Informix grammar explanation?What does the grammar in the picture mean? - informix

A fragment of SQL in the Informix dialect
SELECT INSUREDNAME
FROM sc5100car3gdb#idp_5100_cb:PRPCINSURED P
WHERE P.PROPOSALNO = A.PROPOSALNO
What does this grammar mean?

The SQL fragment is:
SELECT INSUREDNAME
FROM sc5100car3gdb#idp_5100_cb:PRPCINSURED P
WHERE P.PROPOSALNO = A.PROPOSALNO
This means that there is a table PRPCINSURED in database sc5100car3gdb hosted on Informix server idp_5100_cb; inside the query, the table will be referred to by the alias P. It has columns INSUREDNAME and PROPOSALNO. Further, this must be a fragment of an SQL statement. The WHERE clause uses the alias P, but also references another table with the alias (or perhaps name) A. However, the context defining A is not shown; as it stands, the A will trigger an error. (When I ran an analogous query, I got the error SQL -217: Column (a) not found in any table in the query (or SLV is undefined).)
See the Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax manual on database object names for more information about the notation used for the table name.

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DB2 simple Select SP

i try to get an SP to run on DB2 connected with Squirrel
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE BOCA.TESTSP
(IN CASID INTEGER)
READS SQL DATA
DETERMINISTIC
LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM BOCA.TCASE C WHERE C.ID = CASID
END;
I get various errors based on where I put the ; (at end of statement etc)
i tried to follow this approach:
CREATE PROCEDURE [qualifier.]<procedure_name>
([IN | OUT | INOUT <argument_name> <datatype>,...])
{MODIFIES SQL DATA |
NO SQL |
CONTAINS SQL |
READS SQL DATA}
[[NOT] DETERMINISTIC]
LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN [ATOMIC]
<procedure_body>
END
But did not succeed.
Anyone have a simple select that runs?
Stange is that an sample update I was able to create
Take some time to study the sample code that IBM supplies for SQL PL procedures, get these samples built and working in your environment. The samples are in the documentation, also they are on github, also they are in the SAMPLES directory of your Db2-server installation (for DB2 on Linux/Unix/Windows).
Your procedure has some mistakes:
missing statement separator after the SELECT statement
incorrect usage of SELECT in a routine. You either want to declare and open a cursor to return a result set to the caller or client, or you want to use SELECT...INTO to process the result of the query inside your routine.
missing valid separator at the end of the block of code (after the final END)
For SQuirrel SQL Client, before you connect to the database:
File > New Session Properties > SQL
(scroll down the list of properties until you see:
Statement Separator ;
Change the Statement Separator to #
Click OK.
Now connect to the database.
When you then type any SQL statement inside Squirrel (or a block, such as a trigger, stored-procedure, user defined function etc), you must now use the new statement separator instead of the previous default value at the end of the whole statement.
Inside of your routines , you will still need to use the semicolon to delimit statements inside the block, but remember to specify the new statement separator at the end of the block (after the final END in the stored procedure in your case).

Can't insert rows into SQL Server table that contains triggers ( F Sharp SQL Provider )

I am using the Sqlprovider driver and hitting an issue on creating new records - that appears to make the driver useless.
let foundProductMaybe = query {
for p in ctx.Dbo.Products do
where (p.DefaultSupplierSku.Value = pl.supplierSku)
select (Some p)
exactlyOneOrDefault
}
match foundProductMaybe with
| Some foundProduct ->
updateProduct(foundProduct,pl,ctx)
| None -> addProduct(pl, ctx)
product.Id <- Guid.NewGuid()
product.Code <- "some code"
.... etc
ctx.SubmitUpdates()
I get the error:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: 'The target table 'dbo.Products' of the DML statement cannot have any enabled triggers if the statement contains an OUTPUT clause without INTO
Is there a workaround for this?
This is an issue related to SQL Server, not necessarily SQLServerProvider, it seems to me. Here's an article that discusses the mechanism of this behaviour. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server/update-with-output-clause-8211-triggers-8211-and-sqlmoreresults/ba-p/383457
The code that generates the OUTPUT statemens in the SqlProvider appears to be here: https://github.com/fsprojects/SQLProvider/blob/8afaad203efe2b3b900a2ad1a6d8a35d66ebe40a/src/SQLProvider.Runtime/Providers.MsSqlServer.fs#L370
The OUTPUT clause is generated only if the table has primary key.
Perhaps you can change the table and replace the primary key with UNIQUE constraint, which is pretty close in the functionality to the PK constraint and should not affect you in your case.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/tables/create-unique-constraints?view=sql-server-ver15
The Unique constraints (and primary keys) are implemented as indexes on the table. Since you use a nonsequential GUID, you might consider ensuring that these indexes are created as NONCLUSTERED.

Left join table on multiple tables in SAS

I've got multiple master tables in the same format with the same variables. I now want to left join another variable but I can't combine the master tables due to limited storage on my computer. Is there a way that I can left join a variable onto multiple master tables within one PROC SQL? Maybe with the help of a macro?
The LEFT JOIN code looks like this for one join but I'm looking for an alternative than to copy and paste this 5 times:
PROC SQL;
CREATE TABLE New AS
SELECT a.*, b.Value
FROM Old a LEFT JOIN Additional b
ON a.ID = b.ID;
QUIT;
You can't do it in one create table statement, as it only creates one table at a time. But you can do a few things, depending on what your actual limiting factor is (you mention a few).
If you simply want to avoid writing the same code five times, but otherwise don't care how it executes, then just write the code in a macro, as you reference.
%macro update_table(old=, new=);
PROC SQL;
CREATE TABLE &new. AS
SELECT a.*, b.Value
FROM &old. a LEFT JOIN Additional b
ON a.ID = b.ID;
QUIT;
%mend update_table;
%update_table(old=old1, new=new1)
%update_table(old=old2, new=new2)
%update_table(old=old3, new=new3)
Of course, if the names of the five tables are in a pattern, you can perhaps automate this further based on that pattern, but you don't give sufficient information to figure that out.
If you on the other hand need to do this more efficiently in terms of processing than running the SQL query five times, it can be done a number of ways, depending on the specifics of your additional table and your specific limitations. It looks to me that you have a good use case for a format lookup here, for example; see for example Jenine Eason's paper, Proc Format, a Speedy Alternative to Sort/Merge. If you're just merging on the ID, this is very easy.
data for_format;
set additional;
start = ID;
label = value;
fmtname='AdditionalF'; *or '$AdditionalF' if ID is character-valued;
output;
if _n_=1 then do; *creating an "other" option so it returns missing if not found;
hlo='o';
label = ' ';
output;
end;
run;
And then you just have five data steps with a PUT statement adding the value, or even you could simply format the ID variable with that format and it would have that value whenever you did most PROCs (if this is something like a classifier that you don't truly need "in" the data).
You can do this in a single pass through the data in a Data Step using a hash table to lookup values.
data new1 new2 new3;
set old1(in=a) old2(in=b) old3(in=c);
format value best.;
if _n_=1 then do;
%create_hash(lk,id,value,"Additional");
end;
value = .;
rc = lk.find();
drop rc;
if a then
output new1;
else if b then
output new2;
else if c then
output new3;
run;
%create_hash() macro available here.
You could, alternatively, use Joe's format with the same Data Step syntax.

Join with <= in the On clause in Google bigquery

I want to execute a query with join in Google bigquery that has '<=' instead of '=' in it's on clause:
select s.count_value as count_value,s.total as total,sum(p.total) as accumulated from stats s join stats p on p.rn <=s.rn group by count_value,total,s.rn
When I run this query, I receive an error message saying:
Error: ON clause must be AND of = comparisons of one field name from each table, with all field names prefixed with table name.
Any idea how I can implement this query?
You should enable Standard SQL to do such JOINs
See Enabling Standard SQL
in CLI - just add the --use_legacy_sql=false flag to your command line statement.

Safety SQL Dynamic Column Query in Postgresql (No Sql Injection)

I'm using Rails to get data from Postgresql by passing dynamic column and table name.
I cannot use ActiveRecord because the shape data that is imported from shapefile is dynamic both table and column name.
I have to use double quote with a column name in the query to avoid problem such column name: "addr:city" for example.
def find_by_column_and_table(column_name, shape_table_name)
sql = "SELECT \"#{column_name}\" FROM \"#{shape_table_name}\" WHERE \"#{column_name}\" IS NOT NULL"
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_one(sql)
end
2 examples of generated sql statement:
SELECT "place" FROM "shp_6c998258-32a6-11e0-b34b-080027997e00"
SELECT "addr:province" FROM "shp_6c998258-32a6-11e0-b34b-080027997e00"
I want to make sure there is no sql injection in the query.
Could anyone point me how to solve this issue?
The recommended way to prevent injection, speed up your query and catch errors is to use positional parameters or stored proceedures. Anything less is asking for trouble.
http://nasir.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/stored-procedures-and-rails/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-expressions.html#AEN1834

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