Questions tagged [lateral]
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Understanding LATERAL in Postgresql
Would like to know what is LATERAL and why LATERAL in SQL? Have few question to understand more on LATERAL. I searched in google and not getting clear understanding of LATERAL.
Why Lateral
Advantage of Lateral
Lateral View Vs Lateral Join.
What…

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Why LATERAL not works with values?
It not make sense, a literal is not a valid column?
SELECT x, y FROM (select 1 as x) t, LATERAL CAST(2 AS FLOAT) AS y; -- fine
SELECT x, y FROM (select 1 as x) t, LATERAL 2.0 AS y; -- SYNNTAX ERROR!
Same if you use CASE clause or x+1 expression or…

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Postgres - How to use a LATERAL SELECT CASE to return a unique value instead of a list?
Considering the following table signatures referencing the signature date of a document by 2 persons
id
p1_signed_at
p2_signed_at
1
NULL
NULL
2
01/01/2022
NULL
3
NULL
07/08/2022
4
03/04/2022
04/04/2022
I want to identify the next…

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Query an array element in an JSONB Object
I have a jsonb column called data in a table called reports. Here is what report.id = 1 looks like
[
{
"Product": [
{
"productIDs": [
"ABC1",
"ABC2"
],
…

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Lateral Flatten , Outer on XML file does not work
I have the below xml that i loaded in to a table with variant datatype
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SKandu
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Is there any way to optimize the lateral flatten json query in Snowflake? My query is taking too much time to execute
I have json with nested arrays data vary for different jsons. I am putting my json parsing code and sample json file here. Query only got slow when there are many objects for rows tags as you can see below for this json query executes within a…

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Syntax Error: Lateral Join with Delete (PostgreSQL)
PostgreSQL 11.1
AFAIK, this is correct and should run. It Fails with syntax error on Delete. What am I missing?
Thanks for any help.
ERROR: syntax error at or near "DELETE"
LINE 41: DELETE FROM d
WITH _in (tservice, patient_recid,…

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Function lateral flatten in snowflake
I need to un-parse JSON with lateral flatten. But I would like to have 2 values - one for club and one for free delivery, for club I am ok, but I can not get also free delivery
This is code I have
select LPAD(PURCHASE_ID,10, '0')as PURCHASE_ID,…

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postgresql What does afew mean?
LINKs: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sumtest.sql_.txt
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/join-lateral/
CREATE TABLE co_books (
dd numeric references books(dd),
pname text references persons(pname),
checked_out…

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SQLAlchemy ORM Lateral Join using Subquery
I Want to convert an SQL query to SQLalcheny. Here is my query.
**SELECT
*
FROM (
-- Get the first time each user viewed the homepage.
SELECT
pr.id, pr.name, pr.sku, ca.name as "Catergory Nmae", su.name as "Supplier Name", br.name as…

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Snowflake lateral flatten with changing keys in json
I have a table in Snowflake with similar structure as below,
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Name | Number
----------------------------------------
Dim_1 | {'Table_1': 100}
Dim_1 | {'Table_1': 101}
Dim_2 | {'Table_2': 200, 'Table_3':…

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Alternative to JSON Flattening via Target Table in Snowflake
Per snowflake: https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/json-basics-tutorial-copy-into.html I created a target table (Testing_JSON), that is a single Variant column that contains an uploaded JSON file.
My Question is How can I cut out creating…

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LATERAL VIEW and CASE Statement in KSQL
is there a LATERAL VIEW Statement in KSQL i cant finde anything in the docs. Or is there any alternative Comand to get the same result on column? When I use the Statement I get following error
line 1:64: mismatched input 'view' expecting ';'
Caused…

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PostGresql: Copy data from a random row of another table
I have two tables, stuff and nonsense.
create table stuff(
id serial primary key,
details varchar,
data varchar,
more varchar
);
create table nonsense (
id serial primary key,
data varchar,
more varchar
);
insert into…

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Select top-2 products in each of the top-5 groups as of revenue
I have a table called bills with the following columns: id, product – product id, product_group – product_group_id, Revenue – revenue in some currency
I would like to get top-2 products from top-5 product groups as of their revenue. Any help is…

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