I don't understand why I can't use this in my code :
SELECT MAX(SMTHNG), COUNT(MAX(SMTHNG))
FROM SomeTable;
Searched for an answer but didn't find it in documentation about these aggregate functions.
Also I get an SQL-compiler error "Invalid column name "SMTHNG"".
You want to know what the maximum SMTHNG in the table is with:
SELECT MAX(SMTHNG) FROM SomeTable;
This is an aggregation without GROUP BY and hence results in one single row containing the maximum SMTHNG.
Now you also want to know how often this SMTHNG occurs and you add COUNT(MAX(SMTHNG)). This, however, does not work, because you can not aggregate an aggregate directly.
This doesn't work either:
SELECT ANY_VALUE(max_smthng), COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT MAX(smthng) AS max_smthng FROM sometable) t;
because the sub query only contains one row, so it's too late to count.
So, either use a sub query and select from the table again:
SELECT ANY_VALUE(smthng), COUNT(*)
FROM sometable
WHERE smthng = (SELECT MAX(smthng) FROM sometable);
Or count per SMTHNG before looking for the maximum. Here is how to get the counts:
SELECT smthng, COUNT(*)
FROM sometable
GROUP BY smthng;
And the easiest way to get the maximum from this result is:
SELECT TOP(1) smthng, COUNT(*)
FROM sometable
GROUP BY smthng
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC;
First of all, please read my comment.
Depending on what you're trying to achieve, the statement have to be changed.
If you want to count the highest values in SMTHNG field, you may try this:
SELECT T1.SMTHNG, COUNT(T1.SMTHNG)
FROM SomeTable T1 INNER JOIN
(
SELECT MAX(SMTHNG) AS A
FROM SomeTable
) T2 ON T1.SMTHNG = T2.A
GROUP BY T1.SMTHNG;
use cte like below or subquery
with cte as
(
select count(*) as cnt ,col from table_name
group by col
) select max(cnt) from cte
you can not use double aggregate function at a time on same column
Related
any ideas why this doesn't work?
select [column_name_2], max(count(distinct([column_name_1])))
from [table_name]
group by [column_name_2]
but it works if done like this
select [column_name_2], count(distinct([column_name_1])) as [x]
into #temp_table
from [table_name]
group by [column_name_2]
select max(x)
from #temp_table
Well, that's just the way SQL (the language) is defined to work. When you use GROUP BY, the corresponding SELECT list will produce a row for each group in the result. You're trying to take that result and aggregate twice, once with GROUP BY [column_name_2] and a second time with GROUP BY (), as defined by standard SQL. We can't do that in the same query expression.
The good news is you can break this up into more than one query expression:
WITH cte1 AS (
SELECT count(distinct([column_name_1])) AS cnt
FROM [table_name]
GROUP BY [column_name_2]
)
SELECT MAX(cnt) FROM cte1
;
or use a derived table.
You can even order the initial query result by cnt DESC and limit the result to the first row.
In your case, you may not want just the MAX, but also the other column.
With SQL Server, which you may be using. Note: You should add a database specific tag to the question.
SELECT TOP 1 [column_name_2], count(distinct([column_name_1])) AS cnt
FROM [table_name]
GROUP BY [column_name_2]
ORDER BY cnt DESC
;
I don't understand "this doesn't work", what were you expecting and what did you get? Normally you include the GROUP BY value in the result set. So it would be:
select [column_name_2], max(cnt) cnt
from (select [column_name_2], count(distinct [column_name_1]) cnt
from [table_name]
group by [column_name_2]) x
group by [column_name_2]
Ok, after reading your comment I think above is what you are looking for.
SELECT [column_name_two]
, max(x) x
FROM (
SELECT [column_name_two]
, COUNT(DISTINCT [column_name_one]
FROM table_name
GROUP BY [column_name_two]
) AS Tbl
GROUP BY [column_name_two]
What is the best way to get count of rows and distinct rows in a single query?
To get distinct count we can use subquery like this:
select count(*) from
(
select distinct * from table
)
I have 15+ columns and have many duplicates rows as well and I want to calculate count of rows as well as distinct count of rows in one query.
More if I use this
select count(*) as Rowcount , count(distinct *) as DistinctCount from table
This will not give accurate results as count(distinct *) doesn't work.
Why don't you just put the subquery inside another query?
select count(*),
(select count(*) from (select distinct * from table))
from table;
create table tbl
(
col int
);
insert into tbl values(1),(2),(1),(3);
select count(*) as distinct_count, sum(sum) as all_count
from (
select count(col) sum from tbl group by col
)A
I think I have understood what you are looking for. You need to use some window function. So, you query should be look like =>
Select COUNT(*) OVER() YourRowcount ,
COUNT(*) OVER(Partition BY YourColumnofGroup) YourDistinctCount --Basic of the distinct count
FROM Yourtable
NEW Update
select top 1
COUNT(*) OVER() YourRowcount,
DENSE_RANK() OVER(ORDER BY YourColumn) YourDistinctCount
FROM Yourtable ORDER BY TT DESC
Note: This code is written sql server. Please check the code and let me know.
I want to count id_r and then return the maxim value of count using
MAX(COUNT(id_r))
but shows me this error
the error
Thanks :)
You can only use one aggregation function at a time.
The ANSI standard way to do what you want is:
select count(*)
from t
group by ?
order by count(*) desc
fetch first 1 row only;
Or alternatively a subquery:
select max(cnt)
from (select count(*) as cnt
from t
group by ?
) x;
Note that you want a group by of something, perhaps id_r.
Try this:
SELECT MAX(e1) as Expr1 FROM (
SELECT COUNT(id_r) as e1
FROM Angajat) as t1
COUNT(id_r) wil return only 1 result since there is no group by clause. Hence, there is no use of max.
You need to add a group by clause in subquery:
SELECT MAX(e1) as Expr1 FROM (
SELECT column1, COUNT(id_r) as e1
FROM Angajat
GROUP BY column1
) as t1
If i perform a standard query in SQLite:
SELECT * FROM my_table
I get all records in my table as expected. If i perform following query:
SELECT *, 1 FROM my_table
I get all records as expected with rightmost column holding '1' in all records. But if i perform the query:
SELECT *, COUNT(*) FROM my_table
I get only ONE row (with rightmost column is a correct count).
Why is such results? I'm not very good in SQL, maybe such behavior is expected? It seems very strange and unlogical to me :(.
SELECT *, COUNT(*) FROM my_table is not what you want, and it's not really valid SQL, you have to group by all the columns that's not an aggregate.
You'd want something like
SELECT somecolumn,someothercolumn, COUNT(*)
FROM my_table
GROUP BY somecolumn,someothercolumn
If you want to count the number of records in your table, simply run:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM your_table;
count(*) is an aggregate function. Aggregate functions need to be grouped for a meaningful results. You can read: count columns group by
If what you want is the total number of records in the table appended to each row you can do something like
SELECT *
FROM my_table
CROSS JOIN (SELECT COUNT(*) AS COUNT_OF_RECS_IN_MY_TABLE
FROM MY_TABLE)
I'm not sure if this is even a good question or not.
I have a complex query with lot's of unions that searches multiple tables for a certain keyword (user input). All tables in which there is searched are related to the table book.
There is paging on the resultset using LIMIT, so there's always a maximum of 10 results that get withdrawn.
I want an extra column in the resultset displaying the total amount of results found however. I do not want to do this using a separate query. Is it possible to add a count() column to the resultset that counts every result found?
the output would look like this:
ID Title Author Count(...)
1 book_1 auth_1 23
2 book_2 auth_2 23
4 book_4 auth_.. 23
...
Thanks!
This won't add the count to each row, but one way to get the total count without running a second query is to run your first query using the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS option and then select FOUND_ROWS(). This is sometimes useful if you want to know how many total results there are so you can calculate the page count.
Example:
select SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS ID, Title, Author
from yourtable
limit 0, 10;
SELECT FOUND_ROWS();
From the manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/information-functions.html#function_found-rows
The usual way of counting in a query is to group on the fields that are returned:
select ID, Title, Author, count(*) as Cnt
from ...
group by ID, Title, Author
order by Title
limit 1, 10
The Cnt column will contain the number of records in each group, i.e. for each title.
Regarding second query:
select tbl.id, tbl.title, tbl.author, x.cnt
from tbl
cross join (select count(*) as cnt from tbl) as x
If you will not join to other table(s):
select tbl.id, tbl.title, tbl.author, x.cnt
from tbl, (select count(*) as cnt from tbl) as x
My Solution:
SELECT COUNT(1) over(partition BY text) totalRecordNumber
FROM (SELECT 'a' text, id_consult_req
FROM consult_req cr);
If your problem is simply the speed/cost of doing a second (complex) query I would suggest you simply select the resultset into a hash-table and then count the rows from there while returning, or even more efficiently use the rowcount of the previous resultset, then you do not even have to recount
This will add the total count on each row:
select count(*) over (order by (select 1)) as Cnt,*
from yourtable
Here is your answare:
SELECT *, #cnt count_rows FROM (
SELECT *, (#cnt := #cnt + 1) row_number FROM your_table
CROSS JOIN (SELECT #cnt := 0 AS variable) t
) t;
You simply cannot do this, you'll have to use a second query.