Using Results from one column to calculate another column

  • Doing this in SQL 2008.

    Is it possible to use the results of one column to calculate another column? Example:

    Select .. VERY LONG FORMULA as Results1

    I need another column with a CASE so..

    CASE Result1 < 100 Then something as Results2

    Is it possible to do something like this or do I have to do the whole long formula again like...

    CASE VERY LONG FORMULA < 100 Then something as Result2

    I already have Results1 and it's silly to do it again just to calculate Results2.

    God I hope this isn't too confusing.

    Thanks in advance.

    Phil

  • If you make one result as persistent calculated column, and other as non-persistent calculated column, than maybe.

    If you want to be sure, instead of calculated fields use trigger to calculate and store both values, but that may not be as performant.

    Other idea is to make result1 as persistent calculated field and then view on top of that table that has calculation for result2.

    Or, do it completely non-persistent, with view that has nested subquery or cross apply or cte that would guarantee the order of calculations and reusage of result from previous level. My favourite would be completely persistent solution, or cross apply from non-persistent world, depending on read-write ratio of that table and cost of formula calculation.

    Hth

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  • I already have Results1 and it's silly to do it again just to calculate Results2.

    I am assuming that Results1 is a data set that you are selecting a table.

    I agree with Joe on this one. You can user a CTE or a derived table to calcualte Results2 on the basis of Results1.

    Here are a few links on how to use them:

    Using Derived Tables[/url]

    Using CTE

    Hope this helps.

    Vinu Vijayan

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  • Use CROSS APPLY.

    SELECT

    x.Results1,

    CASE WHEN x.Results1 > 42 THEN ...

    FROM ...

    CROSS APPLY (SELECT... VERY LONG FORMULA as Results1) x

    WHERE x.Results1 = something

    Give it a shot. Without sight of your current query, it's difficult to say more.


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  • if the resultset is not very big then the simplest way of doing is,

    SELECT *, CASE Result1 < 100 Then something as Results2

    FROM (Select .. VERY LONG FORMULA as Results1) t1

    Raju

  • CELKO (1/4/2013)


    h) The ORDER BY clause is part of a cursor, not a query. The result set is passed to the cursor, which can only see the names in the SELECT clause list, and the sorting is done there. The ORDER BY clause cannot have expression in it, or references to other columns because the result set has been converted into a sequential file structure and that is what is being sorted.

    Not that it's a particularly useful example of a sort but, just to prove how wrong virtually everything in the statement above can actually be in T-SQL, please consider the following...

    SELECT service_broker_guid

    FROM sys.Databases

    ORDER BY CASE

    WHEN database_id < = 4

    THEN N' ' + name

    ELSE CAST(create_date AS NVARCHAR(128))

    END

    Note that nothing in the SELECT list is referenced by the ORDER BY, that the ORDER BY does, in fact have several expressions in it and is really just one big expression to begin with, and that it not only references columns outside the SELECT list but conditionally sorts based on the content of two entirely different columns.

    CELKO (1/4/2013)


    a) Effectively materialize the CTEs in the optional WITH clause. CTE's come into existence in the order they are declared so only backward references are alllowed.

    {snip}

    As you can see, things happen "all at once" in SQL, not "from left to right" as they would in a sequential file/procedural language model.

    As you can see in your own writing, "It Depends". Some things don't actually happen "all at once" in SQL. In fact, even an update on a single column doesn't happen all at once. It happens just like procedural code... one row at a time, one page at a time.

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  • Sorry... double post removed...

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
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    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • If all the columns are from a single table, you definitely should created a computed column that has the computation: that way, the definition is in only one place. You do not have to persist it, although you could -- you can base that on how often you use it vs how much overhead it really is to calculate vs the bytes needed to store it.

    Whether persisted or not, you can use it in a SELECT just like any other column. For example:

    ALTER TABLE dbo.yourtablename

    ADD Results1 AS Col1 * 1.57 / Col2 * CASE WHEN Col3 = 'A' THEN Col4 ELSE Col5 END

    Then your query can be:

    SELECT

    Results1, Colx / Results1 AS ...

    FROM dbo.yourtablename

    WHERE

    Results1 >= 9.75

    GROUP BY

    Results1

    ORDER BY

    Results1

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  • CELKO (1/4/2013)

    Think about what a confused mess this statement is in the SQL model.

    SELECT f(c2) AS c1, f(c1) AS c2 FROM Foobar;

    That is why such nonsense is illegal syntax.

    Your claim is nonsense. I don't see what's illegal about that general syntax in SQL Server, viz:

    SELECT RTRIM(c2) AS c1, RTRIM(c1) AS c2

    FROM (

    SELECT 'Y' AS c1, 'Z' AS c2 UNION ALL

    SELECT 'C' AS c1, 'D' AS c2 UNION ALL

    SELECT 'A' AS c1, 'B' AS c2

    ) AS test_data

    ORDER BY c1

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  • ScottPletcher (1/7/2013)


    If all the columns are from a single table, you definitely should created a computed column that has the computation: that way, the definition is in only one place. ...[/code]

    +1

    Otherwise, use CROSS APPLY, keeping the definition in only one place in the query. If the calculation is used in many queries, consider constructing an inline "row-valued" function.

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