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How to use rex to parse Select Query in a log?

dkarthik16
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Hi,

I have a log like below

"12","select a.a,b.b,c from a,b where a.a = b.a group by xxxx","impala",2017-06-30T00:59:40

I am trying to parse this to extract where condition for some performance analysis.

I tried this in regex101 and got the below regex

\"\d+\",\"select\s+(.\*)\s+from\s+(.\*)\s*where\s(.\*)\s+group by\s+(.\*)\s*\",(.\*)\s*,(.\*)

Help me to implement it in SPL.

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jodyfsu
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I think you have it worked out for the most part. not seeing an actual example leaves a lot of possible incorrectness, but here is what I think you are after.
| rex "\"\d+\",\"select\s+(.*)\s+from\s+(.*)\s*where\s(?<WHERECAPTURE>.*)\s+group by\s+(.*)\s*\",(.*)\s*,(.*)"

Let us know if you need more.

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jodyfsu
Path Finder

I think you have it worked out for the most part. not seeing an actual example leaves a lot of possible incorrectness, but here is what I think you are after.
| rex "\"\d+\",\"select\s+(.*)\s+from\s+(.*)\s*where\s(?<WHERECAPTURE>.*)\s+group by\s+(.*)\s*\",(.*)\s*,(.*)"

Let us know if you need more.

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jodyfsu
Path Finder

And, if you are only trying to capture the WHERE:

| rex "where\s(?<WHERECAPTURE>.*)\s"
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dkarthik16
New Member

Thanks ... And as you mentioned there are some mismatches in actual logs and Since the query was written by Humans which doesn't follow any meaningful pattern. Actually I extended my analysis to extract JOINS also.

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