Usingh LIMIT and UNION together

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Usingh LIMIT and UNION together

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ajaypal
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Posted - 2013-07-22 : 15:49:19

Hi ,

I have a extremely large table and out of that I just need 2 records but based on some logic . For example
IF EMPLOYEE_ADDRESS <> NULL
set Employee_HAS_HOME to 1
ELSE
set Employee_HAS_HOME to 0

here I can not use just first 1000 records as I am not sure If I will cover the second condition in first 1000 rows . Then I came up with solution like : -
select * from employee_table where employee_address <> NULL LIMIT 1
UNION
select * from employee_table where employee_address = NULL LIMIT 1

And this will give me 2 records which I can use for my testing .But unfortunately this is not working. Could you please suggest me some other efficient way or tell me what is wrong in the query

SwePeso
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Posted - 2013-07-22 : 15:55:14

UPDATE dbo.Table1 SET Employee_Has_Home = CASE WHEN Employee_Address IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE 1 END

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ajaypal
Starting Member

6 Posts

Posted - 2013-07-22 : 16:02:31

Slight Change , there is a existing table and the condition is on this existing table. Based on the result I have to check the data in the new table (data already exists but for me to test if data has been migrated successfully , I have to check both the cases) : -

IF existing_Table.EMPLOYEE_ADDRESS <> NULL
set NEW_Table.Employee_HAS_HOME to 1
ELSE
set NEW_Table.Employee_HAS_HOME to 0

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

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Posted - 2013-07-22 : 16:06:29

[code]UPDATE newtable
SET newtable.Employee_Has_Home = CASE
WHEN oldtable.Employee_Address IS NULL THEN 0
ELSE 1
END
FROM dbo.Table1 AS newtable
INNER JOIN dbo.Table2 AS oldtable ON oldtable.EmployeeID = newtable.EmployeeID;[/code]

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-07-23 : 01:59:10

quote:
Originally posted by ajaypal

Slight Change , there is a existing table and the condition is on this existing table. Based on the result I have to check the data in the new table (data already exists but for me to test if data has been migrated successfully , I have to check both the cases) : -

IF existing_Table.EMPLOYEE_ADDRESS <> NULL
set NEW_Table.Employee_HAS_HOME to 1
ELSE
set NEW_Table.Employee_HAS_HOME to 0

Use earlier provided suggestion
On a sidenote, please be aware that you cant use =,<> etc opertors with NULL values. to check for NULLs use IS NULL and IS NOT NULL conditions as in previous suggestion

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SwePeso
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Posted - 2013-07-23 : 03:13:49

Visakh, please be restrained with that advice.
We don't know what ANSI_NULL setting the person has.

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visakh16
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52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-07-23 : 03:55:51

quote:
Originally posted by SwePeso

Visakh, please be restrained with that advice.
We don't know what ANSI_NULL setting the person has.

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I think OP's on MySQL (see usage of LIMIT)
In MySQL, you cannot turn off ANSI_NULLS settings
So OP has to use IS NULL and IS NOT NULL always

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