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Find the right table

A P P LY I N G S Q L T O R E A L-W O R L D P R O B L E M S

Dmitriy (Dima) Gorenshteyn


Lead Data Scientist, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS
What table should I use?
What columns are in your tables?

What is the content in these columns?

SELECT *
FROM payment;

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


LIMIT your results
SELECT *
FROM payment;

rental_id rental_date inventory_id customer_id return_date


2 2005-05-24 22:54:33 1525 459 2005-05-28 19:40:33
3 2005-05-24 23:03:39 1711 408 2005-06-01 22:12:39
4 2005-05-24 23:04:41 2452 333 2005-06-03 01:43:41
5 2005-05-24 23:05:21 2079 222 2005-06-02 04:33:21
6 2005-05-24 23:08:07 2792 549 2005-05-27 01:32:07
7 2005-05-24 23:11:53 3995 269 2005-05-29 20:34:53
8 2005-05-24 23:31:46 2346 239 2005-05-27 23:33:46
...................16035 MORE ROWS......................................

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LIMIT your results
SELECT *
FROM payment
LIMIT 5;

rental_id rental_date inventory_id customer_id return_date


2 2005-05-24 22:54:33 1525 459 2005-05-28 19:40:33
3 2005-05-24 23:03:39 1711 408 2005-06-01 22:12:39
4 2005-05-24 23:04:41 2452 333 2005-06-03 01:43:41
5 2005-05-24 23:05:21 2079 222 2005-06-02 04:33:21

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What tables are in my database?
PostgreSQL:

SELECT *
FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables
;

schemaname tablename tableowner


public address postgres
public actor postgres
public film_actor postgres
public language postgres
... ... ...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


What tables are in my database?
PostgreSQL:

SELECT *
FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables
WHERE schema_name = 'public;

schemaname tablename tableowner


public address postgres
public actor postgres
public film_actor postgres
public language postgres
... ... ...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


What tables are in my database?
PostgreSQL:

SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables;

SQL Server - TSQL:

SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES;

MySQL:

SHOW TABLES;

...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Find the tables you
need!
A P P LY I N G S Q L T O R E A L-W O R L D P R O B L E M S
Join the correct
tables
A P P LY I N G S Q L T O R E A L-W O R L D P R O B L E M S

Dmitriy (Dima) Gorenshteyn


Lead Data Scientist, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
All tables & columns
PostgreSQL:

SELECT * FROM information_schema.columns;

SQL Server - TSQL:

SELECT * FROM information_schema.columns;

MySQL:

SELECT * FROM information_schema.columns;

...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


All tables & columns
PostgreSQL:

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.columns
;

table_catalog table_schema table_name column_name


pagilla pg_catalog pg_proc proname
pagilla pg_catalog pg_proc pronamespace
pagilla pg_catalog pg_proc proowner
pagilla pg_catalog pg_proc prolang
... ... ... ...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


All tables & columns
PostgreSQL:

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_schema = 'public';

table_catalog table_schema table_name column_name


pagilla public address address_id
pagilla public address address
pagilla public address district
pagilla public address city
... ... ... ...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Aggregate the columns
SELECT table_name,
STRING_AGG(column_name, ', ') AS columns

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Aggregate the columns
SELECT table_name,
STRING_AGG(column_name, ', ') AS columns
FROM information_schema.columns

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Aggregate the columns
SELECT table_name,
STRING_AGG(column_name, ', ') AS columns
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_schema = 'public'
GROUP BY table_name;

table columns
rental rental_id, rental_date, inventory_id, customer_id, return_date
film_actor actor_id, film_id
film film_id, title, description, release_year, language_id, ...
customer customer_id, first_name, last_name, email, address_id, active
... ...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


A VIEW of tables and columns
A VIEW is a virtual table.

CREATE VIEW name_of_view AS


...

CREATE VIEW table_columns AS


SELECT table_name,
STRING_AGG(column_name, ', ') AS columns
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_schema = 'public'
GROUP BY table_name;

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table_columns
SELECT *
FROM table_columns;

table columns
rental rental_id, rental_date, inventory_id, customer_id, return_date
film_actor actor_id, film_id
film film_id, title, description, release_year, language_id, rental_durati
customer customer_id, first_name, last_name, email, address_id, active
actor actor_id, first_name, last_name
... ...

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Let's find some data!
A P P LY I N G S Q L T O R E A L-W O R L D P R O B L E M S
Complex joins
A P P LY I N G S Q L T O R E A L-W O R L D P R O B L E M S

Dmitriy (Dima) Gorenshteyn


Lead Data Scientist, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
A complex question

How many videos were rented in each


city?

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Connecting the data

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Connecting the data

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Connecting the data

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Connecting the data

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

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Tools for finding your data
-- LIMIT your results
SELECT *
FROM ___
LIMIT 10;

-- List the tables you have


SELECT *
FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables
WHERE schemaname = 'public';

-- Explore tables & columns using your new VIEW


SELECT * FROM table_columns;

APPLYING SQL TO REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS


Your turn!
A P P LY I N G S Q L T O R E A L-W O R L D P R O B L E M S

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