Is there a specific reason the query node has no outputs? It seems odd since you put the results of the query into the msg.payload. Maybe I am not quite understanding the intent of this node. We are looking to use the node inside a larger flow that is essentially performing ETL type functions.

Before please undo commit 4e9ac45

Hi there, could I please ask that you remove the node-red keyword from the package.json until this actually works? That will remove it from the flows listing and prevent people from having problems by installing it before it is ready.

Thanks.

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Hello,

I have an xls format spreadsheet that I upload via dropbox.

The output of node is a buffer. It would be possible to use the buffer as input from node alafile in

There is no option to handle errors like path to file not exists or bad file format, am I right?

Hi, i've a problem with this node, and the google groups comunity suggested that i post the problem here, so i'll put the link of the issue in here. Thanks.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/node-red/sZ1tVTDDHhc

Hi!

I find out that msg.topic is mentioned in the readMe of alasql node, but it isn't used in the code. A made a change on the code at my local. I changed in the readMe msg.topic to msg.query because msg.topic used bz several another nodes. And I changed the node-red-contrib-alasql.js line 9 from var sql = this.query || 'SELECT * FROM ?'; to var sql = this.query || msg.query || 'SELECT * FROM ?'; to use this variable. It works fine for me. Please let me know how can it be released?

Thank you very much, Gábor

Query is working fine as expected on msg.payload if we use $0, but in case of array if we use $1 gives error.

Array of parameters passed in msg.payload is treated by alasql in insert as one parameter, ie.:
[{"id":"c1a70029.98ea7","type":"alasql","z":"2d89d4b5.a581bc","name":"","query":"CREATE TABLE ArticleGroups (Code string, Name string);","x":250,"y":1120,"wires":[["67e913ab.e7446c"]]},{"id":"af2252b0.09bc6","type":"inject","z":"2d89d4b5.a581bc","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":100,"y":1120,"wires":[["c1a70029.98ea7"]]},{"id":"67e913ab.e7446c","type":"function","z":"2d89d4b5.a581bc","name":"","func":"msg.payload = [\"fd\",\"df\"];\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":400,"y":1120,"wires":[["23c7e6be.9f2bea"]]},{"id":"23c7e6be.9f2bea","type":"alasql","z":"2d89d4b5.a581bc","name":"","query":"INSERT INTO ArticleGroups VALUES (?,?);\nSELECT * FROM ArticleGroups;","x":550,"y":1120,"wires":[["d4e3b5c3.4e4e28","d43d6056.198fb"]]},{"id":"d4e3b5c3.4e4e28","type":"alasql","z":"2d89d4b5.a581bc","name":"","query":"DROP TABLE ArticleGroups;","x":710,"y":1120,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"d43d6056.198fb","type":"debug","z":"2d89d4b5.a581bc","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","x":700,"y":1060,"wires":[]}]

I have a query that works perfectly if I put it in the query window. But if I try to move the filename to msg.payload (using the inject node) and use either FROM ? or FROM $0, it doesn't work. There is no error but zero records are returned.

This works:

SELECT * 
FROM 'C:/Users/xxxxx/Staff List for COVID19 21Sep20.csv'
WHERE Employee_Last_Name = "Knight"

This does not (where msg.payload = 'C:/Users/xxxxx/Staff List for COVID19 21Sep20.csv') :

SELECT * 
FROM ?
WHERE Employee_Last_Name = "Knight"

Neither does this:

SELECT * 
FROM $0
WHERE Employee_Last_Name = "Knight"

This, however, does work (where msg.payload = 'Knight'):

SELECT * 
FROM 'C:/Users/xxxxx/Staff List for COVID19 21Sep20.csv'
WHERE Employee_Last_Name = $0

My msg.payload contains a object (alarms) and each alarm is a array element.

My question now is:
how would the SQL query look like in order to count all alarmSource = "operation"

It is relatively easy in node-red to query relational databases (such as Oracle, MS, MySql) and update No-Sql databases (such as Mongo, Couch, Raven) . But the reverse is more difficult - inserting/updating data resulting from a No-Sql database to a relational database.

In the current release of node-red alasql, the SQL output format - 'INSERT INTO table_name VALUES (value1, value2, value3, ...);' was depreciated (by my request ;( ) due to requiring some significant mods to the alasql node to operate properly for the SQL output format.

AlaSql is perfect for that task. In the next few weeks I will be changing the alasql node to be able to query the results from No-Sql databases and produce the INSERT INTO statements required to update relational databases.

Any suggestions or comments appreciated!
@PotOfCoffee2Go

AlaSQL node is very good but I'm having difficulty performing a UNION ALL when I do a Select on two spreadsheets (or two sheets from one spreadsheet). Node-red crashes with an uncaught exception error ...
30 Aug 11:23:53 - [red] Uncaught Exception:
30 Aug 11:23:53 - TypeError: Cannot read property 'data' of undefined
at queryfn3 (C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN.node-red\node_modules\alasql\dist\alasql.fs.js:6401:11)
at queryfn2 (C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN.node-red\node_modules\alasql\dist\alasql.fs.js:6305:9)
at C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN.node-red\node_modules\alasql\dist\alasql.fs.js:15680:10
at C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN.node-red\node_modules\alasql\dist\alasql.fs.js:3591:21
at C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN.node-red\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:78:16
at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:445:3)

I can read data from individual spreadsheets or tables but if I try the UNION it fails.
Here's my SQL from within the node..
select * from xlsx("c:\union.xlsx")
union all
select * from xlsx("c:\union2.xlsx")

These are small (2 lines) worksheets and are exactly the same format (NAME, SURNAME, ID)

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I'm trying to use external moment.js lib without luck. Here is my code:

CREATE FUNCTION getWeek AS 
``
    function(x) { 
        let moment = global.get('moment');
        return moment(x).week();
    }
``;
SELECT 
    COUNT(*), 
    SUBSTRING(created_at,1,10) AS created_at,
    getWeek(created_at)
FROM ?
GROUP BY SUBSTRING(created_at,1,10)

I failed also when tried to acceess msg object. Is there a way to resolve it?

EDITED:
As a workaround I used moment in function node before using alasql node so I can work with "ready" data.

let moment = global.get('moment');
for (let i = 0; i < msg.payload.length; i++) {
    msg.payload[i].week = moment(msg.payload[i].created_at).week(),
    msg.payload[i].month = moment(msg.payload[i].created_at).month(),
    msg.payload[i].yaer = moment(msg.payload[i].created_at).year()
}
return msg;

Hi,
When I tried to select from a json object, it didn't work properly.
Am I doing it wrong?
Sorry to trouble you, but please try the following flow.
version is 2.0.1

[{"id":"9710bc666e27f8ca","type":"alasql","z":"89cdb3c1eff17690","name":"SELECT","query":"-- SELECT * FROM ? WHERE age >= 17;\nSELECT * FROM ?","x":300,"y":1060,"wires":[["7dbd635df236fddb"]]},{"id":"7cec6519f9bab538","type":"inject","z":"89cdb3c1eff17690","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"[{\"name\":\"ken\",\"age\":19},{\"name\":\"rei\",\"age\":18}]","payloadType":"json","x":130,"y":1060,"wires":[["9710bc666e27f8ca"]]},{"id":"7dbd635df236fddb","type":"debug","z":"89cdb3c1eff17690","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":490,"y":1060,"wires":[]}]

I'm getting this error when trying run below query

CREATE TABLE t
(
    report_type string,
    inv_qty number,
    week number,
    month number,
    year number
);

INSERT INTO t(report_type,inv_qty,week,month,year) VALUES ((SELECT 'k',1,2,3,4));
SELECT * FROM t;

Hi @agershun and @mathiasrw :)

Developers on my staff are interfacing to kiosk machines running node-red, with flows which publish mqtt topics to our main HQ. At HQ we are implementing node-red to continue the flow which updates our databases, ERP, and PIM systems. But since the HQ dev staff is more knowledgeable in SQL than JavaScript (we're getting there :) - your node-red-contrib-alasql nodes are the best thing since slice bread!

I have forked your repo and am in the process of implementing/testing the following changes to my fork of node-red-contrib-alasq within the next few weeks. I have other experiences and features of using alasql nodes 'in the wild' that you might be interested in for future consideration.

Your input would be greatly appreciated, and hopefully you might be interested pulling some of these changes into your repo if I were to submit a PR?

Functional updates

The core "file in" and "file out" node(s) info is :
The filename can be configured in the node. If left blank it should be set by msg.filename on the incoming message. Ala file in/out nodes should work similarly - thus works as a drop-in replacement for the core file in/out nodes.

• ala file in/out - ability to pass name of in/out filename in msg.filename.

While building flows that use ala file in/out - it is handy to have the node-red editor inform devs that the payload contains data and the name of the file the data is read/output.

• Check, display, and insure the filename and payload objects are defined upon node entry.

Cosmetic updates

The ala file out is shown before the ala file in node with-in the node-red palette - should be after ala file in.

• Reorder in/out scripts in ala-file.html so ala file in displays before ala file out in the node-red editor palette.

Visually, the ala file out should have the alasql icon on the right side of the node display. By convention, nodes with with an input connector but no output connector (an output node) normally locates the icon on the right side of the node display.

• Move the alasql icon in ala file out node from the left to the right side of the node display

Node background colors for file in/out in the node-red editor palette should be the same. The alasql node background (under advanced tab) to remain a slightly darker color to be visually different from the ala file nodes.

• Make both ala file in/out nodes to the same background color.

During development, the node-red editor should display the filename of the file read or written.

• Display a status message on the editor showing the filename ala file in/out read/wrote.

TIA for your consideration and advice!,

@PotOfCoffee2Go

http://flows.nodered.org/

I'm not sure if this is a problem due to my lack of understanding of json and that stuff but here goes anyway.
I send an inventory of machines and their postcodes to a node called Postcode Lookup with the result that it returns the geographical coordinates of the machine from its postcode. This works fine and I now want to save the resulting list of positions ...
If I use the "file" node with the action "append to file" selected, I get a file with the machine listing showing id, latitude and longitude.
However, if I try to use Alafile out node (which is excellent btw!) , let's say to create a csv or an Excel file, I just get one record saved to the csv or xls file (I think it's the last machine in the list) which suggests that the node is overwriting rather than appending to the new file ... which is what I want. Have I missed something or is there an issue with my input to Alafile?

thanks!

Hi! I'm appreciate your great node.

I would like to use updated v2.0.0 because I'm interested at this.topic or this.query active parameters function. I think that it is nice idea!

I installed at https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-alasql using Node-RED GUI pallete. But It was v1.1.0 in 2020/5/14.

Could you update to v2.0.0 as npm version if you can? I'm looking forward to upgraded v2.0.0 and that function.

Hi guys,
maybe someone of you can help me.

I'm working with AlaSQL wrapper for node-red, and it seems that JOIN condition doesn't work at all.

Let's start with something simple (from the examples):

1. I have a first function-block set with this code:

var data = { COLORS: [[1,"red"],[2,"yellow"],[3,"orange"]], "FRUITS":[[1,"apple"],[2,"banana"],[3,"orange"]]}; 

msg.payload=[data.COLORS, data.FRUITS];

return msg;

2. then I have AlaSQL block with the following query
   SELECT MATRIX COLORS.[0], COLORS.[1], FRUITS.[1] AS [2] FROM ? AS COLORS JOIN ? AS FRUITS USING [0]
3. Then if I deploy the flow and execute it I get :

TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined

Does anyone of you have an example of a working join condition with AlaSQL in node-red ?

Here are the complete flow code

[{"id":"d8ea2581.c9eaa8","type":"alasql","z":"44bba25d.edd63c","name":"","query":"SELECT MATRIX COLORS.[0], COLORS.[1], FRUITS.[1] AS [2] FROM ? AS COLORS JOIN ? AS FRUITS USING [0]","x":910,"y":80,"wires":[["4e58c548.dcf80c"]]},{"id":"e1180ede.b9d41","type":"function","z":"44bba25d.edd63c","name":"","func":"var data = {COLORS: [[1,\"red\"],[2,\"yellow\"],[3,\"orange\"]],\"FRUITS\":[[1,\"apple\"],[2,\"banana\"],[3,\"orange\"]]};\n\nmsg.payload=[data.COLORS, data.FRUITS];\n\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":790,"y":80,"wires":[["d8ea2581.c9eaa8"]]},{"id":"4e58c548.dcf80c","type":"debug","z":"44bba25d.edd63c","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","x":1030,"y":80,"wires":[]},{"id":"a887efce.c7898","type":"inject","z":"44bba25d.edd63c","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":660,"y":80,"wires":[["e1180ede.b9d41"]]}]

SELECT NULL AS 'col1'

returns msg.payload:

[{}]

It's intended behavior?

EDITED:
As workaround I'm using empty string to not lost object properties.