Extract distinct values - distinct

I have a big table of emails which has many emails repeated. I want to extract DISTINCT emails from it. Can't do it due to unavailability of DISTINCT and limitation of GROUP EACH BY or TOP function (Errors:Resources exceeded during query execution.).

A simple query with GROUP BY (without aggregate functions) should be enough:
SELECT email
FROM YouTableWithDuplicateEMails
GROUP BY email

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OBIEE Merge two queries (join)

I need help.
I am new to obiee (recently moved from business objects and re-creating all reports in obiee).
Here is an example I need help with. I have created an analysis where I am listing all orders with their target delivery dates and number of products in each order.
Order Id......Target Delivery Date...No of products
Abc....1/1/2016.....5
I want to add to a column next to No of products called "No of prods delivered on time". I want to compare delivery date of each product within a order with the target delivery date and
Give count of products delivered within the target date.. So the output should be
Abc....1/1/2016....5.....3
Where 3 is number of products delivered on time.
I could do it in BO by running two queries and merging them however in obiee I am not able to add second query to my analysis. I did try at product level using case when target date >=delivery date then 1 else 0 and wrapped this with sum function to aggregate but it didn't work ..
Appreciate your help in this. Searching for this topics give me results for running queries from multiple subject area :(
You also have unions in OBIEE, you union the results of 2 queries which return the same structure, so you have query A with Order ID, Target Date, No Products and a Dummy column with a 0 and default agregation Sum, and a second query with Order ID, Target Date, Dummy column summing 0 and the number of products delivered.
You do all this in the criteria tab of the analysis. It's important the order in which you put your columns, because that's what OBIEE is using to do the union.
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Limit query size for specific users

Is there a way to limit the rows returned for a user in Oracle.
We have some users than can query some tables with millions of records decreasing the performance of the database, so I would like to know if there someway to set max size of records per user.
For example, If I have the table: APP.HISTORY with 10,000,000 records and the user 'dummy', I would like to set for dummy user that can only read 10,000 records from it.
For example if 'dummy' execute:
select * from APP.HISTORY
It will only return 10,000 records, instead try to fetch the 10,000,000 records
There isn't any built-in functionality to limit the number of results per user.
However, even if you could, that wouldn't necessarily help you resolve your performance concern.
Consider for example a query like:
select *
from (select *
from app.history
order by some_field desc)
where rownum < 2
According to your requirements, user dummy would be able to run this and get back the single result he's interested in. However, assuming some_field is not indexed, then, even though this query will return a single record, it still has to order all 10,000,000 records to produce that single row.
As suggested by OldProgrammer in the comments, consider using resource groups, which is a very flexible and configurable way of throttling CPU and I/O usage.
Otherwise, if you don't trust user dummy to write smart and efficient queries, then don't give him direct access to the database.

Oracle - SQL developer query using count

I have this table called, ACTIVITIES:
Name Activity Minutes
JOSE videogames 50
MARISSA videogames 50
TINA CHESS 90
JAKE CHESS 95
For each activity in the table, how do I make a count of how many persons did that activity? I would like to print the activity, the count, and the sum of the minutes in my query.
I tried working by parts & this was my attempt:
SELECT Distinct(Activity), count(Activity) as Total
FROM ACTIVITIES;
However, the query result gave me an error saying: "not a single-group group function"
You can use a group by clause to first group the table by activity then do the count and the sum. For example:
SELECT count(*), sum(NUMOFMINUTES), Activity
FROM activities
GROUP BY activity
Use group by to get the count/sum per activity like so:
select activity, count (activity) as totalcount, sum(minutes) as totalminutes
from activities
group by activity
If you want to get some aggregate value such as a count of a specific value, you first need to group the data into subsets based on the distinct values of that column. That is what that error message was referring to. Note that when you group by activity, the records will consider and display only the distinct values of activity, so you won't need to use the distinct keyword.
TRY this
SELECT DISTINCT(Activity),COUNT(Activity) AS Total FROM ACTIVITIES
GROUP BY Activity
Whenever you use any agreegate function and retrieves another field with it on which you are not performing agreegation then you have to use group by clause with non-agreegate field. so add 'group by Activity' at the end of your query.

Ms Access 2007 - Can sort or group report but not both, can't figure out why

I'm stuck and confused and hopefully can get some help here. I have a query that pulls info from two tables and a report that reads it. My two tables are as such: One of the is a Contact list with phone numbers, names, and addresses. The other table is a paid history. The PhoneNumber field is how they're tied together. There are no duplicate entries in the Contact table but there are multiple paid instances per phone number in the other table.
My report groups them on the phone number, but I also need it to sort by date. My date field is marked as time/date, and it is in the paid table. The issue I'm running into is that I can either Group on PhoneNumber OR sort on the Date field but not both. When I set the Group as the top level, it ignores the Sort that I have set below it. If I take the sort and drag it up so that it becomes the top level, it won't group. When it doesn't group I'm left with multiple instances of the same Contact info... as in I get a new listing for every date that it has ever paid, whereas I need one a single Contact listing with each paid instance to be grouped underneath it.
Here's my query SQL:
SELECT
tblContributorsLead.FirstName,
tblContributorsLead.LastName,
tblContributorsLead.Address1,
tblContributorsLead.ZipCode,
tblContributorsLead.CityName,
tblPledgesLead.PledgeAmountRecd,
tblPledgesLead.DateRecd,
tblPledgesLead.PhoneNumber,
tblPledgesLead.DispositionTime,
tblPledgesLead.Agent,
tblPledgesLead.CampaignName,
tblPledgesLead.Custom20
FROM
tblContributorsLead
INNER JOIN
tblPledgesLead
ON tblContributorsLead.PhoneNumber = tblPledgesLead.PhoneNumber
WHERE
(((tblPledgesLead.PledgeAmountRecd)>0)
AND ((tblPledgesLead.DateRecd) Is Not Null));
Why would I only be able to either group OR sort but not both at the same time?
Edit: http://icloudbackups.com/stripped.zip is a copy of my database stripped down.
I think I understand now what you wanted - to have the phone number groups with the most recent dates show up at the top. To do this you need to identify the Last (or First if you need it the other way around) DateRecd for each PhoneNumber.
SELECT SortingAndGrouping.LastDate, SortingAndGrouping.PhoneNumber, tblPledgesLead.DateRecd
FROM (tblContributorsLead INNER JOIN tblPledgesLead ON
tblContributorsLead.PhoneNumber = tblPledgesLead.PhoneNumber) INNER JOIN
(SELECT CDate(Format(tblPledgesLead.DateRecd,"MM/DD/YYYY")) As LastDate, tblPledgesLead.PhoneNumber
FROM tblContributorsLead INNER JOIN tblPledgesLead ON
tblContributorsLead.PhoneNumber = tblPledgesLead.PhoneNumber
ORDER BY tblPledgesLead.DateRecd DESC) AS SortingAndGrouping ON
tblContributorsLead.PhoneNumber = SortingAndGrouping.PhoneNumber
ORDER BY SortingAndGrouping.LastDate DESC , SortingAndGrouping.PhoneNumber, tblPledgesLead.DateRecd DESC;
You will need to add the additional fields you want to display (I removed them here for clarity), and have the report enforce the same sorting I have here - Create a group for the LastDate column, then a group for the PhoneNumber column, then have the sorting specified.

iReports Grouping Bug - Multiple Occurrences?

I'm am getting irritated with iReports. Problem is that I have a data set returning data for multiple customers and I want to use the "Group Expression" against the customer ID and have the report lay out the Detail Tabs per customer.
I'm finding that, seeming randomly, where there is more that one data row for a customer iReports will generate two or more groupings (Sometimes it does what I expect and group all the customer data together), the field IDing the customer is the same and doesn't change.
Has anyone seen this before? To be honest I can't believe it is actually a bug, but something I've missed. Just much searching as yet to find a suitable result.
I think this is a data sorting problem.
The quote from iReport Ultimate Guide:
JasperReports groups records by evaluating the group expression. Every
time the expression's value changes, a new group instance is created.
The engine does not perform any record sorting (if not explicitly
requested), so when we define groups we should always take care of the
records sorting. That is, if we want to group a set of addresses by
country, the records we select for the report should already by
ordered by country. It is simple to sort data when using an SQL query
by using the ORDER BY clause. When this is not possible (that is, when
obtaining the records from an XML document), we can request that
JasperReports sort the data for us. This can be done using the sort
options available in the query window
You can sort data in these ways:
in case using of Database jdbc connection datasource type you can add ORDER BY customerId clause to the report's query, where customerId - column name of field with customer id
in case using of File csv connection or something like this you can organize data sorting by adding sortField property for field to the report's template (jrxml file):
<jasperReport ...>
...
<field name="customerId" class="java.lang.String"/>
<sortField name="customerId"/>
SQL Statement has ORDER BY?
iReport group is grouped by customer_id?

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