Generating SubTotals using GROUPING

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Generating SubTotals using GROUPING

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 1

Hugo Kornelis (7/20/2010)
My final comment in this topic, and then I'll respect R.P.'s request.
Jeff Moden (7/19/2010)
Still, the order of run return is, in fact, documented in Books Online...
ROLLUP
Specifies that in addition to the usual rows provided by GROUP BY, summary rows are introduced into the result set. [font="Arial Black"]Groups are summarized in a hierarchical order[/font], from the lowest level in the group to the highest. [font="Arial Black"]The group hierarchy is determined by the order in which the grouping columns are specified. [/font]Changing the order of the grouping columns can affect the number of rows produced in the result set.
This quote describes which possible summary rows are and are not introduced in the result set, not the order in which results are returned.
(I'm also tempted to point out the use of the term "result set" rather than "recordset" in this quote, but the terminology in BOL as a whole is so often wrong that I'd probably better not go there)
Jeff, or anyone else - if you want to continue this debate, then please start a new topic and send me a PM with the link, or include the link in this topic. Without a link, I'll probably never find the new topic.

It's important that people on this thread realize that WITH ROLLUP and WITH CUBE produce the correct sorted results as stated in BOL. How much plainer can you get than [font="Arial Black"]Groups are summarized in a hierarchical order, from the lowest level in the group to the highest. [/font]

--Jeff Moden

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Dennis Wagner-347763 SSC Eights! Points: 945 More actions · Answer 2

There are two things that I prefer to do in a different way:

The first is your use of ISNULL(FieldName, 'ZTotal') -- I prefer to use a case statement

CASE GROUPING(FieldName) WHEN 0 THEN FieldName ELSE 'Total' END -- this protects against a NULL value being mistaken for a total

The second is your order by using 'ZTotal' to make it go to the bottom -- I prefer to once again use the GROUPING() function

ORDER BY GROUPING(FieldName) -- which puts all the non-subtotals at the top since GROUPING() = 0 and the subtotals at the bottom where GROUPING() = 1

This also allows you to easily reverse the order and put the totals at the top by adding DESC -- and you don't have to worry about the dreaded 'Zygote' which sorts lower than 'ZTotal'

Another suggestion that I saw was using a Cube to get some the rollups to work in both directions -- you can always use a HAVING at the bottom to filter out any groups that you don't want, but you have to be very careful with the GROUP BY order or you'll lose more groupings

Examples:

HAVING GROUPING(FieldName) = 0 will not show any sub totals for that grouping

HAVING GROUPING(FieldWithID) = GROUPING(FieldWithValue) will not show any extra grouping for fields like StateID and StateValue

Peter H SSC Enthusiast Points: 127 More actions · Answer 3

For a prettier output, prefix the product and scheme results with a space (' '+....)

Then you don't need to prefix the totals with a 'Z' as they will fall to the end anyway.

cocis48 SSC Journeyman Points: 95 More actions · Answer 4

good article! and other comments from Hugo and gang. Just a comment, your query #2 is missing the column 'comment' on it.

Rob Schripsema SSCertifiable Points: 7469 More actions · Answer 5

Great article! My brain is finally starting to grasp what ROLLUP does.

Rob Schripsema
Propack, Inc.

Neha05 Default port Points: 1494 More actions · Answer 6

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December 24, 2012 at 12:06 pm

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Nice article.