Recursive Query

Someday I'll figure out if you can do that with a recursive query.  Maybe.  But till then, this style works:


WITH BaseBillNO (BillNO_NoDash, Allowed, Payrec, AdjustAmt,DateBilled) AS
(
   -- Filtered case
   SELECT
     BillNO_NoDash,
     Allowed,
     Payrec,
     AdjustAmt,
     DateBilled
   FROM TBilled
   WHERE Descript = 'INV'
     and BillNO_NoDash = 56793 and DELFLAG = 0
)
SELECT *,
     (Select sum(f.allowed - f.payrec - f.AdjustAmount) from BaseBillNO f
            where f.billNO_NoDash = b.BillNO_NoDash  
                  and f.DateBilled <= b.dateBilled
                  group by f.billNO_NoDash  
        ) as Tot
   FROM BaseBillNO B
   order by b.DateBilled

Hi Len,

Several things seem to be at work here.

1.  Are you familiar with the concepts of combinations, permutations, and cartesian products?  In your recursive query, the second subquery (the lower half) joins on the column *BillNO_NODash*.  That causes a cartesian product when every row that matches on *BillNO_NODash* is joined to the results of the base query.  When the recursive step occurs, every row that matches on *BillNO_NODash* is joined with the result of the first join.  If there are 10 rows with the same value for *BillNO_NODash*, the base query generates 1 row, the lower half of the query generates 10 (for that value of *BillNO_NODash*) the first recursive pass generates 100, the next 1000, etc.

The lower sub-query needs to join ONE row from the table each pass.  (Anything else is extremely complicated AND advanced.)

There are a couple of articles in the DB2 forum that describe this.  The Common Table Expression (CTE) syntax is nearly identical between DB2 and SQL Server.  The only real difference of note is that the concatenation operator in DB2 is double-pipe (||) and in SQL Server it's plus (+).

  https://www.experts-exchange.com/Database/DB2/A_3629-Recursive-SQL-in-DB2-Converting-Columns-to-Rows.html
  https://www.experts-exchange.com/Database/DB2/A_3618-Recursive-SQL-in-DB2-Converting-rows-to-columns.html


2.  But you don't really need recursive SQL here.  Recursive SQL puts multiple lines on a single row, or splits a single row into multiple lines.  You seem to need aggregation here (SUM, COUNT, AVG, etc.)  If you want to study recursive techniques, those articles will help.  But I don't think that they're needed for this solution.


Good Luck,
Kent

Thank you both for this information.  I read the article on converting rows to columns and I had a problem.  
1.  I created the table and the query as follows and I am still getting an error:
CREATE TABLE rec
(
  snum      INTEGER,        -- sentence number
  wordnum   INTEGER,        -- word number in the sentence
  word      VARCHAR(100)    -- word being saved
);

 INSERT INTO rec
VALUES (1, 1, 'This'), (1, 2, 'is'), (1, 3, 'a'), (1, 4, 'fine'), (1, 5, 'example');
 
 Select * from Rec  
 
WITH rquery (snum, wordnum, sentence)
AS
(
  SELECT base.snum, base.wordnum, base.word
  FROM rec base
  WHERE wordnum = 1
 
  UNION ALL
 
  SELECT t1.snum, t1.wordnum, t0.sentence + ' ' + t1.word
  FROM rquery t0, rec t1
  WHERE t0. snum = t1. snum
    AND t0.wordnum + 1 = t1.wordnum
)
SELECT *
FROM rquery;      

Types don't match between the anchor and the recursive part in column "sentence" of recursive query "rquery"

Can you tell me what is wrong?

2.  I tried the query that dqmq posted and that returns one record.  I simplied the test, by creating a table just like what was stated above:
USE [SleepMgt]
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ttBilled](
      [BillNO] [int] NULL,
      [Allowed] [numeric](19, 2) NULL,
      [Payrec] [numeric](19, 2) NULL,
      [AdjustAmt] [numeric](19, 2) NULL,
      [DateBilled] [datetime] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
INSERT [dbo].[ttBilled] ([BillNO], [Allowed], [Payrec], [AdjustAmt], [DateBilled]) VALUES (1, CAST(45.00 AS Numeric(19, 2)), NULL, NULL, CAST(0x00009FCB00000000 AS DateTime))
INSERT [dbo].[ttBilled] ([BillNO], [Allowed], [Payrec], [AdjustAmt], [DateBilled]) VALUES (1, NULL, NULL, CAST(25.00 AS Numeric(19, 2)), CAST(0x00009FEA00000000 AS DateTime))
INSERT [dbo].[ttBilled] ([BillNO], [Allowed], [Payrec], [AdjustAmt], [DateBilled]) VALUES (1, NULL, NULL, CAST(20.00 AS Numeric(19, 2)), CAST(0x00009FF800000000 AS DateTime))

WITH BaseBillNO (BillNO, Allowed, Payrec, AdjustAmt,DateBilled, Tot) AS
(
   -- Filtered case
   SELECT
     T.BillNO,
     Allowed,
     Payrec,
     AdjustAmt,
     DateBilled,
     isNull(ALLOWED,0) - isNull(PAYREC,0) - isNull(ADJUSTAMT,0) as tot
   FROM (Select Min(DateBilled) as minDateBilled, BillNO
                  from  TTBilled
                  Group by BillNO
             ) A
    inner join tTBILLED  T
    on A.BillNO       = T.BillNO and A.minDateBilled = T.DATEBILLED             
)
SELECT *,
     (Select sum(isNull(f.allowed,0) - IsNull(f.payrec,0) - isNull(f.AdjustAmt,0)) from BaseBillNO f
            where f.billNO = b.BillNO  
                  and b.DateBilled <= f.dateBilled
                  group by f.billNO
        ) as Tot
   FROM BaseBillNO B
   order by b.DateBilled

This doesn't abend, but it is not giving me a proper answer.
BillNO      Allowed      Payrec      AdjustAmt      DateBilled      Tot      Tot
1      45.00      NULL      NULL      2012-01-01 00:00:00.000      45.00      45.00

How do I debug these queries?  I suspect I have something wrong with the lower select statement.

Thanks for giving me some assistance.

Kent Thanks that solved that problem.  How do I debug the query in question 2?  I tried using the same idea for this problem and I'm getting this error:

 WITH BaseBillNO (BillNO, Allowed, Payrec, AdjustAmt,DateBilled, Tot) AS
(
   -- Filtered case
   SELECT
     T.BillNO,
     Allowed,
     Payrec,
     AdjustAmt,
     DateBilled,
     isNull(ALLOWED,0) - isNull(PAYREC,0) - isNull(ADJUSTAMT,0) as tot
   FROM (Select Min(DateBilled) as minDateBilled, BillNO
                  from  TTBilled
                  Group by BillNO
             ) A
    inner join tTBILLED  T
    on A.BillNO       = T.BillNO and A.minDateBilled = T.DATEBILLED             
Union all

     (Select F.BillNO,F.Allowed, F.Payrec, F.AdjustAmt, F.DateBilled, B.tot
      from ( Select BILLNO, Allowed, Payrec, AdjustAmt, DateBilled
                    from  ttBilled
                  
                  )  f,  BaseBillNO B
            where f.billNO = b.BillNO  
                  and b.DateBilled <= f.dateBilled
                 
        )

 
)
Select * from BaseBillNO    

The statement terminated. The maximum recursion 100 has been exhausted before statement completion.
Can I put a print statement in this somewhere?  If so where?

Thanks for all of the information.  I got the results I needed for my specific post from the last post and I appreciated getting the information about recursive queries.