help writing this subquery

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help writing this subquery

rash3554

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November 25, 2014 at 9:55 am

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Hi there,
I have a 2 tables Employee and employee address
Create table employee(eid int, edept varchar(20))
insert into employee(1,'sales')
insert into employee(2,'Marketing')
insert into employee(3,'IT')
insert into employee(4,'Corporate')
Create Table EmpAddress(Eid int, Addresscode int, AddressType varchar(20), Address varchar(200))
insert into EmpAddress(1,10,'Main','2 Elm St,Salem MA')
insert into EmpAddress(2,20,'Main','2 Cider St,Salem MA')
insert into EmpAddress(2,20,'Secondary','2 Willow Rd,Salem MA')
insert into EmpAddress(3,550,'Secondary','22 Estabrook St,Salem MA')
insert into EmpAddress(4,40,'Main','2 Sylvan St,Salem MA')
insert into EmpAddress(4,55,'Main','2 Pinebrook St,Salem MA')
I want for Eid=1, Record #1; for Eid=2, Record #3, for Eid=3,Record #4, for Eid=4, Record #5.
i.e. Rules: If an employee has one Main & one Secondary address pick Main; If there are multiple Main Address,
pick the one with minimum Address code; If there is only Secondary address pick that up.If there are multiple secondary and no Main, pick the one with minimum address code.
I am really not sure how to do this all in one query.
Thanks
R

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ZZartin SSC-Dedicated Points: 30921 More actions · Answer 1

WITH MainAddr AS (

SELECT Eid, Addresscode, Address, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Eid ORDER BY AddressCode ASC) AS ROW_NUM FROM EmpAddress WHERE AddressType = 'Main'),

SecAddr AS(

SELECT Eid, Addresscode, Address, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Eid ORDER BY AddressCode ASC) AS ROW_NUM FROM EmpAddress WHERE AddressType = 'Secondary'

)

SELECT employee.eid, employee.edept, CASE WHEN MainAddr.Address IS NOT NULL THEN MainAddr.Address ELSE SecAddr.Address END FROM employee

LEFT OUTER JOIN MainAddr ON employee.eid = MainAddr.Eid AND MainAddr.ROW_NUM = 1

LEFT OUTER JOIN SecAddr ON employee.eid = SecAddr.Eid AND SecAddr.ROW_NUM = 1

ORDER BY employee.eid

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 2

There's no need for 2 CTEs.

WITH cteEmpaddress AS (

SELECT Eid,

Addresscode,

Address,

ROW_NUMBER( )OVER( PARTITION BY Eid ORDER BY Addresstype, Addresscode)AS Row_Num

FROM Empaddress

)

SELECT e.Eid,

e.Edept,

a.Address

FROM Employee e

LEFT OUTER JOIN cteEmpaddress a ON e.Eid = a.Eid

AND a.Row_Num = 1

ORDER BY e.Eid;

Luis C.
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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 3

An alternative to Luis' method:

SELECT

e.*,

x.Addresscode, x.AddressType, x.[Address]

FROM #employee e

OUTER APPLY (

SELECT TOP 1 *

FROM #EmpAddress a

WHERE a.Eid = e.Eid

ORDER BY AddressType, Addresscode

) x

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