Im having some troubles showing the unique values from my database.
As an example, I have this very simple test table:
Where you can see that there is a duplicated value on the Tags column, named intro.
I would like to echo all of the UNIQUE tags, and I've tried with the DISTINCT command, but I might be doing something wrong.
This is my actual query:
SELECT DISTINCT tags FROM blog
But this gives me ALL of the tags.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
According to the image there are just to rows in the table, one contains "intro" and the other contains "intro, php, warning, errors".
If so, there are not the same.
I think you try to use a row for each value.
To do it you should insert each value in a separated sentence, or in the same but using different rows, something like:
insert into blog(tags) values ("intro"),values ("intro"),values ("php")
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I'm a little bit stuck.
I have an SQL column that contains weather codes (like Rain, Snow, etc.)
It is comma separated so the column would have a value of something like
rain,snow,haze
Now, I want to select the rows that contain values from an array.
I have an SQL code that is something like this:
SELECT * FROM locations WHERE currentWeather IN ('rain', 'snow', 'cloudy') ORDER BY name ASC
The problem is that this obviously works when currentWeather column only contains one item.
Is there a way to do it so that if the column value contains any of the items from the given array, it selects it?
Also, would it select it twice if two items match?
Best wishes
Use unnest in a subselect.
Select distinct A.myArray from (select unnest(column) as myArray from table) A where A.myArray in (your words to filter for)
Notice that using arrays in sql isn't very ideal and does not follows normalization rules. Your tables should ideally not contain arrays but rather just several rows each one containing the specific value you Want. It prevents issues such as this one.
To avoid the selection of repeated values, use the Distinct keyword right after you write select.
Rsference:
https://www.w3resource.com/PostgreSQL/postgresql_unnest-function.php
WHERE FIND_IN_SET(currentWeather, "rain,snow,cloudy")
Picks apart the string at commas (only) to see if currentWeather is any one of those 3 'words'.
See also FIELD(...)
Am using a SQL command in PHP to count the no of values inserted in a column named attack_type. I want to count the occurrence of individual values like website defacement in the whole column of the table. But here the column attack_type contain different values, separated by a comma and the count is treating whole column data as a string. Below is my current SQL statement with its output
I tried explode print_r in PHP
SELECT attack_type,
count(*) as number
FROM data_input_test
GROUP BY attack_type
Here is the output of the above statement
generated:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TyRL_Mh0OOJWaCpFczxmBr34No9LUpzH
But what I want is :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eeA_1TCER0WMpZwSkBDMzRtRa8xihbZd
and so on. The above desired output is edited to show what I exactly want.
Other answer on stackoverflow and on other forums are either irrelevant or are using regrex or a new table creation in one or the other way. That I don't want as my hosting has some limitations. My hosting doesnt provide creation of triggers, regrex or creation of temp tables
I may have a solution for this but don't know how to apply here. Possible here: https://www.periscopedata.com/blog/splitting-comma-separated-values-in-mysql
Please someone explain me how to apply the same here.
So I finally worked around to get my work done using the select only. This only works if you have a finite set of data or specifically less than 64 values.
Change your column datatype to 'set' type. And enter your set values.
Now use select, count, find_in_set and union functions of sql.
Example:
union select 'Un-patched Vulnerable Software Exploitaion'as type, count(*) as number from data_input_test where find_in_set('Un-patched Vulnerable Software Exploitaion',attack_type)```
and so on for all your values
I know this is not how you should do but as the legends say this works 😎😎
If you just want to count comma-separated values in rows, you can use:
SELECT SUM(LENGTH(attack_type) - LENGTH(replace(attack_type, ',', '')) +1) AS TotalCount
FROM table_name;
i should migrate multiple columns of text into one column (in another database). Now i know that it sounds complicated, but i will try my best to explain it.
There is a table in mysql database called "products_desriptions". In that table we have columns like: descriptionDosage, descriptionAction, descriptionIndications and so on. What i want to do is to merge these columns into one column called "productDescription".
Here is an example of what i have done:
SELECT
CONCAT_WS('\ntest', action, Indications, staff, dosage) AS productDescription)
FROM
products_descriptions
WHERE
product_id = 123
So the the columns are being merged successfully.
The problem is that for each column there is a title in the frontpage, which is not being stored into the respective column. For example in the "dosage" column we have text like: "2xday, 14xweek" and so on. And on the frontpage what you can see is something like:
"DOSAGE:
2xday, 14xweek" and so on.
So for each column there is a hard codded title like this one, which i don't know how to get. I mean what i want to do is: to merge columns and respectively for each column i want a title to the respective text.
I am working on php, so maybe it is not possible to be done only by mysql. Maybe i have to do it with php, but has anyone got any idea what exactly should i do?
You can use concat function.
SELECT
CONCAT('\ntest', action, '\nIndictions:', Indications,'\nstaff:', staff,'\ndosage:', dosage) AS productDescription
FROM
products_descriptions
WHERE
product_id = 123
This probably has a simple solution, although it is made a little more difficult because of the way the database is constructed, it isn't mine. A column in the database has a text value that is of the form text1DDtext2DDtext3, where DD is a delimiter that they through in rather than having a separate table for 0 to n values that go in that column.
There is a search that is executed where what I have to start with is:
"text1","text2", "text3", . . .
All I want to do is build on a query that checks to see if any of the "textn" strings are in the column field, although it would be nice to have a query that also checked to see if all of the search string text values are in the column value. The order in which they are stored in the column can vary, as can the search string. If there was a linked table that just had single values in a column it would not be very hard.
I've just various combinations of IN and LIKE, and that doesn't seem to work.
Thanks.
try:
SELECT columnYouWant FROM dbo.table WHERE UPPER(column) LIKE ('%TEXT%');
I have a column in table which has possible values of tom,john,jerry(SET). I have a variable that a user enter and I store it in $var and want that at some point. I could check that if the value in $var exists in particular row then don't update else update, How I can do this in PHP.
I have several rows like tom,john
john,jerry
I dont want tom,john,tom
I have one suggestion.
Please change the database values so that you have: ,tom,john,tom, (Notice the appending and preceding commas ,.
Now if you want to search for tom, fire an SQL like:
SELECT id FROM DB_TBL WHERE field LIKE '%,$val,%'
Repeat this for all values user has entered OR put in a single text box with commas.
Hope this works.