How to re-sort a sorted query?

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I have a query that need to be sorted in order of price of store's product =
with unique store number.

Here is a sample data of storeproduct table:


ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price
==================== =====3D=
=3D
10001 , 7 , 30.00
10001 , 7 , 35.00 <-- duplicate store number=20
10001 , 5 , 45.00
10001 , 2 , 50.00

Then I do this query to get unique store number and also the cheapest price=
from each store:

SQL=3D "Select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
from storeproduct where itemsku=3D'10001'=20
order by storenumber, price"

Result #1:
ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price
10001 , 2 , 50.00
10001 , 5 , 45.00
10001 , 7 , 30.00

The question is how to make the query that returns as above but sorted by p=
rice?


Thanks..
Yudie


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Re: How to re-sort a sorted query?

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:23 -0500, Yudie wrote:
> I have a query that need to be sorted in order of price of store's
> product with unique store number.
>
> Here is a sample data of storeproduct table:
>
>
> ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price
> ==========================
> 10001 , 7 , 30.00
> 10001 , 7 , 35.00 <-- duplicate store number
> 10001 , 5 , 45.00
> 10001 , 2 , 50.00
>
> Then I do this query to get unique store number and also the cheapest
> price from each store:
>
> SQL= "Select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
> from storeproduct where itemsku='10001'
> order by storenumber, price"

That won't get you the cheapest price, just an arbitrary one determined
by the physical storage order.

You need to use GROUP BY with an aggregate function:

SELECT itemsku, storenumber, MIN(price)
FROM storeproduct WHERE itemsku = '10001'
GROUP BY itemsku, storenumber
ORDER BY price, storenumber;

> Result #1:
> ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price
> 10001 , 2 , 50.00
> 10001 , 5 , 45.00
> 10001 , 7 , 30.00
>
> The question is how to make the query that returns as above but sorted
> by price?

The literal answer to your question is to put price first in the ORDER
BY clause, but I'm not convinced you actually want to know something
that simple.

--
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him
also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh
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Re: How to re-sort a sorted query?

Oliver ,sorry, I didn't submit all complete fields as my example,

The reason I didn't use agregate function because I still need to select
another fields from storeproduct table and some outer joins.

What about if the data in storeproduct table shows like this:

ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price, Condition
==========================
10001 , 7 , 30.00, Used
10001 , 7 , 35.00, New <-- duplicate store number
10001 , 5 , 45.00, New
10001 , 2 , 50.00, New

However, should I use temporary table to make it simple? what about the
performance?


Yudie

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From: "Oliver Elphick"
To: "Yudie"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] How to re-sort a sorted query?


On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:23 -0500, Yudie wrote:
> I have a query that need to be sorted in order of price of store's
> product with unique store number.
>
> Here is a sample data of storeproduct table:
>
>
> ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price
> ==========================
> 10001 , 7 , 30.00
> 10001 , 7 , 35.00 <-- duplicate store number
> 10001 , 5 , 45.00
> 10001 , 2 , 50.00
>
> Then I do this query to get unique store number and also the cheapest
> price from each store:
>
> SQL= "Select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
> from storeproduct where itemsku='10001'
> order by storenumber, price"

That won't get you the cheapest price, just an arbitrary one determined
by the physical storage order.

You need to use GROUP BY with an aggregate function:

SELECT itemsku, storenumber, MIN(price)
FROM storeproduct WHERE itemsku = '10001'
GROUP BY itemsku, storenumber
ORDER BY price, storenumber;

> Result #1:
> ItemSku , StoreNumber , Price
> 10001 , 2 , 50.00
> 10001 , 5 , 45.00
> 10001 , 7 , 30.00
>
> The question is how to make the query that returns as above but sorted
> by price?

The literal answer to your question is to put price first in the ORDER
BY clause, but I'm not convinced you actually want to know something
that simple.

--
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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========================================
"Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my
words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him
also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh
in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Mark 8:38


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Re: How to re-sort a sorted query?

Oliver Elphick writes:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:23 -0500, Yudie wrote:
>> Then I do this query to get unique store number and also the cheapest
>> price from each store:
>>
>> SQL= "Select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
>> from storeproduct where itemsku='10001'
>> order by storenumber, price"

> That won't get you the cheapest price,

Sure it will. It's a perfectly good application of DISTINCT ON.
However, he has to use that particular ORDER BY to get the answers
he wants.

So the only way (I think) to change the ordering for display is to
wrap this as a sub-select:

select * from
(select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
from storeproduct where itemsku='10001'
order by storenumber, price) ss
order by price;

regards, tom lane

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Re: How to re-sort a sorted query?

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick writes:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:23 -0500, Yudie wrote:
> >> Then I do this query to get unique store number and also the cheapest
> >> price from each store:
> >>
> >> SQL= "Select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
> >> from storeproduct where itemsku='10001'
> >> order by storenumber, price"
>
> > That won't get you the cheapest price,
>
> Sure it will. It's a perfectly good application of DISTINCT ON.
> However, he has to use that particular ORDER BY to get the answers
> he wants.

Ah - because ORDER BY is applied before DISTINCT ON; I hadn't realised
that.

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Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him
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Re: How to re-sort a sorted query?

> select * from
> (select distinct on (storenumber), itemsku, storenumber,price
> from storeproduct where itemsku='10001'
> order by storenumber, price) ss
> order by price;
>
> regards, tom lane

Thanks tom, this is working. I never thought it could be done like this.

yudie

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