How to create an additional column with the percentages related to a count distinct statement - sql

Question

I'm trying to query each distinct medical speciality (e.g. oncologist, pediatrician, etc.) in a table and then count the number of times a claim (claim_id) is linked to it, which I've done using this:
select distinct specialization, count(distinct claim_id) AS Claim_Totals
from table1
group by specialization
order by Claim_Totals DESC
However, I also want to include an additional column which lists the % that each speciality makes up in the table (based on the number of claim_id related to it). So for instance, if there were 100 total claims and "cardiologist" had 25 claim_id records related to it, "oncologist" had 15, "general surgeon" had 10, and so forth, I want the output to look like this:
specialization | Claims_Totals | PERCENTAGE
___________________________________________
cardiologist 25 25%
oncologist 15 15%
general surgeon 10 10%

Answer 1

Could do this? I'm not familiar with Barbaros's syntax. If that works its more concise and better.
select specialization, count(distinct claim_id) AS Claim_Totals, count(distinct claim_id)/total_claims
from table1
INNER JOIN ( SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT claim_id)*1.0000 total_claims AS total_claims
FROM table1 ) TMP
ON 1 = 1
group by specialization
order by Claim_Totals DESC
select specialization,
count(distinct claim_id) AS claim_by_spec,
count(distinct claim_id)/
( SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT claim_id)*1.0000
FROM table1 ) AS percentage_calc
from table1
group by specialization
order by Claim_Totals DESC

Answer 2

You can use sum(count(distinct)) over() to get the overall claims and use it in the denominator to get the percentage.
select specialization
,count(distinct claim_id) AS Claim_Totals
,round(100*count(distinct claim_id)/sum(count(distinct claim_id)) over(),3) as percentage
from table1
group by specialization

Answer 3

You can use
,concat_ws('',count(distinct claim_id),'%') as percentage
or
,concat(count(distinct claim_id),'%') as percentage
as added to the select list's tail
Btw, distinct before specialization in the select list is redundant, since already included in the group by list.

Answer 4

Because you are using count(distinct), window functions are less useful. You can try:
select t1.specialization,
count(distinct t1.claim_id) AS Claim_Totals,
count(distinct t1.claim_id) / tt1.num_claims
from table1 t1 cross join
(select count(distinct claim_id) as num_claims
from table1
) tt1
group by t1.specialization
order by Claim_Totals DESC