How To Use ORDER BY Clause In An SELECT DISTINCT Sql Query When AS SINGLECOLUMN Is Defined?
Mar 22, 2008
Hi,
I wonder if its possible to perform a ORDER BY clause in an SELECT DISTINCT sql query whereby the AS SINGLECOLUMN is used. At present I am recieving error: ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified. My guess is that I cant perform the Order By clauses because it cant find the columns individually. It is essentail I get this to work somehow...
1) Rows ordered using textual id rather than numeric id
Code Snippet select cast(v.id as nvarchar(2)) id from ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) v order by v.id
Result set is ordered as: 1, 11, 2 I expect: 1,2,11
if renamed or removed alias for "cast(v.id as nvarchar(2))" expression then all works fine.
2) SQL server reject query below with next message
Server: Msg 169, Level 15, State 3, Line 16 A column has been specified more than once in the order by list. Columns in the order by list must be unique.
Code Snippet select cast(v.id as nvarchar(2)) id from ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) v cross join ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) u order by v.id ,u.id
Again, if renamed or removed alias for "cast(v.id as nvarchar(2))" expression then all works fine.
It reproducible on
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86) May 3 2005 23:18:38 Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
and
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86) Feb 9 2007 22:47:07 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
In both cases database collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1251_CS_AS
If I check quieries above on database with SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation then it works fine again.
Could someone clarify - is it bug or expected behaviour?
Hello i have a query that returns the majority of the data into a SingleColumn. The problem i am having is using a WHERE and LIKE clause on this query: SELECT DISTINCT (dbo.AuthorList(publicationID))+ '.' + ISNULL(' Editor: '+Publication.editor, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '''+Publication.title+''' ', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' Book: '''+Publication.booktitle+''' ', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.type, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.journal, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' Series: '+Publication.series+'.', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.school, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.institution, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.organisation, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.month, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' ('+convert(nvarchar, Publication.year)+')', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.publisher, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.address+'.', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.howpublished, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' Ed: '+convert(nvarchar, Publication.edition)+'.', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' '+Publication.note, '')+ '' + ISNULL(' Vol '+Publication.volume+'.', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' No '+Publication.number+'.', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' Pages '+Publication.pages+'.', '')+ '' + ISNULL(' Chapter '+Publication.chapter+'.', '') AS SingleColumn, Publication.publicationID, Publication.abstract FROM Publication WHERE ([SingleColumn] LIKE '%' + @authorName + '%')"> The error says that SingleColumn is an invalid column name. I guess this is because the first part of the query is the part actually creating the existence of the SingleColumn. Is there any other way i can get round this?
I'm having this query:SELECTss.subscription_id AS SubscriptionId,s.id AS ScopeId,s.[name] AS ScopeName,s.base AS ScopeBase,dbo.iqGetShapesByScopeAsString(s.id) AS ShapesAsStringFROMsubscription_scope ss,scope sWHEREss.subscription_id = @subscription_idANDss.scope_id = s.idORDER BYs.[name]The select only returns a single row but my database (SQL Server 2005CTP) seems to execute the "iqGetShapesByScopeAsString" function foreach row in the subscription_scope and scope tables. This is a bug,right? The function should be executed only once for each *returned*row in the SELECT, right? I believe that was the case in SQL 2k thoughI can't check it at the moment.// pt
Hi I have a query which returns some rows.. what happens if i use a select distinct instead of a select.. this is my sproc DECLARE @Counter TABLE( PlanId int, FundId int, ClientFundName varchar(110), DisplayOrder int IDENTITY(1,1), IsDefault bit, IsPortfolioFundOnly bit ) INSERT INTO @Counter ( PlanId, FundId, ClientFundName, IsDefault, IsPortfolioFundOnly ) SELECT 5923, f.FundId, d.FundName, CASE WHEN d.FundDefault IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, CASE WHEN Lower(p.FundType) = 'modfundonly' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END FROM PlanDetail d INNER JOIN Statements..Fund f ON d.CUSIP = f.CUSIP OR d.Ticker = f.Ticker OR d.Ticker = f.ClientFundId OR d.CUSIP = f.ClientFundId -- Do an internal join on the PlanDetail table to get the value of the FundType to derive whether --fund can only be chosen as part of a portfolio. LEFT JOIN PlanDetail p ON d.FundName = p.FundName AND d.PortfolioName = p.PortfolioName WHERE d.PlanNumber IS NOT NULL AND p.PortFundPercent IS NULL GROUP BY f.FundId, d.FundName, d.FundDefault, --d.PlanNumber, --d.Cusip, -- d.Ticker, --d.RowNumber, p.FundType
I get the "ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified.
SELECT DISTINCT pdm.Account, pdm.Customer FROM dbo.Demands pdm LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.Tickets rct ON pdm.Account = rct.Account WHERE pdm.Code IN (66, 51) ORDER BY pdm.TransactionDate DESC
Is there any way to make the ORDER BY work in this case?
I am trying to display items from a table that have a type. For each condition there are between 7 and 10 types. I am looping through each type and displaying all items in that type. I am using DISTINCT to pull the types and count them, so I know how many there are and how times to loop. My problem is that DISTINCT is ordering the types alphabetically! I want them in the same order they went into the table. I tried adding ORDER BY primaryID, but got an error that said I also had to select primaryID as well as type, so now I am selecting every item that fits the condition and not just the DISTINCT types! Is there any way to make it order by column_position? I am using SQL 2K.
Say I have a result set with two fields numbers and letters.
1 A3 A1 B2 B
The result set is ordered by the letters column. How can I select the distinct numbers from the result set but maintain the current order? When I tryselect distinct Number from MyResultSet
it will reorder the new result set by the Number field and return
123
However, I'd like maintain the Letter order and return
I have the following records, MyDate MyId 2003/10/25 2 2003/10/26 3 2003/10/26 1 2003/10/27 3 2003/10/28 2 2003/10/29 4
I want to get the most earlier date distinct records. I try to use "SELECT DISTINCT MyID from Table;" I expect to get Myid: 2,3,1,4 But the computer returns Myid:1,2,3,4
Is there a way to get the records using "SELECT DISTINCT MyID from Table ORDER BY MyDate;"
This query demonstrates a problem I have run across:
USE AdventureWorks
GO
-- This query works fine.
SELECT DISTINCT FirstName AS Name1 FROM Person.Contact ORDER BY FirstName
GO
-- This query also works fine.
SELECT ISNULL(FirstName, '') AS Name1 FROM Person.Contact ORDER BY FirstName
GO
-- This query returns error 145
SELECT DISTINCT ISNULL(FirstName, '') AS Name1 FROM Person.Contact ORDER BY FirstName
GO
The last query returns the error "ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified". It will work if I change ORDER BY to use "Name1" instead of "FirstName", but in the situation I have at hand, the query is generated by third-party software and I don't have the ability to change it. Can anyone explain why what's going on here? Oddly, this same query will work if I run it against SQL Server 2000.
The stored procedure, below, results in this error when I try to compile...
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure InsertImportedReportData, Line 69 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'ORDER'.
However the select statement itself runs perfectly well as a query, no errors.
The T-SQL manual says you can't use the keywords COMPUTE, COMPUTE BY, FOR BROWSE, and INTO in a cursor select statement, but nothing about plain old ORDER BYs.
What gives with this?
Thanks in advance R.
The code:
Code Snippet
-- ================================================ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO IF object_id('InsertImportedReportData ') IS NOT NULL DROP PROCEDURE InsertImportedReportData GO -- ============================================= -- Author: ----- -- Create date: -- Description: inserts imported records, marking as duplicates if possible -- ============================================= CREATE PROCEDURE InsertImportedReportData -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here @importedReportID int, @authCode varchar(12) AS BEGIN DECLARE @errmsg VARCHAR(80);
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE srcRecsCursor CURSOR LOCAL FOR (SELECT ImportedRecordID ,ImportedReportID ,AuthorityCode ,[ID] ,[Field1] AS RecordType ,[Field2] AS FormType ,[Field3] AS ItemID ,[Field4] AS EntityCode ,[Field5] AS LastName ,[Field6] AS FirstMiddleNames ,[Field7] AS Title ,[Field8] AS Suffix ,[Field9] AS AddressLine1 ,[Field10] AS AddressLine2 ,[Field11] AS City ,[Field12] AS [State] ,[Field13] AS ZipFull ,[Field14] AS OutOfStatePAC ,[Field15] AS FecID ,[Field16] AS Date ,[Field17] AS Amount ,[Field18] AS [Description] ,[Field19] AS Employer ,[Field20] AS Occupation ,[Field21] AS AttorneyJob ,[Field22] AS SpouseEmployer ,[Field23] As ChildParentEmployer1 ,[Field24] AS ChildParentEmployer2 ,[Field25] AS InKindTravel ,[Field26] AS TravellerLastName ,[Field27] AS TravellerFirstMiddleNames ,[Field28] AS TravellerTitle ,[Field29] AS TravellerSuffix ,[Field30] AS TravelMode ,[Field31] As DptCity ,[Field32] AS DptDate ,[Field33] AS ArvCity ,[Field34] AS ArvDate ,[Field35] AS TravelPurpose ,[Field36] AS TravelRecordBackReference FROM ImportedNativeRecords WHERE ImportedReportID IS NOT NULL AND ReportType IN ('RCPT','PLDG') ORDER BY ImportedRecordID -- this should work but gives syntax error! );
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ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[MyProcedure]
AS
BEGIN
SELECT DISTINCT A.Name, A.index
FROM ... ... ORDER BY A.[Index], A.Name ASC
END
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[MyProcedure]
AS
BEGIN
SELECT DISTINCT A.Name FROM ... ... ORDER BY A.[Index]
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How to get in order of uno= 7,13,5
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then execute the following selects: select * from test_sort order by cast( 1 as nvarchar(75));
select * from test_sort order by cast( description as nvarchar(75));
INSERT INTO #LatLong SELECT DISTINCT Latitude, Longitude FROM RGCcache
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