ASSISTANCE W/ SELECT STATEMENT???

  • I am hitting the proverbial "wall"...and so I hope that someone can assist me:

    I have a table with 25 columns ( one for each question in a test). I need to create a view that will show the COUNT of wrong answers for each question.

    It would look something like this:

    Q1 | Q2 | Q3

    10 | 5 | 2

    I can not seem to figure out how to write the select statement for this???

    Any ideas are welcome.

  • We well need to see the DDL of the tables to answer this one...

    I would normally have a questions table with an answers table. So a simple inner join with a count(*) would be very easy to do but you'd get a record per question and not a record per exam/test.

    Can you post the table def with some sample data so we can provide a solution?

  • I am a bit ignorant here...but what is the table def that you need??

    Are you referring to the column names and some sample data?

    Sorry..

  • Yes.

  • I would not mind having a breakdown of incorrect answers by question , as you stated in the last reply...

    You stated that this would involve the questions table with the answers table...

    I would like to hear how I can accomplish this....I know you need some more info from me...so whatever I can give...I will do...

    Thank you.

  • Ok here is my fields:

    TEST_DATE QUESTION1 QUESTION1_SCORE QUESTION2 QUESTION2_SCORE

    4/25/05 B 1 A 0

    4/25/05 A 0 C 1

    4/25/05 C 0 D 0

    As I said there are 25 questions with a score field for each one...this was done for other purposes...

    I thought that I would be able to use the QuestionScore field to do the comparison...as you can see from the sample above...a 1 is for a correct score and 0 is an incorrect score..

    The reason I suggested this method was that there are 2 questions within the test that have multiple answers..so I was going to write the statement so that if the score was a 0 or 1 or 2, then it would be incorrect, ortherwise it would be correct.

    I may be rambling here...but if you can offer assistance as to how I can accomplish this...I would be greatly appreciative!

  • I apologize..for the sample data...it did not look like that when I placed it in the reply...

    Let me know if you need more clarification.

    Thank you

  • I know.. multiple whitespaces are ignored by the browser..

    this query can solve part of your problem :

    SELECT

    TEST_DATE

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION1_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q1

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION2_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q2

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION3_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q3

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION4_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q4

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION5_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q5

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION6_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q6

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION7_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q7

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION8_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q8

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION9_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q9

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION10_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q10

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION11_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q11

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION12_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q12

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION13_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q13

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION14_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q14

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION15_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q15

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION16_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q16

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION17_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q17

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION18_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q18

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION19_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q19

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION20_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q20

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION21_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q21

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION22_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q22

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION23_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q23

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION24_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q24

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION25_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q25

    WHERETEST_DATE = '2005/04/25'

    GROUP BY TEST_DATE

    You can change QUESTION16_SCORE = 0 to QUESTION16_SCORE < ?number for the right answer? for the questions with multiple answers

  • OK, so I ran that statement in the Query Analyzer, and I saw the output...now it is summing up the incorrect answers by question for each test...but what I need to do ( and I probably did not state this in the beginning), is to show the total # of incorrect answers for each question during a specific date range.

    EXAMPLE:

    So I could show my Managers the total # of incorrect answers for the questions during the month of April

    Do you know how I can tinker with this code to do that?

    Thank you...

  • SELECT

    SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION1_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q1

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION2_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q2

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION3_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q3

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION4_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q4

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION5_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q5

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION6_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q6

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION7_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q7

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION8_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q8

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION9_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q9

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION10_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q10

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION11_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q11

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION12_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q12

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION13_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q13

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION14_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q14

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION15_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q15

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION16_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q16

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION17_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q17

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION18_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q18

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION19_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q19

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION20_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q20

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION21_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q21

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION22_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q22

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION23_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q23

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION24_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q24

    , SUM(CASE WHEN QUESTION25_SCORE = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS Q25

    WHERE TEST_DATE BETWEEN '2005/03/25' AND '2005/04/25'

    GROUP BY TEST_DATE

  • I made the adjustment for the date...but my output still summing the individual question by test...when I really need is the sum for the incorrect questions for the dates...

    So I should see the sum of Q1 = 6

    sum of Q2 = 2

    Is this possible?

    There has to be something with the way it is grouped...

  • Ya mybad.. just remove that part of the query :

    GROUP BY TEST_DATE

  • Remi,

    Thank you so much for your help...it works great, and I learned some things too!

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