sum last 7 days of sales in new column - sql

Question

I have the following data set:
I want to create a new column that sums the last 7 days of sales. So the query result should look be the following:
Pls help
Thanks!

Answer 1

In standard SQL, you would use a window function -- assuming you have data for each day:
select t.*,
sum(sales) over (partition by itemid order by date rows between 6 preceding and current row) as sales_7
from t;

Answer 2

use sum() aggregate function and group by
select country,itemid,year,monthnumber,week sum(sales) as sales_last_7days from your_table
where date>=DATEADD(day, -7, getdate()) and date< getdate()
group by country,itemid,year,monthnumber,week

Answer 3

with window:
select (list other columns here), sum(sum(sales)) over
(partition by week
order by day
rows between 6 preceding and current row)
from table
group by date, week;
note that week doesen't change group by beacause a date is reffered to one week only, but it is needed in window.

Answer 4

Seems you are working with SQL Server if so, then you can use apply :
select t.*, t1.[last7day]
from table t outer apply
(select sum(t1.sales) as [last7day]
from table t1
where t.itemid = t1.itemid and
t1.date <= dateadd(day, -6, t.dt)
) t1;

Answer 5

If you don't have exactly one day for each row, for example if you have a list of transactions...
The below example completely confused me the first time I saw it, so I've tried to comment as much as I can to explain what's happening.
Suppose we have a table tbl with date column dt and amount column amt, and for each date in tbl we want to return a rolling sum of the amount from the current day and the past 6 days.
select distinct -- see note after code on what this distinct is doing.
dt
, ( -- Has to be in brackets to denote we're returning 1 value per row.
-- for each row of T1:
select sum(b.amt) -- the sum of amounts in T2. The where clause will restrict which rows in T2 will be summed.
from tbl T2
where T2.dt between T1.dt - 6 and T1.dt -- for each row in T1, give me all rows in T2 where the date is between 6 days before this T1 row's date and T1 row's date, giving us our rolling sum
-- WARNING: CHECK YOUR VERSION OF SQL FOR HOW TO SUBTRACT DAYS FROM A DATE, I'VE MADE IT (T1.dt - 6) FOR SIMPLICITY
-- we don't need a group by, because we're returning one value for each row in T1
)
from tbl T1
We have a main version of tbl, aliased T1. We then have a secondary table, aliased T2. For each row in T1, we're going to ask for a set of rows in T2 that we're going to sum before giving it to our main query.
To understand what's happening, run the code without the distinct. You'll notice that we have the same number of rows as in tbl, because the T2 statement is happening for every row in T1.
Notes:
If you have any days for which no rows exist in your table you will not get a calculation for this day. To be certain this doesn't happen, join your table to a table containing a distinct list of consecutive dates, and use this as your date column.
If you have nulls in your amount column the calculation will still work, but if the rolling average contains only nulls you will have null instead of 0 as your result. If that troubles you convert all your nulls to zero's before (or after) you use the query.
The beginning of the period will have a 'ramp up'. But this would be the same whatever method you use to do a rolling sum. If it bothers you, don't return the first 6 days.
Finally a worked example if you're playing along at home using SQL Server:
with tbl as (
-- a list of transactions from 1.10.2019 to 14.10.2019
select cast('2019-10-01' as date) dt, 1 amt
union select cast('2019-10-02' as date), 4
union select cast('2019-10-01' as date), 10
union select cast('2019-10-03' as date), 3
union select cast('2019-10-04' as date), 20
union select cast('2019-10-04' as date), 2
union select cast('2019-10-04' as date), 12
union select cast('2019-10-04' as date), 17
union select cast('2019-10-05' as date), null -- a whole week of null values because we all had the week off... I hope this data wasn't important
union select cast('2019-10-06' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-07' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-08' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-09' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-10' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-10' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-10' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-11' as date), null
union select cast('2019-10-12' as date), 1
union select cast('2019-10-12' as date), 1
union select cast('2019-10-12' as date), 1
union select cast('2019-10-12' as date), 1
union select cast('2019-10-12' as date), 1
union select cast('2019-10-12' as date), 1
union select cast('2019-10-13' as date), 2
union select cast('2019-10-14' as date), 1000
)
select distinct
a.dt
, (
select sum(b.amt)
from tbl b
where b.dt between dateadd(dd, -6, a.dt) and a.dt
) past_7_days_amt
from tbl a
Returns:
+------------+-----------------+
| dt | past_7_days_amt |
+------------+-----------------+
| 2019-10-01 | 11 |
| 2019-10-02 | 15 |
| 2019-10-03 | 18 |
| 2019-10-04 | 69 |
| 2019-10-05 | 69 |
| 2019-10-06 | 69 |
| 2019-10-07 | 69 |
| 2019-10-08 | 58 |
| 2019-10-09 | 54 |
| 2019-10-10 | 51 |
| 2019-10-11 | NULL |
| 2019-10-12 | 1 |
| 2019-10-13 | 3 |
| 2019-10-14 | 1003 |
+------------+-----------------+