How can I write a calculation field in a table that outputs '1' if there are other (related) records in the same table that meet a given set of criteria and '0' otherwise?
Here's my problem explained in more detail:
I have a table containing 'students' and another containing 'exam results'. The 'exam results' table looks like this:
StudentID SubjectID Level Result
3234 1 2 A-
3234 2 4 B+
4739 1 4 C+
A student can only pass a Level 4 exam in subject 2 if they have also passed a Level 2 exam in subject 1 with a B+ or higher. I want to define a field in the 'students' table that contains a '1' if there exists an exam result belonging to the right student that meets these criteria and a '0' otherwise.
What would be the best way to do this?
Let us take an example of a Results table where the results are also calculated as a numeric value, e.g.
StudentID SubjectID Level Result cResultNum
3234 1 2 A- 95
3234 2 4 B+ 85
4739 1 4 C+ 75
and an Exams table with the following fields (among others):
RequiredSubjectID
RequiredLevel
RequiredResultNum
Given these, you can construct a relationship between Exams and (another occurrence of) Results as:
Exams::RequiredSubjectID = Results 2::SubjectID
AND
Exams::RequiredLevel = Results 2::Level
AND
Exams::RequiredResultNum ≤ Results 2::cResultNum
This allows each exam record to calculate a list of students that are eligible to take that exam as =
List ( Results 2::StudentID )
I want to define a field in the 'students' table that contains a '1'
if there exists an exam result belonging to the right student that
meets these criteria and a '0' otherwise.
This request is unclear, because there are many exams a student may want to take, and a field in the Students table can calculate only one result.
You need to do a self-join in the table for the field you want to check, for example:
Exam::Level = Exam2::Level
Exam::Student = Exam2::Student
And for the "was passed" criteria I think you could do an "If" on the calculation like this:
If ( Last(Exam2::Result) = "D" and ...(all the pass values) ; 1 ; 0 )
Edit:
It could be just with the not pass value hehe I miss that it will be like this:
If ( Last(Exam2::Result) = "F" ; 0 ; 1 )
I hope this helps you.
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Say I have a table called list, where there are items like these (the ids are random uuids):
id rank text
--- ----- -----
x 0 Hello
x 1 World
x 2 Foo
x 3 Bar
x 4 Baz
I want to maintain the property that rank column always goes from 0 to n-1 (n being the number of rows)---if a client asks to insert an item with rank = 3, then the pg server should push the current 3 and 4 to 4 and 5, respectively:
id rank text
--- ----- -----
x 0 Hello
x 1 World
x 2 Foo
x 3 New Item!
x 4 Bar
x 5 Baz
My current strategy is to have a dedicated insertion function add_item(item) that scans through the table, filter out items with rank equal or greater than that of the item being inserted, and increment those ranks by one. However, I think this approach will run into all sorts of problems---like race conditions.
Is there a more standard practice or more robust approach?
Note: The rank column is completely independent of rest of the columns, and insertion is not the only operation I need to support. Think of it as the back-end of a sortable to-do list, and the user can add/delete/reorder the items on the fly.
Doing verbatim what you suggest might be difficult or not possible at all, but I can suggest a workaround. Maintain a new column ts which stores the time a record is inserted. Then, insert the current time along with rest of the record, i.e.
id rank text ts
--- ----- ----- --------------------
x 0 Hello 2017-12-01 12:34:23
x 1 World 2017-12-03 04:20:01
x 2 Foo ...
x 3 New Item! 2017-12-12 11:26:32
x 3 Bar 2017-12-10 14:05:43
x 4 Baz ...
Now we can easily generate the ordering you want via a query:
SELECT id, rank, text,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY rank, ts DESC) new_rank
FROM yourTable;
This would generate 0 to 5 ranks in the above sample table. The basic idea is to just use the already existing rank column, but to let the timestamp break the tie in ordering should the same rank appear more than once.
you can wrap it up to function if you think its worth of:
t=# with u as (
update r set rank = rank + 1 where rank >= 3
)
insert into r values('x',3,'New val!')
;
INSERT 0 1
the result:
t=# select * from r;
id | rank | text
----+------+----------
x | 0 | Hello
x | 1 | World
x | 2 | Foo
x | 3 | New val!
x | 4 | Bar
x | 5 | Baz
(6 rows)
also worth of mention you might have concurrency "chasing condition" problem on highly loaded systems. the code above is just a sample
You can have a “computed rank” which is a double precision and a “displayed rank” which is an integer that is computed using the row_number window function on output.
When a row is inserted that should rank between two rows, compute the new rank as the arithmetic mean of the two ranks.
The advantage is that you don't have to update existing rows.
The down side is that you have to calculate the displayed ranks before you can insert a new row so that you know where to insert it.
This solution (like all others) are subject to race conditions.
To deal with these, you can either use table locks or serializable transactions.
The only way to prevent a race condition would be to lock the table
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-lock.html
Of course this would slow you down if there are lots of updates and inserts.
If can somehow limit the scope of your updates then you can do a SELECT .... FOR UPDATE on that scope. For example if the records have a parent_id you can do a select for update on the parent record first and any other insert who does the same select for update would have to wait till your transaction is done.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.html#:~:text=5.-,Advisory%20Locks,application%20to%20use%20them%20correctly.
Read the section on advisory locks to see if you can use those in your application. They are not enforced by the system so you'll need to be careful of how you write your application.
I have a portal on my "Clients" table. The related table contains the results of surveys that are updated over time. For each combination of client and category (a field in the related table), I only want the portal to display the most recently collected row.
Here is a link to a trivial example that illustrates the issue I'm trying to address. I have two tables in this example (Related on ClientID):
Clients
Table 1 Get Summary Method
The Table 1 Get Summary Method table looks like this:
Where:
MaxDate is a summary field = Maximum of Date
MaxDateGroup is a calculated field = GetSummary ( MaxDate ;
ClientIDCategory )
ShowInPortal = If ( Date = MaxDateGroup ; 1 ; 0 )
The table is sorted on ClientIDCategory
Issue 1 that I'm stumped on: .
ShowInPortal should equal 1 in row 3 (PKTable01 = 5), row 4 (PKTable01 = 6), and row 6 (PKTable01 = 4) in the table above. I'm not sure why FM is interpreting 1Red and 1Blue as the same category, or perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what the GetSummary function does.
The Clients table looks like this:
Where:
The portal records are sorted on ClientIDCategory
Issue 2 that I'm stumped on:
I only want rows with a ShowInPortal value equal to 1 should appear in the portal. I tried creating a portal filter with the following formula: Table 1 Get Summary Method::ShowInPortal = 1. However, using that filter removes all row from the portal.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
One solution is to use ExecuteSQL to grab the Max Date. This removes the need for Summary functions and sorts, and works as expected. Propose to return it as number to avoid any issues with date formats.
GetAsTimestamp (
ExecuteSQL (
"SELECT DISTINCT COALESCE(MaxDate,'')
FROM Survey
WHERE ClientIDCategory = ? "
; "" ; "";ClientIDCategory )
)
Also, you need to change the ShowInPortal field to an unstored calc field with:
If ( GetAsNumber(Date) = MaxDateGroupSQL ; 1 ; 0 )
Then filter the portal on this field.
I can send you the sample file if you want.
id datetime new_column datetime_rankx
1 12.01.2015 18:10:10 12.01.2015 18:10:10 1
2 03.12.2014 14:44:57 03.12.2014 14:44:57 1
2 21.11.2015 11:11:11 03.12.2014 14:44:57 2
3 01.01.2011 12:12:12 01.01.2011 12:12:12 1
3 02.02.2012 13:13:13 01.01.2011 12:12:12 2
3 03.03.2013 14:14:14 01.01.2011 12:12:12 3
I want to make new column, which will have minimum datetime value for each row in group by id.
How could I do it in Power BI desktop using DAX query?
Use this expression:
NewColumn =
CALCULATE(
MIN(
Table[datetime]),
FILTER(Table,Table[id]=EARLIER(Table[id])
)
)
In Power BI using a table with your data it will produce this:
UPDATE: Explanation and EARLIER function usage.
Basically, EARLIER function will give you access to values of different row context.
When you use CALCULATE function it creates a row context of the whole table, theoretically it iterates over every table row. The same happens when you use FILTER function it will iterate on the whole table and evaluate every row against the filter condition.
So far we have two row contexts, the row context created by CALCULATE and the row context created by FILTER. Note FILTER use the EARLIER to get access to the CALCULATE's row context. Having said that, in our case for every row in the outer (CALCULATE's row context) the FILTER returns a set of rows that correspond to the current id in the outer context.
If you have a programming background it could give you some sense. It is similar to a nested loop.
Hope this Python code points the main idea behind this:
outer_context = ['row1','row2','row3','row4']
inner_context = ['row1','row2','row3','row4']
for outer_row in outer_context:
for inner_row in inner_context:
if inner_row == outer_row: #this line is what the FILTER and EARLIER do
#Calculate the min datetime using the filtered rows
...
...
UPDATE 2: Adding a ranking column.
To get the desired rank you can use this expression:
RankColumn =
RANKX(
CALCULATETABLE(Table,ALLEXCEPT(Table,Table[id]))
,Table[datetime]
,Hoja1[datetime]
,1
)
This is the table with the rank column:
Let me know if this helps.
Given a table of the following format in MATLAB:
userid | itemid | keywords
A = [ 3 10 'book'
3 10 'briefcase'
3 10 'boat'
12 20 'windows'
12 20 'picture'
12 35 'love'
4 10 'day'
12 10 'working day'
... ... ... ];
where A is a table of size (58000*3), I want to write the data in a csv file with the following format:
csv.file
itemid keywords
10 book, briefcase, boat, day, working day, ...
20 windows, picture, ...
35 love, ...
where we the list of itemids is stored in Iids = [10,20,35,...]
I would like to avoide using loops for this as you can imagine the matrix is big-sized. Any idea is appreciated.
I wasn't able to think of a solution without loops. But you can optimize your loop by:
using logical indexing
running such loop only M times (if M is the number of unique itemid elements) instead of N times (if N is the number of elements in your table).
The solution I come up with is this.
First of all, create your table
A=table([3;3;3;12;12;12;4;12], [10;10;10;20;20;35;10;10],{'book','briefcase','boat','windows','picture','love','day','working day'}','VariableNames',{'userid','itemid','keywords'});
which looks like
Select the unique values for column itemid (your Iids):
Iids=unique(A.itemid);
which looks like
Create a new, empty, table which will contain the results:
NewTable=table();
And now the minimal loop I've come up with:
for id=Iids'
% select rows with given itemid value
RowsWithGivenId=A(A.itemid==id,:);
% create new row in NewTable with the id and the (joined together) keywords from the selected rows
NewTable=[NewTable; table(id,{strjoin(RowsWithGivenId.keywords,', ')})];
end
Also, append the new column names in NewTable
NewTable.Properties.VariableNames = {'itemid','keywords'};
And now NewTable looks like:
Please note: due to the fact that the keywords in the new table are separated by comma, a csv file is not the format I recommend. By using writetable() as writetable(NewTable,'myfile.csv');
what you'll get is
As instead, by replacing ; instead of a separating comma (in strjoin()), you'll get a nicer format:
I want to get grouped data from a table in sqlite. For example, the table is like below:
Name Group Price
a 1 10
b 1 9
c 1 10
d 2 11
e 2 10
f 3 12
g 3 10
h 1 11
Now I want get all data grouped by the Group column, each group in one array, namely
array1 = {{a,1,10},{b,1,9},{c,1,10},{h,1,11}};
array2 = {{d,2,11},{e,2,10}};
array3 = {{f,3,12},{g,3,10}}.
Because i need these 2 dimension arrays to populate the grouped table view. the sql statement maybe NSString *sql = #"SELECT * FROM table GROUP BY Group"; But I wonder how to get the data from the resultset. I am using the FMDB.
Any help is appreciated.
Get the data from sql with a normal SELECT statement, ordered by group and name:
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY group, name;
Then in code, build your arrays, switching to fill the next array when the group id changes.
Let me clear about GroupBy. You can group data but that time its require group function on other columns.
e.g. Table has list of students in which there are gender group mean Male & Female group so we can group this table by Gender which will return two set . Now we need to perform some operation on result column.
e.g. Maximum marks or Average marks of each group
In your case you want to group but what kind of operation you require on price column ?.
e.g. below query will return group with max price.
SELECT Group,MAX(Price) AS MaxPriceByEachGroup FROM TABLE GROUP BY(group)