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pivot problem
When rows are filtered such that zero rows are sent to the evaluate pivot clause, the subsequent references to fields generated by the pivot are considered syntax errors.
Perf
| where 1 == 2 // intentionally generate zero rows...
| evaluate pivot (CounterName, max(Max)) // would normally generate a column per unique CounterName
| where SomeCounterThatExists == 2 // and this would succeed.
Given that there are ZERO rows for the where to evaluate, I was hoping that it would short circuit the evaluation and not throw an error.
Any suggestions for how to avoid errors in this case?
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Hi,
I am not sure what you are trying to achieve. For me it is normal that you get error because if there are no results there is nothing to evaluate. Is there any particular use case you are trying to achieve? Can you elaborate more on what end result you want to get if there is no data? Why resulting an error if there is no data a problem?
- What would be normal would be to get no results, without error, since the input to the evaluate is empty. It should short circuit the pipeline. The use case is, when there are rows available to the evaluate pivot, it works, and when there aren’t it returns [] without error.
Ok. I cannot quite get the use case as from math point of view this is working fine. I would assume you can implement some logic in your queries to check first if you have any rows returned at all do the evaluation but if you do not have return something else. Other option is if you do not have results to populate some dummy results so the evaluation operation can have something to work with. If you have to implement that in every query won't be pretty though. You can probably also do a union with dymmy values to make sure you have something to work with. If anyone else can propose a better solution I would be happy to hear it
