Aggregate Overlapping Segments to Measure Effective Length

Question

I have a road_events table:

create table road_events (
    event_id number(4,0),
    road_id number(4,0),
    year number(4,0),
    from_meas number         


        

Answer 1

My main DBMS is Teradata, but this will work as-is in Oracle, too.

WITH all_meas AS
 ( -- get a distinct list of all from/to points
   SELECT road_id, from_meas AS meas
   FROM road_events
   UNION
   SELECT road_id, to_meas
   FROM road_events
 )
-- select * from all_meas order by 1,2
 , all_ranges AS
 ( -- create from/to ranges
   SELECT road_id, meas AS from_meas 
     ,Lead(meas)
      Over (PARTITION BY road_id
            ORDER BY meas) AS to_meas
   FROM all_meas
  )
 -- SELECT * from all_ranges order by 1,2
, all_event_ranges AS
 ( -- now match the ranges to the event ranges
   SELECT 
      ar.*
     ,re.event_id
     ,re.year
     ,re.total_road_length
     ,ar.to_meas - ar.from_meas AS event_length
     -- used to filter the latest event as multiple events might cover the same range 
     ,Row_Number()
      Over (PARTITION BY ar.road_id, ar.from_meas
            ORDER BY year DESC) AS rn
   FROM all_ranges ar
   JOIN road_events re
     ON ar.road_id = re.road_id
    AND ar.from_meas < re.to_meas
    AND ar.to_meas > re.from_meas
   WHERE ar.to_meas IS NOT NULL
 )
SELECT event_id, road_id, year, total_road_length, Sum(event_length)
FROM all_event_ranges
WHERE rn = 1 -- latest year only
GROUP BY event_id, road_id, year, total_road_length
ORDER BY road_id, year DESC;

If you need to return the actual covered from/to_meas (as in your question before edit), it might be more complicated. The first part is the same, but without aggregation the query can return adjacent rows with the same event_id (e.g. for event 3: 0-1 & 1-25):

SELECT * FROM all_event_ranges
WHERE rn = 1
ORDER BY road_id, from_meas;

If you want to merge adjacent rows you need two more steps (using a standard approach, flag the 1st row of a group and calculate a group number):

WITH all_meas AS
 (
   SELECT road_id, from_meas AS meas
   FROM road_events
   UNION
   SELECT road_id, to_meas
   FROM road_events
 )
-- select * from all_meas order by 1,2
 , all_ranges AS
 ( 
   SELECT road_id, meas AS from_meas 
     ,Lead(meas)
      Over (PARTITION BY road_id
            ORDER BY meas) AS to_meas
   FROM all_meas
  )
-- SELECT * from all_ranges order by 1,2
, all_event_ranges AS
 (
   SELECT 
      ar.*
     ,re.event_id
     ,re.year
     ,re.total_road_length
     ,ar.to_meas - ar.from_meas AS event_length
     ,Row_Number()
      Over (PARTITION BY ar.road_id, ar.from_meas
            ORDER BY year DESC) AS rn
   FROM all_ranges ar
   JOIN road_events  re
     ON ar.road_id = re.road_id
    AND ar.from_meas < re.to_meas
    AND ar.to_meas > re.from_meas
   WHERE ar.to_meas IS NOT NULL
 )
-- SELECT * FROM all_event_ranges WHERE rn = 1 ORDER BY road_id, from_meas
, adjacent_events AS 
 ( -- assign 1 to the 1st row of an event
   SELECT t.*
     ,CASE WHEN Lag(event_id)
                Over(PARTITION BY road_id
                     ORDER BY from_meas) = event_id
           THEN 0 
           ELSE 1 
      END AS flag
   FROM all_event_ranges t
   WHERE rn = 1
 )
-- SELECT * FROM adjacent_events ORDER BY road_id, from_meas 
, grouped_events AS
 ( -- assign a groupnumber to adjacent rows using a Cumulative Sum over 0/1
   SELECT t.*
     ,Sum(flag)
      Over (PARTITION BY road_id
            ORDER BY from_meas
            ROWS Unbounded Preceding) AS grp
   FROM adjacent_events t
)
-- SELECT * FROM grouped_events ORDER BY  road_id, from_meas
SELECT event_id, road_id, year, Min(from_meas), Max(to_meas), total_road_length, Sum(event_length)
FROM grouped_events
GROUP BY event_id, road_id, grp, year, total_road_length
ORDER BY 2, Min(from_meas);

Edit:

Ups, I just found a blog Overlapping ranges with priority doing exactly the same with some simplified Oracle syntax. In fact I translated my query from a some other simplified syntax in Teradata to Standard/Oracle SQL :-)