I have an typical CUSTOMER/ORDERS set of tables and I want to display the total percentage of sales a particular customer is responsible for. I can get the total number of orders in the system like so:
SELECT COUNT(order_id) FROM orders
And I can get the the total number of orders made by the customer like so:
SELECT COUNT(order_id) FROM orders WHERE cust_id = 541
How can I combine these into a single query that returns the percentage of sales for a particular customer? Thanks!
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Answer
MySQL:
SELECT ROUND( 100.0 * ( SUM(IF(cust_id = 541, 1, 0)) / COUNT(order_id) ), 1) AS percent_total FROM orders;
Edit
I guess it helps if I would have noticed the postgres tag. I thought it was a MySQL question.
PostgreSQL:
SELECT ROUND( 100.0 * ( SUM(CASE WHEN cust_id = 541 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)::numeric / COUNT(order_id) ), 1) AS percent_total FROM orders;
P.S. My PostgreSQL is rusty, so if the MySQL query works on PostgreSQL I’d like to know 🙂
Edit 2
I can’t stress enough to be wary of the count(*) suggestion below. You generally want to avoid this with PostgreSQL.