SQL Query, group by or self join?

Hi All,
I have a table with about 100,000 rows.. It is a linking table. I want to filter out some of the data. At the bottom I will put a sample table. I am really after advice if I should be using the group by, or something else. It is really slow, and I really wanted to make a view from the query, but it won't run in realtime (I thought about Materialised views, but the data could change and I would want it updated)
So the data would like like this.
1 1
A 1
B 1
1 A
1 B
2 null/0
And I want to transform it into a result that looks like this.
A 1
B 1
2 0
(I can live with 1 1 as well)
The first query I have come up with is
select
A.TXN, A.ID SCHED_INFO, A.STA ORIG_ACT
from
SELECT
Txn, ID,
STA
FROM TEST_STA
WHERE TXN < 0
) A,
select ID, count(STA)
FROM test_STA
WHERE TXN < 0
group by ID
HAVING count(STA) > 1
) B
where A.ID = B.ID
OR A.STA = '0'
The second I came up with was.
select B.Id , A.id STA
from test_STA A, test_STA B
where A.STA = '0'
AND B.STA != '0'
AND B.STA = A.ID
AND b.TXN < 0
Where the data looks like
create table test_STA
( TXN NUMBER,
ID VARCHAR2(20),
STA VARCHAR2(20) )
insert into test_STA Values (1, '1', '0')
insert into test_STA Values (-1, '1', '1')
insert into test_STA Values (-1, '1', 'A')
insert into test_STA Values (-1, '1', 'B')
insert into test_STA Values (-1, 'A', '1')
insert into test_STA Values (-1, 'B', '1')
insert into test_STA Values (-1, '2', '0')
TXN is the transaction number -1 is current, others (> 0 are old)
What does all this mean..
Well
1 is a parent, with A and B as children.
2 is a parent with no children.
So what I want to do return is Parents with no children, and children but not their parents..
So which path should I continue my efforts down do you think ? The first one, with the group by, or the second one, with the join to it's self.
Paul

Hi,
If you can guarantee, that every child has also a record then following query returns your result:
select ID, count(*)
from test_STA
group by ID
having count(*) = 1
ID COUNT(*)
2     1
A     1
B     1

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    77  ), con_split AS (
    78  SELECT itm_path, con_ind, sol_id, tot_weight, tot_profit,
    79         Substr (con_nit_id, 1, Instr (con_nit_id, '-', 1) - 1) con_id,
    80         Substr (con_nit_id, Instr (con_nit_id, '-', 1) + 1) n_items,
    81         itm_str
    82    FROM con_v
    83  ), itm_v AS (
    84  SELECT  c.itm_path, c.con_ind, c.sol_id, c.con_id, c.tot_weight, c.tot_profit,
    85          Substr (c.itm_str, Instr (c.itm_str, ',', 1, r.lev) + 1,
    86            Instr (c.itm_str, ',', 1, r.lev + 1) - Instr (c.itm_str, ',', 1, r.lev) - 1)
    87             itm_id
    88    FROM con_split c
    89    JOIN row_gen r
    90      ON r.lev <= c.n_items
    91  )
    92  SELECT v.sol_id,
    93         v.tot_weight s_wt, v.tot_profit s_pr, c.id c_id, c.name c_name, c.max_weight m_wt,
    94         Sum (i.item_weight) OVER (PARTITION BY v.sol_id, c.id) c_wt,
    95         i.id i_id, i.name i_name, i.item_weight i_wt, i.item_profit i_pr
    96    FROM itm_v v
    97    JOIN containers c
    98      ON c.id = To_Number (v.con_id)
    99    JOIN items i
    100      ON i.id = To_Number (v.itm_id)
    101   ORDER BY sol_id, con_id, itm_id
    102  /
        SOL_ID S_WT S_PR  C_ID C_NAME          M_WT C_WT  I_ID I_NAME     I_WT I_PR
             1  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   85     3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             2  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100   95     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             3  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   65     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             4  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   85     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             5  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100   95     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             6  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   65     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             7  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   85     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             8  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   85     3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
             9  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   65     3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
            10  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             2 IAEC Building     70   65     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
            11  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             2 IAEC Building     70   65     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
            12  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100   95     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
            13  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100   95     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   70     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
            14  255  255     1 SEECS UG Block   100  100     1 BIT-10       35   35
                                                             2 BIT-11       40   40
                                                             6 BICSE-7      25   25
                             2 IAEC Building     70   65     3 BSCS-2       35   35
                                                             7 BESE-3       30   30
                             3 RIMMS Building    90   90     4 BSCS-3       40   40
                                                             5 BEE-4        50   50
    98 rows selected.
    Elapsed: 00:00:01.42Edited by: BrendanP on 20-Jan-2013 11:25
    I found the regex needed to deduplicate:
    AND RegExp_Instr (r_c.itm_path || r_i.path, ',(\d+),.*?,\1,') = 0

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