I have 2 tables that are the same structure. One is a temp one and the other is a prod one. The entire data set gets loaded each time and sometimes this dataset will have deleted records from the prior datasets. I load the dataset into temp table first and if any records were deleted I want to deleted them from the prod table also.
So how can I find the records that exist in prod but not in temp? I tried outer join but it doesn't seem to be working. It's returning all the records from the table in the left or right depending on doing left or right outer join.
I then also want to delete those records in the prod table.
One way would be to use the MINUS operator
SELECT * FROM table1
MINUS
SELECT * FROM table2
will show all the rows in table1 that do not have an exact match in table2 (you can obviously specify a smaller column list if you are only interested in determining whether a particular key exists in both tables).
Another would be to use a NOT EXISTS
SELECT *
FROM table1 t1
WHERE NOT EXISTS( SELECT 1
FROM table2 t2
WHERE t1.some_key = t2.some_key )
How about something like:
SELECT * FROM ProdTable WHERE ID NOT IN
(select ID from TempTable);
It'd work the same as a DELETE statement as well:
DELETE FROM ProdTable WHERE ID NOT IN
(select ID from TempTable);
MINUS can work here
The following statement combines results with the MINUS operator, which returns only rows returned by the first query but not by the second:
SELECT * FROM prod
MINUS
SELECT * FROM temp;
Minus will only work if the table structure is same
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I'm new to PL\SQL programming and I'm from DBA background. I got one requirement to delete data from both main table and reference table but need to follow below logic while deleting data because we need to delete 30M of data from the tables so we're reducing data based on the "State_ID" column below.
Following conditions need to consider
1. As per sample data given below(Main Table), sort data based on timestamp with desc order and leave the first 2 rows of data for each "State_id" and delete rest of the data from the both tables based on "state_id" column.
2. select state_id,count() from maintable group by state_id order by timestamp desc Having count()>2;
So if state_id=1 has 5 rows then has to delete 3 rows of data by leaving first 2 rows for state_id=1 and repeat for other state_id values.
Also same matching data should be deleted from the reference table as well.
Please someone help me on this issue. Thanks.
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Main table
You should be able to do each table delete as a single SQL command. Anything else would essentially force row-by-row processing, which is the last thing you want for that much data. Something like this:
delete from main_table m
where m.row_id not in (
with keep_me as (
select row_id,
row_number() over (partition by state_id
order by time_stamp desc) id_row_number
from main_table where id_row_number<3)
select row_id from keep_me)
or
delete from main_table m
where m.row_id in (
with delete_me as (
select row_id,
row_number() over (partition by state_id
order by time_stamp desc) id_row_number
from main_table where id_row_number>2)
select row_id from delete_me)
I am using Toad for oracle 12c. I need to copy a table and data (40M) from one shcema to another (prod to test). However there is an unique key(not the PK for this table) called record_Id col which has something data like this 3.000*******19E15. About 2M rows has same numbers(I believe its because very large number) which are unique in prod. When I try to copy it violets the unique key of that col. I am using toad "export data to another schema" function to copy the data.
when I execute query in prod
select count(*) from table_name
OR
select count(distinct(record_id) from table_name
Both query gives the exact same numbers of data.
I don't have DBA permission. How do I copy all data without violating unique key of the table.
Thanks in advance!
You can use UPSERT for decisional INSERT or UPDATE or you may write small procedure for this.
you may consider to use NOT EXISTS, but your data is big and it might not be resource efficient.
insert into prod_tab
select * from other_tab t1 where NOT exists (
select 1 from prod_tab t2 where t1.id = t2.id
);
In Oracle you can use a MERGE query for that.
The following query proceeds as follows for each data row :
if the source record_id does not yet exist in the target table, a new record is inserted
else, the existing record is updated with source values
For the sake of the example, I assumed that there are two other columns in the table : column1 and column2.
MERGE INTO target_table t1
USING (SELECT * from source_table t2)
ON (t1.record_id = t2.record_id)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET
t1.column1 = t2.column1,
t1.column2 = t2.column2
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT
(record_id, column1, column2) VALUES (t2.record_id, t2.column1, t2.column2)
I have a table like this :
How can I sort it out in the form below :
Each set of records has been marked by a FlagID at end
Each set of records has been marked by a FlagID at end
I assume this means that each record is implicitly associated with the first non-null FlagID value that occurs at or after its position along the ID primary key. Thus, we can use a correlated subquery to project this implicit FlagID value for each record, sort by it, then sort by your Row column as tiebreaker for each set.
SELECT *
FROM YourTable T1
ORDER BY
(
SELECT TOP 1 T2.FlagID
FROM YourTable T2
WHERE T2.ID <= T1.ID
AND T2.FlagID IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY T2.ID DESC
),
T1.Row
However, if you're able to alter the database content, I would recommend you to explicitly populate all the FlagID fields, as this would make your life easier. If you do so, then the query becomes:
SELECT *
FROM YourTable T1
ORDER BY T1.FlagID,
T1.Row
Wanted to optimize a query with the minus that it takes too much time ... if they can give thanked help.
I have two tables A and B,
Table A: ID, value
Table B: ID
I want all of Table A records that are not in Table B. Showing the value.
For it was something like:
Select ID, value
FROM A
WHERE value> 70
MINUS
Select ID
FROM B;
Only this query is taking too long ... any tips how best this simple query?
Thank you for attention
Are ID and Value indexed?
The performance of Minus and Not Exists depend:
It really depends on a bunch of factors.
A MINUS will do a full table scan on both tables unless there is some
criteria in the where clause of both queries that allows an index
range scan. A MINUS also requires that both queries have the same
number of columns, and that each column has the same data type as the
corresponding column in the other query (or one convertible to the
same type). A MINUS will return all rows from the first query where
there is not an exact match column for column with the second query. A
MINUS also requires an implicit sort of both queries
NOT EXISTS will read the sub-query once for each row in the outer
query. If the correlation field (you are running a correlated
sub-query?) is an indexed field, then only an index scan is done.
The choice of which construct to use depends on the type of data you
want to return, and also the relative sizes of the two tables/queries.
If the outer table is small relative to the inner one, and the inner
table is indexed (preferrable a unique index but not required) on the
correlation field, then NOT EXISTS will probably be faster since the
index lookup will be pretty fast, and only executed a relatively few
times. If both tables a roughly the same size, then MINUS might be
faster, particularly if you can live with only seeing fields that you
are comparing on.
Minus operator versus 'not exists' for faster SQL query - Oracle Community Forums
You could use NOT EXISTS like so:
SELECT a.ID, a.Value
From a
where a.value > 70
and not exists(
Select b.ID
From B
Where b.ID = a.ID)
EDIT: I've produced some dummy data and two datasets for testing to prove the performance increases of indexing. Note: I did this in MySQL since I don't have Oracle on my Macbook.
Table A has 2600 records with 2 columns: ID, val.
ID is an autoincrement integer
Val varchar(255)
Table b has one column, but more records than Table A. Autoincrement (in gaps of 3)
You can reproduce this if you wish: Pastebin - SQL Dummy Data
Here is the query I will be using:
select a.id, a.val from tablea a
where length(a.val) > 3
and not exists(
select b.id from tableb b where b.id = a.id
);
Without Indexes, the runtime is 986ms with 1685 rows.
Now we add the indexes:
ALTER TABLE `tablea` ADD INDEX `id` (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `tableb` ADD INDEX `id` (`id`);
With Indexes, the runtime is 14ms with 1685 rows. That's 1.42% the time it took without indexes!
I have a kind of metadata table in my database that I want to cull of old records.
I have created a "select" statement that selects the rows I want to delete:
select m.tablename, m.OWNERNAME
from MAPINFO.MAPINFO_MAPCATALOG m
left outer join sys.ALL_TABLES t
on TRIM(m.tablename) = t.TABLE_NAME and TRIM(m.OWNERNAME) = t.owner
where t.num_rows is null
This gives me 113 rows.
However, I can't figure out how to convert this to a "delete". I was going to just use:
delete from MAPINFO.MAPINFO_MAPCATALOG where tablename in (...)
But this deletes 115 rows. There are two problems:
I need to compare tablename AND ownername. By only comparing tablename I'd be deleting two tables that shouldn't be deleted.
The table has no unique keys and I'm not in a position to create them.
Given the above, how should I go about performing this delete?
You can do this:
delete from MAPINFO.MAPINFO_MAPCATALOG where (tablename, ownername) in (...)