MySQL WITH clause

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I m trying to use MySQL to create a view with the  WITH  clause  WITH authorRating aname  rating  AS    SELECT aname  AVG quantity     FROM book    GROUP BY aname   But it doesn t seem like MySQL supports this   I thought this was pretty standard and I m sure Oracle supports this  Is there anyway to force MySQL to use the  WITH  clause   I ve tried it with the MyISAM and innoDB engine   Both of these don t work

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You ve got the syntax right   WITH AuthorRating AuthorName  AuthorRating  AS    SELECT aname         AS AuthorName            AVG quantity  AS AuthorRating    FROM Book    GROUP By Book aname   However  as others have mentioned  MySQL does not support this command  WITH was added in SQL 1999  the newest version of the SQL standard is SQL 2008  You can find some more information about databases that support SQL 1999 s various features on Wikipedia   MySQL has traditionally lagged a bit in support for the SQL standard  whereas commercial databases like Oracle  SQL Server  recently   and DB2 have followed them a bit more closely  PostgreSQL is typically pretty standards compliant as well   You may want to look at MySQL s roadmap  I m not completely sure when this feature might be supported  but it s great for creating readable roll-up queries

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Building on the answer from  Mosty Mostacho  here s how you might do something equivalent in MySQL for a specific case of determining what entries don t exist in a table  and are not in any other database   select col1 from      select  value1  as col1 union    select  value2  as col1 union    select  value3  as col1   as subquery left join mytable as mytable mycol   col1 where mytable mycol is null order by col1   You may want to use a text editor with macro capabilities to convert a list of values to the quoted select union clause

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WITH authorRating as  select aname  rating from book     SELECT aname  AVG quantity     FROM authorRating    GROUP BY aname

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You might be interested in somethinkg like this   select   from       select   from table   as Subquery

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Oracle does support WITH   It would look like this   WITH emps as  SELECT   FROM Employees  SELECT   FROM emps WHERE ID  lt  20 UNION ALL SELECT   FROM emps where Sex    F     ysth WITH is hard to google because it s a common word typically excluded from searches    You d want to look at the SELECT docs to see how subquery factoring works   I know this doesn t answer the OP but I m cleaning up any confusion ysth may have started

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Oracle does support WITH   It would look like this   WITH emps as  SELECT   FROM Employees  SELECT   FROM emps WHERE ID  lt  20 UNION ALL SELECT   FROM emps where Sex    F     ysth WITH is hard to google because it s a common word typically excluded from searches    You d want to look at the SELECT docs to see how subquery factoring works   I know this doesn t answer the OP but I m cleaning up any confusion ysth may have started

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You ve got the syntax right   WITH AuthorRating AuthorName  AuthorRating  AS    SELECT aname         AS AuthorName            AVG quantity  AS AuthorRating    FROM Book    GROUP By Book aname   However  as others have mentioned  MySQL does not support this command  WITH was added in SQL 1999  the newest version of the SQL standard is SQL 2008  You can find some more information about databases that support SQL 1999 s various features on Wikipedia   MySQL has traditionally lagged a bit in support for the SQL standard  whereas commercial databases like Oracle  SQL Server  recently   and DB2 have followed them a bit more closely  PostgreSQL is typically pretty standards compliant as well   You may want to look at MySQL s roadmap  I m not completely sure when this feature might be supported  but it s great for creating readable roll-up queries

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Building on the answer from  Mosty Mostacho  here s how you might do something equivalent in MySQL for a specific case of determining what entries don t exist in a table  and are not in any other database   select col1 from      select  value1  as col1 union    select  value2  as col1 union    select  value3  as col1   as subquery left join mytable as mytable mycol   col1 where mytable mycol is null order by col1   You may want to use a text editor with macro capabilities to convert a list of values to the quoted select union clause

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Update  MySQL 8 0 is finally getting the feature of common table expressions  including recursive CTEs  Here s a blog announcing it  http   mysqlserverteam com mysql-8-0-labs-recursive-common-table-expressions-in-mysql-ctes  Below is my earlier answer  which I originally wrote in 2008   MySQL 5 x does not support queries using the WITH syntax defined in SQL-99  also called Common Table Expressions  This has been a feature request for MySQL since January 2006  http   bugs mysql com bug php id 16244 Other RDBMS products that support common table expressions   Oracle 9i release 2 and later  http   www oracle-base com articles misc with-clause php Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and later  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms190766 v sql 90  aspx IBM DB2 UDB 8 and later  http   publib boulder ibm com infocenter db2luw v8 index jsp topic  com ibm db2 udb doc admin r0000879 htm PostgreSQL 8 4 and later  https   www postgresql org docs current static queries-with html Sybase 11 and later  http   dcx sybase com 1100 en dbusage en11 commontblexpr-s-5414852 html SQLite 3 8 3 and later  http   sqlite org lang with html HSQLDB  http   hsqldb org doc guide dataaccess-chapt html dac with clause Firebird 2 1 and later  the first Open Source DBMS to support recursive queries   http   www firebirdsql org file documentation release notes html rlsnotes210 html rnfb210-cte H2 Database  but only recursive   http   www h2database com html advanced html recursive queries Informix 14 10 and later  https   www ibm com support knowledgecenter SSGU8G 14 1 0 com ibm sqls doc ids sqs with htm

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Oracle does support WITH   It would look like this   WITH emps as  SELECT   FROM Employees  SELECT   FROM emps WHERE ID  lt  20 UNION ALL SELECT   FROM emps where Sex    F     ysth WITH is hard to google because it s a common word typically excluded from searches    You d want to look at the SELECT docs to see how subquery factoring works   I know this doesn t answer the OP but I m cleaning up any confusion ysth may have started

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MariaDB is now supporting WITH  MySQL for now is not  https   mariadb com kb en mariadb with

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Update  MySQL 8 0 is finally getting the feature of common table expressions  including recursive CTEs  Here s a blog announcing it  http   mysqlserverteam com mysql-8-0-labs-recursive-common-table-expressions-in-mysql-ctes  Below is my earlier answer  which I originally wrote in 2008   MySQL 5 x does not support queries using the WITH syntax defined in SQL-99  also called Common Table Expressions  This has been a feature request for MySQL since January 2006  http   bugs mysql com bug php id 16244 Other RDBMS products that support common table expressions   Oracle 9i release 2 and later  http   www oracle-base com articles misc with-clause php Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and later  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms190766 v sql 90  aspx IBM DB2 UDB 8 and later  http   publib boulder ibm com infocenter db2luw v8 index jsp topic  com ibm db2 udb doc admin r0000879 htm PostgreSQL 8 4 and later  https   www postgresql org docs current static queries-with html Sybase 11 and later  http   dcx sybase com 1100 en dbusage en11 commontblexpr-s-5414852 html SQLite 3 8 3 and later  http   sqlite org lang with html HSQLDB  http   hsqldb org doc guide dataaccess-chapt html dac with clause Firebird 2 1 and later  the first Open Source DBMS to support recursive queries   http   www firebirdsql org file documentation release notes html rlsnotes210 html rnfb210-cte H2 Database  but only recursive   http   www h2database com html advanced html recursive queries Informix 14 10 and later  https   www ibm com support knowledgecenter SSGU8G 14 1 0 com ibm sqls doc ids sqs with htm

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MariaDB is now supporting WITH  MySQL for now is not  https   mariadb com kb en mariadb with

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You might be interested in somethinkg like this   select   from       select   from table   as Subquery

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Have you ever tried Temporary Table  This solved my convern   create temporary table abc   column1 varchar 255  column2 decimal    insert into abc select     or otherwise insert into abc values   text   5 5     text2   0815 8     Then you can use this table in every select in this session   select   from abc inner join users on

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Update  MySQL 8 0 is finally getting the feature of common table expressions  including recursive CTEs  Here s a blog announcing it  http   mysqlserverteam com mysql-8-0-labs-recursive-common-table-expressions-in-mysql-ctes  Below is my earlier answer  which I originally wrote in 2008   MySQL 5 x does not support queries using the WITH syntax defined in SQL-99  also called Common Table Expressions  This has been a feature request for MySQL since January 2006  http   bugs mysql com bug php id 16244 Other RDBMS products that support common table expressions   Oracle 9i release 2 and later  http   www oracle-base com articles misc with-clause php Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and later  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms190766 v sql 90  aspx IBM DB2 UDB 8 and later  http   publib boulder ibm com infocenter db2luw v8 index jsp topic  com ibm db2 udb doc admin r0000879 htm PostgreSQL 8 4 and later  https   www postgresql org docs current static queries-with html Sybase 11 and later  http   dcx sybase com 1100 en dbusage en11 commontblexpr-s-5414852 html SQLite 3 8 3 and later  http   sqlite org lang with html HSQLDB  http   hsqldb org doc guide dataaccess-chapt html dac with clause Firebird 2 1 and later  the first Open Source DBMS to support recursive queries   http   www firebirdsql org file documentation release notes html rlsnotes210 html rnfb210-cte H2 Database  but only recursive   http   www h2database com html advanced html recursive queries Informix 14 10 and later  https   www ibm com support knowledgecenter SSGU8G 14 1 0 com ibm sqls doc ids sqs with htm

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Update  MySQL 8 0 is finally getting the feature of common table expressions  including recursive CTEs  Here s a blog announcing it  http   mysqlserverteam com mysql-8-0-labs-recursive-common-table-expressions-in-mysql-ctes  Below is my earlier answer  which I originally wrote in 2008   MySQL 5 x does not support queries using the WITH syntax defined in SQL-99  also called Common Table Expressions  This has been a feature request for MySQL since January 2006  http   bugs mysql com bug php id 16244 Other RDBMS products that support common table expressions   Oracle 9i release 2 and later  http   www oracle-base com articles misc with-clause php Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and later  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms190766 v sql 90  aspx IBM DB2 UDB 8 and later  http   publib boulder ibm com infocenter db2luw v8 index jsp topic  com ibm db2 udb doc admin r0000879 htm PostgreSQL 8 4 and later  https   www postgresql org docs current static queries-with html Sybase 11 and later  http   dcx sybase com 1100 en dbusage en11 commontblexpr-s-5414852 html SQLite 3 8 3 and later  http   sqlite org lang with html HSQLDB  http   hsqldb org doc guide dataaccess-chapt html dac with clause Firebird 2 1 and later  the first Open Source DBMS to support recursive queries   http   www firebirdsql org file documentation release notes html rlsnotes210 html rnfb210-cte H2 Database  but only recursive   http   www h2database com html advanced html recursive queries Informix 14 10 and later  https   www ibm com support knowledgecenter SSGU8G 14 1 0 com ibm sqls doc ids sqs with htm

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WITH authorRating as  select aname  rating from book     SELECT aname  AVG quantity     FROM authorRating    GROUP BY aname

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Have you ever tried Temporary Table  This solved my convern   create temporary table abc   column1 varchar 255  column2 decimal    insert into abc select     or otherwise insert into abc values   text   5 5     text2   0815 8     Then you can use this table in every select in this session   select   from abc inner join users on

User · Answer

Oracle does support WITH   It would look like this   WITH emps as  SELECT   FROM Employees  SELECT   FROM emps WHERE ID  lt  20 UNION ALL SELECT   FROM emps where Sex    F     ysth WITH is hard to google because it s a common word typically excluded from searches    You d want to look at the SELECT docs to see how subquery factoring works   I know this doesn t answer the OP but I m cleaning up any confusion ysth may have started

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