Hi, I remember reading about an SQL query type which did something like
select all 'aircraft hangers' which contained exactly (or at least) some
given set of aircraft.
Or did it select the list of pilots qualified to fly all the airplanes in
the hanger...
Anyway, I forget the syntax (and the fancy name for this kind of query).
What I want to do is the following, given this data...
Table: ATTRIBUTE_LIST;
ID ATTRIBUTE
W A
W B
W C
X A
X B
X C
Y A
Y B
Y C
Y D
Z E
--> SQL MAGIC -->
Table: CLUSTERS
G_ID ID
1 W
1 X
2 Y
3 Z
That is, to group together all ID's with the same 'set' of ATTRIBUTES.
Currently I am doing this using 'GROUP_CONCAT', but my attribute list just
went above the limit for the GROUP_CONCAT column...
+---------+------+--------------------------------------+
| Level | Code | Message |
+---------+------+--------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1260 | 7 line(s) were cut by GROUP_CONCAT() |
+---------+------+--------------------------------------+
My query looks roughly like this...
SET @i:=0, @x:='', @row:='';
#
DROP TABLE CLUSTERS;
CREATE TABLE CLUSTERS
(PRIMARY KEY (ID), INDEX (G_ID))
#
SELECT
ID, G_ID
#
FROM
(
SELECT
ID,
#
@x:= ATTR_LIST AS HIDDEN1,
#
IF(@row = @x, @i, @i:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) AS G_ID,
#
@row:= @x AS HIDDEN2
#
FROM
(
SELECT
ID,
GROUP_CONCAT(ATTRIBUTE) AS ATTR_LIST,
FROM
ATTRIBUTE_LIST
GROUP BY
ID
#
) AS vt1
#
ORDER BY -- This is very important for
ATTR_LIST -- the overall query.
#
) AS vt2;
(And thats the highly simplified version!)
I can't shake the feeling that this 'string based' approach (while quite
speedy) is inherently messy, and that a proper 'set based' approach
should exist, and shouldn't have the limitation in the number of
attributes that the above method has.
In general I would really like to (somehow) develop a suite of easy to use
'SQL CLUSTER' commands, as the data mining community needs that kind of
thing in nice general (set based) abundance :)
Anyway, thanks for any feedback on any of the above,
Dan.
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