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I'm quite new to SQL and I'm trying to filter the latest date record (DateTime column) for each unique ID present in the table.
Sample data: there are 2 unique IDs (16512) and (76513).
DateTime
ID
Notes
2021-03-26T10:39:54.9770238
16512
Still a work in Progress
2021-04-29T12:46:12.8277807
16512
Still working on it
2021-03-21T10:39:54.9770238
76513
Still a work in Progress
2021-04-20T12:46:12.8277800
76513
Still working on project
Desired result (get last row of each ID based on the DateTime column):
DateTime
ID
Notes
2021-04-29T12:46:12.8277807
16512
Still working on it
2021-04-20T12:46:12.8277800
76513
Still working on project
My query:
SELECT MAX(DateTime), ID
FROM Table1
GROUP BY DateTime, ID
Thanks in advance for you help.
SELECT max(DateTime), ID
FROM Table1
GROUP BY ID
You can use row_number here
with d as (
select *, row_number() over(partition by Id order by DataTime desc)rn
)
select Datetime, Id, Notes
from d
where rn = 1;
You didn't state a particular database but if you are using Postgres then you can use its DISTINCT ON and is often the fastest solution if the size of your groups is not too big (in your case this is the size of tasks that have the same id).
Here's an example. Please note I've excluded your notes column for brevity but it will work if you include it and will give you the output you desire above.
create temporary table tasks (
id int,
created_at date,
);
insert into tasks(id, created_at) values
(16512, '2021-03-26'),
(16512, '2021-04-29'),
(76513, '2021-03-21'),
(76513, '2021-04-20')
;
select
distinct on (id)
id,
created_at
from tasks
order by id, created_at desc
/*
id | created_at
-------+------------
16512 | 2021-04-29
76513 | 2021-04-20
*/
The mentioned row_number is one of the method solving your problem. You tagged databricks in your question, so let me show you another option that you can implement with Spark SQL using last function from aggregate functions pool.
In refrence to the spark documentation:
last(expr[, isIgnoreNull]) - Returns the last value of expr for a group of rows. If isIgnoreNull is true, returns only non-null values.
Note that:
The function is non-deterministic because its results depends on the order of the rows which may be non-deterministic after a shuffle.
In your example:
%sql
WITH cte AS (
SELECT *
FROM my_table
ORDER BY DateTime asc
)
SELECT Id, last(DateTime) AS DateTime, last(Notes) as Notes
FROM cte
GROUP BY Id
Similarly, you can use first function to obtain the first record in a sorted dataset.
Check if that works for you.
Related
What is the correct behavior of the last and last_value functions in Apache Spark/Databricks SQL. The way I'm reading the documentation (here: https://docs.databricks.com/spark/2.x/spark-sql/language-manual/functions.html) it sounds like it should return the last value of what ever is in the expression.
So if I have a select statement that does something like
select
person,
last(team)
from
(select * from person_team order by date_joined)
group by person
I should get the last team a person joined, yes/no?
The actual query I'm running is shown below. It is returning a different number each time I execute the query.
select count(distinct patient_id) from (
select
patient_id,
org_patient_id,
last_value(data_lot) data_lot
from
(select * from my_table order by data_lot)
where 1=1
and org = 'my_org'
group by 1,2
order by 1,2
)
where data_lot in ('2021-01','2021-02')
;
What is the correct way to get the last value for a given field (for either the team example or my specific example)?
--- EDIT -------------------
I'm thinking collect_set might be useful here, but I get the error shown when I try to run this:
select
patient_id,
last_value(collect_set(data_lot)) data_lot
from
covid.demo
group by patient_id
;
Error in SQL statement: AnalysisException: It is not allowed to use an aggregate function in the argument of another aggregate function. Please use the inner aggregate function in a sub-query.;;
Aggregate [patient_id#89338], [patient_id#89338, last_value(collect_set(data_lot#89342, 0, 0), false) AS data_lot#91848]
+- SubqueryAlias spark_catalog.covid.demo
The posts shown below discusses how to get max values (not the same as last in a list ordered by a different field, I want the last team a player joined, the player may have joined the Reds, the A's, the Zebras, and the Yankees, in that order timewise, I'm looking for the Yankees) and these posts get to the solution procedurally using python/r. I'd like to do this in SQL.
Getting last value of group in Spark
Find maximum row per group in Spark DataFrame
--- SECOND EDIT -------------------
I ended up using something like this based upon the accepted answer.
select
row_number() over (order by provided_date, data_lot) as row_num,
demo.*
from demo
You can assign row numbers based on an ordering on data_lots if you want to get its last value:
select count(distinct patient_id) from (
select * from (
select *,
row_number() over (partition by patient_id, org_patient_id, org order by data_lots desc) as rn
from my_table
where org = 'my_org'
)
where rn = 1
)
where data_lot in ('2021-01','2021-02');
I have a table with the following (with other fields removed)
CREATE TABLE if NOT EXISTS request_audit (
user_id text,
request_body text,
lookup_timestamp TIMESTAMP
PRIMARY KEY ((user_id), lookup_timestamp)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY ( lookup_timestamp DESC);
I create a record with the following
INSERT INTO request_audit (user_id, lookup_timestamp, request_body) VALUES (?, ?, toTimestamp(now()))
I am trying to retrieve all rows within the last 24 hours, but I am having trouble with the timestamp,
I have tried
SELECT * from request_audit WHERE user_id = '1234' AND lookup_timestamp > toTimestamp(now() - "1 day" )
and various other ways of trying to take a day away from the query.
Cassandra has a very limited date operation support. What you need is a custom function to do date math calculation.
Inspired from here.
How to get Last 6 Month data comparing with timestamp column using cassandra query?
you can write a UDF (user defined function) to date operation.
CREATE FUNCTION dateAdd(date timestamp, day int)
CALLED ON NULL INPUT
RETURNS timestamp
LANGUAGE java
AS
$$java.util.Calendar c = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTime(date);
c.add(java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, day);
return c.getTime();$$ ;
remember that you would have to enable UDF in config. Cassandra.yml. Hope that is possible.
enable_user_defined_functions: true
once done this query works perfectly.
SELECT * from request_audit WHERE user_id = '1234' AND lookup_timestamp > dateAdd(dateof(now()), -1)
You couldn't do it directly from CQL, as it doesn't support this kind of expressions. If you're running this query from cqlsh, then you can try to substitute the desired date with something like this:
date --date='-1 day' '+%F %T%z'
and execute this query.
If you're invoking this from your program, just use corresponding date/time library to get date corresponding -1 day, but this depends on the language that you're using.
I am already able to get the last row of time-series table as:
SELECT * from myapp.locations WHERE organization_id=1 and user_id=15 and date='2017-2-22' ORDER BY unix_time DESC LIMIT 1;
That works fine, however, I am wondering about performance and overhead of executing ORDER BY as rows are already sorted, I just use it to get the last row, is it an overhead in my case?
If I don't use ORDER BY, I will always get the first row in the table, so, I though I might be able to use INSERT in another way, ex: insert always in the beginning instead of end of table?
Any advice? shall I use ORDER BY without worries about performance?
Just define your clustering key order to DESC
Like the below schema :
CREATE TABLE locations (
organization_id int,
user_id int,
date text,
unix_time bigint,
lat double,
long double,
PRIMARY KEY ((organization_id, user_id, date), unix_time)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (unix_time DESC);
So by default your data will sorted by unix_time desc, you don't need to specify in query
Now you can just use the below query to get the last row :
SELECT * from myapp.locations WHERE organization_id = 1 and user_id = 15 and date = '2017-2-22' LIMIT 1;
If your query pattern for that table is always ORDER BY unix_time DESC then you are in a reverse order time-series scenario, and I can say that your model is inaccurate (not wrong).
There's no reason not to sort the records in reverse order by adding a WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY unix_time DESC in the table definition, and in my opinion the ORDER BY unix_time DESC will perform at most on par with something explicitly meant for these use cases (well, I think it will perform worse).
I have a column family with primary key definition like this:
...
PRIMARY KEY ((website_id, item_id), user_id, date)
which will be queried using queries such as:
SELECT * FROM myCF
WHERE website_id = 30 AND item_id = 10
AND user_id = 0 AND date > 'some_date' ;
However, I'd like to keep my column family ordered by date only, such as SELECT date FROM myCF ; would return the most recent inserted date.
Due to the order of clustering columns, what I get is an order per user_id then per date.
If I change the primary key definition to:
PRIMARY KEY ((website_id, item_id), date, user_id)
I can no longer run the same query, as date must be restricted is user_id is.
I thought there might be some way to say:
...
PRIMARY KEY ((website_id, shop_id), store_id, date)
) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (store_id RANDOMPLEASE, date DESC) ;
But it doesn't seem to exist. Worst, maybe this is completely stupid and I don't get why.
Is there any ways of achieving this? Am I missing something?
Many thanks!
Your query example restricts user_id so that should work with the second table format. But if you are actually trying to run queries like
SELECT * FROM myCF
WHERE website_id = 30 AND item_id = 10
AND date > 'some_date'
Then you need an additional table which is created to handle those queries, it would only order on Date and not on user id
Create Table LookupByDate ... PRIMARY KEY ((website_id, item_id), date)
In addition to your primary query, if all you try to get is "return the most recent inserted date", you may not need an additional table. You can use "static column" to store the last update time per partition. CASSANDRA-6561
It probably won't help your particular case (since I imagine your list of all users is unmanagably large), but if the condition on the first clustering column is matching one of a relatively small set of values then you can use IN.
SELECT * FROM myCF
WHERE website_id = 30 AND item_id = 10
AND user_id IN ? AND date > 'some_date'
Don't use IN on the partition key because this will create an inefficient query that hits multiple nodes putting stress on the coordinator node. Instead, execute multiple asynchronous queries in parallel. But IN on a clustering column is absolutely fine.
Short version: Is it possible to query for all timeuuid columns corresponding to a particular date?
More details:
I have a table defined as follows:
CREATE TABLE timetest(
key uuid,
activation_time timeuuid,
value text,
PRIMARY KEY(key,activation_time)
);
I have populated this with a single row, as follows (f0532ef0-2a15-11e3-b292-51843b245f21 is a timeuuid corresponding to the date 2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100):
insert into timetest (key, activation_time, value) VALUES (7daecb80-29b0-11e3-92ec-e291eb9d325e, f0532ef0-2a15-11e3-b292-51843b245f21, 'some value');
And I can query for that row as follows:
select activation_time,dateof(activation_time) from timetest where key=7daecb80-29b0-11e3-92ec-e291eb9d325e
which results in the following (using cqlsh)
activation_time | dateof(activation_time)
--------------------------------------+--------------------------
f0532ef0-2a15-11e3-b292-51843b245f21 | 2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100
Now lets assume there's a lot of data in my table and I want to retrieve all rows where activation_time corresponds to a particular date, say 2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100.
I would have expected to be able to query for the range of all timeuuids between minTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100') and maxTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100') but this doesn't seem possible (the following query returns zero rows):
select * from timetest where key=7daecb80-29b0-11e3-92ec-e291eb9d325e and activation_time>minTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100') and activation_time<=maxTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100');
It seems I need to use a hack whereby I increment the second date in my query (by a second) to catch the row(s), i.e.,
select * from timetest where key=7daecb80-29b0-11e3-92ec-e291eb9d325e and activation_time>minTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100') and activation_time<=maxTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:07+0100');
This feels wrong. Am I missing something? Is there a cleaner way to do this?
The CQL documentation discusses timeuuid functions but it's pretty short on gte/lte expressions with timeuuids, beyond:
The min/maxTimeuuid example selects all rows where the timeuuid column, t, is strictly later than 2013-01-01 00:05+0000 but strictly earlier than 2013-02-02 10:00+0000. The t >= maxTimeuuid('2013-01-01 00:05+0000') does not select a timeuuid generated exactly at 2013-01-01 00:05+0000 and is essentially equivalent to t > maxTimeuuid('2013-01-01 00:05+0000').
p.s. the following query also returns zero rows:
select * from timetest where key=7daecb80-29b0-11e3-92ec-e291eb9d325e and activation_time<=maxTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100');
and the following query returns the row(s):
select * from timetest where key=7daecb80-29b0-11e3-92ec-e291eb9d325e and activation_time>minTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100');
I'm sure the problem is that cqlsh does not display milliseconds for your timestamps
So the real timestamp is something like '2013-09-30 22:19:06.123+0100'
When you call maxTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06+0100') as milliseconds are missing, zero is assumed so it is the same as calling maxTimeuuid('2013-09-30 22:19:06.000+0100')
And as 22:19:06.123 > 22:19:06.000 that causes record to be filtered out.
Not directly related to answer but as an additional addon to #dimas answer.
cqlsh (version 5.0.1) seem to show the miliseconds now
system.dateof(id)
---------------------------------
2016-06-03 02:42:09.990000+0000
2016-05-28 17:07:30.244000+0000