this :
($V{cust_amount} == null ? new BigDecimal(0) : $V{cust_amount}).subtract( ($V{airlines_amount} == null ? new BigDecimal(0) : $V{airlines_amount}).subtract(($V{indi_amount} == null ? new BigDecimal(0) : $V{indi_amount}) ) )
But the result is coming just at the next row of the expected one. I am attaching a picture also.
Here the amount -15100 should come one the first row. But every value is coming just below the right row and first row is always null.
Your ternary expression seems fine - the problem is with value assignment to the variables you are using. The values are assigned after the first row is evaluated and either never change or they are assigned the same values over and over again.
You may fix value assignment to the variables but I recommend ditching the variables and using actual fields in the expression like this $F{cust_amount} - then you will be guaranteed proper value assignment before the row is printed.
I'm building a report in iReport 5.0.4, so far I have a crosstab table as follows
What I'm trying to do in Total 4 is having a total of sum3Measure but only of types "X" or "Y" (defined by the value in $V{col1}). I tried in Text Field Expression this:
$V{col1}.equals("X") || $V{col1}.equals("Y") ? $V{sum3Measure } : 0
but it returns always null. I did:
$V{col1}.equals("X") ? $V{sum3Measure } : 0
to test if the operator || is not valid but it returns null as well.
I used $V{row1} instead of $V{col1} to test it wasn't a problem different from the expression, it did the sum.
All measures are defined with Calculation type Sum
Is it possible to do what I want? if not, is there a workaround I can try?
Any help will be appreciated, if you need more info just let me know.