WINDOW_FUNCTION_FIRST_VALUE

WINDOW FUNCTION FIRST_VALUE

description

FIRST_VALUE() returns the first value in the window's range , ignore_null determines whether to ignore null values , the ignore_null of default value is false .

FIRST_VALUE(expr[, ignore_null]) OVER(partition_by_clause order_by_clause [window_clause])

example

We have the following data

 select id, myday, time_col, state from t;
 
 | id   | myday | time_col    | state |
 |------|-------|-------------|-------|
 |    3 |    21 | 04-21-13    |     3 |
 |    7 |    22 | 04-22-10-24 |  NULL |
 |    8 |    22 | 04-22-10-25 |     9 |
 |   10 |    23 | 04-23-12    |    10 |
 |    4 |    22 | 04-22-10-21 |  NULL |
 |    9 |    23 | 04-23-11    |  NULL |
 |    1 |    21 | 04-21-11    |  NULL |
 |    5 |    22 | 04-22-10-22 |  NULL |
 |   12 |    24 | 02-24-10-21 |  NULL |
 |    2 |    21 | 04-21-12    |     2 |
 |    6 |    22 | 04-22-10-23 |     5 |
 |   11 |    23 | 04-23-13    |  NULL |

Use FIRST_VALUE() to group by myday and return the value of the first state in each group:

select * , 
first_value(`state`, 1) over(partition by `myday` order by `time_col` rows between 1 preceding and 1 following) as ignore_null,
first_value(`state`, 0) over(partition by `myday` order by `time_col` rows between 1 preceding and 1 following) as not_ignore_null,
first_value(`state`) over(partition by `myday` order by `time_col` rows between 1 preceding and 1 following) as ignore_null_default
from t order by `id`, `myday`, `time_col`;

| id   | myday | time_col    | state | ignore_null | not_ignore_null | ignore_null_default |
|------|-------|-------------|-------|-------------|-----------------|---------------------|
|    1 |    21 | 04-21-11    |  NULL |           2 |            NULL |                NULL |
|    2 |    21 | 04-21-12    |     2 |           2 |            NULL |                NULL |
|    3 |    21 | 04-21-13    |     3 |           2 |               2 |                   2 |
|    4 |    22 | 04-22-10-21 |  NULL |        NULL |            NULL |                NULL |
|    5 |    22 | 04-22-10-22 |  NULL |           5 |            NULL |                NULL |
|    6 |    22 | 04-22-10-23 |     5 |           5 |            NULL |                NULL |
|    7 |    22 | 04-22-10-24 |  NULL |           5 |               5 |                   5 |
|    8 |    22 | 04-22-10-25 |     9 |           9 |            NULL |                NULL |
|    9 |    23 | 04-23-11    |  NULL |          10 |            NULL |                NULL |
|   10 |    23 | 04-23-12    |    10 |          10 |            NULL |                NULL |
|   11 |    23 | 04-23-13    |  NULL |          10 |              10 |                  10 |
|   12 |    24 | 02-24-10-21 |  NULL |        NULL |            NULL |                NULL |

keywords

WINDOW,FUNCTION,FIRST_VALUE