Re: Saving result set of SELECT to table column

On 2008-01-14 Patric wrote:
> Well I've a normalized database..
> For instance:
>
> create table Y ( pk, data... );
> create table Z ( pk , data... );
>
> create table X ( char, references Y, references Z);
>
> SELECT * from X;
>
> Now I want to make a listing of the result set from X.
> If there are references to Z or Y (not null refs), I want to display
> that data too.
>
> Normally I would SELECT, to get that data, not in my case.
> Nearly all queries will be SELECTs, no UPDATEs or INSERTs, so need to
> optimize that case.
>
> The dirty little denormalization would look like this:
>
> create table X ( char, ref. to Y, ref. to Z, StoreY Y , StoreZ Z);
>
> On insert or update of Z or Y, I would update these two (StoreY,
> StoreZ) columns by RULE or TRIGGER..
> I know this is not nice etc.. Codd would sue for this, but in my case
> performance over beauty is ok.
> I'm looking for something like UPDATE X set StoreY=(SELECT * FROM Y
> WHERE pk=4) WHERE foreignID2Y = 4;
>
> Is there a away to accomplish this straightforward in a single
> statement without doing loops and stuff in a serverside procedure?

Looks to me like you want to (LEFT|RIGHT) OUTER JOIN the tables.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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