Count Based on Columns in SQL Server - sql

Question

I have 3 tables:
SELECT id, letter
FROM As
+--------+--------+
| id | letter |
+--------+--------+
| 1 | A |
| 2 | B |
+--------+--------+
SELECT id, letter
FROM Xs
+--------+------------+
| id | letter |
+--------+------------+
| 1 | X |
| 2 | Y |
| 3 | Z |
+--------+------------+
SELECT id, As_id, Xs_id
FROM A_X
+--------+-------+-------+
| id | As_id | Xs_id |
+--------+-------+-------+
| 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | 1 | 1 |
+--------+-------+-------+
I can count all As and Bs with group by. But I want to count As and Bs based on X,Y and Z. What I want to get is below:
+-------+
| X,Y,Z |
+-------+
| 2,2,0 |
| 0,0,2 |
+-------+
X,Y,Z
A 2,2,0
B 0,0,2
What is the best way to do this at MSSQL? Is it an efficent way to use foreach for example?
edit: It is not a duplicate because I just wanted to know the efficent way not any way.

Answer 1

For what you're trying to do without knowing what is inefficient with your current code (because none was provided), a Pivot is best. There are a million resources online and here in the stack overflow Q/A forums to find what you need. This is probably the simplest explanation of a Pivot which I frequently need to remind myself of the complicated syntax of a pivot.
To specifically answer your question, this is the code that shows how the link above applies to your question
First Tables needed to be created
DECLARE #AS AS TABLE (ID INT, LETTER VARCHAR(1))
DECLARE #XS AS TABLE (ID INT, LETTER VARCHAR(1))
DECLARE #XA AS TABLE (ID INT, AsID INT, XsID INT)
Values were added to the tables
INSERT INTO #AS (ID, Letter)
SELECT 1,'A'
UNION
SELECT 2,'B'
INSERT INTO #XS (ID, Letter)
SELECT 1,'X'
UNION
SELECT 2,'Y'
UNION
SELECT 3,'Z'
INSERT INTO #XA (ID, ASID, XSID)
SELECT 9,1,1
UNION
SELECT 10,1,2
UNION
SELECT 11,2,3
UNION
SELECT 12,1,2
UNION
SELECT 13,2,3
UNION
SELECT 14,1,1
Then the query which does the pivot is constructed:
SELECT LetterA, [X],[Y],[Z]
FROM (SELECT A.LETTER AS LetterA
,B.LETTER AS LetterX
,C.ID
FROM #XA C
JOIN #AS A
ON A.ID = C.ASID
JOIN #XS B
ON B.ID = C.XSID
) Src
PIVOT (COUNT(ID)
FOR LetterX IN ([X],[Y],[Z])
) AS PVT
When executed, your results are as follows:
Letter X Y Z
A 2 2 0
B 0 0 2

Answer 2

As i said in comment ... just join and do simple pivot
if object_id('tempdb..#AAs') is not null drop table #AAs
create table #AAs(id int, letter nvarchar(5))
if object_id('tempdb..#XXs') is not null drop table #XXs
create table #XXs(id int, letter nvarchar(5))
if object_id('tempdb..#A_X') is not null drop table #A_X
create table #A_X(id int, AAs int, XXs int)
insert into #AAs (id, letter) values (1, 'A'), (2, 'B')
insert into #XXs (id, letter) values (1, 'X'), (2, 'Y'), (3, 'Z')
insert into #A_X (id, AAs, XXs)
values (9, 1, 1),
(10, 1, 2),
(11, 2, 3),
(12, 1, 2),
(13, 2, 3),
(14, 1, 1)
select LetterA,
ISNULL([X], 0) [X],
ISNULL([Y], 0) [Y],
ISNULL([Z], 0) [Z]
from (
select distinct a.letter [LetterA], x.letter [LetterX],
count(*) over (partition by a.letter, x.letter order by a.letter) [Counted]
from #A_X ax
join #AAs A on ax.AAs = A.ID
join #XXs X on ax.XXs = X.ID
)src
PIVOT
(
MAX ([Counted]) for LetterX in ([X], [Y], [Z])
) piv
You get result as you asked for
LetterA X Y Z
A 2 2 0
B 0 0 2