Qualify Function in MARIADB

In MariaDB, the QUALIFY clause is not directly supported. However, you can achieve similar filtering using subqueries or common table expressions (CTEs). Below is an example demonstrating how to filter results similar to QUALIFY in MariaDB:

Suppose we have a table called sales with columns product_id, sales_date, and amount. We want to find the total sales amount for each product along with the rank of the product based on the total sales amount. We also want to filter out only those products whose total sales amount is greater than a certain threshold, say $1000.

WITH RankedSales AS (

    SELECT 

        product_id,

        SUM(amount) AS total_sales_amount,

        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY SUM(amount) DESC) AS sales_rank

    FROM 

        sales

    GROUP BY 

        product_id

)

SELECT 

    product_id,

    total_sales_amount,

    sales_rank

FROM 

    RankedSales

WHERE 

    total_sales_amount > 1000;

In this example:

- We're using a common table expression (CTE) named RankedSales to first calculate the total sales amount (SUM(amount)) for each product and assign a rank (ROW_NUMBER()) to each product based on the total sales amount.

- Then, in the outer query, we select from the CTE and apply a WHERE clause to filter out only those rows where the total_sales_amount is greater than $1000.

This achieves the same result as using QUALIFY in other database systems like Oracle. The ROW_NUMBER() function is used to generate a sequential integer for each row in the result set, ordered by the specified criteria.