How do I combine 2 select statements into one?

Question

I am a noob when it comes to SQL syntax.

I have a table with lots of rows and columns of course :P Lets say it looks like this:

      AAA BBB CCC DD         


        

Answer 1

If they are from the same table, I think UNION is the command you're looking for.

(If you'd ever need to select values from columns of different tables, you should look at JOIN instead...)

Answer 2

I think that's what you're looking for:

SELECT CASE WHEN BoolField05 = 1 THEN Status ELSE 'DELETED' END AS MyStatus, t1.*
FROM WorkItems t1
WHERE (TextField01, TimeStamp) IN(
  SELECT TextField01, MAX(TimeStamp)
  FROM WorkItems t2
  GROUP BY t2.TextField01
  )
AND TimeStamp > '2009-02-12 18:00:00'

If you're in Oracle or in MS SQL 2005 and above, then you could do:

SELECT *
FROM (
  SELECT CASE WHEN BoolField05 = 1 THEN Status ELSE 'DELETED' END AS MyStatus, t1.*,
     ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY TextField01 ORDER BY TimeStamp DESC) AS rn
  FROM WorkItems t1
) to
WHERE rn = 1

, it's more efficient.

Answer 3

select t1.* from 
(select * from TABLE Where CCC='D' AND DDD='X') as t1,
(select * from TABLE Where CCC<>'D' AND DDD='X') as t2

Another way to do this!

Answer 4

The Union command is what you need. If that doesn't work, you may need to refine what environment you are in.

Answer 5

select Status, * from WorkItems t1
where  exists (select 1 from workitems t2 where t1.TextField01=t2.TextField01 AND (BoolField05=1) )
AND TimeStamp=(select max(t2.TimeStamp) from workitems t2 where t2.TextField01=t1.TextField01) 
AND TimeStamp>'2009-02-12 18:00:00'

UNION

select 'DELETED', * from WorkItems t1
where  exists (select 1 from workitems t2 where t1.TextField01=t2.TextField01 AND (BoolField05=1) )
AND TimeStamp=(select max(t2.TimeStamp) from workitems t2 where t2.TextField01=t1.TextField01) 
AND TimeStamp>'2009-02-12 18:00:00'
AND NOT (BoolField05=1)

Perhaps that'd do the trick. I can't test it from here though, and I'm not sure what version of SQL you're working against.

Answer 6

Thanks for the input. Tried the stuff that has been mentioned here and these are the 2 I got to work:

(
select 'OK', * from WorkItems t1
where exists(select 1 from workitems t2 where t1.TextField01=t2.TextField01 AND (BoolField05=1) )
AND TimeStamp=(select max(t2.TimeStamp) from workitems t2 where t2.TextField01=t1.TextField01) 
AND TimeStamp>'2009-02-12 18:00:00'
AND (BoolField05=1)
)
UNION
(
select 'DEL', * from WorkItems t1
where exists(select 1 from workitems t2 where t1.TextField01=t2.TextField01 AND (BoolField05=1) )
AND TimeStamp=(select max(t2.TimeStamp) from workitems t2 where t2.TextField01=t1.TextField01) 
AND TimeStamp>'2009-02-12 18:00:00'
AND NOT (BoolField05=1)
)

AND

select 
    case
        when
            (BoolField05=1)
    then 'OK'
    else 'DEL'
        end,
        *
from WorkItems t1
Where
            exists(select 1 from workitems t2 where t1.TextField01=t2.TextField01 AND (BoolField05=1) )
            AND TimeStamp=(select max(t2.TimeStamp) from workitems t2 where t2.TextField01=t1.TextField01) 
            AND TimeStamp>'2009-02-12 18:00:00'

Which would be the most efficient of these (edit: the second as it only scans the table once), and is it possible to make it even more efficient? (The BoolField=1) is really a variable (dyn sql) that can contain any where statement on the table.

I am running on MS SQL 2005. Tried Quassnoi examples but did not work as expected.