Hi everyone,
I am trying to find an efficient way to perform a special query. Let
me explain what I want.
Let's say we are looking for all description that match "this is the
target". In fact, I want to find records that match those 4 words in
this sequence disregarding the number of spaces (I mean spaces, tabs,
Cr, Lf, etc) between them.
This has to be done without REGEX (would be too easy!). Besides
throwing a bunch of REPLACE(REPLACE (REPLACE())) to strip separators,
anyone has a better idea on how to do that in SQL, only in SQL with no
UDF, just plain DB2 SQL ???
To make it more clear, here's a more detailed example.
If the searched string is "this is the target", I would expect results
like :
"this[9 spaces]is[1 tab]the[1 carriage return][1 line feed]target"
"this[3 tabs][1 space]is[2 carrage returns]the[2 spaces]target"
"this[1 space]is[16 spaces]the[2 tabs][11 spaces][1 carriage return][1
tab]target"
"this[80 spaces]is[4 line feeds]the[5 spaces]target"
"this[1 space]is[1 space]the[1 space]target"
Well, you get the picture. For practical reasons, we can assume that
no word is going to be separated by more than 80 separator
characters. Separators are : space, tab, line feed, carriage return.
The number of separators bewteen each word can be anything <= 80.
As I said, all this has to be done in "plain" SQL, i.e. no UDF, no
REGEX, just plain basic SQL.
thank you 3 4807
SQL is a declarative language. An SQL programmer would put that
regular expression in a CHECK() constraint and prevent dirty data from
getting into the table in the first place.
Next, SQL is not a text search language, so if this is a the main
purpose of your system, you ought to get it off of SQL and into
ZyIndex or something else.
On Jul 2, 7:11 pm, bstjean <bstj...@yahoo. comwrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to find an efficient way to perform a special query. Let
me explain what I want.
Let's say we are looking for all description that match "this is the
target". In fact, I want to find records that match those 4 words in
this sequence disregarding the number of spaces (I mean spaces, tabs,
Cr, Lf, etc) between them.
This has to be done without REGEX (would be too easy!). Besides
throwing a bunch of REPLACE(REPLACE (REPLACE())) to strip separators,
anyone has a better idea on how to do that in SQL, only in SQL with no
UDF, just plain DB2 SQL ???
To make it more clear, here's a more detailed example.
If the searched string is "this is the target", I would expect results
like :
"this[9 spaces]is[1 tab]the[1 carriage return][1 line feed]target"
"this[3 tabs][1 space]is[2 carrage returns]the[2 spaces]target"
"this[1 space]is[16 spaces]the[2 tabs][11 spaces][1 carriage return][1
tab]target"
"this[80 spaces]is[4 line feeds]the[5 spaces]target"
"this[1 space]is[1 space]the[1 space]target"
Well, you get the picture. For practical reasons, we can assume that
no word is going to be separated by more than 80 separator
characters. Separators are : space, tab, line feed, carriage return.
The number of separators bewteen each word can be anything <= 80.
As I said, all this has to be done in "plain" SQL, i.e. no UDF, no
REGEX, just plain basic SQL.
thank you
I assume you have good reasons for the restrictions you add ;-) The
following will be terribly inefficient and is only a sketch, you will
have to fill in the details your self. Oh, and btw, I'll use a sql
function but it can be expanded inline. Given this function
(originally posted by Knut):
CREATE FUNCTION elements ( string varchar(100) )
RETURNS TABLE ( ordinal INTEGER, index INTEGER )
LANGUAGE SQL
DETERMINISTIC
NO EXTERNAL ACTION
CONTAINS SQL
RETURN
WITH t(ordinal, index) AS
( VALUES ( 0, 0 )
UNION ALL
SELECT ordinal+1, COALESCE(NULLIF (
LOCATE(' ', string, index+1), 0), LENGTH(string)
+1)
FROM t
-- to prevent a warning condition for infinite recursion
WHERE ordinal < 500 AND
LOCATE(' ', string, index+1) <0 )
SELECT ordinal, index
FROM t
@
As you can see it only handles spaces, but it can be expanded to
handle more tokens (add union blocks). Now we can produce the
following table:
[lelle@53dbd181 src]$ db2 "select index from table ( elements
( 'this is the target ')) x where index 0"
INDEX
-----------
5
6
7
8
11
12
13
17
18
25
10 record(s) selected.
Finding intervals is relatively easy:
with T(n) as (
select index from table ( elements ( 'this is the target '))
x where index 0
) select lb.min_n, min(ub.max_n) max_n from (
select n as min_n from T T1
where not exists (
select 1 from T T2 where T1.n = T2.n + 1
)
) lb, (
select n as max_n from T T3
where not exists (
select 1 from T T4 where T3.n = T4.n - 1
)
) ub
where ub.max_n >= lb.min_n
group by lb.min_n
MIN_N 2
----------- -----------
5 8
11 13
17 18
25 25
use substr and some arithmetic for the rest.
/Lennart
On Jul 2, 9:49 pm, Lennart <Erik.Lennart.J ons...@gmail.co mwrote:
On Jul 2, 7:11 pm, bstjean <bstj...@yahoo. comwrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to find an efficient way to perform a special query. Let
me explain what I want.
Let's say we are looking for all description that match "this is the
target". In fact, I want to find records that match those 4 words in
this sequence disregarding the number of spaces (I mean spaces, tabs,
Cr, Lf, etc) between them.
This has to be done without REGEX (would be too easy!). Besides
throwing a bunch of REPLACE(REPLACE (REPLACE())) to strip separators,
anyone has a better idea on how to do that in SQL, only in SQL with no
UDF, just plain DB2 SQL ???
To make it more clear, here's a more detailed example.
If the searched string is "this is the target", I would expect results
like :
"this[9 spaces]is[1 tab]the[1 carriage return][1 line feed]target"
"this[3 tabs][1 space]is[2 carrage returns]the[2 spaces]target"
"this[1 space]is[16 spaces]the[2 tabs][11 spaces][1 carriage return][1
tab]target"
"this[80 spaces]is[4 line feeds]the[5 spaces]target"
"this[1 space]is[1 space]the[1 space]target"
Well, you get the picture. For practical reasons, we can assume that
no word is going to be separated by more than 80 separator
characters. Separators are : space, tab, line feed, carriage return.
The number of separators bewteen each word can be anything <= 80.
As I said, all this has to be done in "plain" SQL, i.e. no UDF, no
REGEX, just plain basic SQL.
thank you
I assume you have good reasons for the restrictions you add ;-) The
following will be terribly inefficient and is only a sketch, you will
have to fill in the details your self. Oh, and btw, I'll use a sql
function but it can be expanded inline. Given this function
(originally posted by Knut):
CREATE FUNCTION elements ( string varchar(100) )
RETURNS TABLE ( ordinal INTEGER, index INTEGER )
LANGUAGE SQL
DETERMINISTIC
NO EXTERNAL ACTION
CONTAINS SQL
RETURN
WITH t(ordinal, index) AS
( VALUES ( 0, 0 )
UNION ALL
SELECT ordinal+1, COALESCE(NULLIF (
LOCATE(' ', string, index+1), 0), LENGTH(string)
+1)
FROM t
-- to prevent a warning condition for infinite recursion
WHERE ordinal < 500 AND
LOCATE(' ', string, index+1) <0 )
SELECT ordinal, index
FROM t
@
As you can see it only handles spaces, but it can be expanded to
handle more tokens (add union blocks). Now we can produce the
following table:
[lelle@53dbd181 src]$ db2 "select index from table ( elements
( 'this is the target ')) x where index 0"
INDEX
-----------
5
6
7
8
11
12
13
17
18
25
10 record(s) selected.
Finding intervals is relatively easy:
with T(n) as (
select index from table ( elements ( 'this is the target '))
x where index 0
) select lb.min_n, min(ub.max_n) max_n from (
select n as min_n from T T1
where not exists (
select 1 from T T2 where T1.n = T2.n + 1
)
) lb, (
select n as max_n from T T3
where not exists (
select 1 from T T4 where T3.n = T4.n - 1
)
) ub
where ub.max_n >= lb.min_n
group by lb.min_n
MIN_N 2
----------- -----------
5 8
11 13
17 18
25 25
use substr and some arithmetic for the rest.
Damn, I hit the send button to soon. The output was produced before I
fixed the name of the column:
MIN_N MAX_N
----------- -----------
5 8
11 13
17 18
25 25
Also, the second query is pretty much a copy of a post from Bob Badour
in comp.databases. theory (can't seem to find it now though)
/Lennart
/Lennart
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