Reputation: 928
Is there any advanced Oracle SQL methods to solve this kind of situation?
Simplified: Two queries returns primary_key_value and other_value. Both queries always return primary_key_value but other_value might be null.
So how I can union those two queries so that it returns always those rows which has other_value, but if both queries are having other_value = null with same primary key, then only one row should be returned.
I know this is so stupid case. But specifications were like this :)
Example: First query:
A | B
=======
1 | X
2 |
3 |
4 | Z
Second query:
A | B
=======
1 | Y
2 |
3 | Z
4 |
So result need to be like this:
A | B
=======
1 | X
1 | Y
2 |
3 | Z
4 | Z
Upvotes: 0
Views: 580
Reputation: 536
Another way to look at is that you want all possible values from the union of column A then left outer outer join these with the non-null values from column B, thus only showing null in B when there is no non-null value to display.
roughly:
WITH q1 as (whatever),
q2 as (whatever)
SELECT All_A.A, BVals.B
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT A FROM (SELECT A FROM q1 UNION SELECT A FROM q2)) All_A,
(SELECT A,B FROM q1 WHERE B IS NOT NULL
UNION
SELECT A,B FROM q2 WHERE B IS NOT NULL) BVals
WHERE All_A.A = BVals.A (+)
Also pruning the unwanted nulls explicitly could do the same job:
WITH q3 AS (q1_SELECT UNION q2_SELECT)
SELECT A,B
FROM q3 main
WHERE NOT ( B IS NULL AND
EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM q3 x WHERE main.A = x.A and x.B IS NOT NULL) )
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 843
If you want use something really advanced, use model clause http://rwijk.blogspot.com/2007/10/sql-model-clause-tutorial-part-one.html But, in real life, using such things usually means bad-designed data model
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 67802
You could use analytics:
SQL> WITH q1 AS (
2 SELECT 1 a, 'X' b FROM DUAL UNION ALL
3 SELECT 2 a, '' b FROM DUAL UNION ALL
4 SELECT 3 a, '' b FROM DUAL UNION ALL
5 SELECT 4 a, 'Z' b FROM DUAL
6 ), q2 AS (
7 SELECT 1 a, 'Y' b FROM DUAL UNION ALL
8 SELECT 2 a, '' b FROM DUAL UNION ALL
9 SELECT 3 a, 'Z' b FROM DUAL UNION ALL
10 SELECT 4 a, '' b FROM DUAL
11 )
12 SELECT a, b
13 FROM (SELECT a, b,
14 rank() over(PARTITION BY a
15 ORDER BY decode(b, NULL, 2, 1)) rnk
16 FROM (SELECT * FROM q1
17 UNION
18 SELECT * FROM q2))
19 WHERE rnk = 1;
A B
---------- -
1 X
1 Y
2
3 Z
4 Z
Upvotes: 4