counting / group by confusion

  • My testtable:

    USE TestDB

    GO

    CREATE TABLE testtable

    (

    ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,

    CompanyNumber nvarchar(50),

    OrderDate date,

    ProductOrdered nvarchar(50)

    );

    INSERT testtable

    SELECT

    101, '2014-04-22', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    101, '2014-04-22', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    101, '2014-04-22', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    101, '2014-04-23', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    102, '2014-04-22', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    102, '2014-04-22', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    102, '2014-04-22', 'ProdB' UNION ALL SELECT

    103, '2014-04-22', 'ProdA' UNION ALL SELECT

    103, '2014-04-23', 'ProdB' ;

    A simple select:

    SELECT CompanyNumber, OrderDate, ProductOrdered

    FROM dbo.testtable

    CompanyNumber OrderDate ProductOrdered

    --------------- ---------- ---------------

    101 2014-04-22 ProdA

    101 2014-04-22 ProdA

    101 2014-04-22 ProdA

    101 2014-04-23 ProdA

    102 2014-04-22 ProdA

    102 2014-04-22 ProdB

    102 2014-04-22 ProdB

    103 2014-04-22 ProdA

    103 2014-04-23 ProdB

    There are two things that I'd like to count. One is the number of orders per day. The other is the number of each Product ordered per day.

    Desired result

    CompanyNumber OrderDate OrderCount ProdA ProdB

    --------------- -------- ----------- ----- -----

    101 2014-04-22 3 3 0

    101 2014-04-23 1 1 0

    102 2014-04-22 3 1 2

    103 2014-04-22 1 1 0

    103 2014-04-23 1 0 1

    I think that I'm getting close.. But, where do I go from here.

    SELECT CompanyNumber, COUNT (OrderDate) as OrderCount

    FROM dbo.testtable

    GROUP BY CompanyNumber, OrderDate

    CompanyNumber OrderCount

    --------------- -----------

    101 3

    102 3

    103 1

    101 1

    103 1

  • Unless I missed something, you just have to add an order by clause.:cool:

  • Here's how to get the results you need:

    SELECT CompanyNumber, ProductOrdered, OrderDate, COUNT(*) as OrderCount

    FROM dbo.testtable

    GROUP BY CompanyNumber, OrderDate, ProductOrdered

    As you'll notice, they're not presented in the way you need. Many would argue that presentation should be done in the presentation layer, so you have two options:

    (1) Read about PIVOTs and cross-tabs in order to denormalise your result set

    (2) Let your front end do the pivoting. Excel, for example, can do that.

    John

  • More than a simple order by is needed. You need to use CROSS TABS (or pivot if you want to complicate yourself :-P).

    Here's a nice article on them: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/

    And here's the example:

    SELECT CompanyNumber,

    OrderDate,

    COUNT (ProductOrdered) as OrderCount,

    COUNT( CASE WHEN ProductOrdered = 'ProdA' THEN ProductOrdered END) ProdA,

    COUNT( CASE WHEN ProductOrdered = 'ProdB' THEN ProductOrdered END) ProdB

    FROM dbo.testtable

    GROUP BY CompanyNumber, OrderDate

    ORDER BY CompanyNumber, OrderDate

    Luis C.
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  • Luis Cazares (4/25/2014)


    More than a simple order by is needed. You need to use CROSS TABS (or pivot if you want to complicate yourself :-P)

    I really did miss something (he he :Whistling:)

  • Luis Cazares (4/25/2014)


    More than a simple order by is needed....]

    Luis,

    Thank you very much for the solution and for the reference.

  • inevercheckthis2002 (4/25/2014)


    Luis Cazares (4/25/2014)


    More than a simple order by is needed....]

    Luis,

    Thank you very much for the solution and for the reference.

    You're welcome. Be sure to understand how the code works and ask any questions that you have.

    Luis C.
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