Por razones de rendimiento, en la mayoría de los casos debemos almacenar el saldo actual; de lo contrario, calcularlo sobre la marcha puede llegar a ser extremadamente lento.
Almacenamos totales acumulados precalculados en nuestro sistema. Para garantizar que los números sean siempre correctos, utilizamos restricciones. La siguiente solución ha sido copiada de mi blog. Describe un inventario, que es esencialmente el mismo problema:
Calcular los totales acumulados es notoriamente lento, ya sea que lo haga con un cursor o con una unión triangular. Es muy tentador desnormalizar, almacenar totales acumulados en una columna, especialmente si lo selecciona con frecuencia. Sin embargo, como es habitual cuando se desnormaliza, debe garantizar la integridad de sus datos desnormalizados. Afortunadamente, puede garantizar la integridad de los totales acumulados con restricciones: siempre y cuando todas sus restricciones sean confiables, todos sus totales acumulados son correctos. También de esta manera puede asegurarse fácilmente de que el saldo actual (totales acumulados) nunca sea negativo: la aplicación por otros métodos también puede ser muy lenta. El siguiente script demuestra la técnica.
CREATE TABLE Data.Inventory(InventoryID INT NOT NULL IDENTITY,
ItemID INT NOT NULL,
ChangeDate DATETIME NOT NULL,
ChangeQty INT NOT NULL,
TotalQty INT NOT NULL,
PreviousChangeDate DATETIME NULL,
PreviousTotalQty INT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_Inventory PRIMARY KEY(ItemID, ChangeDate),
CONSTRAINT UNQ_Inventory UNIQUE(ItemID, ChangeDate, TotalQty),
CONSTRAINT UNQ_Inventory_Previous_Columns UNIQUE(ItemID, PreviousChangeDate, PreviousTotalQty),
CONSTRAINT FK_Inventory_Self FOREIGN KEY(ItemID, PreviousChangeDate, PreviousTotalQty)
REFERENCES Data.Inventory(ItemID, ChangeDate, TotalQty),
CONSTRAINT CHK_Inventory_Valid_TotalQty CHECK(TotalQty >= 0 AND (TotalQty = COALESCE(PreviousTotalQty, 0) + ChangeQty)),
CONSTRAINT CHK_Inventory_Valid_Dates_Sequence CHECK(PreviousChangeDate < ChangeDate),
CONSTRAINT CHK_Inventory_Valid_Previous_Columns CHECK((PreviousChangeDate IS NULL AND PreviousTotalQty IS NULL)
OR (PreviousChangeDate IS NOT NULL AND PreviousTotalQty IS NOT NULL))
);
GO
-- beginning of inventory for item 1
INSERT INTO Data.Inventory(ItemID,
ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty)
VALUES(1, '20090101', 10, 10, NULL, NULL);
-- cannot begin the inventory for the second time for the same item 1
INSERT INTO Data.Inventory(ItemID,
ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty)
VALUES(1, '20090102', 10, 10, NULL, NULL);
Msg 2627, Level 14, State 1, Line 10
Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'UNQ_Inventory_Previous_Columns'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'Data.Inventory'.
The statement has been terminated.
-- add more
DECLARE @ChangeQty INT;
SET @ChangeQty = 5;
INSERT INTO Data.Inventory(ItemID,
ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty)
SELECT TOP 1 ItemID, '20090103', @ChangeQty, TotalQty + @ChangeQty, ChangeDate, TotalQty
FROM Data.Inventory
WHERE ItemID = 1
ORDER BY ChangeDate DESC;
SET @ChangeQty = 3;
INSERT INTO Data.Inventory(ItemID,
ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty)
SELECT TOP 1 ItemID, '20090104', @ChangeQty, TotalQty + @ChangeQty, ChangeDate, TotalQty
FROM Data.Inventory
WHERE ItemID = 1
ORDER BY ChangeDate DESC;
SET @ChangeQty = -4;
INSERT INTO Data.Inventory(ItemID,
ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty)
SELECT TOP 1 ItemID, '20090105', @ChangeQty, TotalQty + @ChangeQty, ChangeDate, TotalQty
FROM Data.Inventory
WHERE ItemID = 1
ORDER BY ChangeDate DESC;
-- try to violate chronological order
SET @ChangeQty = 5;
INSERT INTO Data.Inventory(ItemID,
ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty)
SELECT TOP 1 ItemID, '20081231', @ChangeQty, TotalQty + @ChangeQty, ChangeDate, TotalQty
FROM Data.Inventory
WHERE ItemID = 1
ORDER BY ChangeDate DESC;
Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 4
The INSERT statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CHK_Inventory_Valid_Dates_Sequence". The conflict occurred in database "Test", table "Data.Inventory".
The statement has been terminated.
SELECT ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty
FROM Data.Inventory ORDER BY ChangeDate;
ChangeDate ChangeQty TotalQty PreviousChangeDate PreviousTotalQty
----------------------- ----------- ----------- ----------------------- -----
2009-01-01 00:00:00.000 10 10 NULL NULL
2009-01-03 00:00:00.000 5 15 2009-01-01 00:00:00.000 10
2009-01-04 00:00:00.000 3 18 2009-01-03 00:00:00.000 15
2009-01-05 00:00:00.000 -4 14 2009-01-04 00:00:00.000 18
-- try to change a single row, all updates must fail
UPDATE Data.Inventory SET ChangeQty = ChangeQty + 2 WHERE InventoryID = 3;
UPDATE Data.Inventory SET TotalQty = TotalQty + 2 WHERE InventoryID = 3;
-- try to delete not the last row, all deletes must fail
DELETE FROM Data.Inventory WHERE InventoryID = 1;
DELETE FROM Data.Inventory WHERE InventoryID = 3;
-- the right way to update
DECLARE @IncreaseQty INT;
SET @IncreaseQty = 2;
UPDATE Data.Inventory SET ChangeQty = ChangeQty + CASE WHEN ItemID = 1 AND ChangeDate = '20090103' THEN @IncreaseQty ELSE 0 END,
TotalQty = TotalQty + @IncreaseQty,
PreviousTotalQty = PreviousTotalQty + CASE WHEN ItemID = 1 AND ChangeDate = '20090103' THEN 0 ELSE @IncreaseQty END
WHERE ItemID = 1 AND ChangeDate >= '20090103';
SELECT ChangeDate,
ChangeQty,
TotalQty,
PreviousChangeDate,
PreviousTotalQty
FROM Data.Inventory ORDER BY ChangeDate;
ChangeDate ChangeQty TotalQty PreviousChangeDate PreviousTotalQty
----------------------- ----------- ----------- ----------------------- ----------------
2009-01-01 00:00:00.000 10 10 NULL NULL
2009-01-03 00:00:00.000 7 17 2009-01-01 00:00:00.000 10
2009-01-04 00:00:00.000 3 20 2009-01-03 00:00:00.000 17
2009-01-05 00:00:00.000 -4 16 2009-01-04 00:00:00.000 20