Where Clause in Load Editor for linked tables

[pascaldijkshoor]

Hi guys,

I am loading two different tables in the load editor. I have a where clause on the first table, which is applied on a datefield. The second table is linked to the first table by a mutual column. The second table has no date field, so currently it's loading all the data, which is 18 million rows. For minimizing my dataset I want to apply the where clause of the first table on the second table as well.

Is this possible?

I am currently loading the following script:

IB CONNECT TO 'Chainware11g';

LOAD cuacty,

cuactk as Key,

cuconn as Company_Lane,

cudura,

tsaaed,

tsloai;

[cuf_cuactt]:

SELECT "cuacty",

"cuconn",

"cudura",

"tsaaed",

"tsloai",

    "cuactk"

FROM "ICJDR"."cuf_cuactt" WHERE "tsaaed" >= sysdate - '65';

LIB CONNECT TO 'Chainware11g';

LOAD cuactk as Key,

cuasst,

    jrasst as Truck_Number;

[cuf_cuacta]:

select "cuactk",

"cuasst",

    "jrasst"

    FROM "ICJDR"."cuf_cuacta";

[Anonymous]

Yes, Pascal, you'd simply add a WHERE EXISTS clause in your second load statement. So something like this:

LOAD cuactk as Key,

cuasst,

    jrasst as Truck_Number

WHERE EXISTS(Key,cuactk);

[cuf_cuacta]:

select "cuactk",

"cuasst",

    "jrasst"

    FROM "ICJDR"."cuf_cuacta";

You can find more information on the EXISTS clause here: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/April2018/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Scripting/InterRecordFunctions/Ex...

And the WHERE clause here: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/April2018/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Scripting/ScriptRegularStatements...

I hope that helps,

Serina

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[pascaldijkshoor]

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately the script did not work.

[marcus_sommer]

What didn't work? Any load-error (probably some small syntax-issue) or had the second query more and/or different data loaded as expected? In the last case your Key field is just inappropriate to your target and I think it would be better to join both tables with your where-clause on the sql-side.

- Marcus

[pascaldijkshoor]

Hi Marcus, the script did not work because of the following load error: missing SELECT keyword (see the corresponding script below)

How can I join both tables with my where clause? I already tried to do this but i'm no programmer so it's difficult for me to achieve this.

LIB CONNECT TO 'Chainware11g';

LOAD cuacty,

cuactk as Key,

cuconn as Company_Lane,

cudura,

tsaaed,

tsloai;

[cuf_cuactt]:

SELECT "cuacty",

"cuconn",

"cudura",

"tsaaed",

"tsloai",

    "cuactk"

FROM "ICJDR"."cuf_cuactt" WHERE "tsaaed" >= sysdate - '65';

LIB CONNECT TO 'Chainware11g';

Load cuactk as Key,

cuasst,

    jrasst as Truck#;

[cuf_cuacta]:

select "cuactk",

"cuasst",

    "jrasst"

    FROM "ICJDR"."cuf_cuacta" WHERE EXISTS (Key, cuactk);

[marcus_sommer · Accepted solution]

I think it should go in this direction:

LIB CONNECT TO 'Chainware11g';

[cuf_cuactt]:

LOAD

cuacty, cuactk as Key, cuconn as Company_Lane, cudura, tsaaed, tsloai, cuasst, jrasst as Truck#;

SELECT "a.cuacty", "a.cuconn", "a.cudura", "a.tsaaed", "a.tsloai", "a.cuactk", "b.cuasst", "b.jrasst"

FROM "ICJDR"."cuf_cuactt" a left join "ICJDR"."cuf_cuacta" b on "a. cuactk" = "b. cuactk"

WHERE "a.tsaaed" >= sysdate - '65';

whereby the SQL statement depends on the syntax-rules from your database and you might need some google-searching to adjust it appropriate (surely there are various examples on how to join and alias tables).

- Marcus

[pascaldijkshoor]

Thanks Marcus! With some small changes I managed to get the script to work