Oracle sequence in a queue table - oracle

So I have a table called rentalqueue(queue_id,customer_id,movie_title,etc.) I also have a sequence on the queue_id as such:
CREATE SEQUENCE rentalqueue_seq
MINVALUE 100
MAXVALUE 300
START WITH 100
INCREMENT BY 1
NOCACHE;
Lets say I insert several movie titles into rentalqueue for a given customer from a movie table. How can I implement a trigger(assumption), so that I can designate the very last movie added in the queue? Assume I add 5 movies over lets say a couple days, each with a different timestamp.

I suggest you modify your sequence so that the maxvalue is something like 99999999. You can select the last movie added for a customer like this:
select *
from (
select *
from rentalqueue
where customer_id = :p_customer_id
order by queue_id desc)
where rownum = 1
Or, if you have a date_added field (or something similar), like this:
select *
from (
select *
from rentalqueue
where customer_id = :p_customer_id
order by date_added desc)
where rownum = 1

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Finding all matching rows in a 30 day time window

I have a situation where I have a row in a table for each time a customer visits. What I'm trying to do is find those customers who have visited within any given 30 day window and select those visits.
EX: The main focus is just going to be on three rows in the Table: ROW_ID, CUSTOMER_ID, VISIT_DATE (in the date format).
What I'm trying to get is when a customer has visited multiple times within a 30 day span. EX: CUSTOMER_ID #5 visits on the 10/8/2019 and again on 11/1/2019, I would want to see both rows
We could try using exists logic to handle the requirement:
SELECT ROW_ID, CUSTOMER_ID, VISIT_DATE
FROM yourTable t1
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM yourTable t2
WHERE t2.CUSTOMER_ID = t2.CUSTOMER_ID AND
t2.ROW_ID <> t1.ROW_ID AND
ABS(t2.VISIT_DATE - t1.VISIT_DATE) <= 30);
The logic behind the above query reads cleanly as return any customer record where there another record for the same customer such that the two (different) records are within 30 days of each other.

Oracle one column contains the other column

ID - FILE_NAME
100 SOMETHING_100.TXT
The question is simple actually. I want to select rows that contains its own ID in another columns string
Any ideas?
INSTR might help; for example,
select *
from your_table
where instr(file_name, id) > 0;
If ID is a number (looks like it), then add TO_CHAR:
where instr(file_name, to_char(id)) > 0

How to check that group has a value in Oracle?

For example, I have a table tbl like
values
10
20
30
40
on this table by the condition I have GROUP BY like this:
SELECT ???
FROM tbl
GROUP BY values
I need to check that group has some value, for example 30
UPD:
In real task a have a table with many columns and other operations on them and in one column i need to check whether value in every group of this column.
UPD2:
I need something like this:
select
min(created_timestamp),
max(resource_id),
max(price),
CASE WHEN event_type has (1704 or 1701 or 1703) THEN return found value END
CASE WHEN event_type has (1707) THEN return 1707 END
from subscriptions
group by guid
SELECT
MIN(created_timestamp),
MAX(resource_id),
MAX(price),
MIN(CASE WHEN event_type IN (1704, 1701, 1703)
THEN found_value
WHEN event_type = 1707
THEN 1707
ELSE NULL
END)
FROM subscriptions
GROUP BY guid ;
I did not get what you have in the select clause .. but if you want to see the values also in the out put when you run the group by query try this
select function(), values from tbl group by values
function() -- could be any function like -- count or sum
and if you want only specific to value 30 .. then add a where clause values = 30.
You dont need to use group by clause if your aim is to find if some value exists.
Use this method if you also consider the performance.
SELECT DECODE (COUNT(1),0,'Not Exist','Yes has some values')
FROM dual
WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1
FROM tbl
WHERE VALUES='&Your_Value_To_Check'
)

How to get records randomly from the oracle database?

I need to select rows randomly from an Oracle DB.
Ex: Assume a table with 100 rows, how I can randomly return 20 of those records from the entire 100 rows.
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM table
ORDER BY DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM)
WHERE rownum < 21;
SAMPLE() is not guaranteed to give you exactly 20 rows, but might be suitable (and may perform significantly better than a full query + sort-by-random for large tables):
SELECT *
FROM table SAMPLE(20);
Note: the 20 here is an approximate percentage, not the number of rows desired. In this case, since you have 100 rows, to get approximately 20 rows you ask for a 20% sample.
SELECT * FROM table SAMPLE(10) WHERE ROWNUM <= 20;
This is more efficient as it doesn't need to sort the Table.
SELECT column FROM
( SELECT column, dbms_random.value FROM table ORDER BY 2 )
where rownum <= 20;
In summary, two ways were introduced
1) using order by DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE clause
2) using sample([%]) function
The first way has advantage in 'CORRECTNESS' which means you will never fail get result if it actually exists, while in the second way you may get no result even though it has cases satisfying the query condition since information is reduced during sampling.
The second way has advantage in 'EFFICIENT' which mean you will get result faster and give light load to your database.
I was given an warning from DBA that my query using the first way gives loads to the database
You can choose one of two ways according to your interest!
In case of huge tables standard way with sorting by dbms_random.value is not effective because you need to scan whole table and dbms_random.value is pretty slow function and requires context switches. For such cases, there are 3 additional methods:
1: Use sample clause:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/SELECT.html#GUID-CFA006CA-6FF1-4972-821E-6996142A51C6
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/SELECT.html#GUID-CFA006CA-6FF1-4972-821E-6996142A51C6
for example:
select *
from s1 sample block(1)
order by dbms_random.value
fetch first 1 rows only
ie get 1% of all blocks, then sort them randomly and return just 1 row.
2: if you have an index/primary key on the column with normal distribution, you can get min and max values, get random value in this range and get first row with a value greater or equal than that randomly generated value.
Example:
--big table with 1 mln rows with primary key on ID with normal distribution:
Create table s1(id primary key,padding) as
select level, rpad('x',100,'x')
from dual
connect by level<=1e6;
select *
from s1
where id>=(select
dbms_random.value(
(select min(id) from s1),
(select max(id) from s1)
)
from dual)
order by id
fetch first 1 rows only;
3: get random table block, generate rowid and get row from the table by this rowid:
select *
from s1
where rowid = (
select
DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_CREATE (
1,
objd,
file#,
block#,
1)
from
(
select/*+ rule */ file#,block#,objd
from v$bh b
where b.objd in (select o.data_object_id from user_objects o where object_name='S1' /* table_name */)
order by dbms_random.value
fetch first 1 rows only
)
);
To randomly select 20 rows I think you'd be better off selecting the lot of them randomly ordered and selecting the first 20 of that set.
Something like:
Select *
from (select *
from table
order by dbms_random.value) -- you can also use DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM
where rownum < 21;
Best used for small tables to avoid selecting large chunks of data only to discard most of it.
Here's how to pick a random sample out of each group:
SELECT GROUPING_COLUMN,
MIN (COLUMN_NAME) KEEP (DENSE_RANK FIRST ORDER BY DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE)
AS RANDOM_SAMPLE
FROM TABLE_NAME
GROUP BY GROUPING_COLUMN
ORDER BY GROUPING_COLUMN;
I'm not sure how efficient it is, but if you have a lot of categories and sub-categories, this seems to do the job nicely.
-- Q. How to find Random 50% records from table ?
when we want percent wise randomly data
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT *
FROM table_name
ORDER BY DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM)
WHERE rownum <= (select count(*) from table_name) * 50/100;

How to work around ORA-02014: cannot select FOR UPDATE from view with DISTINCT, GROUP BY, etc

I want to lock one record in a table.
The record is specified as "the next that has ID greater than..."
CREATE TABLE test (id number);
SELECT id
FROM (SELECT id
FROM test
WHERE id > 10
ORDER BY id)
WHERE ROWNUM = 1
FOR UPDATE;
This seems intuitive and easy. But it is not. Any ideas?
P.S.
I do need the existing query to remain the same because it is a cursor and there are several places that use this cursor's %rowtype.
I think you're going to need something like:
SELECT id
FROM test
WHERE id =
(SELECT MIN(id)
FROM test
WHERE id > 10)
FOR UPDATE;

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