lag_not_null(value: storable, lagby: const int64) -> value

Return the non-null value of one column in a previous row across an ordered group. offset is the number of rows backwards from the current row to obtain a value, and any null value does not count towards the offset. The function can still return null if no non-null value is found in the window frame. If no ordering is specified, the default ordering is that of the invoking verb, which is generally the valid_from timestamp, ascending. In this case, lag_not_null(col, 1) returns the most recent non-null prior value for column col.

Domain

This is a window function (calculates over a group of multiple input rows using windowing).

Categories

• Window

Examples

make_col prev_value:window(lag_not_null(value, 1), group_by(key))

Obtain the most recent non-null value within the group identified by key and store the results in a new column named prev_value.