Compare first row to other rows - oracle

The issue I face that I need after selecting multiple rows,to loop over each row and fetch those who have some related information to the first row.
Example:
select NAME,ENGLISH_GRADE,FRANCE_GRAE
from (some complex query that have order by and returns 100 rows) WHOLE_ROWS
where
//Here I need to loop over WHOLE_ROWS and make something like that:
//if(currentRow.ENGLISH_GRADE==WHOLE_ROWS(0).ENGLISH_GRADE)
//fetch this row

Basically, you need to join your query to itself. You can do with with a subquery factoring clause:
WITH complex_query AS
( ... complex query here ... )
SELECT
FROM complex_query cq1
WHERE cq1.english_grade = ( SELECT english_grade FROM cq1
WHERE rownum = 1 )
Here is a SQL Fiddle. You could also do this with analytics, but those seem to me more difficult to understand.

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Consecutive JOIN and aliases: order of execution

I am trying to use FULLTEXT search as a preliminary filter before fetching data from another table. Consecutive JOINs follow to further refine the query and to mix-and-match rows (in reality there are up to 6 JOINs of the main table).
The first "filter" returns the IDs of the rows that are useful, so after joining I have a subset to continue with. My issue is performance, however, and my lack of understanding of how the SQL query is executed in SQLite.
SELECT *
FROM mytbl AS t1
JOIN
(SELECT someid
FROM myftstbl
WHERE
myftstbl MATCH 'MATCHME') AS prior
ON
t1.someid = prior.someid
AND t1.othercol = 'somevalue'
JOIN mytbl AS t2
ON
t2.someid = prior.someid
/* Or is this faster? t2.someid = t1.someid */
My thought process for the query above is that first, we retrieve the matched IDs from the myftstbl table and use those to JOIN on the main table t1 to get a sub-selection. Then we again JOIN a duplicate of the main table as t2. The part that I am unsure of is which approach would be faster: using the IDs from the matches, or from t2?
In other words: when I refer to t1.someid inside the second JOIN, does that contain only the someids after the first JOIN (so only those at the intersection of prior and those for which t1.othercol = 'somevalue) OR does it contain all the original someids of the whole original table?
You can assume that all columns are indexed. In fact, when I use one or the other approach, I find with EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN that different indices are being used for each query. So there must be a difference between the two.
The query should be simplified to
SELECT *
FROM mytbl AS t1
JOIN myftstbl USING (someid) -- or ON t1.someid = myftstbl.someid
JOIN mytbl AS t2 USING (someid) -- or ON t1.someid = t2.someid
WHERE myftstbl.{???} MATCH 'MATCHME' -- replace {???} with correct column name
AND t1.othercol = 'somevalue'
PS. The query logic is not clear for me, so it is saved as-is.

How to apply a filter based on the current row

I'm building a calculated column that needs to sum all the rows in the same table that share a few common properties and have a greater date value.
I know I need to use calculate to break the filter context, but I'm not sure how to reference the row being calculated vs the table of the same name inside the calculate function. In Sql, this would be done as a self join with two different aliases for the same table, what is the DAX equivalent?
SQL pseudo code:
select
t1.Name
,sum(t2.a)
from table t1
inner join table t2 on t1.b = t2.b
and t1.c < t2.c
group by t1.name
DAX (how do I correctly reference outer row vs inner table?):
calculate(sum(table[a]),
filter(all(table), table[b] = table[b])
)
As suggested by #RADO, the earlier function does this (but you might not guess that from the name!).
Using my previous example, it looks like this:
calculate(sum(table[a]),
filter(all(table), table[b] = earlier(table[b]))
)

performing an update query with a select subquery returning ora-01427 error

I need to update a column in one table with the results from a select sub-query (and they should ultimately be different). But When I do this, I get the 'ORA-01427: single row sub-query returns more than one row query' error.
Can you please take a look and see what it is that I am overlooking? (I could just be overlooking something simple for all I know)
UPDATE AIRMODEL_NETWORK_SUMMARY ans
SET ANS.NBR_RETURNS = (
SELECT SUM(RQ.RETURN_QTY)
FROM RETURN_QTY RQ JOIN AIRMODEL_NETWORK_SUMMARY ANS ON RQ.LOC_ID = ANS.LOC_ID
WHERE RQ.FSCL_YR_NUM = ans.FSCL_YR_NUM
AND RQ.FSCL_WK_IN_YR_NUM =
ans.FSCL_WK_IN_YR_NUM
GROUP BY ANS.LOC_ID,
ans.FSCL_WK_IN_YR_NUM,
ANS.FSCL_YR_NUM
);
I think that your inner query is not well correlated to the table that you're trying to update. Please look here Oracle SQL: Update a table with data from another table. You should add some kind of a where condition that ties the rows you're trying to update with the values calculated by the inner statement.

Need to select column from subquery into main query

I have a query like below - table names etc. changed for keeping the actual data private
SELECT inv.*,TRUNC(sysdate)
FROM Invoice inv
WHERE (inv.carrier,inv.pro,inv.ndate) IN
(
SELECT carrier,pro,n_dt FROM Order where TRUNC(Order.cr_dt) = TRUNC(sysdate)
)
I am selecting records from Invoice based on Order. i.e. all records from Invoice which are common with order records for today, based on those 3 columns...
Now I want to select Order_Num from Order in my select query as well.. so that I can use the whole thing to insert it into totally seperate table, let's say orderedInvoices.
insert into orderedInvoices(seq_no,..same columns as Inv...,Cr_dt)
(
SELECT **Order.Order_Num**, inv.*,TRUNC(sysdate)
FROM Invoice inv
WHERE (inv.carrier,inv.pro,inv.ndate) IN
(
SELECT carrier,pro,n_dt FROM Order where TRUNC(Order.cr_dt) = TRUNC(sysdate)
)
)
?? - how to do I select that Order_Num in main query for each records of that sub query?
p.s. I understand that trunc(cr_dt) will not use index on cr_dt (if a index is there..) but I couldn't select records unless I omit the time part of it..:(
If the table ORDER1 is unique on CARRIER, PRO and N_DT you can use a JOIN instead of IN to restrict your records, it'll also enable you to select whatever data you want from either table:
select order.order_num, inv.*, trunc(sysdate)
from Invoice inv
join order ord
on inv.carrier = ord.carrier
and inv.pro = ord.pro
and inv.ndate = ord.n_dt
where trunc(order.cr_dt) = trunc(sysdate)
If it's not unique then you have to use DISTINCT to deduplicate your record set.
Though using TRUNC() on CR_DT will not use an index on that column you can use a functional index on this if you do need an index.
create index i_order_trunc_cr_dt on order (trunc(cr_dt));
1. This is a really bad name for a table as it's a keyword, consider using ORDERS instead.

Oracle: MIN() Statement causes empty row returns

I'm having a small issue with sorting the data returned from a query, with the aim of getting the oldest updated value in dataset so that I can update only that record. Here's what I'm doing:
WHERE ROWNUM = 1 AND TABLE1.ID != V_IGNOREID
AND TABLE1.LASTREADTIME = (SELECT MIN(TABLE1.LASTREADTIME) FROM TABLE1)
ORDER BY TABLE1.LASTREADTIME DESC;
It makes no difference as to whether the ORDER BY statement is included or not. If I only use the ROWNUM and equality checks, I get data, but it alternates between only two rows, which is why I'm trying to use the LASTREADTIME data (so that I can modify more than these two rows). Anybody have any thoughts on this, or any suggestions as to how I can use the MIN function effectively?
Cheers
select * from (
-- your original select without rownum and with order by
)
WHERE ROWNUM = 1
EDIT some explanation
I think the order by clause is applied on the resultset after the where clause. So if the rownum = 1 is in the same select statement with the order by, then it will be applied first and the order by will order only 1 row, which will be the first row of the unordered resultset.

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