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The below query is used to return a dataset for a SSRS report. It works fine and is quick enough but I am looking for any improvements that could be made.

The client has asked to see all transfers between sites and the report should look like:

Site1

• Site 2


• Site 3

Site2

• Site 1


• Site 3

Each row should also show the value of the transfer to that site and from that site. Duplicated data is expected I.E If Site 1 transferred goods to Site 2 then Site 2 should display the same value in the from column. If no transfer takes place the site should be visible but with a value of 0 in both To and from columns.

The Exists clause must remain as well as it is used to workout descendants of selected site.

WITH Transfers_CTE(FromSiteNo

                  ,ToSiteNo

                  ,Value)

     AS (

     SELECT Transfers.FromSiteNo

           ,Transfers.ToSiteNo

           ,SUM(Transfers.[Value]) AS Value

     FROM dbo.Transfers

     WHERE Transfers.MoveDate BETWEEN @SessionDateFrom AND @SessionDateTo

     GROUP BY Transfers.FromSiteNo

             ,Transfers.ToSiteNo)

     SELECT CS.No AS SiteNo

           ,CS.Name AS SiteName

           ,JoinedSites.No AS OtherSiteNo

           ,JoinedSites.Name AS OtherSiteName

           ,ISNULL(ToTable.[Value],0) AS ToValue

           ,ISNULL(FromTable.[Value],0) AS FromValue

     FROM dbo.CfgSites AS CS

          FULL OUTER JOIN dbo.CfgSites AS JoinedSites ON CS.No != JoinedSites.No

          LEFT JOIN Transfers_CTE AS ToTable ON ToTable.FromSiteNo = CS.No

                                                AND ToTable.ToSiteNo = JoinedSites.No

          LEFT JOIN Transfers_CTE AS FromTable ON FromTable.ToSiteNo = CS.No

                                                  AND FromTable.FromSiteNo = JoinedSites.No

     WHERE EXISTS

(

    SELECT DescendantSites.Descendant

    FROM dbo.DescendantSites

    WHERE DescendantSites.Parent IN(@SiteNo)

    AND DescendantSites.Descendant = CS.No

)

     ORDER BY CS.No;

Subset DDL for CfgSites and Transfer View that only includes required fields

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[CfgSites]    Script Date: 13/04/2018 08:47:32 ******/



CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CfgSites](

    [No] [smallint] NOT NULL,

    [Name] [varchar](50) NULL)

GO

/****** Object:  View [dbo].[Transfers]    Script Date: 13/04/2018 08:47:32 ******/



CREATE VIEW [dbo].[Transfers]

AS

SELECT [SiteNo] AS FromSiteNo

    ,[Site2No] AS ToSiteNo

    ,[Date] AS MoveDate

    ,[Value]

FROM PluMovement

WHERE MoveType = 4

    AND Processed = 1

Here is an attempt at a rewrite, but you didn't provide any DDL or DML so there is no way for me to test it. I'll list reasons for the changes below.

WITH Transfers_CTE (FromSiteNo, ToSiteNo, Value) AS

  (

    SELECT      Transfers.FromSiteNo,

                Transfers.ToSiteNo,

                SUM( Transfers.Value ) AS Value

      FROM      dbo.Transfers

      WHERE     Transfers.MoveDate BETWEEN @SessionDateFrom AND @SessionDateTo

                AND FromSiteNo <> ToSiteNo

      GROUP BY  Transfers.FromSiteNo,

                Transfers.ToSiteNo

  )

  SELECT        FromCS.No AS SiteNo,

                FromCS.Name AS SiteName,

                ToCS.No AS OtherSiteNo,

                ToCS.Name AS OtherSiteName,

                ISNULL( Transfers.Value, 0 ) AS ToFromValue

    FROM        dbo.CfgSites AS FromCS

    LEFT JOIN   Transfers_CTE AS Transfers

      ON FromCS.No = Transfers.FromSiteNo

    LEFT JOIN   dbo.CfgSites AS ToCS

      ON Transfers.ToSiteNo = ToCS.No

    WHERE       EXISTS

        ( SELECT    DescendantSites.Descendant

            FROM    dbo.DescendantSites

            WHERE   DescendantSites.Parent IN ( @SiteNo )

                    AND DescendantSites.Descendant = FromCS.No)

    ORDER BY    FromCS.No

;

1. Since Cs.No and JoinedSites.No should not be equal, and they are joined to the From & To values of the CTE, I added the filter in the CTE to exclude any transfers where the To and From site matched.


2. Your Full Outer Join was effectively a left outer join because any results from the Right side table would have been excluded by the Left side reference of your EXISTS clause.


3. You attempt to join transfers to sites from both directions. However, if A = B, then B = A. So if we get all of the FromSite joins established to CS on the first pass, there is no reason to do a second pass by joining JoinedSites to the FromSite as they will already have found a match. This change also eliminates the near Cartesian product of joining CfgSites to itself.


4. If we consider the CS table our anchor, understanding it has all of the From Sites included, our problem then becomes how to get the To sites. The relationship between From and To is contained in the Transfers_CTE. Thus we just need to join back to the CfgSites using the ToSiteNo field to find the site information.


5. The Sum aggregate was at the grain of the Transfer relationship, To & From. This is maintained in the changes, but now there is only one value column, returning the Value that was transferred between From and To.

There is no need to join CfgSites to itself directly, unless you may also need to show any ToFrom combinations that did not get any transfers.

Hopefully this will return your expected results. If not, provide some DDL/DML and I may take another look at it.