Questions tagged [self-join]
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MySQL Indexes on all column combinations
I have a table that basically represents the log of records
CREATE TABLE records
(
id varchar(36), -- uuid
text blob,
user_id bigint,
cluster_id bigint,
status_id ...
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How to optimized self-join view of 50 millions rows table
I've the following simplified table with ~50M rows.
table sample (
id uuid not null primary key,
measured_date timestamp with time zone not null,
segment_id uuid not null,
activity_id ...
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Best practices for large JOINs - Warehouse or External Compute (e.g. Spark)
I am working on a problem that requires a very large join. The JOIN itself is pretty straightforward but the amount of data I am processing is very large. I am wondering for very large JOINs, is there ...
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Select Max record from last 6 hours from the table
I have multiple records for sample locationId for Same date. But createDate and time different.
I need to take the max record from the last 6 hours. If the same locationId has record which is time is ...
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Improving query (Doing a nasty self join on a range with ctes)
-- The CTE1 is just to create columns that dictate the bound of what is considered the same entry
-- Also I do a dense rank by ACT_TIME, and a PARITION BY on ID1, ID2
-- so all ID1/ID2 combos are ...
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Self Join a Table to Get a Pair of Value But Could Not Receive the Expected Results
I am trying to self join the relation casts(movie_id,cast_id,cast_name). I want to query one pair of actors who have appeared in at least 1 movies together. The self pair must be excluded, and keep ...
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SQL Server - Self join on table is very slow
Working with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-GDR) (KB4505224) - 14.0.2027.2 (X64)
We have a single table, which is planned to contain about 1.5 - 2, maybe max 3 million records at a time. Records will ...
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Flatten multiple rows from One to Many to single row
This questions is similar to what I need but the answer seems rather specific to the question rather than a general answer.
One to many relationship query result in a single row and dynamic multiple ...
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How do I join rows from the same table with slightly different info?
We have a new sector of our company that is being put into our employee record feed. However this sector is listed as contractors as there are still parts of the sector that need access to systems ...
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T SQL, Get new customer added or deleted from historical table
I have a Table containing historical data. Every day the same staff list will be added with the new dates (between 1200-12500 staff each day however only a few staff might be newly added todaysDate or ...
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Explaining what the OR operator does in the following code
I ran into the following SQL code which (successfully) outputs a list of parents and the age of their youngest child:
SELECT parents.name AS name, MIN(children.age) AS age FROM people children
INNER ...
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Multiple self joins where joining condition not always exists
I am trying to perform a multiple self join query where one of the conditions it is joining on does not always exist. I have a table that stores different sale events, where a single transaction (...
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MariaDB: Why is this still using temporary and filesort - is it because I'm using a self-join? How to fix?
SELECT e2.personId, COUNT(*)
FROM entries e1
JOIN entries e2 ON e2.categoryId = e1.categoryId
AND e2.personId != e1.personId
WHERE e1....
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T-SQL: how to show the corresponding column's row to an aggregating function's result?
Everyone,
I have a question - how to show the (possibly ambiguous) column that corresponds to the value retrieved by an aggregating function?
Related to the dataset below, the task is to find the ...
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SQLite - Counting referenced rows in one table using a different, related self-referencing table
media_subscriptions
+----+--------------------------+
| id | target_metadata_item_id |
+----+--------------------------+
| 30 | 19039 |
| 31 | NULL |
| 32 | ...
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Matching columns within the same table in SQLite
I have a table of Employees which contain, among other things, the employeeId, the lastName and the ReportsTo column, that refers to the manager ID to which the employee has to report. That manager is ...
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How to optimize selection of pairs from one column of the table (self-join)?
I'm using PostgreSQL 9.5.19, DBeaver 6.3.4
I have a table where one row is - user's name, place he attended, time when he was there
I need to select all pairs of places where any user was (if user ...
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Group by unknown ID, select all related rows where Column X = Y and Column X = Z
I have a table that logs interactions from users with the following structure.
SELECT [SessionID]
,[Question]
,[Response]
,[DateCreated]
,[Terminal]
FROM [Quiz]
where Teminal ...
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Recursivly get a Tree Via self joined table
Using other questions here & Postgresql documentation I've managed to build a many-to-many self joined table.
However adding a WHERE clause is giving me trouble.
Problem:
A Category can have ...
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accelerating a SQL quadruple self-join with a complex alternation in the WHERE clause
The following Sqlite query has a triple self-join on table t:
SELECT "update_variable",
lhs_acc.name_suffix || ":" || rhs_var.name_suffix,
op.span,
op.path
FROM t op
JOIN t lhs_acc ON (...
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Join a table to itself, each row needs to join to the ordered last record
I have a logging table which for whatever reason logs the column and table that changed, the date it changed and also the value it was changed FROM (the old value). I want to join these records ...
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Selecting Multiple Values from Same Coulmn
I want a query to find out who doesn't have a specific role (user, create or admin)
DB is Structured as Follows:
name_last | name_first | role
Sample Data:
brown | john | user |
brown | john | ...
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How to retrieve data from a table with two of the columns in the table with the same value?
UserName, UserID, FollowingUserID
'RachelLim', '1003', '1004'
'YunaKim', '1005', '1007'
'AustinLee', '1007', '1005'
'BenChoi', '1010', '1001'
'RebeccaFang', '1009', '1004'
'AliceAng', '1004', '1003'
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Select the students that are enrolled in both the courses [closed]
This is the table definition. I want to select the students that are enrolled in courses (1 and 3).
From this dataset the expected output is 'B'.
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write SQL query that takes its own output as input
In a table that displays how trades are related to each other, starting from one trade, I want to find all other trades that relate to the first trade:
713613 PostPTETradeIDs 718478
713613 ...
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Is it possible to upsert into a self-referencing table with a single statement in PostgreSQL?
If I have a table A, like so:
A {
id SERIAL
title TEXT
...
parentId INT references A.id via a foreign key constraint
}
I am pulling data from a source table - A_SOURCE - where there isn't a ...
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Postgres count the same join by different values
I've been trying to create a query that counts the number of different types of events associated with each entry in another table
city job job_events
id | name | state ...
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Usage of aggregate function with when self-joining a table
I want to find people from a database who has a weight bigger then the average weight:
SELECT *
FROM Player p1, Player p2
WHERE p1.weight > avg(p2.weight)
But I have an error:
Result: misuse of ...
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Select most recent event for each plate on a property unless the most recent is "Out" - self-join?
My cameras are positioned on the entry and exit gates of a parking garages. As cars pass the cameras, they capture the license plate and other attributes and load it into a database in real time. I ...
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Self-join example review in Books Online
Here in this example it states that performs a self-join, but it joins Sales.SalesPerson to Sales.SalesTerritory. I knew that self join means joining the same table to itself but here aren't Sales....
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Can a transitive join loop infinitely?
I have a table that stores alternative product:
+--------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------...
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Joining two ltree based tree tables recursively
I have two tables, roles and permissions, both of which use ltree for maintaining a tree structure. I also have a pivot table, roles_permissions, which serves to connect the two tables. How can I join ...
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Avoid duplicates on self join
Given the following table my_table :
my_column
------
A
B
C
D
I would like to be able to join on itself but without duplicate pairs like so:
-- SELECT a.*, b.* FROM my_table a JOIN my_table b ON a....
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how to make sql statement to find siblings in a table [closed]
I have a question here which need your kindly help.
I have a table with the following data
family_id,student_Name
--------- ------------
A,Tom
B,Jack
C,Steve
B,Terry
C,Jerry
And then I want to write ...
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JOIN by part of two column names
Consider a table with the structure of
id col1
WqDs.first
WqDs.second
eeRT.first
eeRT.second
How can I JOIN the table to itself using the first part of the id
SELECT idxx, a.col1 AS ...
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Inner join on output of a subquery
We have Slot table which tells us about freetime for an employee between starttime and endtime.
We need to find Slot which have freetime > 'x' mins. This could be either be a complete slot or it can ...
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Nontrivial joining a relation with itself [closed]
I am a philosopher and am doing my first steps in relational algebra. So here is a puzzle:
Let say that we have a relation R with attributes 'R.a' and 'R.b'. Is it possible to make a renaming and ...
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How to get the hierarchy of particular employee using JPA spring boot?
I am trying to find a way to get the employee hierarchy in an organization using JPA and Spring boot.
The problem is similar to the following link
Similar Data Model
If A reports to B and B reports ...
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Looking for help reporting duplicates and null marks
Someone over at StackOverflow suggested this might be the place to ask this. I hope this will question is proper for this forum. I am looking for suggestions / criticisms of alternative methods of ...
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Many-to-many tag filter query with a junction table get slower with more tags. Can it be faster?
Part 1
I have this query to find some videos containing all given tags. Here with tags 1,9,27,13,67 as an example.
SELECT *
FROM video v
WHERE v.id IN (
SELECT tr1.vid as video_id FROM (SELECT ...
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Update using the value from the closest row
My table looks like this:
-----------------------------------------
id | name | housename | houseno
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1 | John | John's House | 2/22
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Joining multiple subqueries
I need a query that returns something in this format:
pk id v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
----------------------
...
pk1 id1 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5
pk6 id2 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5
...
My current data looks like this
CREATE ...
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Filter one column by value in second column postgres
I'm constructing a large table that is pulling values from across the database. Two of the fields I want to include in the new table are stored in a single column in another table. I want to split ...
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Help on Self-Referential CTE SQL SERVER
I have this table below which is has a hierarchy to it where the number of levels vary, for this example I chose a subset with 7 levels.
L_Key Parent Level P_Key
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Want to perform a function on a returned table on subset of rows
I have a query that takes 10 minutes to run (1.4 million rows and 15-ish joins), so I think the time isn't terrible.
What I need from this is to effectively INNER JOIN on itself an additional column ...
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self-joins in recursive CTE: `recursive reference must not appear more than once`?
This is tested with PostgreSQL 9.6, but it's a general SQL question.
Is it possible to use self-joins of the recursive table in a recursive CTE (rCTE)?
I tried the following rCTE containing a self-...
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