How count by the first letters in Laravel Query Builder? - sql

Question

I want to make a count by the first letters... I have this column
I would like to count each OE rows and each GICS rows
I'm working with this query
$data4 = DB::table('incidencias')
->select(DB::raw('grupo_asig as grupo_asig'), DB::raw('count(*) as number'))
->whereNotIn('grupo_asig', [''])
->groupBy('grupo_asig')
->orderBy('number', 'desc')
->get();

Answer 1

Use CASE WHEN and count the field like OE and ASIG
$data4 = DB::table('incidencias')
->select(DB::raw("(CASE WHEN grupo_asig LIKE 'OE%' THEN 'OE'
WHEN grupo_asig LIKE 'GICS%' THEN 'GICS'
END) AS grupo_asig_type"),
DB::raw('COUNT(*) as number'))
->whereNotIn('grupo_asig', [''])
->groupBy('grupo_asig_type')
->orderBy('number', 'desc')
->get();

Answer 2

You should try to use the [LIKE][1] function then and add it to your query:
->where('grupo_asig', 'like', 'OE%')
->where('grupo_asig', 'like', 'GICS%')
Edit:
I tried a lot around and came to this solution and made a SQL fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/06a39b/8
Does it help you?

Answer 3

You could use Collections. No real need to change your query much.
$data4 = DB::table('incidencias')
->select('grupo_asig')
->selectRaw('count(*) as number'))
->whereNotIn('grupo_asig', [''])
->groupBy('grupo_asig')
// ->orderBy('number', 'desc') Unless you use this array somewhere, it's not needed.
->get();
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
...
// php >= 7.4.0
$oe_count = $data4->filter(fn($data) => Str::startsWith($data->grupo, 'OE '))->count();
$gigs_count = $data4->filter(fn($data) => Str::startsWith($data->grupo, 'GIGS '))->count();
// php < 7.4.0
$oe_count = $data4->filter(function ($data) {
return Str::startsWith($data->grupo, 'OE ');
})->count();
$gigs_count = $data4->filter(function ($data) {
return Str::startsWith($data->grupo, 'GIGS ');
})->count();
Starting with Laravel 6, you can also use cursor() instead of get() in your query to return a LazyCollection. It's faster for this scenario.

Answer 4

I would suggest using a query for that:
refer to this answer
SELECT
LEFT(grupo_asig, 1) AS first_letter,
COUNT(*) AS total
FROM incidencias
GROUP BY first_letter