SQL - conditional statements in crosstab queries - say what - sql

Question

I am working with MS Access 2007. I have 2 tables: Types of Soda, and Likeability.
Types of Soda are: Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, and Mello Yellow
Likeability is a lookup with these options: Liked, Disliked, No preference
I know how to count the number of Cokes or Mello Yellows in the table using DCount("[Types]", "[Types of Soda]", "[Types]" = 'Coke')
I also know how to count the number of Liked, Disliked, No preference.
("[Perception]", "[Likeability]", "[Perception]" = 'Liked')
But, what if I need to count the number of "Likes" by Type.
i.e. the table should look like this:
Coke | Pepsi | Dr. Pepper | Mello Yellow
Likes 9 2 12 19
Dislikes 2 45 1 0
No Preference 0 12 14 15
I know in Access I can create a cross tab queries, but my tables are joined by an ID. So my [Likeability] table has an ID column, which is the same as the ID column in my [Types] table. That's the relationship, and that's what connects my tables.
My problem is that I don't know how to apply the condition for counting the likes, dislikes, etc, for ONLY the Types that I specify. It seems like I first have to check the [Likeability] table for "Likes", and cross reference the ID with the ID in the [Types] table.
I am very confused, and you may be too, now. But all I want to do is count the # of Likes and Dislikes for each type of soda.
Please help.

Answer 1

Its not really clear (to me anyway) what your tables look like so lets assume the following
tables
Soda
------
Soda_ID (Long Integer (Increment))
Soda_Name (Text(50)
Perception
------
Perception_ID (Long Integer (Increment))
Perception_Name (Text(50)
Likeability
-----------
Likeability_ID (Long Integer (Increment))
Soda_ID (Long Integer)
Perception_ID (Long Integer)
User_ID (Long Integer)
Data
Soda_Id Soda_Name
------- ---------
1 Coke
2 Pepsi
3 Dr. Pepper
4 Mello Yellow
Perception_ID Perception_Name
------------- ---------
1 Likes
2 Dislikes
3 No Preference
Likeability_ID Soda_ID Perception_ID User_ID
-------------- ------- ------------- -------
1 1 1 1
2 2 1 1
3 3 1 1
4 4 1 1
5 1 2 2
6 2 2 2
7 3 2 2
8 4 2 2
9 1 3 3
10 2 3 3
11 3 3 3
12 4 3 3
13 1 1 5
14 2 2 6
15 2 2 7
16 3 3 8
17 3 3 9
18 3 3 10
Transform query You could write a query like this
TRANSFORM
Count(l.Likeability_ID) AS CountOfLikeability_ID
SELECT
p.Perception_Name
FROM
Soda s
INNER JOIN (Perception p
INNER JOIN Likeability l
ON p.Perception_ID = l.Perception_ID)
ON s.Soda_Id = l.Soda_ID
WHERE
p.Perception_Name<>"No Preference"
GROUP BY
p.Perception_Name
PIVOT
s.Soda_Name;
query output
Perception_Name Coke Dr_ Pepper Mello Yellow Pepsi
--------------- ---- ---------- ------------ -----
Dislikes 1 1 1 3
Likes 2 1 1 1