Re: Percentage of Total Occurances

From: Adam Sherman <adam(at)tritus(dot)ca>
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Subject: Re: Percentage of Total Occurances
Date: 2003-04-15 18:59:32
Message-ID: 30270000.1050433172@saturn
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On 04/15/03 22:40:37 +0530 mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com wrote:

>> I have a table being used for poll results:
>>
>> id
>> poll_id
>> question_id
>> answer_id
>> datestamp
>>
>> I what to figure out the percentage or respondants that gave each
>> answer. This is based on occurance rather than values.
>
> select answer_id,count(*) from polls where poll_id = ?
> group by answer_id ;
>
> gives number of response of each answer
>
> total_response = select count(*) from polls where poll_id = ?
>
> getting %age shud be trivial.
>
> Dunno if i missed your question .

I'm looking to do everything in a single query.

And get something like:

answer_id -> percentage

Thanks,

A.

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