Re: SQL Question - Using Group By

From: "ksherlock(at)gmail(dot)com" <ksherlock(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL Question - Using Group By
Date: 2007-02-23 21:42:41
Message-ID: 1172266961.049030.91440@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com
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You could use COUNT() in conjunction with NULLIF:

select "Type",
count(nullif("Active", false)) as "Active Count",
count(nullif("Active", true)) as "Inactive Count",
100 * count(nullif("Active", false)) / count(*) as "Active Percent"
from table_name group by "Type"

On Feb 23, 2:50 pm, "Mike" <aki(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about using Group By.
>
> On a table like this:
>
> Type (varchar) | Active (boolean)
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Type One | False
> Type Two | True
> Type One | True
> Type Fifty | Flase
> Type Two | True
>
> Having this table I want a report grouping Types and giving me more
> statistics such as:
>
> Type | Active Count | Inactive Count | Active
> Percent
>
> How do i do that?
>
> I can think of :
>
> select Type from table_name group by Type
>
> But that doesn't give me how many active and inactive each had!
>
> Please help me here understand how to approach this.
>
> Thank you,
> Mike

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