Questions tagged [null]
A database concept used to represent missing, unknown or inapplicable data.
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Take average of multiple nullable columns
I have an example table (year) as below in PostgreSQL 9.5:
Name | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
-------------------------
A | 10 | | 40
B | 10 | 20 | 30
Now, if I write a simple query as ...
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NULL value causes blank row in SELECT results for text concatenation
I have a query for producing some text for creating some VALUES text to put in a .sql file for inserting some rows. I get a blank line in the results:
postgres=# SELECT ' (' || obj_id || ', ''' || ...
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How to understand “NULL NOT IN” when the set is empty?
The SQL in this question is for Oracle. But you can simply remove FROM dual to make it work on SQL Server (which returns the same result as Oracle).
I have the following SQL:
SELECT 1
FROM dual
...
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Multiple BIT datatype columns in the same table
Consider the following information coming from Microsoft SQL docs pages:
The SQL Server Database Engine optimizes storage of bit columns. If
there are 8 or fewer bit columns in a table, the ...
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Why null is getting compared with null in the join condition in SQL Server 2016?
It's a simple self join I am trying to do on below data
and the O/P I am getting after running following query (This is not the complete output, just showing the null part of it)
select a.col1, a....
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Increase speed altering column on large table to NON NULL
I recently added a NULL-able bit column to a table which has close to 500 million rows. There's not a default on the column, however all inserts are specifying a value of 0 or 1, and I ran a one-time ...
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MySQL 8.0 cannot insert NULL values to date field
I'm trying to insert a data from file to MYSQL 8.0 using the InnoDB engine.
I'm using this query:
LOAD DATA INFILE '/var/lib/mysql-files/item_new_1_4.dat'
INTO TABLE Item FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|';
...
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Comparing nullable column values using “IS NULL” versus “= NULL”
I'm dealing with nullable values in a column of a table, i'm wondering why this:
with cte as (
select 'c1'::text as c1,null::text as c2
union
select 'c2'::text as c1,null::text as c2
)
...
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LEFT JOIN and handling NULL Values [closed]
I have two tables.
Table 1:
A B
------
1 'A'
2 'B'
3 'C'
Table 2:
A C
----------
2 15
3 20
I'm using the following query:
SELECT table1.A, table1.B, table2.C
FROM table1
...
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MySQL, IF statement, variables, and NULL
After struggling for too long with something that should have been simple, I had a question to ask, but while writing it, I kept looking for solutions and I finally found the solution. I am posting it ...
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Replace NULLs with value
Here is my temporary table:
CREATE TABLE #test123(
c1 float,
c2 float,
c3 float,
c4 float,
c5 float
);
INSERT #test123(c1,c2,c3,c4,c5)
VALUES (2,3,NULL,1,2),
(2,NULL,NULL,...
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How to get the last not-null value in an ordered column of a huge table?
I have the following input:
id | value
----+-------
1 | 136
2 | NULL
3 | 650
4 | NULL
5 | NULL
6 | NULL
7 | 954
8 | NULL
9 | 104
10 | NULL
I expect the following ...
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How can the concatenatation of a text and a NULL value return a non-null result?
Assert 1
The concatenation operator || can concatenate any string type values, returning text. In Postgres, every type has a text representation and can be cast to text. Consequently, quoting the ...
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Display all fields with null values in a particular row in SQL Server
I have a requirement where I want to fetch and display all the fields with NULL value for a particular row in the table.
Some thing like:
select 'all columns with NULL'
from table_xyz
where ...
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1answer
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Conditional ORDER BY based on NULL values in the column
I have a table like this.
table(student_name nvarchar(20) not NULL, grades int).
When I write
select * from table
order by grades asc
It shows this
student_name | grades
---------------------
...
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Pagination using seek-method with nullable columns, sharing a composite index with ORDER BY
I have the following table:
CREATE TABLE users(
id text PRIMARY KEY, -- actually a uuid
organization_id text NOT NULL,
lname text NOT NULL,
fname text NOT NULL
-- other irrelevant fields
);
...
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Why do I need to cast NULL to column type?
I've got a helper that's generating some code to do bulk updates for me and generates SQL that looks like this:
(Both the active and core fields are of type boolean)
UPDATE fields as t set "active" =...
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MYSQL: Display NULL value when foreing key is NULL
I have the following database structure in MYSQL:
CREATE TABLE xs_bugtracking (
`id` INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`product` VARCHAR(64) NOT ...
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PostgreSQL performance with (col = value or col is NULL)
This question deals with PostgreSQL 9.5 query performance.
The table is:
CREATE TABLE big_table
(
id integer NOT NULL,
flag bigint NOT NULL,
time timestamp with timezone NOT NULL,
val ...
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1answer
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WHEN MATCHED clause fails if there's a NULL in the ON columns [duplicate]
I'm using a query with merge that works fine if all columns in the ON clause have a value but WHEN MATCHED omits if there's a NULL mark in one of the columns:
MERGE PEPS AS peps
USING (Lots of Cols..
...
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Should I Use Nulls/Blanks to Convey Meaning in a Related Column Representing a Category?
I'm designing a personal database that has a table which contains categories for seasonal events of a video game. In my design I have a related column from Events to Items (one to many [1:m] ...
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Allow Null Columns vs separate 1-to-many tables
Perhaps similar questions have been asked, but this is re having null columns.
I am too inexperienced to determine what would be the sounder way to approach the design of this database. Is it better ...
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Is there a function which the opposite of NULLIF?
I am aware of the NULLIF function which compares two values and returns NULL if they match.
Is there a function which will compare two values and return NULL if they don’t match? That is filter out ...
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Replace Null values with values from the same column by matching values in a different column
I have a table with some null values in column "date":
platform date id
---------------------------
web 2018-10-10 1
mob 1
mob 1
web ...
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How to display null records/rows from table
For ex: I have a record with name = "sga_target", and no record exists where name = "_exafusion_enabled". I still want to display a row with "_exafusion_enabled" as name and NULL as value, without ...
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MySQL Varchar Primary Key With Not Null Constraint Accepting Nulls
I have the following table definition:
CREATE TABLE `invite` (
`id` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL,
`email` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `...
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vote
1answer
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Why doesn't jsonb constructor from a NULL record behave like hstore constructor?
When I construct an hstore
CREATE EXTENSION hstore;
SELECT hstore(null::my_type);
hstore
------------------------------------------------
"name"=>NULL, "...
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IS NOT DISTINCT FROM vs row-wise equality with =
Looking at the below query,
SELECT null IS NOT DISTINCT FROM null AS indf,
null = null AS eq;
indf | eq
------+----
t |
From this we can see the result of the IS NOT DISTINCT FROM is true, ...
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Using NULL values for foreign key with normalization
I am creating a table as follows:
Building (PK: buildingID)
Area (PK: areaID, FK: buildingID)
Room (PK: roomID, FK: buildingID, FK: areaID)
All rooms are in a building. Some rooms can be in an area ...
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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....
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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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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 (...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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]...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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?
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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. ...
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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 ,'...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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:
...
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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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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
...
