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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:32:00 -0600
From: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
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To: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: join/group/count query.
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Gary Stainburn wrote:
>> And, I may be missing something, but I'm having a hard time
>> understanding why you have all of those select columns  of  the form:
>>
>> count (case when o_model = 5 then 1 else NULL end) as KA,
>>
>> Considering that that can only return 1 or 0, the case statement would do. 
>> Is it to avoid putting all of the column names in the group by clause? 
>> That's hackish and is as much or more typing.
>>
>> With regards to what you are actually trying to do, giving us your table
>> definitions and what you are trying to achieve would help a lot more than
>> just telling us the problem you are having.  The column names in your query
>> are in no way descriptive and tell us nothing about your actual table
>> structure.
>>     
>
> The order_details view is a join of the orders table to the other tables.
>
> The order table contains the orders. 
>
> Each order has a business partner which is in a separate table. p_id is the 
> key, p_name is the name of the partner.
>
> Each order is for a single vehicle, which must be of a specific mode. The 
> models are also stored in a separate table. o_model is the attribute in the 
> orders table that contains the key to the models table.
>
> The output I'm getting is below, which is what I want. For each partner I get 
> a total followed by a breakdown by model the orders for the current month.
>
> key|p_id|    p_name      | total | ka | focus | c_max | s_max | fiesta | 
> fusion | mondeo | galaxy | ranger | connect | transit | fiesta_van
> ---+----+----------------+-------+----+-------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+---------+---------+------------
>  40|  40|rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr | 2 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |0
>  30|  30|rrrrr Group Plc | 2 |0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |0
>  78|  78|rrrrr rrrrrrrrr | 2 |0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |0
>  46|  46|rrrrrrrrrrrr )  | 3 |0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |0
>   3|   3|eeeee           | 8 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |0
>   9|   9|eee             | 3 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |0
>  12|  12|qqqqqqqqqqqq    |13 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 |0
>  10|  10|rr Motor        | 7 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |0
>  34|  34|ffffff fffffff  | 3 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |0
> 102| 102|xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx| 1 |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |0
>   
Ok, then, yeah, I read those count statements wrong and the crosstab 
contrib is what you're looking for.

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erik jones <erik@myemma.com>
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