A database concept used to represent missing, unknown or inapplicable data.
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Returning 0 if value is NULL
SELECT
p.id
, ig.NumReceived
, og.NumShipped
, coalesce(
(p.StartingInventory - og.NumShipped + ig.NumReceived),
p.StartingInventory
) as OnHand
, p.ProductName
, p....
0
votes
3answers
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Difference of two columns with possible NULL cells
I need to sort a table by the difference of two columns as
SELECT (first - second) AS dif
FROM table1
ORDER BY dif DESC
but the two columns can be NULL. In this case, it returns the error:
...
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votes
3answers
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Select the greatest value from each column, even if one of the values is null
I have a road_age_test table:
create table road_age_test (
surface_year int,
base_year int
);
insert into road_age_test (surface_year, base_year) values (10,20);
insert into road_age_test (...
1
vote
1answer
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How to represent NULL in relational algebra?
In the 3rd part of the question below:
Study the tables given below and write relational algebra expressions for the queries that follow.
STUDENT(+ROLLNO, NAME, AGE, GENDER, ADDRESS, ADVISOR)
...
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votes
1answer
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Does PostgreSQL index null values? [closed]
If I have a table like so:
Food
-----------------
name | price | x
Let's say I create an index on name & price, but the database has a bunch of null values for both name & price in some of ...
6
votes
2answers
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Deriving a computed column based on several nullable columns
I'm a bit of an SQL novice.
I've been trying to create an auto generated column called TAG from 5 other columns, some of which can retain NULL marks.
The syntax used to create the auto generated ...
1
vote
4answers
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Can @parameter IS NULL slow down the execution of query?
Option 1:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetStudents]
@MinimumAge int = NULL
AS
select * from Students s where @MinimumAge is null or s.Age >= @MinimumAge
Option 2:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetStudents]...
5
votes
1answer
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How to add a named constraint in Oracle SQL?
I have a table. I need to add a NOT NULL constraint to one of the columns. This is my best attempt at a solution:
alter table clookup add CONSTRAINT lookup_9 NOT NULL (clookup_col)
This produces ...
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vote
1answer
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SQL Query For Displaying 'No Data Found' for values containing null and 0 along with other records
The following was one of the practice questions in the online course i took on udemy for SQL.
I have a table 'emp' and consider the below names in the query map to their corresponding columns in ...
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0answers
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Apache Phoenix Upsert not working while trying to update null/empty columns
Step 1: Update a column with null value.
Upsert into abc.tablename (Rowkeycombo1, Rowkeycombo2, columnname) values (123,to_date('1988-08-06'),null);
This works fine and the column then appears to ...
5
votes
1answer
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SQL Server - Adding non-nullable column to existing table - SSDT Publishing
Due to business logic, we need a new column in a table that is critical to ensure is always populated. Updating existing references that insert/update is difficult but doable, but ensuring future code/...
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votes
1answer
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Table for factory data along with user data
When creating master tables which are usually distinguished by a PK, say user_id, I'm often faced with the situation where I want to have a few pre-defined rows in the table.
I want data from these ...
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votes
1answer
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HOW to work with NULL in a NOT NULL column?
I have a column that is specifyed as (int, not null).
I've been trying to insert NULL for the missing records of that column,
can anyone give me a hint?
0
votes
3answers
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SQL left join returns null column [closed]
I am trying to do a LEFT JOIN on two tables, where one table has a datetime column, and the other table has a date column. As I am working in SQL Server, I used CONVERT to change the datetime to date. ...
3
votes
2answers
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Count NULL values per row
I would like to count the number of null's present per row in a table without enumerating column names. For example:
WITH t as (VALUES
(NULL ,'hi',2,NULL,'null'),
('' ,'hi',2,3,'test'),
(NULL ,'...
1
vote
1answer
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Not Null Fields and Unmatched Number of Columns
I am in charge of a task of migrating data from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I have already migrated the MySQL database to PostgreSQL with the help of pgloader. My problem is I need to insert the data from ...
3
votes
2answers
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Conditional string concatenation in PostgreSQL
I have a table parcels which currently contains the columns owner_addr1, owner_addr2, owner_addr3. Sometimes, one or both of the latter two fields is empty. I want to combine them into a single new ...
1
vote
1answer
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Transpose Rows to column
Can anyone Please help me to transpose below result
+------+------------+-------+
| SVR | dates | count |
+------+------------+-------+
| SRV1 | 03/25/2018 | 1 |
| SRV1 | 04/06/2018 | 59 ...
0
votes
2answers
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COALESCE with cast
I'm pulling data from a jsonb column in Postgres, and casting it to an integer to compare it against a count. The problem is that in some cases the data apparently can't be cast to integer and I get:
...
0
votes
3answers
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How to show a column as NULL if it doesn't exist in match?
I have a query as shown below.
In this query I am trying to get the result of orders which don't have messages (which I thought as null). But I was expecting that this query would produce a NULL in ...
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votes
1answer
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How to get 0 in the null value fields
select *
from
(
select type,SUM(ISNULL(amount,0)) AS amount,month(date) as date from tbl_cashmaster
where date between '2016/12/31' and '2017/12/31'
group by type,month(date)
) src
...
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votes
2answers
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Sorting a Date Column in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
I have a table (master) with the following columns:
Order # (integer)
Location (varchar)
Est Start Date (date)
I want to return all rows. I want the rows sorted by Est Start Date, in ascending order,...
0
votes
1answer
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Keep default value as 0.0 for 0 or NULL for numeric column
I have a numeric column Number(28,3) in which I have to insert value as 0.0 ,
whenever I encounter 0 or NULL/blank at the time of data insertion.
I have tried below :
NVL(col_name,0.0)
but it's ...
4
votes
2answers
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SQL Server: specifying a unique optional column
SQL Server has a quirk with optional unique columns: you cannot have more than one null in a table.
For example:
create table employees (
id int identity(1,1) primary key,
givenname nvarchar(...
2
votes
0answers
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Inserting two NULLs values into an UNIQUE column in SQLite
I use: sqlite-jdbc-3.21.0.jar
Error received:
SQLite_CONSTRAINT_UNIQUE] A UNIQUE constraint failed: companies.ncf
I ask a few things to the user, there is two fields that are optional to complete ...
6
votes
1answer
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Join on NULL Key Column Optimizing as Table and Index Scans
I have a question about this query plan.
We have a table in a test environment, Order_Details_Taxes, that has 11,225,799 rows. This table has a column, OrdTax_PLTax_LoadDtl_Key, which is NULL on ...
1
vote
1answer
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Firebird: table and null data
I'm working with Firebird database. I have a big table with many thousand of rows. Each line records the status of an object at regular intervals for many objects. I need to register new properties ...
4
votes
1answer
54 views
Why does PostgreSQL create an additional NULL bitmap if all fields after the 8th are NOT NULL?
I don't refer to the 1 Byte null bitmap included in the row header that could be used to flag null values for any of the first 8 columns. See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12145772/do-...
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vote
1answer
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How to handle null value number DataWarehouse [duplicate]
I have a question.
I'm developing a Data Warehouse, I retrieve the data from my reconciled level, this in order to keep updated my Data Warehouse, but i am not sure how to handle some numeric fields ...
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vote
3answers
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Array to string sometimes concatenates fewer values
array_to_string(array_agg(array_to_string(array[
highlights,exceptions,inter_note,inter_status::text
,comp_note,comp_status::text,hard_note,hard_status::text]
,'|#|'::...
4
votes
1answer
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Why does null and true evaluate to null but null or true evaluates to true?
Why does null and true evaluate to null in PostgreSQL but null or true evaluates to true?
I would have thought using null with and or or would've evaluated to null in both cases?
5
votes
2answers
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Replacing NULL values with one string from provided list
I am trying to replace NULL values in table by using SELECT with one (randomized?) string from the set that I provide to the compiler.
Example:
|id | date |
+---+------+
| 1 | 2017 |
| 2 | NULL |...
1
vote
1answer
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Having two entities that are the same except for 1 distinct attribute
In an example scenario for a database design assignment, a company provides hotel rooms (split into two entities - Hotel and Room) and apartments. So the database will contain the following entities:
...
3
votes
1answer
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SSIS / SSAS: Handling Age Columns
I have some columns representing Age in a table, taking values from 0 to 100, but also -1 for 'Missing Value'. I don't want to store them as strings to be able to find average age etc., but SSAS turns ...
3
votes
1answer
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SSIS - SSAS: Missing data handling
I have a solution in SSDT with a SSIS and a SSAS project, with missing values in both numeric and text columns.
Is it a good practice converting all the missing values of these columns to NULL during ...
5
votes
2answers
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How to capture missing information in SQL Server tables
I have a few tables with nullable columns in a SQL Server database. Those nullable attributes are either not supplied at the time of row creation or they are not applicable in some cases.
I realized ...
0
votes
1answer
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MsMerge_genhistory has alot of rows with pubid = null
I have a merge replication and I am worried that the cleanup of metadata might not be enough. I have a retention period of 60 days and I can see thet the metadatacleanup-job do remove rows i ...
0
votes
1answer
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Concatenate with NULL values ( Should not replace NULL )
After some time searching for an answer, I got a LOT of question saying to use coalesce,concat(), and etc, but what I need is:
Table:
create table nulos ( nome varchar(max))
alter table nulos add ...
2
votes
1answer
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How do I select arrays that are not empty?
Why is this so tricky, what is token set to that it isn't equal to null nor an empty string?
SELECT lexemes
FROM ts_debug('This is a title')
WHERE alias = 'asciiword';
lexemes
---------
{}
{}
{}...
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votes
1answer
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Can't SQL Server store NULLs in fixed-length columns?
I came across this statement in the official Oracle documentation:
In Microsoft SQL Server, only columns with variable-length data types
can store NULL values. When you create a column that ...
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votes
1answer
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Combining two tables with keys that contain null
I have two tables that I am joining
|id |profit|
| 1 | 1234 |
| 2 | 1345 |
| 4 | 1454 |
| 5 | 1254 |
and another table
| id | x loss | y loss |
| 2 | 34312 | 4354 |
| 3 | 35614 | 4365 |
| 4 ...
3
votes
2answers
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CHECK constraint for array column to verify length > 0
I'm playing with postgres table validation rules and trying to set a CHECK constraint for an array column. An idea is to allow only arrays with length > 0.
Here is how I want to implement it:
create ...
3
votes
1answer
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Why does NULL ordering impact a btree scan in PostgreSQL?
In this answer jjanes says that NULL ORDERING contrary to the index declaration ordering can force a quick scan. Turns out he's right. I want to know why that is though. If you a btree with nulls last,...
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1answer
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Any potential complications from ms sql backup db to disk = 'nul', disk = 'nul', …?
Our development team has a tool that notifies us of issues with our DB backups, but they have not yet given us the ability to exclude certain databases from the alerts - DBs that we do not want ...
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votes
4answers
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Using IS NULL in CASE Expression in WHERE Clause [closed]
I have a WHERE clause that I want to use a CASE expression in. However, my CASE expression needs to check if a field IS NULL.
If the @UserRole variable value = 'Analyst', then the ...
3
votes
3answers
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How to normalize a table with common and non-common fields?
and thanks in advance.
I am trying to normalize a table "People", where each entry (person) belong to one of many different categories (e.g. "lawyer", "client", "judge"). Some fields are common ...
0
votes
1answer
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Can't write DBNull to SQL in Powershell
In Powershell, I have some data that I am importing from a .csv, and some data points aren't always entered so I need to replace them with [DBNull]::Value.
The problem is that when I go to use Write-...
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vote
1answer
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left joining and combining the results where they are not null
I'm given a MySQL database with tables like this:
show create table c;
CREATE TABLE `c` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
-- and other columns
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)
show create table c_r;
...
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vote
1answer
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Left (or Right) Join and Null value return
I have a query where I'm joining 2 tables with a LEFT JOIN. To simplify the example, let's say it's fetching cars and their options. There are 31 possible options and the output should include all ...
0
votes
1answer
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MySQL Insert NULL Inserts 0
I am using MySQL and PhpMyAdmin, I have a table named items - the structure is as follows;
+------+---------+------+---------+
| name | type | Null | Default |
+------+---------+------+---------+
|...
