I have the need to join a huge table (10 million plus rows) to a lookup table (15k plus rows) with an OR condition. Something like:
SELECT t1.a, t1.b, nvl(t1.c, t2.c), nvl(t1.d, t2.d)
FROM table1 t1
JOIN table2 t2 ON t1.c = t2.c OR t1.d = t2.d;
This is because table1 can have c or d as NULL, and I'd like to join on whichever is available, leaving out the rest. The query plan says there is a Nested Loop, which I realize is because of the OR condition. Is there a clean, efficient way of solving this problem? I'm using Redshift.
EDIT: I am trying to run this with a UNION, but it doesn't seem to be any faster than before.
If you have a preferred column you can NVL() (aka COALESCE()) them and join on that.
SELECT t1.a, t1.b, nvl(t1.c, t2.c), nvl(t1.d, t2.d)
FROM table1 t1
JOIN table2 t2
ON t1.c = NVL(t2.c,t2.d);
I'd also suggest that you should set the lookup table to DISTSTYLE ALL to ensure that the larger table is not redistributed.
[ Also, 10 million rows isn't big for Redshift. Not trying to be snotty just saying that we get excellent performance on Redshift even when querying (and joining) tables with hundreds of billions of rows. ]
How about doing two (left) joins? With the small lookup table performance shouldn't be too bad even.
SELECT t1.a, t1.b, nvl(t1.c, t2.c), nvl(t1.d, t3.d)
FROM table1 t1
LEFT JOIN table2 t2 ON t1.d = t2.d and t1.c is null
LEFT JOIN table2 t3 ON t1.c = t3.c and t1.d is null
Your original query only returns rows that match at least one of c or d in the lookup table. If that's not guaranteed you may need to add filters...for example rows in t1 where both c and d are null or have values not present in table2.
Don't really need the null checks in the joins, but might be slightly faster.
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I've got the following problem. In my oracle db I have query as follows:
select * from table1 t1
inner join table2 t2 on
(t1.id_1= t2.id_1 or t1.id_2 = t2.id_2)
and it works perfectly.
Nowadays I need to re-write query on hive. I've seen that OR clause doesn't work in JOINS in hive (error warning : 'OR not supported in JOIN').
Is there any workaround for this except splitting query between two separate and union them?
Another way is to union two joins, e.g.,
select * from table1 t1
inner join table2 t2 on
(t1.id_1= t2.id_1)
union all
select * from table1 t1
inner join table2 t2 on
(t1.id_2 = t2.id_2)
Hive does not support non-equi joins. Common approach is to move join ON condition to the WHERE clause. In the worst case it will be the CROSS JOIN + WHERE filter, like this:
select *
from table1 t1
cross join table2 t2
where (t1.id_1= t2.id_1 or t1.id_2 = t2.id_2)
It may work slow because of rows multiplication by CROSS JOIN.
You can try to do two LEFT joins instead of CROSS and filter out cases when both conditions are false (like INNER JOIN in your query). This may perform faster than cross join because will not multiply all the rows. Also columns selected from second table can be calculated using NVL() or coalesce().
select t1.*,
nvl(t2.col1, t3.col1) as t2_col1, --take from t2, if NULL, take from t3
... calculate all other columns from second table in the same way
from table1 t1
left join table2 t2 on t1.id_1= t2.id_1
left join table2 t3 on t1.id_2 = t3.id_2
where (t1.id_1= t2.id_1 OR t1.id_2 = t3.id_2) --Only joined records allowed likke in your INNER join
As you asked, no UNION is necessary.
sorry for the late response.
For a key in table A, there may be 2 or more records present in tables B and C. That is, one another column in these tables will have a date value which would be making the keys unique. So I want to extract the record that has maximum date value. And that's why I am using the max function. I know that the subquery which I have coded should not be included in the ON clause and it would do the filtering before the join statement. So eventually I want to know how to mention the max clause in the query.
Example:
Table A
Key - AAAAA
Table B:
Record 1
Key - AAAAA
Date - 2017-10-01
Record 2
Key - AAAAA
Date - 2017-10-05
I want the only the record AAAAA/2017-10-05 to be selected from the table B
Basically records from table A where A.c3 = 'Y' should be extracted first (assume it gives 500 records)
Then join these 500 records with tables B and C (left outer, to have all the matching records and the non-matching records should have nulls in the columns from the tables B and C)
In tables B and C, if more than 1 record present with different dates, the maximum date field should be extracted.
Hence final output should contain 500 records.
This is all you need for what you describe
SELECT A.A1, A.A2, B.B1, B.B2, C.C1, C.C2
FROM TABLE1 A
LEFT OUTER JOIN TABLE2 B
ON A.A1 = B.B1
LEFT OUTER JOIN TABLE3 C
ON A.A1 = C.C1
WHERE A.C3 = ‘Y’
These lines are causing your problem...basically forcing your outer joins to an inner joins.
AND B.C3 = (SELECT MAX(B3) FROM TABLE2 T1
WHERE T1.B1 = B.B1)
AND C.C3 = (SELECT MAX(C3) FROM TABLE3 T1
WHERE T1.C1 = C.C1)
If there's no match in B or C , then B.C3 and/or C.C3 will be NULL and NULL can't be = to anything (or <> to anything for that matter)
What are you trying to accomplish with the above that you've not included in the question?
Just do it?
SELECT A.A1, A.A2, B.B1, B.B2, C.C1, C.C2
FROM TABLE1 A
LEFT OUTER JOIN TABLE2 B
ON A.A1 = B.B1
LEFT OUTER JOIN TABLE3 C
ON A.A1 = C.C1
WHERE A.C3 = 'Y' and (B.B1 is null or C.B1 is null)
I'm looking for a way to select all values from one table which do no exits in other table. This needs to be done on two variables, not one.
select * from tb1
where tb1.id1 not in (select id1 from tb2)
and tb1.id2 not in (select id2 from tb2)
I cannot use subquery. It needs to be done using joins only.
I tried this:
select * from tb1 full join tb2 on
tb1.id1=tb2.id1 and tb1.id2=tb2.id2
This works fine with one variable in condition, but not two.
Please suggest some resolution.
Since you are looking to get all the data from tb1 with no common data on columns id1 and id2 on tb2, You can use a left outer join on table tb1. Something like
SELECT tb1.* FROM tb1 LEFT OUTER JOIN tb2 ON
(tb1.id1=tb2.id1 AND tb1.id2=tb2.id2)
WHERE tb2.id1 IS NULL
I have a hive table A with 5 columns, the first column(A.key) is the key and I want to keep all 5 columns. I want to select 2 columns from B, say B.key1 and B.key2 and 2 columns from C, say C.key1 and C.key2. I want to join these columns with A.key = B.key1 and B.key2 = C.key1
What I want is a new external table D that has the following columns. B.key2 and C.key2 values should be given NULL if no matching happened.
A.key, A_col1, A_col2, A_col3, A_col4, B.key2, C.key2
What should be the correct hive query command? I got a max split error for my initial try.
Does this work?
create external table D as
select A.key, A.col1, A.col2, A.col3, A.col4, B.key2, C.key2
from A left outer join B on A.key = B.key1 left outer join C on A.key = C.key2;
If not, could you post more info about the "max split error" you mentioned? Copy+paste specific error message text is good.
I have a nightly job that runs and computes some data in hive. It is partitioned by day.
Fields:
id bigint
rank bigint
Yesterday
output/dt=2013-10-31
Today
output/dt=2013-11-01
I am trying to figure out if there is a easy way to get incremental changes between today and yesterday
I was thinking about doing a left outer join but not sure what that looks like since its the same table
This is what it might looks like when there are different tables
SELECT * FROM a LEFT OUTER JOIN b
ON (a.id=b.id AND a.dt='2013-11-01' and b.dt='2-13-10-31' ) WHERE a.rank!=B.rank
But on the same table it is
SELECT * FROM a LEFT OUTER JOIN a
ON (a.id=a.id AND a.dt='2013-11-01' and a.dt='2-13-10-31' ) WHERE a.rank!=a.rank
Suggestions?
This would work
SELECT a.*
FROM A a LEFT OUTER JOIN A b ON a.id = b.id
WHERE a.dt='2013-11-01' AND b.dt='2013-10-31' AND <your-rank-conditions>;
Efficiently, this would span 1 MapReduce job only.
So I figured it out... Using Subqueries and Joins
select * from (select * from table where dt='2013-11-01') a
FULL OUTER JOIN
(select * from table where dt='2013-10-31') b
on (a.id=b.id)
where a.rank!=b.rank or a.rank is null or b.rank is null
The above will give you the diff..
You can take the diff and figure out what you need to ADD/UPDATE/REMOVE
UPDATE If a.rank!=null and b.rank!=null i.e rank changed
DELETE IF a.rank=null and b.rank!=null i.e the user is no longer ranked
ADD if a.rank!=null and b.rank=null i.e this is a new user