Union Clause
May 15, 2004sql = "Select c1 from t1
sql = sql & " Union Select c1 from t2 Order By c1"
t1=c1 = 1,2,3
t2=c1 = 200,5,300
datatype=nvarchar
result is not ordered as 1,2,3,4,200,300 why
sql = "Select c1 from t1
sql = sql & " Union Select c1 from t2 Order By c1"
t1=c1 = 1,2,3
t2=c1 = 200,5,300
datatype=nvarchar
result is not ordered as 1,2,3,4,200,300 why
I have a quite big SQL query which would be nice to be used using UNION betweern two Select and Where clauses. I noticed that if both Select clauses have Where part between UNION other is ignored. How can I prevent this?
I found a article in StackOverflow saying that if UNION has e.g. two Selects with Where conditions other one will not work. [URL] ....
I have installed SQL Server 2014 and I tried to use tricks mentioned in StackOverflow's article but couldn't succeeded.
Any example how to write two Selects with own Where clauses and those Selects are joined with UNION?
I have 2 tables(Customer,Staff) with the same column name 'email'. I would like to join both tables together where email="xxx@xx.com" to check if email exist already in the database. I have tried
Code:
Select email from (select email from staff union select email from customer) as 'CombinedEmail' where email = 'xxx@xx.com'
But it does not work at all. Is there anything wrong with my codes?
Hi,
I'm currently have a problem with a query using a top clause. When I run it by itself as a single query, I have no problems and the results are valid. However, if I try duplicate the query after a union clause, the order by ... desc doesn't order properly.
The following is the query I'm using along with the results. Then I'll have the query I was trying to unite and the results (date ranges selected were the same in both):
QUERY 1
select top 1 (s.ldate), v.mdtid, po.odometer, pi.odometer, (pi.odometer-po.odometer) as 'Total Miles'
from EventStrings ES
JOIN schedules s
ON ES.SchId=S.SchId
JOIN vehicles v
ON v.vehicleid=es.vehicleid
JOIN Events PO
ON PO.schid=es.schid
AND PO.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId
AND po.activity=4
JOIN Events PI
ON PI.schid=es.schid
AND PI.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId
AND pi.activity=3
WHERE es.providerid in (0,1,4)
and s.ldate>=?
and s.ldate<=?
and v.mdtid=20411
order by s.ldate desc
RESULTS 1
DATE MDT IDPU Odometer DO Odometer Total Miles
12/6/2007 2041112810.6 12874.5 63.9
QUERY 2 (with Union)
select top 1 (s.ldate), v.mdtid, po.odometer, pi.odometer, (pi.odometer-po.odometer) as 'Total Miles'
from EventStrings ES
JOIN schedules s
ON ES.SchId=S.SchId
JOIN vehicles v
ON v.vehicleid=es.vehicleid
JOIN Events PO
ON PO.schid=es.schid
AND PO.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId
AND po.activity=4
JOIN Events PI
ON PI.schid=es.schid
AND PI.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId
AND pi.activity=3
WHERE es.providerid in (0,1,4)
and s.ldate>=[From Date,Date]
and s.ldate<=[To Date,Date]
and v.mdtid=20411
Union
select top 1 (s.ldate), v.mdtid, po.odometer, pi.odometer, (pi.odometer-po.odometer) as 'Total Miles'
from EventStrings ES
JOIN schedules s
ON ES.SchId=S.SchId
JOIN vehicles v
ON v.vehicleid=es.vehicleid
JOIN Events PO
ON PO.schid=es.schid
AND PO.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId
AND po.activity=4
JOIN Events PI
ON PI.schid=es.schid
AND PI.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId
AND pi.activity=3
WHERE es.providerid in (0,1,4)
and s.ldate>=?
and s.ldate<=?
and v.mdtid=2642
order by s.ldate desc
RESULTS 2
DATE MDT ID PU OdometerDO Odometer Total Miles
4/10/2007 20411 1207.21252.5 45.3
1/2/2007 2642 193652.6193817 164.4
As you can see, the results are sorted very differently. Is there any way to have the order by apply to both queries?
Thanks!
Craig
Hi all,
I have two table having datas like
Table1
--------------------------------------------------------------------
A C1 C2 C3 C4
--------------------------------------------------------------------
x 0 0 3 2
x 0 1 0 2
x 0 0 2 1
y 1 5 2 0
Table2
--------------------------------------------------------------------
A C1 C2 C3 C4
--------------------------------------------------------------------
x 0 0 1 4
y 1 0 3 1
y 1 2 0 0
y 0 0 5 1
select * from(
select A,C1,C2,C3,C4 from Table1 group by A
union
select A,C1,C2,C3,C4 from Table2 group by A
)as t
Result:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
A C1 C2 C3 C4
--------------------------------------------------------------------
x 0 1 5 5
y 1 5 2 0
x 0 0 1 4
y 2 2 8 2
But i need the result like i.e grouped by column 'A'
--------------------------------------------------------------------
A C1 C2 C3 C4
--------------------------------------------------------------------
x 0 1 6 9
y 3 7 10 2
select * from(
select A,C1,C2,C3,C4 from Table1 group by A
union
select A,C1,C2,C3,C4 from Table2 group by A
)as t group by A
The above query gives the following error
[Error Code: 8120, SQL State: S1000] Column 't.C1' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
Please help me out.
-Anand
SQL Server 2008 r2...
I have a query which does 3 selects and Union ALLs each to get a final result set. The performance is unacceptable - takes around a minute to run. If I remove the Union All so that the result sets are returned individually it returns all 3 from the query in around 6 seconds (acceptable performance).
Any way to join the result sets together without using Union All.
Each result set has exactly the same structure returned...
Query below [for reference]...
WITH cte AS (
SELECT A.[PoleID], ISNULL(B.[IsSpanClear], 0) AS [IsSpanClear], B.[SurveyDate], ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY A.[PoleID] ORDER BY B.[SurveyDate] DESC) rownum
FROM[UT_Pole] A
LEFT OUTER JOIN [UT_Surveyed_Pole] B ON A.[PoleID] = B.[PoleID]
[Code] .....
Why the sequence different?
select * from (
select id=3,[name]='Z'
union all select 1,'G'
union all select 2,'R'
union all select 4,'Z'
) as t
order by [name]
--result:
---------
--1 G
--2 R
--4 Z
--3 Z
select * from (
select id=3,[name]='Z'
union select 1,'G'
union all select 2,'R'
union all select 4,'Z'
) as t
order by [name]
--result:
----------
--1 G
--2 R
--3 Z--changed
--4 Z
Hi all,
I have a Union All transformation with 4 inputs and one output when I debug the package the sum of the different inputs rows does not match the row count in output.
I don't understand, I've used the Union All transform many times and I've never seen this.
Any idea why this could happen ?
Hi, can anyone shed some light on this issue?SELECT Status from lupStatuswith a normal query it returns the correct recordcountSELECT Status from lupStatus GROUP BY Statusbut with a GROUP By clause or DISTINCT clause it return the recordcount= -1
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am working with a vendor on upgrading their application from SQL2K to SQL2K5 and am running into the following.
When on SQL Server 2000 the following statement ran without issue:
UPDATE dbo.Track_ID
SET dbo.Track_ID.Processed = 4 --Regular 1 leg call thats been completed
WHERE Processed = 0 AND LegNum = 1
AND TrackID IN
(
SELECT TrackID
FROM dbo.Track_ID
GROUP BY TrackID
HAVING MAX(LegNum) = 1 AND
TrackID + 'x1' IN
(
SELECT
dbo.Track_ID.TrackID + 'x' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(2), COUNT(dbo.Track_ID.TrackID))
FROM dbo.Track_ID INNER JOIN dbo.transactions
ON dbo.Track_ID.SM_ID = dbo.transactions.sm_session_id
GROUP BY dbo.Track_ID.TrackID
)
)
Once moved to SQL Server 2005 the statement would not return and showed SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD to be the waittype when executed. This machine is SP1 and needs to be upgraded to SP2, something that is not going to happen near time.
I changed the SQL to the following, SQL Server now runs it in under a second, but now the app is not functioning correctly. Are the above and the following semantically the same?
UPDATE dbo.Track_ID
SET dbo.Track_ID.Processed = 4 --Regular 1 leg call thats been completed
WHERE Processed = 0 AND LegNum = 1
AND TrackID IN
(
SELECT TrackID
FROM dbo.Track_ID
WHERE TrackID + 'x1' IN
(
SELECT dbo.Track_ID.TrackID + 'x' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(2), COUNT(dbo.Track_ID.TrackID))
FROM dbo.Track_ID INNER JOIN dbo.transactions
ON dbo.Track_ID.SM_ID = dbo.transactions.sm_session_id
GROUP BY dbo.Track_ID.TrackID
)
GROUP BY TrackID
HAVING MAX(LegNum) = 1
)
2 examples:
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?
I am using web developer 2008, while connecting to I wanted to fetch data from Lotus notes database file, for this i used notesql connector, while connectiong to notes database i am fetting error
ERROR [42000] [Lotus][ODBC Lotus Notes]Table reference has to be a table name or an outer join escape clause in a FROM clause
I have already checked that database & table name are correct, please help me out
How i can fetch the lotus notes data in my asp.net pages.
I am using web developer 2008, while connecting to I wanted to fetch data from Lotus notes database file, for this i used notesql connector, while connectiong to notes database i am fetting error
ERROR [42000] [Lotus][ODBC Lotus Notes]Table reference has to be a table name or an outer join escape clause in a FROM clause
I have already checked that database & table name are correct, please help me out
How i can fetch the lotus notes data in my asp.net pages.
Hi,
What is HAVING clause equivalent in the following oracle query, without the combination of "GROUP BY" clause ?
eg :
SELECT SUM(col1) from test HAVING col2 < 5
SELECT SUM(col1) from test WHERE x=y AND HAVING col2 < 5
I want the equivalent query in MSSQLServer for the above Oracle query.
Also, does the aggregate function in Select column(here the SUM(col1)) affect in anyway the presence of HAVING clause?.
Thanks,
Gopi.
How Can I use Top Clause with GROUP BY clause?
Here is my simple problem.
I have two tables
Categories
Products
I want to know Top 5 Products in CategoryID 1,2,3,4,5
Resultset should contain 25 Rows ( 5 top products from each category )
I hope someone will help me soon.
Its urngent
thanks in advance
regards
Waqas
hi..
i have basic question like
what is differance between conditions put in ON clause and in WHERE clause in JOINS????
see conditions that shown in brown color
select d1.SourceID, d1.PID, d1.SummaryID, d1.EffectiveDate,
d1.Audit, d1.ExpirationDate, d1.Indicator
from[DB1].[dbo].[Implicit] d1 inner join [DB2].[dbo].[Implicit] d2
on d1.SummaryID=d2.SummaryID
AND d1.ListType = d2.ListType
AND (d1.EffectiveDate <= d2.ExpirationDate or d2.ExpirationDate is null)
AND (d1.ExpirationDate >= d2.EffectiveDate or d1.ExpirationDate is null)
whered1.ImplicitID >= d2.ImplicitID AND
(d1.SourceID<>d2.SourceID
OR (d1.SourceID IS NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NOT NULL)
OR (d1.SourceID IS NOT NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NULL)
)
select d1.SourceID, d1.PID, d1.SummaryID, d1.EffectiveDate,
d1.Audit, d1.ExpirationDate, d1.Indicator
from[DB1].[dbo].[Implicit] d1 inner join [DB2].[dbo].[Implicit] d2
on d1.SummaryID=d2.SummaryID
AND d1.ImplicitID = d1.ImplicitIDAND d1.ListType = d2.ListType
AND (d1.EffectiveDate <= d2.ExpirationDate or d2.ExpirationDate is null)
AND (d1.ExpirationDate >= d2.EffectiveDate or d1.ExpirationDate is null)
whered1.ImplicitID >= d2.ImplicitID AND
(d1.SourceID<>d2.SourceID
OR (d1.SourceID IS NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NOT NULL)
OR (d1.SourceID IS NOT NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NULL)
)
another thing...
if we put AND d1.ImplicitID = d1.ImplicitID condition in second query then shall we remove
d1.ImplicitID >= d2.ImplicitID from WHERE clause????
Hi everyone,
I saw some queries where SQL inner join clause and the where clause is used at the same time. I knew that "on" is used instead of the "where" clause. Would anyone please exaplin me why both "where" and "on" clause is used in some sql Select queries ?
Thanks
Hi,
I am using DTS to import data where the query involves the UNION .
Select a,z,y from x
UNION
select b,z,y from y;
Only the columns Z,y appearing in the output. Is there any known problem with UNION in DTS?
Thanks
Help me again . :) ..
Query :
Select 1 AS ColA, ColB,ColC
FROM Table1
Where ColA = 1
Union
Select 2 AS ColA, ColB,ColC
FROM Table1
Where ColA = 2
Expected Result.
ColA ColB ColC
1 Apple Sweet
1 Wine Alcohol
2 Home Nice
2 Travel Fun
But gives
ColA ColB ColC
1 Apple Sweet
1 Wine Alcohol
1 Home Nice
1 Travel Fun
any suggestions .please reply.
Could someone explain me Union function in MDX? How is different from the T-SQL Union?
My need is urgent.
i have a table with country names
table name:country
column name:country
it is populated with:
UK
USA
africa
asia
japan
i want a query which gives the foll output
USA
UK
africa
asia
japan
(i.e) USA and UK must be on the top 2 rows
while the rest of the countries should come below these 2 and sorted in the ascending order.
if it is possible with any other query also it is ok
Hi
I just found out that I can do an ORDER BY clause on entire records set retrieve from a query that combines several sub queries with UNION from different tables with the same structure... so this is great to know, BTW, is this a new feature of MSSQL 2K ? I don't recall being able to do this in MSSQL 7 or 6.5.
Anyway, the main question is, can I use the TOP command in a query that has UNION in it?? Meaning, there are two queries (or more) from two tables (or more) and I need to fetch the top 10 records by an ORDER BY clause from the combined results, when I try to add each sub query TOP 10 the results are not correct at all, when I try to add TOP 10 only to the first query hoping that the analyzer will refer to the whole query, it's selecting TOP 10 from the first query and combines it with all the records from the others...
So, can anyone help? I hope the problem is understood.
Thank you,
Inon.
Hi!
I am trying to join to different queries into one table ( I accomplished this)
Next I need to ADD or SUM the results of 2 rows to form a single row.
As you can see in the query below, I run 2 separate queries and use ' ' as a place holder for the UNION to work. I get duplicate rows, one with a value and the other with a '0'. I want to have a single row.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
(SELECT
v_gs_supportedpackages.ProdID0 as 'Product Name',
v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites.SMS_Installed_Sites0 as 'Site',
Count(ProdID0) as '# copies installed',
'' as '# legitimate copies installed'
FROM
v_R_System SYS,
v_GS_Workstation_Status HWSCAN,
v_gs_SupportedPackages
inner join
v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites on v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites.ResourceID = v_gs_SupportedPackages.ResourceID
WHERE
SYS.ResourceId = HWSCAN.ResourceId
AND
SYS.ResourceId = v_gs_SupportedPackages.ResourceId
AND
v_gs_supportedpackages.ProdID0 = substring('MS Security Patch MS04-030,031,032,034,037,038',1,60)
GROUP BY
v_gs_supportedpackages.ProdID0,
v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites.SMS_Installed_Sites0 )
UNION
(SELECT
v_gs_supportedpackages.ProdID0 as 'Product Name',
v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites.SMS_Installed_Sites0 as 'Site',
'' as '# copies installed',
Count(ProdID0) as '# legitimate copies installed'
FROM
v_R_System SYS,
v_GS_Workstation_Status HWSCAN,
v_gs_SupportedPackages
inner join
v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites on v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites.ResourceID = v_gs_SupportedPackages.ResourceID
WHERE
SYS.ResourceId = HWSCAN.ResourceId
AND
SYS.ResourceId = v_gs_SupportedPackages.ResourceId
AND
v_gs_supportedpackages.ProdID0 = substring('MS Security Patch MS04-030,031,032,034,037,038',1,60)
AND
DateDiff(Day,HWSCAN.LastHWScan,GetDate()) <= '20'
GROUP BY
v_gs_supportedpackages.ProdID0,
v_RA_System_SMSInstalledSites.SMS_Installed_Sites0 )
Just a pet peeve....
From BOL:
By default, the UNION operator removes duplicate rows from the result set.
If you use ALL, all rows are included in the results and duplicates are not
removed.
Why is it assumed that one would want the duplicates removed by default?
Isn't that what SELECT DISINCT is for?
I was wondering if there is a way I could write this query as one query using union instead of 3 different queries?
SELECT columna as column,count(ID) as Applications
FROM tablea
GROUP columna
SELECT columna as column2, count(ID) as Approved
FROM tablesa where substring(APP_DATE,1,6) >'200304' and in 'Approved')
GROUP BY columna
SELECT columna as column3, count(ID) as Booked, sum(AMT) as amt, sum(AMT)/count(ID) as lavg
from tablea where substring(APP_DATE,1,6) >'200304' and STATUS in('book')
group by columna
Hi All,
I am doing a UNION of 8 views(with 3 million rows in each view approx). I am sure that there is NO DUPLICATE data between the views. SO specifying a UNION ALL would be better than specifying a UNION in this case?
Thanks!
Prakash.P
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources!
Hi folks,
I have a question about the performance of the following query:
(SELECT name, lastName
from Data
where salary >= 2200
)
union
(SELECT name, lastName
from Data
where salary >= 2200
) union
(SELECT name, lastName
from Data
where salary >= 2200
)
How that query works? Is it slow for a larger data? Does it do 3 queries and then combine them?
Thank you.
Hi All
I want to do the following report and I want the 2nd select statement to appear at the bottom to display the totals
SELECT Item,B.Mar, B.Apr, B.May, B.Jun,B.Jul, B.Aug, B.Sep, B.Oct, B.Nov, B.Dec, B.Jan
FROM fncWineSales(2007) AS A
UNION
SELECT 'Total',SUM(B.Mar), SUM(B.Apr), SUM(B.May), SUM(B.Jun),SUM(B.Jul), SUM(B.Aug), SUM(B.Sep), SUM(B.Oct), SUM(B.Nov), SUM(B.Dec), SUM(B.Jan)
FROM dbo.fncWineSales (2007) AS B
thanx in advance
Hello,Bear with me (not had much sleep last night), pls see following ddl,dml and comments for what is desired, I don't have a problem gettingdesired result(s), however, I'm wondering if there's another (better)solution than UNION operator in this case. TIA.-- DDLCREATE TABLE #TMP (col varchar(10));-- DMLinsert into #TMPvalues('A124');insert into #TMPvalues('A127');insert into #TMPvalues('A12728');insert into #TMPvalues('A17282');insert into #TMPvalues('BCD');insert into #TMPvalues('BCD');insert into #TMPvalues('CDSS');insert into #TMPvalues('DS');insert into #TMPvalues('YUUEI');-- goal: get one row with col data starting with 'A' and distict rowsfor the restselect top 1 colfrom #TMPwhere col LIKE 'A%'UNIONselect distinct colfrom #TMPwhere col NOT LIKE 'A%'
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somebody helpme, how to sum the union script
SELECT NUMMSTR3, sum(qty), sum (AP)
FROM (
SELECT c.NUMMSTR3, count(*) qty,sum(a.DEBIT) DEBIT,sum(a.CRDT) CRDT,Sum(a.CRDT - a.DEBIT) AP
FROM MSTR1 a,MSTR2 b,MSTR3 c
where a.IDMSTR1 = b.IDMSTR1
and a.KDMSTR1 = c.KDMSTR3
and c.NUMMSTR3 = '21010100'
and year(b.TRXDATE) <= '2007'
group by c.NUMMSTR3
UNION ALL
SELECT c.NUMMSTR3, count(*) jml,sum(a.DEBIT) DEBIT,sum(a.CRDT) CRDT,Sum(a.CRDT - a.DEBIT) AP
FROM HISTR4 d,MSTR3 c
where d.KDHISTR4 = c.KDMSTR3
and c.NUMMSTR3 = '21010100'
group by c.NUMMSTR3
) group by NUMMSTR3
Of the two queries below, the first returns the desired result, the union of the select-except statments. Why doesn't the second query return the same result as the first? Is this a mistake/bug on Microsofts side?
select * from
(select * from TEST1
EXCEPT
select * from TEST2) AS A
UNION
select * from (select * from TEST2
EXCEPT
select * from TEST1) AS B
select * from TEST1
EXCEPT
select * from TEST2
UNION
select * from TEST2
EXCEPT
select * from TEST1
When any changes have been made to the underlying table structure, the Union all reports error and does not automatically correct the error. I then have to delete it and recreate it. Is this a bug?
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