December 18, 2012 at 3:45 pm
For some reason I've always gotten confuses when using COUNT!
I have two tables, one for Orders and then an Assiged Parcels table which can have multiple records attached to an Order. In the Order table is column Pieces, which must match the count for Assigned Parcels. I also need to make the Orders table 'clickable' in the results.
Here is my code. What am I doing wrong?
SELECT PA.OrderID, COUNT(PA.OrderID) AS 'TotalParcels'
FROM tblParcelAssigned as PA
INNER JOIN tblOrder AS O ON O.OrderID = PA.OrderID
WHERE PA.Type = 2
AND O.Pieces <> TotalParcels
GROUP BY PA.OrderID
ORDER BY PA.OrderID DESC
Thanks from Newbie Dan!
December 18, 2012 at 4:15 pm
support 86837 (12/18/2012)
I have two tables, one for Orders and then an Assiged Parcels table which can have multiple records attached to an Order. In the Order table is column Pieces, which must match the count for Assigned Parcels.Here is my code. What am I doing wrong?
It's an Order of Evaluation issue. You use the WHERE clause to filter what goes into the aggregation, then you use the HAVING clause to filter the results of the aggregation, like so:
SELECT
PA.OrderID,
COUNT(*) AS 'TotalParcels'
FROM
tblParcelAssigned as PA
INNER JOIN
tblOrder AS O
ONO.OrderID = PA.OrderID
WHERE
PA.Type = 2
HAVING
o.Pieces <> Count(*)
GROUP BY
PA.OrderID
ORDER BY
PA.OrderID
DESC
I also need to make the Orders table 'clickable' in the results.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this.
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December 18, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Your query works only if I omit the HAVING clause.
December 18, 2012 at 4:56 pm
support 86837 (12/18/2012)
Your query works only if I omit the HAVING clause.
What error are you getting? You're getting untested code as I don't have a sample set to work from for your particular issue. If you check the first link in my signature, you'll see how we usually ask for code assistance requests like this to be setup so we can get you tested code.
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December 18, 2012 at 9:13 pm
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support 86837 (12/18/2012)
I have two tables, one for Orders and then an Assiged Parcels table which can have multiple records attached to an Order. In the Order table is column Pieces, which must match the count for Assigned Parcels.Here is my code. What am I doing wrong?
It's an Order of Evaluation issue. You use the WHERE clause to filter what goes into the aggregation, then you use the HAVING clause to filter the results of the aggregation, like so:
SELECT
PA.OrderID,
COUNT(*) AS 'TotalParcels'
FROM
tblParcelAssigned as PA
INNER JOIN
tblOrder AS O
ONO.OrderID = PA.OrderID
WHERE
PA.Type = 2
HAVING
o.Pieces <> Count(*)
GROUP BY
PA.OrderID
ORDER BY
PA.OrderID
DESC
I also need to make the Orders table 'clickable' in the results.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this.
I think the problem may be that HAVING needs to be after GROUP BY.
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December 19, 2012 at 10:18 am
That doesn't seem to work either. After dropping and adding lines to the code, it seems that the comparison line is where it hiccups.
Here is an example where I get the columns to display side by side. Still, the HAVING is where I don't yet have it. If I omit the HAVING, the query runs fine.
SELECT
O.OrderID,
O.Pieces,
PA.OrderID,
COUNT(PA.OrderID) AS TotalParcels,
COUNT(*) AS 'TotalParcels'
FROM
tblParcelAssigned as PA
INNER JOIN
tblOrder AS O
ONO.OrderID = PA.OrderID
WHERE
PA.Type = 2
-- HAVING
-- o.Pieces <> Count(*)
GROUP BY
O.OrderID,
O.Pieces,
PA.OrderID
ORDER BY
PA.OrderID
DESC
December 19, 2012 at 10:30 am
By the way, the indentations in my code display fine when I edit my post, but the final version has them all lined up without colors or indents. Not sure what I'm doing wrong!
December 19, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Use the code="sql" IfCode on the left, like so. Dwain's right, I flipped the order for having/group by, need to put it after.
SELECT
O.OrderID,
O.Pieces,
PA.OrderID,
COUNT(PA.OrderID) AS TotalParcels,
COUNT(*) AS 'TotalParcels'
FROM
tblParcelAssigned as PA
INNER JOIN
tblOrder AS O
ONO.OrderID = PA.OrderID
WHERE
PA.Type = 2
GROUP BY
O.OrderID,
O.Pieces,
PA.OrderID
HAVING
o.Pieces <> Count(*)
ORDER BY
PA.OrderID
DESC
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December 20, 2012 at 7:42 am
Thank you everyone for your help. I'm sure I'll get better at this the more I practice. I've referred those who've offered me accoldes to this thread.
Dan
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