Re: Query aid

Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 11:34 schrieb Roberto Fichera:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a table acct as (username, terminatedate, terminatecause)
> I would like to build a query which returns three columns orderd by data
> like:
>
> date_trunc( 'day', terminatedate ) | count(cause1) | count(cause2)
>
> where cause1/2 are two type of termination cause from the field
> terminatecause.
>
> for example acct table could be:
>
> user1|01/01/2004 01:01:01| error
> user2|01/01/2004 01:02:01| error
> user1|01/01/2004 02:00:01| normal
> user3|02/01/2004 10:00:01| normal
> user2|02/01/2004 10:10:01| error
>
> I would like to obtain:
>
> date |normal| error
> 01/01/2004| 1 | 2
> 02/01/2004| 1 | 1

try something like this:

SELECT
date_trunc( 'day', terminatedate ) AS day,
SUM(
CASE
WHEN cause = 'error'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
) AS error_count,
SUM(
CASE
WHEN cause = 'normal'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
) AS normal_count,

FROM acct AS acct1
GROUP BY day
ORDER BY day ASC;

kind regards,
janning