Lecture

4:
Advanced SQL – Part II
Lecture 4

Announcements!

1. Problem Set #1 is released!

• We will discuss some of the questions at the end of this lecture

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Lecture 4

Lecture 4:
Advanced SQL – Part II
Lecture 4

Today’s Lecture

1. Aggregation & GROUP BY

• ACTIVITY: Fancy SQL Part I

2. Advance SQL-izing
• ACTIVITY: Fancy SQL Part II

3. Problem Set #1 Overview

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1. Aggregation & GROUP BY

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What you will learn about in this section

1. Aggregation operators

2. GROUP BY

3. GROUP BY: with HAVING, semantics

4. ACTIVITY: Fancy SQL Pt. I

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Aggregation
SELECT AVG(price) SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Product FROM Product
WHERE maker = “Toyota” WHERE year > 1995

• SQL supports several aggregation operations:

• SUM, COUNT, MIN, MAX, AVG
Except COUNT, all aggregations
apply to a single attribute

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Aggregation: COUNT

• COUNT applies to duplicates, unless otherwise stated

SELECT COUNT(category) Note: Same as COUNT(*).

Why?
FROM Product
WHERE year > 1995

We probably want:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT category)

FROM Product
WHERE year > 1995
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More Examples
Purchase(product, date, price, quantity)

SELECT SUM(price * quantity)

FROM Purchase

What do these mean?

SELECT SUM(price * quantity)
FROM Purchase
WHERE product = ‘bagel’

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Simple Aggregations
Purchase
Product Date Price Quantity
bagel 10/21 1 20
banana 10/3 0.5 10
banana 10/10 1 10
bagel 10/25 1.50 20

SELECT SUM(price * quantity)

FROM Purchase 50 (= 1*20 + 1.50*20)
WHERE product = ‘bagel’
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Grouping and Aggregation

Purchase(product, date, price, quantity)

SELECT product, Find total sales

SUM(price * quantity) AS TotalSales after 10/1/2005
FROM Purchase per product.
WHERE date > ‘10/1/2005’
GROUP BY product

Let’s see what this means…

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Grouping and Aggregation

Semantics of the query:

1. Compute the FROM and WHERE clauses

2. Group by the attributes in the GROUP BY

3. Compute the SELECT clause: grouped attributes and aggregates

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1. Compute the FROM and WHERE clauses

SELECT product, SUM(price*quantity) AS TotalSales
FROM Purchase
WHERE date > ‘10/1/2005’
GROUP BY product

Product Date Price Quantity

FROM
Bagel 10/21 1 20
Bagel 10/25 1.50 20
Banana 10/3 0.5 10
Banana 10/10 1 10

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2. Group by the attributes in the GROUP BY

SELECT product, SUM(price*quantity) AS TotalSales
FROM Purchase
WHERE date > ‘10/1/2005’
GROUP BY product

Product Date Price Quantity GROUP BY Product Date Price Quantity

Bagel 10/21 1 20 10/21 1 20
Bagel
Bagel 10/25 1.50 20 10/25 1.50 20
Banana 10/3 0.5 10 10/3 0.5 10
Banana
Banana 10/10 1 10 10/10 1 10

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3. Compute the SELECT clause: grouped

attributes and aggregates
SELECT product, SUM(price*quantity) AS TotalSales
FROM Purchase
WHERE date > ‘10/1/2005’
GROUP BY product

Product Date Price Quantity SELECT Product TotalSales

10/21 1 20
Bagel
10/25 1.50 20 Bagel 50
10/3 0.5 10
Banana Banana 15
10/10 1 10

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GROUP BY v.s. Nested Quereis

SELECT product, Sum(price*quantity) AS TotalSales
FROM Purchase
WHERE date > ‘10/1/2005’
GROUP BY product

SELECT DISTINCT x.product,

(SELECT Sum(y.price*y.quantity)
FROM Purchase y
WHERE x.product = y.product
AND y.date > ‘10/1/2005’) AS TotalSales
FROM Purchase x
WHERE x.date > ‘10/1/2005’
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HAVING Clause

SELECT product, SUM(price*quantity) Same query as

FROM Purchase before, except that
WHERE date > ‘10/1/2005’ we consider only
GROUP BY product
HAVING SUM(quantity) > 100
products that have
more than
100 buyers
HAVING clauses contains conditions on aggregates

Whereas WHERE clauses condition on individual tuples…

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General form of Grouping and Aggregation

SELECT S
FROM R1,…,Rn
WHERE C1
GROUP BY a1,…,ak
HAVING C2

Why?
• S = Can ONLY contain attributes a1,…,ak and/or aggregates over other attributes
• C1 = is any condition on the attributes in R1,…,Rn
• C2 = is any condition on the aggregate expressions

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General form of Grouping and Aggregation

SELECT S
FROM R1,…,Rn
WHERE C1
GROUP BY a1,…,ak
HAVING C2

Evaluation steps:
1. Evaluate FROM-WHERE: apply condition C1 on the
attributes in R1,…,Rn
2. GROUP BY the attributes a1,…,ak
3. Apply condition C2 to each group (may have aggregates)
4. Compute aggregates in S and return the result
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Group-by v.s. Nested Query

Author(login, name)
Wrote(login, url)

• Find authors who wrote ³ 10 documents:

• Attempt 1: with nested queries
SELECT DISTINCT Author.name This is
FROM Author SQL by
a novice
WHERE COUNT(
SELECT Wrote.url
FROM Wrote
WHERE Author.login = Wrote.login) > 10
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Group-by v.s. Nested Query

• Find all authors who wrote at least 10 documents:
• Attempt 2: SQL style (with GROUP BY)

SELECT Author.name This is

SQL by
FROM Author, Wrote an expert
WHERE Author.login = Wrote.login
GROUP BY Author.name
HAVING COUNT(Wrote.url) > 10

No need for DISTINCT: automatically from GROUP BY

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Group-by vs. Nested Query

Which way is more efficient?

• Attempt #1- With nested: How many times do we do a SFW query

over all of the Wrote relations?

• Attempt #2- With group-by: How about when written this way?

With GROUP BY can be much more efficient!

Lecture 4 > Section 1 > ACTIVITY

Activity-4-1.ipynb

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3. Advanced SQL-izing

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What you will learn about in this section

1. Quantifiers

2. NULLs

3. Outer Joins

4. ACTIVITY: Fancy SQL Pt. II

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Quantifiers
Product(name, price, company)
Company(name, city)

SELECT DISTINCT Company.cname Find all companies

FROM Company, Product that make some
WHERE Company.name = Product.company products with price
AND Product.price < 100 < 100

An existential quantifier is a
logical quantifier (roughly) Existential: easy ! J
of the form “there exists”
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Quantifiers
Find all companies
Product(name, price, company) with products all
Company(name, city) having price < 100

Equivalent
SELECT DISTINCT Company.cname
FROM Company
WHERE Company.name NOT IN( Find all companies
SELECT Product.company that make only
FROM Product.price >= 100) products with price
< 100
A universal quantifier is of
the form “for all” Universal: hard ! L
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NULLS in SQL
• Whenever we don’t have a value, we can put a NULL

• Can mean many things:

• Value does not exists
• Value exists but is unknown
• Value not applicable
• Etc.

• The schema specifies for each attribute if can be null (nullable attribute) or
not

• How does SQL cope with tables that have NULLs?

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Null Values
• For numerical operations, NULL -> NULL:
• If x = NULL then 4*(3-x)/7 is still NULL

• For boolean operations, in SQL there are three values:

FALSE = 0
UNKNOWN = 0.5
TRUE = 1

• If x= NULL then x=“Joe” is UNKNOWN

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Null Values
• C1 AND C2 = min(C1, C2)
• C1 OR C2 = max(C1, C2)
• NOT C1 = 1 – C1

SELECT * Won’t return e.g.

FROM Person (age=20
WHERE (age < 25) height=NULL
AND (height > 6 AND weight > 190) weight=200)!

Rule in SQL: include only tuples that yield TRUE (1.0)

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Null Values
Unexpected behavior:

SELECT *
FROM Person
WHERE age < 25 OR age >= 25

Some Persons are not included !

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Null Values
Can test for NULL explicitly:
• x IS NULL
• x IS NOT NULL

SELECT *
FROM Person
WHERE age < 25 OR age >= 25
OR age IS NULL

Now it includes all Persons!

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RECAP: Inner Joins

By default, joins in SQL are “inner joins”:
Product(name, category)
Purchase(prodName, store)

SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store

FROM Product
JOIN Purchase ON Product.name = Purchase.prodName
Both equivalent:
SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store Both INNER JOINS!
FROM Product, Purchase
WHERE Product.name = Purchase.prodName

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Inner Joins + NULLS = Lost data?

By default, joins in SQL are “inner joins”:
Product(name, category)
Purchase(prodName, store)

SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store

FROM Product
JOIN Purchase ON Product.name = Purchase.prodName

SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store

FROM Product, Purchase
WHERE Product.name = Purchase.prodName

However: Products that never sold (with no Purchase tuple) will be lost!
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Outer Joins
• An outer join returns tuples from the joined relations that don’t have a
corresponding tuple in the other relations
• I.e. If we join relations A and B on a.X = b.X, and there is an entry in A with X=5, but
none in B with X=5…
• A LEFT OUTER JOIN will return a tuple (a, NULL)!

• Left outer joins in SQL: SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store

FROM Product
LEFT OUTER JOIN Purchase ON
Product.name = Purchase.prodName

Now we’ll get products even if they didn’t sell

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INNER JOIN:
Product Purchase
name category prodName store

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name store
SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store
FROM Product Gizmo Wiz
INNER JOIN Purchase
ON Product.name = Purchase.prodName Camera Ritz

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Note: another equivalent way to write an
INNER JOIN!
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LEFT OUTER JOIN:

Product Purchase
name category prodName store

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name store

SELECT Product.name, Purchase.store Gizmo Wiz

FROM Product
Camera Ritz
LEFT OUTER JOIN Purchase
ON Product.name = Purchase.prodName Camera Wiz

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Other Outer Joins

• Left outer join:

• Include the left tuple even if there’s no match

• Right outer join:

• Include the right tuple even if there’s no match

• Full outer join:

• Include the both left and right tuples even if there’s no match

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Activity-4-2.ipynb

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Lecture 2, 3, & 4 > SUMMARY

Summary

SQL is a rich programming language

that handles the way data is processed
declaratively

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Problem Set #1:

SQL Uber Alles
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Problems in PS#1
1. Linear algebra in SQL

2. Precipitation data and nested queries

3. The traveling SQL salesman: Graph traversals in SQL

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Linear algebra in SQL

1. Simple joins with aggregations

2. Hint 1: Using aliases leads to clean SQL

3. Hint 2: SQL supports many operations over numeric attributes (in

the SELECT part of an SFW query)
SELECT MAX(A.val*B.val)
FROM A, B
WHERE A.i= B.i AND A.j = B.j

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Precipitation data and nested queries

1. Aggregates inside nested queries. Remember SQL is compositional

2. Hint 1: Break down query description to steps (subproblems)

3. Hint 2: Whenever in doubt always go back to the definition

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Precipitation data and nested queries

Example: Precipitation

“Using a single SQL query, find all of the

stations that had the highest daily precipitation
(across all stations) on any given day.”

SELECT station_id, day

FROM precipitation,
(SELECT day AS maxd, MAX(precipitation)AS maxp
FROM precipitation
GROUP BY day)
WHERE day = maxd AND precipitation = maxp

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The traveling SQL salesman: Graph traversals in SQL

1. Views: Details in the description. Nothing more than temp aliases for
queries. Remember: SQL is compositional!

2. Self-joins are very powerful

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The traveling SQL salesman: Graph traversals in SQL

Example: Edges
edge_id src trg
“Find all paths of size two in a 1 A B
directed graph” 2 B C
3 C D

SELECT e1.src, e1.trg, e2.trg

FROM edges AS e1, edges AS e2,
WHERE e1.trg = e2.src

Some more examples: https://www.fusionbox.com/blog/detail/graph-algorithms-in-a-

database-recursive-ctes-and-topological-sort-with-postgres/620/

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