Get the course which has maximum no.of students enrolled

• ralm

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  April 1, 2012 at 1:11 pm

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  Hi ,

  We have 3 tables for ex student(sid,sname,dob), course(cid,cname,duration) and enroll(sid,cid,marks)

  I need a query to get the course which has maximum no.of students enrolled.

  --- sample table and data

  create table student(sid smallint identity,sname varchar(20) not null,dob smalldatetime)

  create table course(cid smallint identity,cname varchar(20) not null,duration int)

  create table enroll(sid int not null,cid int not null,marks int)

  Insert into student values ('XXX','1990/2/12'), ('AAA,'1990/2/12'), ('YYY','1990/2/12'), ('ZZZ','1990/2/12')

  insert into course values ('C1',3), ('C2',3), ('C2',3)

  insert into enroll values (1,1,null), (1,2,null), (2,1,null), (2,2,null), (2,3,null),(3,1,null),(4,2,null)

  I have a working solution using CTE. I want the result with simple select with group by and having.

  Might look like homework :hehe:

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• okbangas

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  April 1, 2012 at 1:18 pm

  #1467453

  Looks very much like homework, yes. So, what about give it at try yourself, and then post your attempt to solve it?

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• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  April 1, 2012 at 8:13 pm

  #1467474

  Should be a fairly simple join with a MAX(), but show us what you have.

• ralm

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  April 1, 2012 at 11:19 pm

  #1467483

  I have got in CTE

  ;with getMaxCourse AS

  (Select cid,count(sid) over (partition by cid) Kount From enroll)

  Select cid from getMaxCourse where Kount = (Select max(Kount) from getMaxCourse)

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• Loundy

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  April 2, 2012 at 3:15 am

  #1467525

  could use something like this...?

  SELECT TOP 1 c.cid

  ,c.cname

  ,COUNT(*) AS [Number_Of_Students]

  FROM course c

  INNER JOIN enroll e

  ON c.cid = e.cid

  GROUP BY c.cid, c.cname

  ORDER BY Number_Of_Students DESC

  the problem with this is that its taking a random top record but in your sample data there are 2 courses with the same count of students.

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• ralm

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  April 2, 2012 at 3:29 am

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  Thanks

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