Oracle SQL Query:Find out which year total sales amount is maximum - sql

Question

my working table, Table name: sales
Here Is MY TABLE, [sl_no is primary key] table structure:
CREATE TABLE SALES
( SL_NO NUMBER PRIMARY KEY, REGION VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
MONTH VARCHAR2(20) NOT NULL, YEAR NUMBER NOT NULL,
SALES_AMOUNT NUMBER NOT NULL )
and here is table data:
SQL> select * from sales;
SL_NO REGION MONTH YEAR SALES_AMOUNT
---------- ---------- -------------------- ---------- ------------
1 east december 2011 750000
2 east august 2011 800000
3 west january 2012 640000
5 east march 2012 1200000
6 west february 2011 580000
4 west april 2011 555000
6 rows selected.
I have tried this query to view total sales amount of those[2011,2012] year;
SELECT year, SUM(sales_amount) FROM sales GROUP BY year;
YEAR SUM(SALES_AMOUNT)
---------- -----------------
2011 2685000
2012 1840000
MY GOAL:> I want to find out the year of maximum sales amount.
I tried this,and work perfectly...but when i want to display that year also, it gives an Error.
SQL> select max(sum(sales_amount)) from sales group by year;
MAX(SUM(SALES_AMOUNT))
----------------------
2685000
SQL> select year, max(sum(sales_amount)) from sales group by year;
select year, max(sum(sales_amount)) from sales group by year
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00937: not a single-group group function
Extra addition: if multiple rows have same value means....when sales amount of both year[2011,2012] remain same, Then....
plZ help me to Solve this problem.

Answer 1

This should work.
with yr_agg as (
select year, sum(sales_amount) as total
from sales
group by year
)
select year, total as max_total
from yr_agg
where total = (select max(total)
from yr_agg);

Answer 2

I think the simplest way is to order the results and take the first row:
select year, sales_amount
from (SELECT year, SUM(sales_amount) as sales_amount
FROM sales
GROUP BY year
order by sum(sales_amount) desc
) t
where rownum = 1;
EDIT:
If you need to display all the matching rows (which isn't mentioned in the question), I would suggest using the dense_rank() analytic function:
select year, sales_amount
from (SELECT year, SUM(sales_amount) as sales_amount,
dense_rank(over order by SUM(sales_amount) desc) as seqnum
FROM sales
GROUP BY year
order by sum(sales_amount) desc
) t
where seqnum = 1;
Or, you might like the max() version instead:
select year, sales_amount
from (SELECT year, SUM(sales_amount) as sales_amount,
max(sum(sales_amount)) over () as maxsa
FROM sales
GROUP BY year
order by sum(sales_amount) desc
) t
where sales_amount = maxsa;

Answer 3

Following select should do what you need (untested, do not have Oracle at home):
select year, total
from (
select year, sum(sales_amount) total
from sales
group by year
)
where total = (select max(total_amount)
from (
select year, sum(sales_amount) total_amount
from sales
group by year
))
Take in account, though, that it might give you different years in each execution if two of them have exactly the same total amount. You might want to include some more conditions to avoid this.

Answer 4

Here is my Query where multiple row can select
SELECT year,MAX(total_sale) as max_total
FROM
(SELECT year,SUM(sales_amount) AS total_sale FROM sales GROUP BY year)
GROUP BY
year HAVING MAX(total_sale) =
(SELECT MAX(total_sale) FROM (SELECT SUM(sales_amount) AS total_sale FROM sales GROUP BY year));