From: | "Ingram, Bryan" <BIngram(at)sixtyfootspider(dot)com> |
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To: | "'pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | pesky select query |
Date: | 2000-10-03 20:47:44 |
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Hello ..
I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to return my desired results from
the following table ...
Table = g_state_county_app
app_code | varchar() not null
state_code | int4 not null
county_code | int4 not null
region_code | varchar()
The result I'm looking for, is that for each App_Code I would like the count
of distinct states.
So, I may have a 1000 records, but only have 4 distinct app_codes and up to
50 distinct state_codes. What I'd like to do is produce a query that will
list each app_code and the count of distinct states for that app_code on one
line. I don't care what the state_code is, I just need to know the number
of distinct state_codes per app_code.
The data may look like this:
APP1, TX, 1, A1
APP1, TX, 2, A2
APP1, CO, 3, B4
APP2, IL, 1, A3
And the result I want is this:
APP1, 2 # App1 is found in 2 distinct states
APP2, 1 # App2 is found in 1 distinct states
So far I've tried variations of select distincts with counts() and group
by's on various fields. I briefly considered trying to do this with an
outer join, but I'm not sure it'd work. I'm still using 6.5.x so I'd have to
simulate it with a union all/subquery. For that reason I thought'd I'd ask
here first to see if there is a better way.
Thanks,
Bryan
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