Querying a local secondary index of dynamoDB using low level java API - java

I am trying to query a local secondary index with the hash key.
My table: Table1
Username(hash_key), Id(range_key), timestamp....
My local secondary index(because I want to query all usernames and have it ordered by time)
My LSI: Table1_TimestampLSI
Username(hash_key), timestamp(range_key)
e.g
user1 | 123 | 12/12/2015
user1 | 456 | 11/01/2015
user2 | 789 | 12/01/2015
NOTE: I could not just make the timestamp the range key in the table itself because (Username+Timestamp) is not unique. So I had to create a ID field to ensure uniqueness.
Since I want the async client I am using the low level API(model NOT document) java API.
Function to query index
HashMap<String, Condition> queryFilter = new HashMap<String, Condition>();
Condition condition = new Condition()
.withComparisonOperator(ComparisonOperator.EQ.toString())
.withAttributeValueList(new AttributeValue().withS(username));
queryFilter.put("Username", condition);
QueryRequest queryRequest = new QueryRequest(tableName + "_TimestampLSI").withQueryFilter(queryFilter);
queryRequest.setScanIndexForward(false);
Future<QueryResult> fQueryResult = dynamoDB.queryAsync(queryRequest,
new AsyncHandler<QueryRequest,QueryResult>() {
public void onSuccess(QueryRequest request, QueryResult result) {
System.out.println("Table: " + result);
}
public void onError(Exception exception) {
System.out.println("Error describing table: " + exception.getMessage());
// Callers can also test if exception is an instance of
// AmazonServiceException or AmazonClientException and cast
// it to get additional information
}
});
System.out.println("Result: " + fQueryResult);
I get the following error
Error describing table: Either the KeyConditions or KeyConditionExpression parameter must be specified in the request. (Service: AmazonDynamoDBv2; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ValidationException;
Am I missing something? Thought I should be able to query an index just on the hash value.

You've misunderstood Local Indices.
A Query always takes a hash key. So your QueryRequest should have has a setHashKeyValue setup.
You can't cross-hash a query, not with hash+range primary key and not with LSI. You can do that with GSI but I'm not sure how this will help you here.
It is unclear what exactly you are trying to achieve. If you want all usernames then you need a Scan and not a Query - since you want all hash keys to be present.

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Retrieve Data from DynamoDB if complete sort key not known

I am new to DyanmoDB. I am creating partition key and sort key when pushing data into DynamoDb but when i want to retrieve the data i have the partition key but not the complete sort key. I know the beginning of the sort key but not the complete key.
table.query(QueryEnhancedRequest.builder().queryConditional(QueryConditional.keyEqualTo(Key.builder().partitionValue("KEY#" + id).build())).build())
Below are the tables partition and sort key:
private static final String TEMPLATE = "%s#%s";
#DynamoDbPartitionKey
#Override
public String getPk() {
return String.format(TEMPLATE, "KEY", getId());
}
#DynamoDbSortKey
#Override
public String getSk() {
return String.format(TEMPLATE, "KEY_SORT", getName());
}
I used what i provided above but its showing this error:
The provided key element does not match the schema (Service: DynamoDb, Status Code: 400, Request ID: response id)
After looking into the issue i found out that key should be the combination of partition and sort key. But the issue is i don't know the complete sort key for the second request.
You need to use QueryConditional with sortBeginsWith():
For example, imagine you have the following information
partition key pk = "key#23456"
sort key sk begins with "abcd"
you are unsure of the remainder of the sort key:
QueryConditional condition = QueryConditional.sortBeginsWith(
Key.builder()
.partitionValue("key#23456")
.sortValue("abcd")
.build()
);
QueryEnhancedRequest request = QueryEnhancedRequest.builder()
.queryConditional(condition)
.build();
table.query(request);
If you only know the beginning of the sort key, you can use BEGINS_WITH query.
aws dynamodb query \
--table-name TABLE \
--key-condition-expression "Id = :id and begins_with(Key, :key)" \
--expression-attribute-values '{":id":{"S":"1"}, ":key":{"S":"KEY-BEGINNING"}}'
You need to provide the primary key and the beginning of the sort key for this query.
See Key condition expressions for query

Not able to create Multiple Attribute in DynamoDB

I have a requirement to create a DynamoDB table with four Attribute. I am using the following Java program:
String tableName = "devtest";
Table table = dynamoDB.createTable(tableName,
Arrays.asList(new KeySchemaElement("BIC", KeyType.HASH)), // Sort key
Arrays.asList(new AttributeDefinition("BIC", ScalarAttributeType.S),
new AttributeDefinition("Tenant", ScalarAttributeType.S),
new AttributeDefinition("TenantID", ScalarAttributeType.S),
new AttributeDefinition("Destination", ScalarAttributeType.S)),
new ProvisionedThroughput(10L, 10L));
table.waitForActive();
System.out.println("Success. Table status: " + table.getDescription().getTableStatus());
I am always getting the following error:
Unable to create table:
Unable to unmarshall exception response with the unmarshallers provided (Service: AmazonDynamoDBv2; Status Code: 400; Error Code: ValidationException; Request ID: bc0565ac-9d44-4876-934a-b39fbe8ca3f1)
How to fix this error?
You can have only one attribute BIC, because this is your HASH. Since you don't have any sort key, local or global secondary indices, you can't define any other attributes.
DynamoDB is schema-less, which means that it does not have any per-define structure.

AWS SDK Java DynamoDB - Query with Expression Attribute Name - An expression attribute value used in expression is not defined

Similar to: I cannot query my dynamodb table from aws lambda due to wrong filterexpression? and DynamoDB update error Invalid UpdateExpression: An expression attribute value used in expression is not defined
I am trying to code a way to query DynamoDB tables using partial matches on Partition Key / Sort Key in Java.
The DynamoDB table I am trying to access has a Partition key of "Type" (A restricted key word in DynamoDB, I know, but not my choice) and a Sort key of "Id". I know the "Type" but not the full Id, so I have researched the Query method using AWS SDK 2.x source code and have implemented as shown below:
DynamoDBClient dynamoDbClient = DynamoDbClient.builder()
.region(Region.EU_WEST_1)
.credentialsProvider(StaticCredentialsProvider.create(awsCredentials))
.build();
String idKey = "wholeIdKey";
String idValue = "partialIdValue";
String typeValue = "typeValue";
Map<String, String> expressionNames = new HashMap<>();
expressionNames.put("#t", "Type");
QueryRequest request = QueryRequest.builder()
.tableName(tableName)
.keyConditionExpression("begins_with ( " + idKey + ", :" + idValue + " )
AND #t = :" + typeValue)
.expressionAttributeNames(expressionNames)
.build();
QueryResponse response = dynamoDbClient.query(request);
However, when I run this code, I get the following error message:
Exception in thread "main" software.amazon.awssdk.services.dynamodb.model.DynamoDbException:
Invalid KeyConditionExpression: An expression attribute value used in expression is not defined; attribute value: :typeValue
It's as if it's not recognizing the fact that I have told the code use the Expression Attribute Names feature to replace the "#t" with "Type" (Which is a reserved keyword in DynamoDB)
Can anyone help?
EDIT: References for code:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/code-samples/latest/catalog/javav2-dynamodb-src-main-java-com-example-dynamodb-Query.java.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Expressions.ExpressionAttributeNames.html
https://www.javadoc.io/static/software.amazon.awssdk/dynamodb/2.7.14/software/amazon/awssdk/services/dynamodb/model/QueryRequest.html#expressionAttributeNames--
The name is fine, but you're prefixing both values with ':'. That causes a lookup in ExpressionAttributeValues, which you did not provide.
Never try to write dynamic values directly into the query string.
Your expressionAttributeName looks fine, but you forgot to provide a value for :typeValue so dynamoDB cannot know what to look for.
In addition to what you did, you need to add an expressionAttributeValue where you can provide proper values. See documentation here
Fixed Code for whoever wants it in the future (Thanks to #aherve and #MattTimmermans)
DynamoDBClient dynamoDbClient = DynamoDbClient.builder()
.region(Region.EU_WEST_1)
.credentialsProvider(StaticCredentialsProvider.create(awsCredentials))
.build();
String idKey = "wholeIdKey";
String idValue = "partialIdValue";
String typeValue = "typeValue";
String typeKey = "typeKey";
Map<String, String> expressionNames = new HashMap<>();
expressionNames.put("#t", "Type");
expressionNames.put("#i", "Id");
Map<String, AttributeValue> expressionValues = new HashMap<>();
expressionValues.put(":typeName", AttributeValue.builder().s(typeValue).build());
expressionValues.put(":idName", AttributeValue.builder().s(idValue).build());
QueryRequest request = QueryRequest.builder()
.tableName(tableName)
.keyConditionExpression("#t = :typeName AND begins_with ( #i, :idName )")
.expressionAttributeNames(expressionNames)
.expressionAttributeValues(expressionValues)
.build();
response = dynamoDbClient.query(request);

My Customer data is being truncated when added to my List [duplicate]

I am running data.bat file with the following lines:
Rem Tis batch file will populate tables
cd\program files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL
osql -U sa -P Password -d MyBusiness -i c:\data.sql
The contents of the data.sql file is:
insert Customers
(CustomerID, CompanyName, Phone)
Values('101','Southwinds','19126602729')
There are 8 more similar lines for adding records.
When I run this with start > run > cmd > c:\data.bat, I get this error message:
1>2>3>4>5>....<1 row affected>
Msg 8152, Level 16, State 4, Server SP1001, Line 1
string or binary data would be truncated.
<1 row affected>
<1 row affected>
<1 row affected>
<1 row affected>
<1 row affected>
<1 row affected>
Also, I am a newbie obviously, but what do Level #, and state # mean, and how do I look up error messages such as the one above: 8152?
From #gmmastros's answer
Whenever you see the message....
string or binary data would be truncated
Think to yourself... The field is NOT big enough to hold my data.
Check the table structure for the customers table. I think you'll find that the length of one or more fields is NOT big enough to hold the data you are trying to insert. For example, if the Phone field is a varchar(8) field, and you try to put 11 characters in to it, you will get this error.
I had this issue although data length was shorter than the field length.
It turned out that the problem was having another log table (for audit trail), filled by a trigger on the main table, where the column size also had to be changed.
In one of the INSERT statements you are attempting to insert a too long string into a string (varchar or nvarchar) column.
If it's not obvious which INSERT is the offender by a mere look at the script, you could count the <1 row affected> lines that occur before the error message. The obtained number plus one gives you the statement number. In your case it seems to be the second INSERT that produces the error.
Just want to contribute with additional information: I had the same issue and it was because of the field wasn't big enough for the incoming data and this thread helped me to solve it (the top answer clarifies it all).
BUT it is very important to know what are the possible reasons that may cause it.
In my case i was creating the table with a field like this:
Select '' as Period, * From Transactions Into #NewTable
Therefore the field "Period" had a length of Zero and causing the Insert operations to fail. I changed it to "XXXXXX" that is the length of the incoming data and it now worked properly (because field now had a lentgh of 6).
I hope this help anyone with same issue :)
Some of your data cannot fit into your database column (small). It is not easy to find what is wrong. If you use C# and Linq2Sql, you can list the field which would be truncated:
First create helper class:
public class SqlTruncationExceptionWithDetails : ArgumentOutOfRangeException
{
public SqlTruncationExceptionWithDetails(System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException inner, DataContext context)
: base(inner.Message + " " + GetSqlTruncationExceptionWithDetailsString(context))
{
}
/// <summary>
/// PArt of code from following link
/// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3666954/string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-linq-exception-cant-find-which-fiel
/// </summary>
/// <param name="context"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
static string GetSqlTruncationExceptionWithDetailsString(DataContext context)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (object update in context.GetChangeSet().Updates)
{
FindLongStrings(update, sb);
}
foreach (object insert in context.GetChangeSet().Inserts)
{
FindLongStrings(insert, sb);
}
return sb.ToString();
}
public static void FindLongStrings(object testObject, StringBuilder sb)
{
foreach (var propInfo in testObject.GetType().GetProperties())
{
foreach (System.Data.Linq.Mapping.ColumnAttribute attribute in propInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(System.Data.Linq.Mapping.ColumnAttribute), true))
{
if (attribute.DbType.ToLower().Contains("varchar"))
{
string dbType = attribute.DbType.ToLower();
int numberStartIndex = dbType.IndexOf("varchar(") + 8;
int numberEndIndex = dbType.IndexOf(")", numberStartIndex);
string lengthString = dbType.Substring(numberStartIndex, (numberEndIndex - numberStartIndex));
int maxLength = 0;
int.TryParse(lengthString, out maxLength);
string currentValue = (string)propInfo.GetValue(testObject, null);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(currentValue) && maxLength != 0 && currentValue.Length > maxLength)
{
//string is too long
sb.AppendLine(testObject.GetType().Name + "." + propInfo.Name + " " + currentValue + " Max: " + maxLength);
}
}
}
}
}
}
Then prepare the wrapper for SubmitChanges:
public static class DataContextExtensions
{
public static void SubmitChangesWithDetailException(this DataContext dataContext)
{
//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3666954/string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-linq-exception-cant-find-which-fiel
try
{
//this can failed on data truncation
dataContext.SubmitChanges();
}
catch (SqlException sqlException) //when (sqlException.Message == "String or binary data would be truncated.")
{
if (sqlException.Message == "String or binary data would be truncated.") //only for EN windows - if you are running different window language, invoke the sqlException.getMessage on thread with EN culture
throw new SqlTruncationExceptionWithDetails(sqlException, dataContext);
else
throw;
}
}
}
Prepare global exception handler and log truncation details:
protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Exception ex = Server.GetLastError();
string message = ex.Message;
//TODO - log to file
}
Finally use the code:
Datamodel.SubmitChangesWithDetailException();
Another situation in which you can get this error is the following:
I had the same error and the reason was that in an INSERT statement that received data from an UNION, the order of the columns was different from the original table. If you change the order in #table3 to a, b, c, you will fix the error.
select a, b, c into #table1
from #table0
insert into #table1
select a, b, c from #table2
union
select a, c, b from #table3
on sql server you can use SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF like this:
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=XRAYGOAT\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog='Healthy Care';Integrated Security=True"))
{
conn.Open();
using (var trans = conn.BeginTransaction())
{
try
{
using cmd = new SqlCommand("", conn, trans))
{
cmd.CommandText = "SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF";
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
cmd.CommandText = "YOUR INSERT HERE";
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
cmd.Parameters.Clear();
cmd.CommandText = "SET ANSI_WARNINGS ON";
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
trans.Commit();
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
trans.Rollback();
}
}
conn.Close();
}
I had the same issue. The length of my column was too short.
What you can do is either increase the length or shorten the text you want to put in the database.
Also had this problem occurring on the web application surface.
Eventually found out that the same error message comes from the SQL update statement in the specific table.
Finally then figured out that the column definition in the relating history table(s) did not map the original table column length of nvarchar types in some specific cases.
I had the same problem, even after increasing the size of the problematic columns in the table.
tl;dr: The length of the matching columns in corresponding Table Types may also need to be increased.
In my case, the error was coming from the Data Export service in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which allows CRM data to be synced to an SQL Server DB or Azure SQL DB.
After a lengthy investigation, I concluded that the Data Export service must be using Table-Valued Parameters:
You can use table-valued parameters to send multiple rows of data to a Transact-SQL statement or a routine, such as a stored procedure or function, without creating a temporary table or many parameters.
As you can see in the documentation above, Table Types are used to create the data ingestion procedure:
CREATE TYPE LocationTableType AS TABLE (...);
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.usp_InsertProductionLocation
#TVP LocationTableType READONLY
Unfortunately, there is no way to alter a Table Type, so it has to be dropped & recreated entirely. Since my table has over 300 fields (😱), I created a query to facilitate the creation of the corresponding Table Type based on the table's columns definition (just replace [table_name] with your table's name):
SELECT 'CREATE TYPE [table_name]Type AS TABLE (' + STRING_AGG(CAST(field AS VARCHAR(max)), ',' + CHAR(10)) + ');' AS create_type
FROM (
SELECT TOP 5000 COLUMN_NAME + ' ' + DATA_TYPE
+ IIF(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH IS NULL, '', CONCAT('(', IIF(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH = -1, 'max', CONCAT(CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH,'')), ')'))
+ IIF(DATA_TYPE = 'decimal', CONCAT('(', NUMERIC_PRECISION, ',', NUMERIC_SCALE, ')'), '')
AS field
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = '[table_name]'
ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION) AS T;
After updating the Table Type, the Data Export service started functioning properly once again! :)
When I tried to execute my stored procedure I had the same problem because the size of the column that I need to add some data is shorter than the data I want to add.
You can increase the size of the column data type or reduce the length of your data.
A 2016/2017 update will show you the bad value and column.
A new trace flag will swap the old error for a new 2628 error and will print out the column and offending value. Traceflag 460 is available in the latest cumulative update for 2016 and 2017:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/4468101/optional-replacement-for-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated
Just make sure that after you've installed the CU that you enable the trace flag, either globally/permanently on the server:
...or with DBCC TRACEON:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/database-console-commands/dbcc-traceon-trace-flags-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15
Another situation, in which this error may occur is in
SQL Server Management Studio. If you have "text" or "ntext" fields in your table,
no matter what kind of field you are updating (for example bit or integer).
Seems that the Studio does not load entire "ntext" fields and also updates ALL fields instead of the modified one.
To solve the problem, exclude "text" or "ntext" fields from the query in Management Studio
This Error Comes only When any of your field length is greater than the field length specified in sql server database table structure.
To overcome this issue you have to reduce the length of the field Value .
Or to increase the length of database table field .
If someone is encountering this error in a C# application, I have created a simple way of finding offending fields by:
Getting the column width of all the columns of a table where we're trying to make this insert/ update. (I'm getting this info directly from the database.)
Comparing the column widths to the width of the values we're trying to insert/ update.
Assumptions/ Limitations:
The column names of the table in the database match with the C# entity fields. For eg: If you have a column like this in database:
You need to have your Entity with the same column name:
public class SomeTable
{
// Other fields
public string SourceData { get; set; }
}
You're inserting/ updating 1 entity at a time. It'll be clearer in the demo code below. (If you're doing bulk inserts/ updates, you might want to either modify it or use some other solution.)
Step 1:
Get the column width of all the columns directly from the database:
// For this, I took help from Microsoft docs website:
// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnection.getschema?view=netframework-4.7.2#System_Data_SqlClient_SqlConnection_GetSchema_System_String_System_String___
private static Dictionary<string, int> GetColumnSizesOfTableFromDatabase(string tableName, string connectionString)
{
var columnSizes = new Dictionary<string, int>();
using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
// Connect to the database then retrieve the schema information.
connection.Open();
// You can specify the Catalog, Schema, Table Name, Column Name to get the specified column(s).
// You can use four restrictions for Column, so you should create a 4 members array.
String[] columnRestrictions = new String[4];
// For the array, 0-member represents Catalog; 1-member represents Schema;
// 2-member represents Table Name; 3-member represents Column Name.
// Now we specify the Table_Name and Column_Name of the columns what we want to get schema information.
columnRestrictions[2] = tableName;
DataTable allColumnsSchemaTable = connection.GetSchema("Columns", columnRestrictions);
foreach (DataRow row in allColumnsSchemaTable.Rows)
{
var columnName = row.Field<string>("COLUMN_NAME");
//var dataType = row.Field<string>("DATA_TYPE");
var characterMaxLength = row.Field<int?>("CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH");
// I'm only capturing columns whose Datatype is "varchar" or "char", i.e. their CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH won't be null.
if(characterMaxLength != null)
{
columnSizes.Add(columnName, characterMaxLength.Value);
}
}
connection.Close();
}
return columnSizes;
}
Step 2:
Compare the column widths with the width of the values we're trying to insert/ update:
public static Dictionary<string, string> FindLongBinaryOrStringFields<T>(T entity, string connectionString)
{
var tableName = typeof(T).Name;
Dictionary<string, string> longFields = new Dictionary<string, string>();
var objectProperties = GetProperties(entity);
//var fieldNames = objectProperties.Select(p => p.Name).ToList();
var actualDatabaseColumnSizes = GetColumnSizesOfTableFromDatabase(tableName, connectionString);
foreach (var dbColumn in actualDatabaseColumnSizes)
{
var maxLengthOfThisColumn = dbColumn.Value;
var currentValueOfThisField = objectProperties.Where(f => f.Name == dbColumn.Key).First()?.GetValue(entity, null)?.ToString();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(currentValueOfThisField) && currentValueOfThisField.Length > maxLengthOfThisColumn)
{
longFields.Add(dbColumn.Key, $"'{dbColumn.Key}' column cannot take the value of '{currentValueOfThisField}' because the max length it can take is {maxLengthOfThisColumn}.");
}
}
return longFields;
}
public static List<PropertyInfo> GetProperties<T>(T entity)
{
//The DeclaredOnly flag makes sure you only get properties of the object, not from the classes it derives from.
var properties = entity.GetType()
.GetProperties(System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public
| System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance
| System.Reflection.BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly)
.ToList();
return properties;
}
Demo:
Let's say we're trying to insert someTableEntity of SomeTable class that is modeled in our app like so:
public class SomeTable
{
[Key]
public long TicketID { get; set; }
public string SourceData { get; set; }
}
And it's inside our SomeDbContext like so:
public class SomeDbContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<SomeTable> SomeTables { get; set; }
}
This table in Db has SourceData field as varchar(16) like so:
Now we'll try to insert value that is longer than 16 characters into this field and capture this information:
public void SaveSomeTableEntity()
{
var connectionString = "server=SERVER_NAME;database=DB_NAME;User ID=SOME_ID;Password=SOME_PASSWORD;Connection Timeout=200";
using (var context = new SomeDbContext(connectionString))
{
var someTableEntity = new SomeTable()
{
SourceData = "Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah"
};
context.SomeTables.Add(someTableEntity);
try
{
context.SaveChanges();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
if (ex.GetBaseException().Message == "String or binary data would be truncated.\r\nThe statement has been terminated.")
{
var badFieldsReport = "";
List<string> badFields = new List<string>();
// YOU GOT YOUR FIELDS RIGHT HERE:
var longFields = FindLongBinaryOrStringFields(someTableEntity, connectionString);
foreach (var longField in longFields)
{
badFields.Add(longField.Key);
badFieldsReport += longField.Value + "\n";
}
}
else
throw;
}
}
}
The badFieldsReport will have this value:
'SourceData' column cannot take the value of
'Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah' because the max length it can take is
16.
Kevin Pope's comment under the accepted answer was what I needed.
The problem, in my case, was that I had triggers defined on my table that would insert update/insert transactions into an audit table, but the audit table had a data type mismatch where a column with VARCHAR(MAX) in the original table was stored as VARCHAR(1) in the audit table, so my triggers were failing when I would insert anything greater than VARCHAR(1) in the original table column and I would get this error message.
I used a different tactic, fields that are allocated 8K in some places. Here only about 50/100 are used.
declare #NVPN_list as table
nvpn varchar(50)
,nvpn_revision varchar(5)
,nvpn_iteration INT
,mpn_lifecycle varchar(30)
,mfr varchar(100)
,mpn varchar(50)
,mpn_revision varchar(5)
,mpn_iteration INT
-- ...
) INSERT INTO #NVPN_LIST
SELECT left(nvpn ,50) as nvpn
,left(nvpn_revision ,10) as nvpn_revision
,nvpn_iteration
,left(mpn_lifecycle ,30)
,left(mfr ,100)
,left(mpn ,50)
,left(mpn_revision ,5)
,mpn_iteration
,left(mfr_order_num ,50)
FROM [DASHBOARD].[dbo].[mpnAttributes] (NOLOCK) mpna
I wanted speed, since I have 1M total records, and load 28K of them.
This error may be due to less field size than your entered data.
For e.g. if you have data type nvarchar(7) and if your value is 'aaaaddddf' then error is shown as:
string or binary data would be truncated
You simply can't beat SQL Server on this.
You can insert into a new table like this:
select foo, bar
into tmp_new_table_to_dispose_later
from my_table
and compare the table definition with the real table you want to insert the data into.
Sometime it's helpful sometimes it's not.
If you try inserting in the final/real table from that temporary table it may just work (due to data conversion working differently than SSMS for example).
Another alternative is to insert the data in chunks, instead of inserting everything immediately you insert with top 1000 and you repeat the process, till you find a chunk with an error. At least you have better visibility on what's not fitting into the table.

Flink SQL: Repeating grouping keys in result of GROUP BY query

I want to do a simple query in Flink SQL in one table which include a group by statement. But in the results there are duplicate rows for the column specified in the group by statement. Is that because I use a streaming environment and it doesn't remember the state ?
final StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
final StreamTableEnvironment tableEnv = TableEnvironment.getTableEnvironment(env);
// configure Kafka consumer
Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092"); // Broker default host:port
props.setProperty("group.id", "flink-consumer"); // Consumer group ID
FlinkKafkaConsumer011<BlocksTransactions> flinkBlocksTransactionsConsumer = new FlinkKafkaConsumer011<>(args[0], new BlocksTransactionsSchema(), props);
flinkBlocksTransactionsConsumer.setStartFromEarliest();
DataStream<BlocksTransactions> blocksTransactions = env.addSource(flinkBlocksTransactionsConsumer);
tableEnv.registerDataStream("blocksTransactionsTable", blocksTransactions);
Table sqlResult
= tableEnv.sqlQuery(
"SELECT block_hash, count(tx_hash) " +
"FROM blocksTransactionsTable " +
"GROUP BY block_hash");
DataStream<Test> resultStream = tableEnv
.toRetractStream(sqlResult, Row.class)
.map(t -> {
Row r = t.f1;
String field2 = r.getField(0).toString();
long count = Long.valueOf(r.getField(1).toString());
return new Test(field2, count);
})
.returns(Test.class);
resultStream.print();
resultStream.addSink(new FlinkKafkaProducer011<>("localhost:9092", "TargetTopic", new TestSchema()));
env.execute();
I use the group by statement for the block_hash column but I have several times the same block_hash. This is the result of the print() :
Test{field2='0x2c4a021d514e4f8f0beb8f0ce711652304928528487dc7811d06fa77c375b5e1', count=1}
Test{field2='0x2c4a021d514e4f8f0beb8f0ce711652304928528487dc7811d06fa77c375b5e1', count=1}
Test{field2='0x2c4a021d514e4f8f0beb8f0ce711652304928528487dc7811d06fa77c375b5e1', count=2}
Test{field2='0x780aadc08c294da46e174fa287172038bba7afacf2dff41fdf0f6def03906e60', count=1}
Test{field2='0x182d31bd491527e1e93c4e44686057207ee90c6a8428308a2bd7b6a4d2e10e53', count=1}
Test{field2='0x182d31bd491527e1e93c4e44686057207ee90c6a8428308a2bd7b6a4d2e10e53', count=1}
How can I fix this without using BatchEnvironment ?
A GROUP BY query that runs on a stream must produce updates. Consider the following example:
SELECT user, COUNT(*) FROM clicks GROUP BY user;
Every time, the clicks table receives a new row, the count of the respective user needs to be incremented and updated.
When you convert a Table into a DataStream, these updates must be encoded in the stream. Flink uses retraction and add messages to do that. By calling tEnv.toRetractStream(table, Row.class), you convert the Table table into a DataStream<Tuple2<Boolean, Row>. The Boolean flag is important and indicates whether the Row is added or retracted from the result table.
Given the example query above and the input table clicks as
user | ...
------------
Bob | ...
Liz | ...
Bob | ...
You will receive the following retraction stream
(+, (Bob, 1)) // add first result for Bob
(+, (Liz, 1)) // add first result for Liz
(-, (Bob, 1)) // remove outdated result for Bob
(+, (Bob, 2)) // add updated result for Bob
You need to actively maintain the result yourself and add and remove rows as instructed by the Boolean flag of the retraction stream.

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