Total Count of Active Employees by Date - sql

Question

I have in the past written queries that give me counts by date (hires, terminations, etc...) as follows:
SELECT per.date_start AS "Date",
COUNT(peo.EMPLOYEE_NUMBER) AS "Hires"
FROM hr.per_all_people_f peo,
hr.per_periods_of_service per
WHERE per.date_start BETWEEN peo.effective_start_date AND peo.EFFECTIVE_END_DATE
AND per.date_start BETWEEN :PerStart AND :PerEnd
AND per.person_id = peo.person_id
GROUP BY per.date_start
I was now looking to create a count of active employees by date, however I am not sure how I would date the query as I use a range to determine active as such:
SELECT COUNT(peo.EMPLOYEE_NUMBER) AS "CT"
FROM hr.per_all_people_f peo
WHERE peo.current_employee_flag = 'Y'
and TRUNC(sysdate) BETWEEN peo.effective_start_date AND peo.EFFECTIVE_END_DATE

Answer 1

Here is a simple way to get started. This works for all the effective and end dates in your data:
select thedate,
SUM(num) over (order by thedate) as numActives
from ((select effective_start_date as thedate, 1 as num from hr.per_periods_of_service) union all
(select effective_end_date as thedate, -1 as num from hr.per_periods_of_service)
) dates
It works by adding one person for each start and subtracting one for each end (via num) and doing a cumulative sum. This might have duplicates dates, so you might also do an aggregation to eliminate those duplicates:
select thedate, max(numActives)
from (select thedate,
SUM(num) over (order by thedate) as numActives
from ((select effective_start_date as thedate, 1 as num from hr.per_periods_of_service) union all
(select effective_end_date as thedate, -1 as num from hr.per_periods_of_service)
) dates
) t
group by thedate;
If you really want all dates, then it is best to start with a calendar table, and use a simple variation on your original query:
select c.thedate, count(*) as NumActives
from calendar c left outer join
hr.per_periods_of_service pos
on c.thedate between pos.effective_start_date and pos.effective_end_date
group by c.thedate;

Answer 2

If you want to count all employees who were active during the entire input date range
SELECT COUNT(peo.EMPLOYEE_NUMBER) AS "CT"
FROM hr.per_all_people_f peo
WHERE peo.[EFFECTIVE_START_DATE] <= :StartDate
AND (peo.[EFFECTIVE_END_DATE] IS NULL OR peo.[EFFECTIVE_END_DATE] >= :EndDate)

Answer 3

Here is my example based on Gordon Linoff answer
with a little modification, because in SUBSTRACT table all records were appeared with -1 in NUM, even if no date was in END DATE = NULL.
use AdventureWorksDW2012 --using in MS SSMS for choosing DATABASE to work with
-- and may be not work in other platforms
select
t.thedate
,max(t.numActives) AS "Total Active Employees"
from (
select
dates.thedate
,SUM(dates.num) over (order by dates.thedate) as numActives
from
(
(
select
StartDate as thedate
,1 as num
from DimEmployee
)
union all
(
select
EndDate as thedate
,-1 as num
from DimEmployee
where EndDate IS NOT NULL
)
) AS dates
) AS t
group by thedate
ORDER BY thedate
worked for me, hope it will help somebody

Answer 4

I was able to get the results I was looking for with the following:
--Active Team Members by Date
SELECT "a_date",
COUNT(peo.EMPLOYEE_NUMBER) AS "CT"
FROM hr.per_all_people_f peo,
(SELECT DATE '2012-04-01'-1 + LEVEL AS "a_date"
FROM dual
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= DATE '2012-04-30'+2 - DATE '2012-04-01'-1
)
WHERE peo.current_employee_flag = 'Y'
AND "a_date" BETWEEN peo.effective_start_date AND peo.EFFECTIVE_END_DATE
GROUP BY "a_date"
ORDER BY "a_date"