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DISTINCT predicate (degree > 1)

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The DISTINCT predicate is also supported for row value expressions of degree higher than 1. If your database does not support row value expression comparison predicates, jOOQ emulates them the way they are defined in the SQL standard:

(FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME) IS DISTINCT FROM ('John', 'Doe')
(FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME) IS NOT DISTINCT FROM ('John', 'Doe')
row(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME).isNotDistinctFrom("John", "Doe")
row(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME).isNotDistinctFrom("John", "Doe")

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

row(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME).isNotDistinctFrom("John", "Doe")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE, Exasol, Oracle, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Vertica

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
)

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL

(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME) <=> ('John', 'Doe')

Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, CockroachDB, DuckDB, H2, HSQLDB, Postgres, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB

(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME) is not distinct from ('John', 'Doe')

ClickHouse

arrayUniq(ARRAY(
  TUPLE (AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME),
  TUPLE ('John', 'Doe')
)) = 1

DB2

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM SYSIBM.DUAL
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM SYSIBM.DUAL
)

Derby

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1
)

Firebird

NOT EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM RDB$DATABASE
  UNION
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM RDB$DATABASE
  OFFSET 1 ROWS
)

Hana, Sybase

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM SYS.DUMMY
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM SYS.DUMMY
)

Informix

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM (
    SELECT 1 AS dual
    FROM systables
    WHERE (tabid = 1)
  ) AS dual
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM (
    SELECT 1 AS dual
    FROM systables
    WHERE (tabid = 1)
  ) AS dual
)

MemSQL

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM DUAL
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM DUAL
)

Redshift

NOT ((AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME) is distinct from ('John', 'Doe'))

SQLite

(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME) IS ('John', 'Doe')

Teradata

EXISTS (
  SELECT AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME
  FROM (
    SELECT 1 AS "dual"
  ) AS "dual"
  INTERSECT
  SELECT 'John', 'Doe'
  FROM (
    SELECT 1 AS "dual"
  ) AS "dual"
)

Access

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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