Basic SQL Usage Examples

2 min readMar 28, 2021

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Welcome!

Within this tutorial, you will learn how to retrieve and analyze data from the Ethereum Blockchain with the help of the anyblock.tools SQL interface.

We will show you how to retrieve data from anyblock.tools using common SQL language.

What you must know already

This tutorial is written for programmers, who have some experience with SQL. You should also have visited the authorization page and set up our connection to the database. Remember that the subentities are stored using the Postgresql-Type JSONB. For more information on that, please take a look at the ER model.

Basic anyblock.tools SQL queries

Choose one of the databases available. All of them are encoded as the triple of:

<technology>_<chain>_<network></network></chain></technology>

The main chain is named ethereum_ethereum_mainnet.

After choosing a blockchain, you might continue with the example queries.

Find the latest block

SELECT * FROM block ORDER BY number DESC LIMIT 1

This will show the whole block. But you can use a shorter form:

SELECT max(number) FROM block

Find events for a given block

SELECT * FROM event
WHERE event.block_number=7075271

Find calls for a transaction hash

SELECT * FROM call
WHERE call.hash = '0xadd837afa5b68987eb9f0167ad65cbb8131f57da84db56a19acf4a5a98bd35da'

Find transactions for a given contract

For our example we use the address of the TenXPay token contract:

SELECT * FROM tx
WHERE tx.to='0xB97048628DB6B661D4C2aA833e95Dbe1A905B280'
LIMIT 100

Find specific events for a given contract

For our example we use the address of the TenXPay token contract again, however, we would like to know the values of transfers greater than 1ETH:

SELECT arg->'scaled', arg->'num'
FROM "event",jsonb_array_elements(args) arg
WHERE event = 'Transfer' AND address = '0xB97048628DB6B661D4C2aA833e95Dbe1A905B280'
AND (arg->'num')::numeric > 1000000000000000000
LIMIT 100

Find the latest 10 DAI Transfer events and extract sender, receiver, and value from JSON

SELECT
      *,
      args->0->>'hex' as "from",
      args->1->>'hex' as "to",
      CAST(args->2->'scaled' AS NUMERIC) AS "value"
FROM event
WHERE address = '0x89d24A6b4CcB1B6fAA2625fE562bDD9a23260359'
AND event = 'Transfer'
ORDER BY timestamp DESC
LIMIT 10

Where to go from here

You may continue by taking a look at the Elasticsearch tutorial. Please let us know if you have any further questions or need some help with your application.