Need help with a Summary Query

  • Hello, this is my first time posting here and I hope someone can help me. First, let me say that I am NO SQL Guru and this one has me stumped.

    I have a table that stores the results of customer surveys and am tasked with displaying graphs of the results in an ASP.Net web page. I am trying to write a query for an sProc that will return a data table with the summaries data. The table looks something like this:

    SurveyIDQ1Q2Q3Q4Q5HE1HE2HE3HE4HE5

    22222222222

    31313112345

    40000000000

    73000000000

    84424233333

    91223122222

    102222211111

    What I would like to return would be a data table that would summarize the counts of each value (0 to 4) in each column like:

    Q1Q2Q3Q4 … etc

    1222

    2010

    1341

    1102

    1101

    Of course, the rows represent the values 0,1,2,3,4

    Is this possible? I have experienced abject failure with everything I have tried! Thank you in advance for your help.

  • Hi and welcome to the forums!!!

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  • I think something like this should at least be close:

    SELECT

    [values].value,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q1 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q1,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q2 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q2,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q3 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q3,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q4 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q4,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q5 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q5

    FROM (

    SELECT 0 AS value UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL

    SELECT 4

    ) AS [values]

    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.tablename tn ON --or:: CROSS JOIN dbo.tablename tn

    [values].value IN ( Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5 )

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  • Sean,

    Thank you for the welcome and for the link on how to create effective posts. Below you will find the script to recreate the table I am struggling with. For the purposes of this query I am only dealing with columns Q1 through HE7, but a solution that just dealt with Q1-Q3 would be enough help so that I could extrapolate how to do the rest.

    --===== If the test table already exists, drop it

    IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[tblSurvey]') AND type in (N'U'))

    DROP TABLE [dbo].[tblSurvey]

    --===== Create the test table with

    SET ANSI_NULLS ON

    SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblSurvey](

    [SurveyID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

    [Q1] [int] NULL,

    [Q2] [int] NULL,

    [Q3] [int] NULL,

    [Q4] [int] NULL,

    [Q5] [int] NULL,

    [HE1] [int] NULL,

    [HE2] [int] NULL,

    [HE3] [int] NULL,

    [HE4] [int] NULL,

    [HE5] [int] NULL,

    [HE6] [int] NULL,

    [HE7] [int] NULL,

    [HEComments] [nvarchar](1500) NULL,

    [HEDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,

    [HE_testID] [int] NOT NULL,

    CONSTRAINT [PK_dbo,tblSurvey] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED

    (

    [SurveyID] ASC

    )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]

    ) ON [PRIMARY]

    --===== No special required conditions

    --===== All Inserts into the IDENTITY column

    SET IDENTITY_INSERT [dbo].[tblSurvey] ON

    --===== Insert the test data into the test table

    INSERT INTO [dbo].[tblSurvey]

    ([SurveyID], [Q1], [Q2], [Q3], [Q4], [Q5], [HE1], [HE2], [HE3], [HE4], [HE5], [HE6], [HE7], [HEComments], [HEDate], [HE_testID])

    SELECT 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, N'', 2011-04-07 15:36:02.870', 50 UNION ALL

    SELECT 49, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 3, 5, N'', '2012-04-09 15:15:00.957', 920 UNION ALL

    SELECT 50, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, N'', '2012-04-22 14:38:48.863', 960 UNION ALL

    SELECT 51, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3, 4, N'', '2012-04-26 12:10:12.967', 990 UNION ALL

    SELECT 52, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3, 4, N'', '2012-04-26 12:11:55.837', 990 UNION ALL

    SELECT 53, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, N'', '2012-05-04 09:29:10.473', 1030 UNION ALL

    SELECT 54, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 4, N'', '2012-05-04 22:53:01.763', 1040 UNION ALL

    SELECT 55, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 3, 3, N'', '2012-05-06 13:14:43.873', 1050 UNION ALL

    SELECT 56, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 5, N'', '2012-05-12 08:56:58.240', 1070 UNION ALL

    SELECT 57, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, N'', '2012-05-13 03:40:50.630', 1080 UNION ALL

    SELECT 58, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, N'', '2012-05-16 06:54:09.107', 1090 UNION ALL

    SELECT 59, 4, 3, 1, 3, 1, 4, 5, 5, 5, 0, 4, 4, N'', '2012-05-18 17:22:12.220', 1120 UNION ALL

    SELECT 60, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, N'', '2012-05-24 08:55:42.050', 1130 UNION ALL

    SELECT 61, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, N'', '2012-06-01 10:14:27.920', 1140 UNION ALL

    SELECT 62, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, N'', '2012-06-05 17:00:50.347', 1160 UNION ALL

    SELECT 63, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, N'', '2012-06-05 17:18:25.070', 1180 UNION ALL

    SELECT 64, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, N'', '2012-06-12 17:03:54.743', 1190 UNION ALL

    SELECT 65, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, N'', '2012-06-20 15:45:41.720', 1200 UNION ALL

    SELECT 66, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, N'', '2012-06-21 19:47:08.570', 1220 UNION ALL

    --===== Set the identity insert back to normal

    SET IDENTITY_INSERT [dbo].[tblSurvey] OFF

  • Scott, thank you for your reply. When I run your solution like this:

    SELECT

    [values].value,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q1 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q1,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q2 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q2,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q3 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q3,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q4 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q4,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q5 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q5

    FROM (

    SELECT 0 AS value UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL

    SELECT 4

    ) AS [values]

    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.tblSurvey tn ON --or:: CROSS JOIN dbo.tblSurvey tn

    [values].value IN ( Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5 )

    I get this error:

    Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 3

    Column 'values.value' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.

  • Sorry:

    SELECT

    [values].value,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q1 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q1,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q2 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q2,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q3 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q3,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q4 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q4,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q5 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q5

    FROM (

    SELECT 0 AS value UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL

    SELECT 4

    ) AS [values]

    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.tblSurvey tn ON --or:: CROSS JOIN dbo.tblSurvey tn

    [values].value IN ( Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5 )

    GROUP BY [values].value

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  • Just use group by in last.

    SELECT

    [values].value,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q1 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q1,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q2 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q2,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q3 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q3,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q4 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q4,

    SUM(CASE WHEN Q5 = [values].value THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q5

    FROM (

    SELECT 0 AS value UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL

    SELECT 4

    ) AS [values]

    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.[tblSurvey] tn ON --or:: CROSS JOIN dbo.tablename tn

    [values].value IN ( Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5 )

    Group by [values].value

  • Thank you all so very much! I can stop beating my head on my desk now!

    :-):-D:-P

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