I'm creating a joined view of two tables, but am getting unwanted duplicates from table2.
For example: table1 has 9000 records and I need the resulting view to contain exactly the same; table2 may have multiple records with the same FKID but I only want to return one record (random chosen is ok with my customer). I have the following code that works correctly, but performance is slower than desired (over 14 seconds).
SELECT
OBJECTID
, PKID
,(SELECT TOP (1) SUBDIVISIO
FROM dbo.table2 AS t2
WHERE (t1.PKID = t2.FKID)) AS ProjectName
,(SELECT TOP (1) ASBUILT1
FROM dbo.table2 AS t2
WHERE (t1.PKID = t2.FKID)) AS Asbuilt
FROM dbo.table1 AS t1
Is there a way to do something similar with joins to speed up performance?
I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2.
I got close with the following code (~.5 seconds), but 'Distinct' only filters out records when all columns are duplicate (rather than just the FKID).
SELECT
t1.OBJECTID
,t1.PKID
,t2.ProjectName
,t2.Asbuilt
FROM dbo.table1 AS t1
LEFT JOIN (SELECT
DISTINCT FKID
,ProjectName
,Asbuilt
FROM dbo.table2) t2
ON t1.PKID = t2.FKID
table examples
table1 table2
OID, PKID FKID, ProjectName, Asbuilt
1, id1 id1, P1, AB1
2, id2 id1, P5, AB5
3, id4 id2, P10, AB2
5, id5 id5, P4, AB4
In the above example returned records should be id5/P4/AB4, id2/P10/AB2, and (id1/P1/AB1 OR id1/P5/AB5)
My search came up with similar questions, but none that resolved my problem. link, link
Thanks in advance for your help. This is my first post so let me know if I've broken any rules.
This will give the results you requested and should have the best performance.
SELECT
OBJECTID
, PKID
, t2.SUBDIVISIO,
, t2.ASBUILT1
FROM dbo.table1 AS t1
OUTER APPLY (
SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM dbo.table2 AS t2
WHERE t1.PKID = t2.FKID
) AS t2
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