I have a query that gets contract_types 1 to 10. This query is being used in an SSRS report to filter out a larger dataset. I am using -1 for nulls and -2 for all.
I would like to know how we would allow multiple values - does oracle concatenate the inputs together so '1,2,3' would be passed in? Say we get select -1,0,1 in SSRS, how could we alter the bottom query to return values?
My query to get ContractTypes:
SELECT
ContractType,
CASE WHEN ContractType = -2 THEN 'All'
WHEN ContractType = -1 THEN'Null'
ELSE to_Char(ContractType)
END AS DisplayFigure
FROM ContractTypes
which returns
ContractType DisplayFig
-1 Null
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
10 10
This currently is only returning single values or all, not muliple values:
SELECT *
FROM Employee
WHERE NVL(CONTRACT_TYPE, -1) = :contract_type or :contract_type = -2
I'm assuming we want to do something like:
WHERE NVL(CONTRACT_TYPE, -1) IN (:contract_type)
But this doesn't seem to work.
Data in Employee
Name ContractType
Bob 1
Sue 0
Bill Null
Joe 2
In my report, I want to be able to select contract_type as -1(null),0,1 using the 'allow muliple values' checkbox. At the moment, I can only select either 'all' using my -2 value, or single contract types.
My input would be: contract type = -1,1,2
My output would be Bill, Bob, Joe.
This is how I'm executing my code
I use SSRS with Oracle a lot so I see where you're coming from. Thankfully, they work pretty well together.
First make sure the parameter is set to allow multiple values. This adds a Select All option to your dropdown so you don't have to worry about adding a special case for "All". You'll want to make sure the dataset for the parameter has a row with -1 as the Value and a friendly description for the Label.
Next, the WHERE clause would be just as you mentioned:
WHERE NVL(CONTRACT_TYPE, -1) IN (:contract_type)
SSRS automatically populates the values. There is no XML or string manipulation needed. Keep in mind that this will not work with single-value parameters.
If for some reason this still doesn't work as expected in your environment, there is another workaround you can use which is more universal and works even with ODBC connections.
In the dataset parameter properties, use an expression like this to concatenate the values into a single, comma-separated string:
="," + Join(Parameters!Parameter.Value, ",") + ","
Then use an expression like this in your WHERE clause:
where :parameter like '%,' + Column + ',%'
Obviously, this is less efficient because it most likely won't be using an index, but it works.
I don't know SSRS, but - if I understood you correctly, you'll have to split that comma-separated values list into rows. Something like in this example:
SQL> select *
2 from dept
3 where deptno in (select regexp_substr('&&contract_type', '[^,]+', 1, level)
4 from dual
5 connect by level <= regexp_count('&&contract_type', ',') + 1
6 );
Enter value for contract_type: 10,20,40
DEPTNO DNAME LOC
---------- -------------------- --------------------
20 RESEARCH DALLAS
10 ACCOUNTING NEW YORK
40 OPERATIONS BOSTON
SQL>
Applied to your code:
select *
from employee
where nvl(contract_type, -1) in (select regexp_substr(:contract_type, '[^,]+', 1, level)
from dual
connect by level <= regexp_substr(:contract_type, ',') + 1
)
If you have the comma separated list of numbers and then if you like to split it then, the below seems simple and easy to maintain.
select to_number(column_value) from xmltable(:val);
Inputs: 1,2,3,4
Output:
I guess I understood your problem. If I am correct the below should solve your problem:
with inputs(Name, ContractType) as
(
select 'Bob', 1 from dual union all
select 'Sue', 0 from dual union all
select 'Bill', Null from dual union all
select 'Joe', 2 from dual
)
select *
from inputs
where decode(:ContractType,'-2',-2,nvl(ContractType,-1)) in (select to_number(column_value) from xmltable(:ContractType))
Inputs: -1,1,2
Output:
Inputs: -2
Output:
Related
For example
select * from tbl where msg like ‘%\<CDT\>5000%\<DBT\>1000%’
msg: <TXN1><CDT>5000<\CDT><\TXN1><something else><TXN2><DBT>1000<\DBT><\TXN2>
I am looking to extract column values, if it has CDT as 5000 and DBT as 1000
Title question is:
is it valid to use % in between a search string, for example
where msg like ‘%5000%1000%’
Yes, it is valid.
What would CDT and DBT be? Extract which column values?
I'm not sure but I think what you want is to take the value of everything between and
The following code does that
with raw_text(t) as( select '<TXN1><CDT>5000</CDT></TXN1>' from dual)
SELECT *
FROM raw_text
CROSS JOIN
XMLTABLE (
'//CDT'
PASSING XMLTYPE (raw_text.t)
COLUMNS CDT VARCHAR2 (1000) PATH './text()')
Lets assume that you have valid XML data (a single root element, matching opening and closing tags and using /, and not \, for the closing tags). For example:
CREATE TABLE tbl (id, msg) AS
SELECT 1, '<ROOT><TXN1><CDT>5000</CDT></TXN1><something /><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2></ROOT>' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 2, '<ROOT><TXN1><CDT>50000</CDT></TXN1><something /><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2></ROOT>' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 3, '<ROOT><TXN1><CDT>5000</CDT></TXN1><something /><TXN2><DBT>10000</DBT></TXN2></ROOT>' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 4, '<ROOT><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2><TXN1><CDT>5000</CDT></TXN1><something /></ROOT>' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 5, '<ROOT><TXN1><CDT note="match me too">5000</CDT></TXN1><something /><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2></ROOT>' FROM DUAL;
Where ids 1, 4 and 5 all have values 5000 and 1000 but id 4 has the order of the transactions reversed in the XML (which is completely valid XML and does not change the data at all) and id 5 is the same as id 1 but with an added attribute on the CDT element. ids 2 has CDT of 50000 instead of 5000 and 3 has DBT of 10000 instead of 1000.
Then, yes, you could use:
SELECT *
FROM tbl
WHERE msg LIKE '%<CDT>5000%<DBT>1000%'
But it would return rows 1, 2 and 3 and would not match row 4 or 5. This is probably not what you want.
You could eliminate rows 2 and 3 by matching the end tags as well:
SELECT *
FROM tbl
WHERE msg LIKE '%<CDT>5000</CDT>%<DBT>1000</DBT>%'
But that still does not match when the tags are reversed or when there are additional attributes.
If you want to match the values then you can use XMLEXISTS:
SELECT *
FROM tbl
WHERE XMLEXISTS('//CDT[text()=5000]' PASSING XMLTYPE(msg))
AND XMLEXISTS('//DBT[text()=1000]' PASSING XMLTYPE(msg))
Which outputs:
ID
MSG
1
<ROOT><TXN1><CDT>5000</CDT></TXN1><something /><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2></ROOT>
4
<ROOT><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2><TXN1><CDT>5000</CDT></TXN1><something /></ROOT>
5
<ROOT><TXN1><CDT note="match me too">5000</CDT></TXN1><something /><TXN2><DBT>1000</DBT></TXN2></ROOT>
db<>fiddle here
I have a checkbox on my page P3_Checkbox1 that is populated from the database. How can I loop through all the checked values of my checkbox in PL/SQL code?
I assume that APEX_APPLICATION.G_F01 is used only by sql generated checkboxes and I cannot use it for regular checbox as it would not populate G_Fxx array.
I think I understand now what you're saying.
For example, suppose that the P3_CHECKBOX1 checkbox item allows 3 values (display/return):
Absent: -1
Unknown: 0
Here: 1
I created a button (which will just SUBMIT the page) and two text items which will display checked values: P3_CHECKED_VALUES and P3_CHECKED_VALUES_2.
Then I created a process which fires when the button is pressed. The process looks like this (read the comments as well, please):
begin
-- This is trivial; checked (selected) values are separated by a colon sign,
-- just like in a Shuttle item
:P3_CHECKED_VALUES := :P3_CHECKBOX1;
-- This is what you might be looking for; it uses the APEX_STRING.SPLIT function
-- which splits selected values (the result is ROWS, not a column), and these
-- values can then be used in a join or anywhere else, as if it was result of a
-- subquery. The TABLE function is used as well.
-- LISTAGG is used just to return a single value so that I wouldn't have to worry
-- about TOO-MANY-ROWS error.
with
description (code, descr) as
(select -1, 'Absent' from dual union all
select 0 , 'Unknown' from dual union all
select 1 , 'Here' from dual),
desc_join as
(select d.descr
from description d join (select * from table(apex_string.split(:P3_CHECKED_VALUES, ':'))) s
on d.code = s.column_value
)
select listagg(j.descr, ' / ') within group (order by null)
into :P3_CHECKED_VALUES_2
from desc_join j;
end;
Suppose that the Absent and Unknown values have been checked. The result of that PL/SQL process is:
P3_CHECKED_VALUES = -1:0
P3_CHECKED_VALUES_2 = Absent / Unknown
You can rewrite it as you want; this is just one example.
Keywords:
APEX_STRING.SPLIT
TABLE function
I hope it'll help.
[EDIT: loop through selected values]
Looping through those values isn't difficult; you'd do it as follows (see the cursor FOR loop):
declare
l_dummy number;
begin
for cur_r in (select * From table(apex_string.split(:P3_CHECKED_VALUES, ':')))
loop
select max(1)
into l_dummy
from some_table where some_column = cur_r.column_value;
if l_dummy is null then
-- checked value does not exist
insert into some_table (some_column, ...) valued (cur_r.column_value, ...);
else
-- checked value exists
delete from some_table where ...
end if;
end loop;
end;
However, I'm not sure what you meant by saying that a "particular combination is in the database". Does it mean that you are storing colon-separated values into a column in that table? If so, the above code won't work either because you'd compare, for example
-1 to 0:-1 and then
0 to 0:-1
which won't be true (except in the simplest cases, when checked and stored values have only one value).
Although Apex' "multiple choices" look nice, they can become a nightmare when you have to actually do something with them (like in your case).
Maybe you should first sort checkbox values, sort database values, and then compare those two strings.
It means that LISTAGG might once again become handy, such as
listagg(j.descr, ' / ') within group (order by j.descr)
Database values could be sorted this way:
SQL> with test (col) as
2 (select '1:0' from dual union all
3 select '1:-1:0' from dual
4 ),
5 inter as
6 (select col,
7 regexp_substr(col, '[^:]+', 1, column_value) token
8 from test,
9 table(cast(multiset(select level from dual
10 connect by level <= regexp_count(col, ':') + 1
11 ) as sys.odcinumberlist))
12 )
13 select
14 col source_value,
15 listagg(token, ':') within group (order by token) sorted_value
16 from inter
17 group by col;
SOURCE SORTED_VALUE
------ --------------------
1:-1:0 -1:0:1
1:0 0:1
SQL>
Once you have them both sorted, you can compare them and either INSERT or DELETE a row.
I'm trying to cut down on rows a report has. There are 2 assets that return on this query but I want them to show up on one row.
Basically if dc.name LIKE '%CT/PT%' then I want it to be same row as the asset. The SP.SVC_PT_ID is the common field to join them.
There will be times when there is no dc.name LIKE '%CT/PT%' however I still want the DV.MFG_SERIAL_NUM to populated just with a Null to the right.
Select SP.SVC_PT_ID, SP.DEVICE_ID, DV.MFG_SERIAL_NUM, dc.name,
substr(dc.name,26)
From EIP.SVC_PT_DEVICE_REL SP,
eip.device_class dc,
EIP.DEVICE DV
Where SP.EFF_START_TIME < To_date('20170930', 'YYYYMMDD') + 1
and SP.EFF_END_TIME is null
and dc.id = DV.device_class_id
and DV.ID = SP.device_id
ORDER BY SP.SVC_PT_ID, DV.MFG_SERIAL_NUM;
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying; test case would certainly help. You said that query you posted returns two rows (only if we saw which ones ...) but you want them to be displayed as the image you attached to the message.
Generally speaking, you can do that using an aggregate function (such as MAX) on certain column(s), along with the GROUP BY clause that contains the rest of them.
Just for example:
select svc_pt_id, max(ctpt_name) ctpt_name, sum(ctpt_multipler) ctpt_multipler
from ...
group by svc_pt_id
As I said: a test case would help people who'd want to answer the question. True - someone might have understood it far better than I did and will provide assistance nevertheless.
EDIT: after you posted sample data (which, by the way, don't match screenshot you posted previously), maybe something like this might do the job: use analytic function to check whether name contains CT/PT; if so, take its data. Otherwise, display both rows.
SQL> with test as (
2 select 14 svc_pt_id, 446733 device_id, 'Generic Electric' name from dual union
3 select 14, 456517, 'Generic CT/PT, Multiplier' from dual
4 ),
5 podaci as
6 (select svc_pt_id, device_id, name,
7 rank() over (partition by svc_pt_id
8 order by case when instr(name, 'CT/PT') > 1 then 1
9 else 2
10 end) rnk
11 from test
12 )
13 select svc_pt_id, device_id, name
14 from podaci
15 where rnk = 1;
SVC_PT_ID DEVICE_ID NAME
---------- ---------- -------------------------
14 456517 Generic CT/PT, Multiplier
SQL>
My TEST table (created by WITH factoring clause) would be the result of your current query.
In SQL there are aggregation operators, like AVG, SUM, COUNT. Why doesn't it have an operator for multiplication? "MUL" or something.
I was wondering, does it exist for Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL ? If not is there a workaround that would give this behaviour?
By MUL do you mean progressive multiplication of values?
Even with 100 rows of some small size (say 10s), your MUL(column) is going to overflow any data type! With such a high probability of mis/ab-use, and very limited scope for use, it does not need to be a SQL Standard. As others have shown there are mathematical ways of working it out, just as there are many many ways to do tricky calculations in SQL just using standard (and common-use) methods.
Sample data:
Column
1
2
4
8
COUNT : 4 items (1 for each non-null)
SUM : 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 = 15
AVG : 3.75 (SUM/COUNT)
MUL : 1 x 2 x 4 x 8 ? ( =64 )
For completeness, the Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL core implementations *
Oracle : EXP(SUM(LN(column))) or POWER(N,SUM(LOG(column, N)))
MSSQL : EXP(SUM(LOG(column))) or POWER(N,SUM(LOG(column)/LOG(N)))
MySQL : EXP(SUM(LOG(column))) or POW(N,SUM(LOG(N,column)))
Care when using EXP/LOG in SQL Server, watch the return type http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187592.aspx
The POWER form allows for larger numbers (using bases larger than Euler's number), and in cases where the result grows too large to turn it back using POWER, you can return just the logarithmic value and calculate the actual number outside of the SQL query
* LOG(0) and LOG(-ve) are undefined. The below shows only how to handle this in SQL Server. Equivalents can be found for the other SQL flavours, using the same concept
create table MUL(data int)
insert MUL select 1 yourColumn union all
select 2 union all
select 4 union all
select 8 union all
select -2 union all
select 0
select CASE WHEN MIN(abs(data)) = 0 then 0 ELSE
EXP(SUM(Log(abs(nullif(data,0))))) -- the base mathematics
* round(0.5-count(nullif(sign(sign(data)+0.5),1))%2,0) -- pairs up negatives
END
from MUL
Ingredients:
taking the abs() of data, if the min is 0, multiplying by whatever else is futile, the result is 0
When data is 0, NULLIF converts it to null. The abs(), log() both return null, causing it to be precluded from sum()
If data is not 0, abs allows us to multiple a negative number using the LOG method - we will keep track of the negativity elsewhere
Working out the final sign
sign(data) returns 1 for >0, 0 for 0 and -1 for <0.
We add another 0.5 and take the sign() again, so we have now classified 0 and 1 both as 1, and only -1 as -1.
again use NULLIF to remove from COUNT() the 1's, since we only need to count up the negatives.
% 2 against the count() of negative numbers returns either
--> 1 if there is an odd number of negative numbers
--> 0 if there is an even number of negative numbers
more mathematical tricks: we take 1 or 0 off 0.5, so that the above becomes
--> (0.5-1=-0.5=>round to -1) if there is an odd number of negative numbers
--> (0.5-0= 0.5=>round to 1) if there is an even number of negative numbers
we multiple this final 1/-1 against the SUM-PRODUCT value for the real result
No, but you can use Mathematics :)
if yourColumn is always bigger than zero:
select EXP(SUM(LOG(yourColumn))) As ColumnProduct from yourTable
I see an Oracle answer is still missing, so here it is:
SQL> with yourTable as
2 ( select 1 yourColumn from dual union all
3 select 2 from dual union all
4 select 4 from dual union all
5 select 8 from dual
6 )
7 select EXP(SUM(LN(yourColumn))) As ColumnProduct from yourTable
8 /
COLUMNPRODUCT
-------------
64
1 row selected.
Regards,
Rob.
With PostgreSQL, you can create your own aggregate functions, see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-createaggregate.html
To create an aggregate function on MySQL, you'll need to build an .so (linux) or .dll (windows) file. An example is shown here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/mygroupconcat.aspx
I'm not sure about mssql and oracle, but i bet they have options to create custom aggregates as well.
You'll break any datatype fairly quickly as numbers mount up.
Using LOG/EXP is tricky because of numbers <= 0 that will fail when using LOG. I wrote a solution in this question that deals with this
Using CTE in MS SQL:
CREATE TABLE Foo(Id int, Val int)
INSERT INTO Foo VALUES(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6)
;WITH cte AS
(
SELECT Id, Val AS Multiply, row_number() over (order by Id) as rn
FROM Foo
WHERE Id=1
UNION ALL
SELECT ff.Id, cte.multiply*ff.Val as multiply, ff.rn FROM
(SELECT f.Id, f.Val, (row_number() over (order by f.Id)) as rn
FROM Foo f) ff
INNER JOIN cte
ON ff.rn -1= cte.rn
)
SELECT * FROM cte
Not sure about Oracle or sql-server, but in MySQL you can just use * like you normally would.
mysql> select count(id), count(id)*10 from tablename;
+-----------+--------------+
| count(id) | count(id)*10 |
+-----------+--------------+
| 961 | 9610 |
+-----------+--------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
The standard SQL aggregate function max() will return the highest value in a group; min() will return the lowest.
Is there an aggregate function in Oracle to return a random value from a group? Or some technique to achieve this?
E.g., given the table foo:
group_id value
1 1
1 5
1 9
2 2
2 4
2 8
The SQL query
select group_id, max(value), min(value), some_aggregate_random_func(value)
from foo
group by group_id;
might produce:
group_id max(value), min(value), some_aggregate_random_func(value)
1 9 1 1
2 8 2 4
with, obviously, the last column being any random value in that group.
You can try something like the following
select deptno,max(sal),min(sal),max(rand_sal)
from(
select deptno,sal,first_value(sal)
over(partition by deptno order by dbms_random.value) rand_sal
from emp)
group by deptno
/
The idea is to sort the values within group in random order and pick the first.I can think of other ways but none so efficient.
You might prepend a random string to the column you want to extract the random element from, and then select the min() element of the column and take out the prepended string.
select group_id, max(value), min(value), substr(min(random_value),11)
from (select dbms_random.string('A', 10)||value random_value,foo.* from foo)
In this way you cand avoid using the aggregate function and specifying twice the group by, which might be useful in a scenario where your query is very complicated / or you are just exploring the data and are entering manually queries with a lengthy and changing list of group by columns.