How to join the Rule ID to the Error Excel data table.

Question

I have a requirement to get the invalid active rule ID from the rule table for the interface errors
Interface has the logic to log an error, if more than 1 rule found for same combination of product, location and carrier. 
The error log is monitored by business users and they would like to see invalid rule on the error report, so they can go and correct those.
This is my Input:
Error Table is in SQL database, we do the Excel data query and send the below table information to users.
ID
Source
Product
Location
Carrier
Date
Error Msg
1
VMI
EX_0
EX_A
EX_ABC
Jan-15
More than 1 Active Rule found for this combination
2
VMI
EX_1
EX_B
EX_XYZ
Jan-15
More than 1 Active Role found for this combination
End User Expecting Output like this, invalid Rule to be added on the error report.
ID
Source
Product
Location
Carrier
Date
Error Msg
Invalid  ID
1
VMI
EX_0
EX_A
EX_ABC
Jan-15
More than 1 Active Role found for this combination
1
2
VMI
EX_1
EX_B
EX_XYZ
Jan-15
More than 1 Active Role found for this combination
3
I need to look 2 different tables to get invalid rule ID for the same product, location and carrier combination.
Cross –Reference table (this table has the corresponding internal ID’s for the external value from the error table) source is the common field in error table and the cross reference table.
ID
Source
External Value
Internal Value
Internal ID
1
VMI
EX_0
IN_Pen
001
2
VMI
EX_1
IN_Pencil
002
3
VMI
EX_A
IN_NJ
101
4
VMI
EX_B
IN_CA
102
5
VMI
EX_ABC
IN_PILOT
201
6
VMI
EX_XYZ
IN_LITER
202
After getting all the required Internal ID, I am executing below query to find out invalid rule.
SELECT ID
FROM dbo.Rule r
WHERE r.Status='Active'
AND r.productID= 001
AND r.LocationID=
101
AND r.CarrierID=
201
AND
‘Jan-15’ NOT between From_Date and To_Date
Result:
ID
1
Rule Table
ID
Product ID
Location ID
Carrier ID
Status
From Date
To Date
1
001
101
201
Active
Jan 14
Dec 14
2
001
101
201
Active
Jan 15
Dec 15
3
002
102
202
Active
Jan 14
Dec 14
4
002
102
202
Active
Jan 15
Dec 15
Currently I am running these query’s manually to find the out the rule id and informing to users to correct them.
Please let me know if this is not clear.

Answer 1

Hi ManuGT,
i couldn't get you. As the following, the invalid rule is 1,3. but as your description and there should be two internal value IN_NJ and IN_CA, and the invalid rule should be 1,2,3,4 in the rule table. you want to get the invalid Rule id, but why do you want
to return the count? could you please explain clearly??
ID
Source
Product
Location
Carrier
Date
Error Msg
Invalid  Rule
1
VMI
EX_0
EX_A
EX_ABC
Jan-15
More than 1 Active Role found for this combination
1
2
VMI
EX_1
EX_B
EX_XYZ
Jan-15
More than 1 Active Role found for this combination
3