Selecting and merging records for a singular complete record

  • I have a database full of different types of leads some for company A some for company B and so on, each doing a different service. However the leads from B can be used for A and leads from A can be used for B, so I want to merge the data.

    Exampled:

    Phone Number Name Home Owner Credit Insurance

    727-555-1234 Dave Thomas Yes B

    727-555-1234 Dave Thomas Gieco

    I would like the end result to be one record:

    Phone Number Name Home Owner Credit Insurance

    727-555-1234 Dave Thomas Yes B Gieco

    Since these were imported into SQL they all have a unique ID, here are the current labels:

    ID,phone_number,first_name,last_name,address1,address2,address3,city,state,postal_code,HOME_OWNR,HH_INCOME,CREDIT_RATING,AGE,MATCH,source_id,title,comments,dnc_flag,provider,vehicle,coverage,alt_phone,email,marital status,dob

  • Tried working with the data you provided and it's a mess. Could you please post table definitions and insert statements for your data? Then those trying to help will be dealing with your data as it is, not just their best guess.

  • k.allen.emt (1/24/2015)


    I have a database full of different types of leads some for company A some for company B and so on, each doing a different service. However the leads from B can be used for A and leads from A can be used for B, so I want to merge the data.

    Exampled:

    Phone Number Name Home Owner Credit Insurance

    727-555-1234 Dave Thomas Yes B

    727-555-1234 Dave Thomas Gieco

    I would like the end result to be one record:

    Phone Number Name Home Owner Credit Insurance

    727-555-1234 Dave Thomas Yes B Gieco

    Since these were imported into SQL they all have a unique ID, here are the current labels:

    ID,phone_number,first_name,last_name,address1,address2,address3,city,state,postal_code,HOME_OWNR,HH_INCOME,CREDIT_RATING,AGE,MATCH,source_id,title,comments,dnc_flag,provider,vehicle,coverage,alt_phone,email,marital status,dob

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  • Try the following:

    with data

    as (

    select PhoneNo = '727-555-1234'

    ,Name = 'Dave Thomas'

    ,HomeOwner = 'Yes'

    ,Credit = 'B'

    ,Insurance = ''

    union all

    select '727-555-1234'

    ,'Dave Thomas'

    ,''

    ,''

    ,'Gieco'

    )

    select data.PhoneNo

    ,Name = max(data.Name)

    ,HomeOwner = max(data.HomeOwner)

    ,Credit = max(data.Credit)

    ,Insurance = max(data.Insurance)

    from data

    group by data.PhoneNo

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • ET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;

    -- ----------------------------

    -- Table structure for leads

    -- ----------------------------

    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `leads`;

    CREATE TABLE `leads` (

    `ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

    `phone_number` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `first_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `last_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `address1` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `address2` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `address3` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `city` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `state` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `postal_code` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `HOME_OWNR` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `HH_INCOME` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `CREDIT_RATING` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `AGE` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `MATCH` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `source_id` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `title` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `comments` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `dnc_flag` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `provider` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `vehicle` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `coverage` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `alt_phone` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `marital status` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    `dob` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

    PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),

    KEY `postal_code` (`postal_code`),

    KEY `source_id` (`source_id`)

    ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=13876968 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

  • Phil,

    that looks like it would work for data you give to the statement itself.

    I'm looking to go through close to 6 million records in leadsdb.leads

    not manually do it

  • k.allen.emt (1/25/2015)


    Phil,

    that looks like it would work for data you give to the statement itself.

    I'm looking to go through close to 6 million records in leadsdb.leads

    not manually do it

    There was never any suggestion that you would do things manually. My code merely demonstrates a technique which you could use – you just have to plug in your table names and column names where I have used a CTE.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

  • Phil,

    =) sorry, thanks I will give it a shot.

    Beyond new here in this, my buddy tossed me his MySQL book "The Language of SQL" and said read.

    Thank you again... also I was a bit lost on trying to obtain data for you guys with

    SELECT 'SELECT '

    + QUOTENAME(ID,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(phone_number,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(first_name,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(last_name,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(address1,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(address2,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(address3,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(city,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(state,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(postal_code,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(HOME_OWNR,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(HH_INCOME,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(CREDIT_RATING,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(AGE,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(source_id,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(title,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(comments,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(dnc_flag,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(provider,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(vehicle,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(coverage,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(alt_phone,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(email,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(marital_status,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(dob,'''')

    + ' UNION ALL'

    FROM leads

    Running that reports:

    [Err] 1305 - FUNCTION leaddb.QUOTENAME does not exist

  • k.allen.emt (1/25/2015)


    Phil,

    =) sorry, thanks I will give it a shot.

    Beyond new here in this, my buddy tossed me his MySQL book "The Language of SQL" and said read.

    Thank you again... also I was a bit lost on trying to obtain data for you guys with

    SELECT 'SELECT '

    + QUOTENAME(ID,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(phone_number,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(first_name,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(last_name,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(address1,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(address2,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(address3,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(city,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(state,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(postal_code,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(HOME_OWNR,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(HH_INCOME,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(CREDIT_RATING,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(AGE,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(source_id,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(title,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(comments,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(dnc_flag,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(provider,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(vehicle,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(coverage,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(alt_phone,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(email,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(marital_status,'''')+','

    + QUOTENAME(dob,'''')

    + ' UNION ALL'

    FROM leads

    Running that reports:

    [Err] 1305 - FUNCTION leaddb.QUOTENAME does not exist

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