query problem --with a view

I have a View which does what I need it too-

select distinct d.deptid, d.[description], d.supervisor, d.approvedby, case
when c1.cnt = c2.cnt then 'reviews are complete' else 'reviews still in progress' end as deptstatus
From department d
Left join (Select Count(*) cnt, deptid from employee group by deptid) c1 on (c1.deptid = d.deptid)
Left join (Select Count(*) cnt, deptid from employeeeval join employee
on (employeeeval.employeeid = employee.employeeid) group by deptid) c2 on (c2.deptid = d.deptid)

Brings back data as follows:

Cast - Cast - 00999 - 09246 - reviews still in progress
CMP- Copper Metal Products - 03315 - 09246 - reviews are complete
CNS- Copper Narrow Strip - 07530 - 09246 - reviews still in progress
CRW- Copper Rod and Wire - 01950 - 09246 - reviews still in progress

So I did the following:

select e.DeptID, e.LastName + ', ' + e.FirstName AS EmpName, e.EmployeeID, u.UserName,
CASE WHEN ev.approved is null THEN 'Not Started' ELSE 'In Progress' END AS Status, d.deptstatus
from vw_DeptStatus d Left OUTER JOIN Employee e ON e.deptid = d.deptid LEFT OUTER JOIN EmployeeEval ev ON e.EmployeeID = ev.EmployeeID LEFT OUTER JOIN [User] u
ON u.Department = e.DeptID
WHERE (u.RoleID = 'supervisor') AND (e.CompanyID = '21') AND (e.FacilityID = '01') -- and (ev.PersonalScore is null)
ORDER BY e.DeptID, e.LastName

Now this isn't bringing back what I want--If run the query w/out joining it up w/the view it brings back the following:

Cast - Atkins, Carl - 09935 - Chris Burke - Not Started
Cast - Bridges, James - 09929 - Chris Burke - In Progress
CNS - Cunningham, Kenton - 02100 - Kahle Rummer - Not Started
CNS - Mitchell, Bill - 06200 - Kahle Rummer - In Progress

Now what I really need it to do is (below are the results from my View joined in with my query) -- return all the dept's--regardless if they are finished. If they are complete I only need ONE row, not all the rows for that dept. (highlighted in RED) I added these rows in-- Doesn't have to be NULL but maybe a blank string.

Cast - Charlton, Maurice - 01313 - Chris Burke - In Progress - reviews still in progress
Cast - Dorsey, Steve - 02455 - Chris Burke - In Progress - reviews still in progress
CMP - NULL - NULL - Fred Grove - NULL - reviews are complete
CNS - Bennett, Mark - 09911 - Kahle Rummer - In Progress - reviews still in progress
CNS - Buckingham, Mark - 00964 - Kahle Rummer - In Progress - reviews still in progress
CRW - Eubanks, Kellie - 07599 - Rick Cramer - In Progress - reviews still in progress
CRW - Luikart, Tyler- 09908 - Rick Cramer - In Progress - reviews still in progress
MicroMll - NULL - NULL - Tim Cross - NULL - reviews are complete

I hope this makes sense to someone -- if you have any questions just ask me. Another note I need to bring this back in a DS --for Crystal Reports. So the outline looks like this:

Dept ID- Supervisor - Reviews still in Progress
Any unfinished Reviews for that dept

Dept ID- Supervisor- Reviews Complete
No data shown since COMPELTE

Dept ID- Supervisor - Reviews still in Progress
Any unfinished Reviews for that dept

still not resolved -- just wondering if anyone had any ideas.|||

I just had the same problem. I am also having a problem with a left outer join. Reading your post led me to try testing with and without a view. I created two simple tables and did the LO join. That worked fine. Creating a select * view based on the first table then using that view in the LO join as the left table gave the erroneous result again. It is something to do with the fact that there is a view in there. I'll post again if I solve it.

Regards,

Raymond.

|||

Got it,

I stuck this in the top of the code for the view:

SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT *

This was instead of SELECT *. Replacing SELECT * with select colA, colB also worked.

I got the idea from the MS site:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321541

Below is a snip of some of the text from the site. Putting DISTINCT in the select clause did not work BTW. Didn't try GROUP BY.

Cheers,

Raymond.

------snip-----

You can reproduce the behavior when all the following conditions exist:
? You use a query that contains an outer join, and you use a view (directly or indirectly) on the inner side of the outer join.
? The view contains an expression in its SELECT list that references one or more base table columns. Also, if all base table column values are NULL, the expression returns non-NULL results.
? The view is a simple view that does not contain a DISTINCT, TOP, or GROUP BY aggregate.

------snip-----

sql

query on recursive table

Hi,
Suppose I'm working on a database containing 2 tables:
tStudent (student information)
========
|--|
| studentID | studentName | deptID |
|--|
| 504001 | John Doe | 10001 |
| 504005 | JI Jane | 200 |
|--|
tItems (organisational information)
======
|----|
| itemID | KindOfItem | itemName | parentID |
|----|
| 1 | top | top | <NULL> |
| 10 | school | Univ of Geel | 1 |
| 11 | school | Univ of Antwerp | 1 |
| 12 | school | Univ of Brussels | 1 |
| 100 | dept | science dept | 10 |
| 101 | dept | human science dept | 10 |
| 200 | dept | agriculture dept | 11 |
| 1001 | dept | computer science dept | 100 |
| 10001 | dept | Windows comp science dept | 1001 |
| 10002 | dept | Unix comp science dept | 1001 |
|----|
I need to write a query using Reporting Services on a MS SQL server that
gives me for every student the dept he is in (that's the easy part), but
also the top level school the department resides under. Result should be
like:
504001, John Doe , Windows comp science dept, Univ of Geel
504005, JI Jane, Agriculture dept, Univ of Antwerp
Can anybody give me any clues on how to do this (if possible)?
ErikWhy not add the parent_id for say Univ of Geel is 1 to a new column in the
first table and use an update to achieve this. Then you all you need is a
simple equi-join.
"dot" <""Erik(dot)Thijs"@.removethis.khk(" wrote:

> Hi,
> Suppose I'm working on a database containing 2 tables:
> tStudent (student information)
> ========
> |--|
> | studentID | studentName | deptID |
> |--|
> | 504001 | John Doe | 10001 |
> | 504005 | JI Jane | 200 |
> |--|
> tItems (organisational information)
> ======
> |----|
> | itemID | KindOfItem | itemName | parentID |
> |----|
> | 1 | top | top | <NULL> |
> | 10 | school | Univ of Geel | 1 |
> | 11 | school | Univ of Antwerp | 1 |
> | 12 | school | Univ of Brussels | 1 |
> | 100 | dept | science dept | 10 |
> | 101 | dept | human science dept | 10 |
> | 200 | dept | agriculture dept | 11 |
> | 1001 | dept | computer science dept | 100 |
> | 10001 | dept | Windows comp science dept | 1001 |
> | 10002 | dept | Unix comp science dept | 1001 |
> |----|
> I need to write a query using Reporting Services on a MS SQL server that
> gives me for every student the dept he is in (that's the easy part), but
> also the top level school the department resides under. Result should be
> like:
> 504001, John Doe , Windows comp science dept, Univ of Geel
> 504005, JI Jane, Agriculture dept, Univ of Antwerp
> Can anybody give me any clues on how to do this (if possible)?
> Erik
>|||You didn't specify if the dept of the recursion is variable. Assuming
it is not then:
select x.studentID, x.studentName, y.DeptName, y.School
from tStudent x,
(
select a.deptID, a.itemName as DeptName, b.itemName as School
from tItems a, tItems b
where a.parentID = b.deptID
) y
where x.deptID = y.deptID
Ranny

> Hi,
> Suppose I'm working on a database containing 2 tables:
> tStudent (student information)
> ========
> |--|
> | studentID | studentName | deptID |
> |--|
> | 504001 | John Doe | 10001 |
> | 504005 | JI Jane | 200 |
> |--|
> tItems (organisational information)
> ======
> |----|
> | itemID | KindOfItem | itemName | parentID |
> |----|
> | 1 | top | top | <NULL> |
> | 10 | school | Univ of Geel | 1 |
> | 11 | school | Univ of Antwerp | 1 |
> | 12 | school | Univ of Brussels | 1 |
> | 100 | dept | science dept | 10 |
> | 101 | dept | human science dept | 10 |
> | 200 | dept | agriculture dept | 11 |
> | 1001 | dept | computer science dept | 100 |
> | 10001 | dept | Windows comp science dept | 1001 |
> | 10002 | dept | Unix comp science dept | 1001 |
> |----|
> I need to write a query using Reporting Services on a MS SQL server that
> gives me for every student the dept he is in (that's the easy part), but
> also the top level school the department resides under. Result should be
> like:
> 504001, John Doe , Windows comp science dept, Univ of Geel
> 504005, JI Jane, Agriculture dept, Univ of Antwerp
> Can anybody give me any clues on how to do this (if possible)?
> Erik
User submitted from AEWNET (http://www.aewnet.com/)|||This smells more like homework instead of real world scenario, but I'll play
along! how about this:
set nocount on
declare @.organization table (itemid int, kindofitem varchar(20), itemname
varchar(30), parentid int, topparentid int)
declare @.studentinfo table (studentid int, studentname varchar(30), deptid
int)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(10, 'school', 'Univ of Geel', 1)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(11, 'school', 'Univ of Antwerp', 1)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(12, 'school', 'Univ of Brussels', 1)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(100, 'dept', 'science dept', 10)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(101, 'dept', 'human science dept', 10)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(200, 'dept', 'agriculture dept', 11)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(1001, 'dept', 'computer science dept', 100)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(10001, 'dept', 'Windows comp science dept', 1001)
insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
values(10002, 'dept', 'Unix comp science dept', 1001)
insert into @.studentinfo (studentid, studentname, deptid) values(504001,
'John Doe', 10001)
insert into @.studentinfo (studentid, studentname, deptid) values(504005, 'JI
Doe', 200)
update @.organization set topparentid = itemid where parentid = 1
while 1 = 1
begin
update @.organization
set topparentid = k.topparentid
from @.organization o
join (select itemid, topparentid from @.organization where topparentid is
not null) k
on o.parentid = k.itemid
where o.topparentid is null
if @.@.rowcount = 0
break
end
select * from @.organization
"dot" <""Erik(dot)Thijs"@.removethis.khk(" wrote:
> Hi,
> Suppose I'm working on a database containing 2 tables:
> tStudent (student information)
> ========
> |--|
> | studentID | studentName | deptID |
> |--|
> | 504001 | John Doe | 10001 |
> | 504005 | JI Jane | 200 |
> |--|
> tItems (organisational information)
> ======
> |----|
> | itemID | KindOfItem | itemName | parentID |
> |----|
> | 1 | top | top | <NULL> |
> | 10 | school | Univ of Geel | 1 |
> | 11 | school | Univ of Antwerp | 1 |
> | 12 | school | Univ of Brussels | 1 |
> | 100 | dept | science dept | 10 |
> | 101 | dept | human science dept | 10 |
> | 200 | dept | agriculture dept | 11 |
> | 1001 | dept | computer science dept | 100 |
> | 10001 | dept | Windows comp science dept | 1001 |
> | 10002 | dept | Unix comp science dept | 1001 |
> |----|
> I need to write a query using Reporting Services on a MS SQL server that
> gives me for every student the dept he is in (that's the easy part), but
> also the top level school the department resides under. Result should be
> like:
> 504001, John Doe , Windows comp science dept, Univ of Geel
> 504005, JI Jane, Agriculture dept, Univ of Antwerp
> Can anybody give me any clues on how to do this (if possible)?
> Erik
>|||@.aew_nospam.com schreef:
> You didn't specify if the dept of the recursion is variable. Assuming
> it is not then:
It IS variable, as you can see from the example:
Student JI Jane resides under dept "agriculture dept", that resides
directly under school "Univ of Antwerp".
Student John Doe resides under dept "Windows comp sc dept", that resides
under dept "computer science dept" that resides under dept "science
dept" that resides under school "Univ of Geel".

> select x.studentID, x.studentName, y.DeptName, y.School
> from tStudent x,
> (
> select a.deptID, a.itemName as DeptName, b.itemName as School
> from tItems a, tItems b
> where a.parentID = b.deptID
> ) y
> where x.deptID = y.deptID
> Ranny
>
>
>
> User submitted from AEWNET (http://www.aewnet.com/)|||
> This smells more like homework instead of real world scenario, but I'll pl
ay
> along! how about this:
Please have your nose checked, because this is no homework but
real-world scenario :) It is part of a student administration system
we're implementing in a group of schools.
My job is to create report(s) from the database. The report mentionned
in OP should have the data on the student, the dept he works in and the
school this dept belongs to. Hope it's clear now :)
> set nocount on
> declare @.organization table (itemid int, kindofitem varchar(20), itemname
> varchar(30), parentid int, topparentid int)
> declare @.studentinfo table (studentid int, studentname varchar(30), deptid
> int)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(10, 'school', 'Univ of Geel', 1)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(11, 'school', 'Univ of Antwerp', 1)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(12, 'school', 'Univ of Brussels', 1)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(100, 'dept', 'science dept', 10)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(101, 'dept', 'human science dept', 10)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(200, 'dept', 'agriculture dept', 11)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(1001, 'dept', 'computer science dept', 100)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(10001, 'dept', 'Windows comp science dept', 1001)
> insert into @.organization (itemid, kindofitem, itemname, parentid)
> values(10002, 'dept', 'Unix comp science dept', 1001)
> insert into @.studentinfo (studentid, studentname, deptid) values(504001,
> 'John Doe', 10001)
> insert into @.studentinfo (studentid, studentname, deptid) values(504005, '
JI
> Doe', 200)
> update @.organization set topparentid = itemid where parentid = 1
> while 1 = 1
> begin
> update @.organization
> set topparentid = k.topparentid
> from @.organization o
> join (select itemid, topparentid from @.organization where topparentid i
s
> not null) k
> on o.parentid = k.itemid
> where o.topparentid is null
> if @.@.rowcount = 0
> break
> end
> select * from @.organization
>
> "dot" <""Erik(dot)Thijs"@.removethis.khk(" wrote:
>|||marcmc schreef:
> Why not add the parent_id for say Univ of Geel is 1 to a new column in the
> first table and use an update to achieve this. Then you all you need is a
> simple equi-join.
Yes, that is true. But the information I need is available already in
the database, so adding the new column in the first table would make the
information redundant...
>
> "dot" <""Erik(dot)Thijs"@.removethis.khk(" wrote:
>|||Please post DDL, so that people do not have to guess what the keys,
constraints, Declarative Referential Integrity, datatypes, etc. in your
schema are. Sample data is also a good idea, along with clear
specifications.
Have you thought about designing a normalized schema which does not mix
data and metadata? This is a better approach in the long run than
looking for kludges. Just from this posting and the silly 'T-"
prefixes that you are an OO programmer no training in SQL. OO models do
not work with SQL.