Sum and Count

  • Nice question, interesting discussion.

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  • WWDMark (4/18/2013)


    Danny Ocean (4/17/2013)


    kapil_kk (4/17/2013)


    Nice question... learn something new today.. 🙂

    But can anyone plz explain me about the SUM part which is returning 12, I am not clear with this section :w00t:

    Kapil, Cross join means Cartesian product. When query have multiple joins, it solve it from left to right. So first cross join take place between table #T1 and #T2. It gives 2 (1 *2) rows. Now these 2 rows have cross join with #T3. It gives 6 (2*3) rows. Output of this query look like below.

    id1id2id3

    111

    112

    113

    121

    122

    123

    Now calculate sum of column id3. its 1+2+3+1+2+3 = 12.

    So Total row count is 6 and total of id3 column is 12.

    I think this help you. 🙂

    Thanks for the more in depth explanation, I was struggling to understand how we got 12 also!! Always learning! 😀

    nice explanation... thanks for the question....

    but where is the group by.....???? it is working without group by.....?????

    Manik
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  • manik123 (4/23/2013)


    but where is the group by.....???? it is working without group by.....?????

    If the SELECT clause of a query contains ONLY aggregate functions, you can leave out the GROUP BY. The result will be a single row with the "grand total".

    (I think everybody uses this in the basic form SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Table to get a count of rows from a table; the example here is a bit more complicated, but the same basic idea).


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  • Another good question showing basics of joins. Thanks for this simple question with brilliant approach. +10

  • John Mitchell-245523 (4/18/2013)


    Are the exclamation marks in the explanation an expression of surprise, or are they supposed to represent factorials?

    John

    Yes, an unfortunate bit of punctuation.

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