Using DISTINCT with SELECT have effect only for one column.
But when is needed to select (or to count) queries for all rows for all columns in a table without duplicates, doesn't work.
Select DISTINCT a1,a2,a3,a4 From Y ---> results 167 rows
Select DISTINCT a4 From Y ---> " 85 rows
Any thoughts?
Jorge3921
Hi there, im still learning SQL so thanks in advance.I have a table with columns of customer's information, [customerID], [customerFirst], [customerLast], , [program] ... other columns ... There will be entries where there can be duplicate customerFirst and customerLast names. I would like to just return a single entry of the duplicate names and all associated row information. IE: [customerID], [customerFirst], [customerLast], [ email], [program] 01 Bill Smith bill.smith@hotmail.com ymca 02 Bill Smith bill.smith@hotmail.com Sports 03 jon doe jon.doe@hotmail.com AAA 04 jon doe jon.doe@hotmail.com Ebay 05 Paul Sprite paul.sprite@hotmail.com Rec Desired Returned result: 01 Bill Smith bill.smith@hotmail.com ymca 03 jon doe jon.doe@hotmail.com AAA
05 Paul Sprite paul.sprite@hotmail.com Rec So in my code i have this:dAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM [Poc_" + suffix + "] WHERE (SELECT DISTINCT [CustomerLastName], [CustomerFirstName], [CustomerEmail] FROM [Poc_" + suffix + "])", cnStr); dAdapter.Fill(pocDS, "Data Set"); However this is throwing up an error when i build the app: An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a condition is expected, near ')'.
Description: An
unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web
request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the
error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException:
An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a
condition is expected, near ')'.
Source Error:
Line 52: //dAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM [Poc_" + suffix + "] ORDER BY [CustomerLastName]", cnStr); Line 53: dAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM [Poc_" + suffix + "] WHERE (SELECT DISTINCT [CustomerLastName], [CustomerFirstName], [CustomerEmail] FROM [Poc_" + suffix + "])", cnStr); Line 54: dAdapter.Fill(pocDS, "Data Set");Line 55: Line 56: //Dataset for name comparison 1: Can someone explain to me why this error is happening?2: Can soemone confirm that my intentions are correct with my code?3: If I'm completely off, can someone steer me in the right direction?Thanks alot!-Terry
I have 4 rows which are exactly the same. I want to delete one row but i do not have any unique identifing columns. How should i delete that row ?
View 1 Replies View Relatedwrite a query which retrieves only unique rows excluding some columns.
IdStatusmanager Team Comments Proj number Date
19391New XUnassigned One 3732.0 16-Apr-14
19392Can YCustomer Two 3732.0 17-Apr-14
19393Can YCustomer Two 3732.0 17-Apr-14
19394Can YCustomer One 3732.0 18-Apr-14
19395New YCustomer One 3732.0 19-Apr-14
19396New YCustomer One 3732.0 21-Apr-14
19397New ZCustomer One 3732.0 20-Apr-14
In the above table project number and id shouldn't be considered and I should get the unique rows considering rest of columns and sorted based on date. Expected result is
IdStatusmanager Team Comments Proj number Date
19391New XUnassigned One 3732.0 16-Apr-14
19392Can YCustomer Two 3732.0 17-Apr-14
19394Can YCustomer One 3732.0 18-Apr-14
19395New YCustomer One 3732.0 19-Apr-14
19397New ZCustomer One 3732.0 20-Apr-14
19396New YCustomer One 3732.0 21-Apr-14
I have a equipment table and the equipment has a coding for each place / location or custody it has had during its life. I need to select the latest (newest) row for each piece of equipment by getting the newest from_date and to_date field combination.The following is an example. I know how to get MAX date for one column but not with two columns (from and to DATES).
ID
NAME
FROM_DATE
TO_DATE
[code]...
Hi, I need to build a query that just includes certain columns if they haven't NULL row values.For example:SELECT NAME_COLUMN IF not NULL, SELECT GENDER_COLUMN if not NULL, otherwise won't select these 2 columns i used as example.Any help, will be greatly appreciated,Best regards,Teixeira
View 3 Replies View RelatedBelow. I have also pasted the current result of this query and the desired result.
Query can be updated to get the desired result as given below?
Query:
Select c.OTH_PAYER_ID, c.PAID_DATE, f.GROUP_CODE, f.REASON_CODE, f.ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT
From MMIT_CLAIM_ITEM b, mmit_tpl c , mmit_attachment_link d, MMIT_TPL_GROUP_RSN_ADJ f
where b.CLAIM_ICN_NU = d.CLAIM_ICN and b.CLAIM_ITEM_LINE_NU = d.CLAIM_LINE_NUM and c.TPL_TS = d.TPL_TS and f.TPL_TS = c.TPL_TS and b.CLAIM_ICN_NU = '123456788444'
Current Result which I am getting with this query
OTH_PAYER_ID PAID_DATE GROUP_CODE REASON_CODE ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT
5501 07/13/2015 CO 11 23.87
5501 07/13/2015 PR 12 3.76
5501 07/13/2015 OT 32 33.45
2032 07/14/2015 CO 12 23.87
2032 07/14/2015 OT 14 43.01
Desired/Expected Result for which I need updated query
OTH_PAYER_ID PAID_DATE GROUP_CODE_1 REASON_CODE_1 ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT_1 GROUP_CODE_2
REASON_CODE_2 ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT_2 GROUP_CODE_3 REASON_CODE_3 ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT_3
5501 07/13/2015 CO 11 23.87 PR 12 3.76 OT 32 33.45 2032 07/14/2015 CO 12 23.87 OT 14 43.01
Using DB2.
I am having a problem trying to figure out the best way to get the results I need. I have a table of part numbers that is joined with a table of notes. The table of notes is specific to the part number and user. A row in the notes table is only created if the user has entered notes on that part number. I need to create a search that grabs all matches on a keyword and returns the records. The problem is that it currently returns a row from the parts table with no notes and a separate row with the notes included if they had created an entry. It seems like this should be easy but it eludes me today.
Here is the code
Code Snippet
create procedure SearchPartKeyword
(
@Keyword varchar(250) = null,
@Universal_Id varchar(10) = null
)
as
select p.PartNumber, p.Description, p.ServiceOrderable, n.MyNotes, p.LargestAssembly, p.DMM,
p.Legacy, p.Folder, p.Printer
from Parts p inner join notes n on p.PartNumber = n.Identifier
where n.Universal_ID = @Universal_ID and p.Description like @Keyword
union
select p.PartNumber, p.Description, p.ServiceOrderable, '' as MyNotes, p.LargestAssembly,
p.DMM, p.Legacy, p.Folder, p.Printer
from Parts p
where p.Description like @Keyword
and the results:
PartNo Description SO Notes LA DMM Legacy Folder Printer
de90008 MAIN BOARD 1 DGF1 114688 0 0 0
de90008 MAIN BOARD 1 I love this part Really I do DGF1 114688 0 0 0
This could return multiple part numbers and If they have entered notes I want the row with the notes
Thank You
Dominic Mancl
Hi, I have the following script segment which is failing:
CREATE TABLE #LatLong (Latitude DECIMAL, Longitude DECIMAL, PRIMARY KEY (Latitude, Longitude))
INSERT INTO #LatLong SELECT DISTINCT Latitude, Longitude FROM RGCcache
When I run it I get the following error: "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__#LatLong__________7CE3D9D4'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.#LatLong'."
Im not sure how this is failing as when I try creating another table with 2 decimal columns and repeated values, select distinct only returns distinct pairs of values.
The failure may be related to the fact that RGCcache has about 10 million rows, but I can't see why.
Any ideas?
Hello,
I have a survey (30 questions) application in a SQL server db. The application uses several relational tables. The results are arranged so that each answer is on a seperate row:
user1 answer1user1 answer2user1 answer3user2 answer1user2 answer2user2 answer3
For statistical analysis I need to transfer the results to an Excel spreadsheet (for later use in SPSS). In the spreadsheet I need the results to appear so that each user will be on a single row with all of that user's answers on that single row (A column for each answer):
user1 answer1 answer2 answer3user2 answer1 answer2 answer3
How can this be done? How can all answers of a user appear on a single row
Thanx,Danny.
I managed to transpose rows into columns.
;WITH
ctePreAgg AS
(
select top 500 act_reference "ActivityRef",
row_number() over (partition by act_reference order by act_reference) as rowno,
t3.s_initials "Initials"
from mytablestuff
order by act_reference
[code]...
But what I would love to do next is take each of the above rows - and return the initials either in one column with all the nulls and duplicate values removed, separated by a comma ..
ref, initials
Ag-4xYS
Ag-6xYS,BL
Ap-1xKW
At-2x SAS,CW
At-3x SAS,CW
OR the above but using variable number of columns based on the maximum number of different initials for each row.this is not strictly required, but maybe neater for further work on the view
ref, init1,init2
Ag-4xYS
Ag-6xYS,BL
Ap-1xKW
At-2x SAS,CW
At-3x SAS,CW
Is it possible to use the DISTINCT clause on just one field in the SELECT statement?
The following SQL statement causes an error:
SELECT DISTINCT appt.ref, appt.notes FROM Appointments appt
...because DISTINCT can't be used on the notes field as it of type 'text'.
How can I focus the DISTINCT keyword on just the ref field?
(I know ref is the primary key, so this example wouldn't need the DISTINCT keyword, but I've simplified a much more complex statement)
Paul
Hi Guys, I came here again to ask something about my application, Is there a way to make 2 columns unique with each other even if they don't have a primary key? If there's a way how? I wanna make a rule so, my application wont replicate its record. Graciaz,Nhoyti
View 3 Replies View RelatedI use the identity = yes for my unique columns in most of my tables that need it. I am trying to decide if I should change identity = no, and instead manually update my unique number column myself by adding one when I insert new rows.
The reason I want to do this is for maintainabilty and ease of transfering data for backup to other sql servers. I always have trouble keeping the identity numbers to stay the same as they are in the original database because when they are transfered to a db that has identity = yes, the numbers get rearranged.
It will also make it easier to transfer data from original db to another sql server db and use the data right away without having to configure the destination db to disable identity and then enable it, etc.
Any pro's con's appreciated,
Dan
I have result set as the attached in screenshot, where the candidateid gets duplicated, but then the column university and careerchoice column has different values for the same candidate. (the CareerChoice and University comes from different tables and i have used union clause)
What want is e.g. CandidateId 186 repeats three times, it should be one row, with three columns all filled with the values which are in different rows.
So that I don't have duplicate candidate ids and i have single row with all column data.
I find to be able to have multiple NULL entries in the following constraint:
Code:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX my_uidx ON my_table(my_col1,my_col2) WHERE ??? IS NOT NULL;
But is not possible to check multiple columns in "WHERE".
I using SQL Server 2012 Express
Hi i am designing a database. It will be used by field guys who will insert new records and will replicate at the end of the day with a central database using merge replication. Can anyone tell me if I am choosing wisely or not with the following 3 points:
1. i am going to use a uniqueidentifier value in a column (using newid()) for the merge replication. (I don't care that it's an ugly value as i never plan to look at it.
2. I am using an identity column (INT)to create a unique value within the table
3. I want to create a unique column comprising of data from other columns (e.g. date+identity+salesrep) This gives me an intelligent candidate for a primary key. But I think i have to create this with an instead of trigger (is that right)
many thanks in advance
ICW
I have a report which is a list of items and I display everything about the item. It is great. My report table in the layout tab is simple. Header,Detail,Footer. Each Item has 65 columns. The number of items (rows) vary upon what you want to see. Example data.
Item#, Description, CaseSalePrice, Cost, BottleSalePrice, Discount
123, Grenadine, 100.00, 75.00, 15.50, 2.00
456, Lime Juice, 120.00, 81.00, 17.25, 2.00
There could be 1 item or 4000 items.
What I want to see is.
Item # - 123, 456
Description - Grenadine, Lime Juice
CaseSalePrice - 100.00, 120.00
Cost - 75.00, 81.00
BottleSalePrice - 15.50, 17.25
Discount - 2.00, 2.00
What I am actually doing is running this the top example and saving to excel. Then copying the sheet. Creating a new sheet then doing a paste special transpose and this gives the users what they want to see.
I want to grab that table object in the report layout tab and twist it 90degrees so the header is on the left, detail is in the middle and the footer is on the right. It would be perfect.
The dynamic column need is really the problem here. I never know how many items will be in the report. They all have the same basic information like description and pricing.
I am all out of creative ideas, any help would be appreciated.
I have a large table that consists of the columns zip, state, city, county. The primary key "zip" has duplicates but the rows are unique.
How do I filter out only the duplicate zips.
Randy Garland
Hi,
Following is my table:Bets
BetId GameID
500 108
500 109
501 108
501 109
501 110
502 108
502 109
I want BetId 500 and 502 to be returned as result if i give select
criteria where game id = 108,109.
Pls.Note: It should not return BetId 501 in the result, since it belongs to different combination(108,109,110).
Similarly if i give, select criteria where game id =(108,109,110) it should return
BetId 501.not the 500 and 502..which is different combination..
Hope i clarified my problem..pls help me in this regard.Thanks a lot...
Hi,
I am trying to do a join which involves more than 3 tables. One is a parent table and the other two table have 1:n relationship with that parent table.
But duplicate records are being returned in the resultset. How do I eliminate duplicate records?
This is my query.
SELECT table1.* from table1 left outer join table2 on table1.id=table2.id
left outer join table3 on table1.id=table3.id
I tried doing DISTINCT here but with no success.
SQL with distinct clause.
SELECT distinct table1.id, table1.* from table1 left outer join table2 on table1.id=table2.id
left outer join table3 on table1.id=table3.id
This is the error I get:
The text data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable
Please help.
I have the following sql:
SELECT DISTINCT patient.patientID, patientFirstName, patientLastName, patientDOB, patientGender, completed_date
FROM patient
LEFT JOIN patient_record ON patient_record.patientID = patient.patientID
WHERE (sub_categoryID = 4 OR patient_record.allocated = 4)
AND (patient_status = 1 OR patient_status = 2 OR patient_status = 5)
GROUP BY patient.patientID, patientFirstName, patientLastName, patientDOB, patientGender, completed_date
This brings up duplicate records, my aim is to bring distinct records, now if I take out the other returned fields after patientID
and using the following sql:
SELECT DISTINCT patient.patientID
FROM patient
LEFT JOIN patient_record ON patient_record.patientID = patient.patientID
WHERE (sub_categoryID = 4 OR patient_record.allocated = 4)
AND (patient_status = 1 OR patient_status = 2 OR patient_status = 5)
GROUP BY patient.patientID
This bring up distinct results, but I need to retrieve the other fields from the database i.e. patientFirstName and patientLastName
Please can you help.
Hello.
Could anyone tell me why it is not possible to create a foreign key on two columns those references on 2 columns in another table? Those 2 columns have each a unique constraint.
I have:
CREATE TABLE T_PK (ID1 INT CONSTRAINT CHK_UNIQUE1 UNIQUE,ID2 INT CONSTRAINT CHK_UNIQUE2 UNIQUE)
CREATE TABLE T_FK (ID1 INT, ID2 INT)
And I want to do:
ALTER TABLE T_FK ADD CONSTRAINT CHK_FK FOREIGN KEY (ID1, ID2) REFERENCES T_PK (ID1,ID2)
I see no reason why this is not working because always
a row in the table T_FK referencing only one row in table T_PK.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
my table :
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[users] (
[ID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[A1] [nvarchar] (100) NULL ,
[A2] [nvarchar] (100) NULL ,
[A3] [nvarchar] (100) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
i must keep ID columns as primary key
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[users] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_users] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[ID]
) ON [PRIMARY]
but now A1+A2 must be unique
how can i do it ?
thank you
hi guys,
i have 3 tables (T1, T2, T3), each with the same structure:
ID1 -> char(10)
ID2 -> char(12) NULL
ID3 -> char(10)
Value1 -> money
Value2 -> money
Value3 -> money
Note1 -> Text
Note2 -> Text
ID1+ID2+ID3 is the clusterd unique key in each table
what i want:
ID1, ID2, ID3 (with distinct occurencies of all 3 tables), T1.Value2, T2.Value2, T2.Value3, T3.Value1, T3.Note1
what i tried is to get all possible rows with
SELECT ID1,ID2,ID3 FROM T1
UNION
SELECT ID1,ID2,ID3 FROM T2
UNION
SELECT ID1,ID2,ID3 FROM T3
but i dont know how to join or add the other columns. maybe with
WITH RowList (ID1,ID2,ID3) AS ( ... code above.... ) SELECT ...
any ideas?
thx
Can you create a unique constraint on multiple columns, or does it haveto be implemented as a unique index?If possible can someone please post some sample code?Thanks,
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View 3 Replies View RelatedPerhaps one too many 2000 DTS packages have permanently damaged my ability to think clearly - however, I've find myself very frustrated attempting to create a SSIS Data Flow which replaces a very simple 2000 DTS package.
Take data from table1 in database1, put it in table2 in database2. Table2 in Database2 has an additional column as part of the primary key - so I need to add an arbitrary unique value in each row as it's inserted. Previously, I did this in the transformation script through a variable I incremented.
What's the recommend method to do this now - since row level processing of variables seem to be a no-no?
In tables where reporting or historical information needs to be maintained I find that logical deletion of rows is better than actually deleting the row and any FK relationships. However when one of the columns in the table must be unique this introduces a problem because uniqueness only matters for "active" rows. I'm hoping someone can provide some advice on how to best handle this situation.
Here is an example to work from. Suppose we have a table that contains job positions. The table contains an IDENTITY column for the PK (to avoid duplicating position names), a Name column that must be unique and an IsActive column that is set to 0 when the position has been "deleted". This setup allows for historical reporting to properly pick up the position information even though it might no longer be used in a company. You can substitute your own scenarios here as there are quite a few.
Now if the Name column is marked as a unique column then the DB will enforce integrity which is what we want. However we will want to be able to "delete" a position but later add a new position with the same name. One could argue that we should just "undelete" the original position but that is not often a good idea so assume "undelete" is not an option. Given the unique constraint a new position could not be created if an existing position (active or otherwise) already existed with the same name. We could set up the unique constraint to include the Name and IsActive columns but now we are prevented from ever deleting two positions with the same name.
My initial thought is to create a new UniqueName column that is unique and remove the uniqueness constraint on the Name column. The UniqueName column is set (via a trigger) to the Name column when the position is active. When the position is deleted the trigger changes the UniqueName to include a timestamp or something to ensure uniqueness. This is handled by the system and not exposed to clients.
Any advice or alternatives on this approach (preferably with advantages and disadvantages)? Thanks.
Michael Taylor - 5/31/07
http://p3net.mvps.org
We have an app that threads together emails coming out of Exchange, using their messageid. To ensure threading works correctly, we need to ensure uniqueness of messageid, which we do with a unique index (we also need to be able to lookup by messageid when a message comes in).
We are currently porting the app from Oracle and PostgreSQL to SQL Server and are having problems with the 900 byte max length of an index. The problem is that the maximum size of a messageid (according to the Exchange docs) is 1877 bytes.
How can we guarantee uniqueness?
How would I get the unique email addresses and its associated row of data from a SQL Server table that has no unique fields defined? If there is a duplicate email address then only show the first one and not the other rows with the same email address. Example table and data UserID LastName Email997249 MCCO-49 S.MCCO-49@SampleISD.org997462 BATE-62 A.BATE-62@SampleISD.org997605 DENS-05 B.DENS-05@SampleISD.org 997622 KAIS-22 A.KAIS-22@SampleISD.org997623 KAIS-22 A.KAIS-22@SampleISD.org997624 KAIS-22 A.KAIS-22@SampleISD.org997625 KAIS-22 A.ZKAIS-22@SampleISD.org997626 KAIS-22 AX.ZKAIS-22@SampleISD.org997627 KAIS-22 AX.KAIS-22@SampleISD.org Result UserID LastName Email997249 MCCO-49 S.MCCO-49@SampleISD.org997462 BATE-62 A.BATE-62@SampleISD.org997605 DENS-05 B.DENS-05@SampleISD.org 997622 KAIS-22 A.KAIS-22@SampleISD.org997625 KAIS-22 A.ZKAIS-22@SampleISD.org997626 KAIS-22 AX.KAIS-22@SampleISD.org Thanks
View 13 Replies View RelatedI am a beginner at SQL so thanks ahead of time.....How do I get unique rows based on studentID? Distinct and group by don't seem to workDESIRED RESULTSStudentID First Name Last Name Other Columns...............................................634565491 MARINA BALDERAZ 640484566 TERE BALDERAZCURRENT SQL AND RESULTS.....SELECT ClassRosterRecID, StudentDataRecID, StudentDataKey, StudentID, FirstName, LastName, CurrentGrade, Gender, Ethnicity, EconDisadvantaged, TitleI, Migrant, LEP, Bilingual, ESL, SpecialEducation, GiftedTalented, AtRisk, CareerTech, Dyslexia, LastName + ', ' + FirstName AS LastNameFirstName, EconDisadvantagedSort, TitleISort, MigrantSort, LEPSort, BilingualSort, ESLSort, SpecialEducationSort, GiftedTalentedSort, AtRiskSort, CareerTechSort, DyslexiaSort, DistrictID, CampusID FROM vClassDemographicsDetail WHERE (DistrictID = '057910') AND (CampusID = '057910101') AND (LastName LIKE '%BALDERAZ%')StudentID First Name Last Name Other Columns...............................................634565491 MARINA BALDERAZ 634565491 MARINA BALDERAZ 634565491 MARINA BALDERAZ 640484566 TERE BALDERAZ640484566 TERE BALDERAZ640484566 TERE BALDERAZ
View 1 Replies View RelatedI got the following query:SELECT TOP (8) ext.extID, ext.Quote, ext.sourceTitle, ext.extRating, gf_game.gameID, gf_game.catID, gf_game.URL, gf_game.TitleFROM gf_game_ext AS ext INNER JOIN gf_game ON gf_game.gameID = ext.gameIDWHERE (ext.Approved = 1)ORDER BY ext.extID DESC which is e.g. producing this output: 6000 -some text- Title 90 1960 2 tom-cl tom cl5999 -some text- title 90 1960 2 tom-clcl asdf5998 -some text- title 90 1959 2 tom-cl-cl asdfWhat I'd like to do now is to filter out the duplicate GameIDs (= 1960) so that just one unique row with the gameid 1960 is remaining. If I put in a SELECT DINSTINCT TOP(8) it just counts for the table ext, but I need it to count for gf_game.gameID - is that possible?Thanks a lot!
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