I need some help in fixing a data aberration. I create a view based on two tables with Left Join and the result has some duplicates (as given in the logic section)
Data Setup:
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TEST1
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PRODUCT VALUE1 KEY
1 2 12
1 3 13
1 4 14
1 5 15
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TEST2
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KEY ATTRIBUTE
12 DESC
13 (null)
14 DESC
15 (null)
What I tried so far
SELECT
B.KEY,
B.ATTRIBUTE,
A.PRODUCT
A.VALUE1
FROM TEST2 B LEFT JOIN TEST1 A ON TEST2.KEY = TEST1.KEY;
What I get with above SQL is
KEY ATTRIBUTE PRODUCT VALUE1
12 DESC 1 2
13 (null) 1 3
14 DESC 1 4
15 (null) 1 5
What I need to get
KEY ATTRIBUTE PRODUCT VALUE1
12 DESC 1 2
13 DESC 1 3
14 DESC 1 4
15 DESC 1 5
Logic: Since all products with id 1 are same, I need to retain the attributes if it is NULL. So doing a distinct of PRODUCT and ATTRIBUTE will always have 1 row per product id. Test1 has more than 100 products and Test2 has corresponding descriptions.
Note: This is not a normalized design since it is data warehousing. So no complaints on design please
I would like to have a CASE statement in the attribute field.
CASE
WHEN ATTRIBUTE IS NULL THEN {fix goes here}
ELSE ATTRIBUTE
END AS ATTRIBUTE
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It's not clear but if you say that for each product can be only one attribute then try to use MAX() OVER
SELECT
TEST1.Product,
TEST1.value1,
TEST2.KEY,
MAX(ATTRIBUTE) OVER (PARTITION BY test1.Product) ATTR
FROM TEST2
LEFT JOIN
TEST1 ON TEST2.KEY = TEST1.KEY