I am practicing SQL from a cars database and I have the following CAR table/view and I need to select the brand which sells more cars than engines/motorcycles. This means that I have to select the rows where only UNIT_SOLD for CAR type is greater than the value for ENGINE OR MOTORCYCLE.
BRAND UNIT_SOLD TYPE ACURA 1 MOTORCYCLE CHEVY 3 ENGINE CHEVY 1 CAR DODGE 1 ENGINE FORD 1 MOTORCYCLE FORD 1 ENGINE FORD 3 CAR NISSAN 1 MOTORCYLE NISSAN 1 ENGINE NISSAN 2 CAR TOYOTA 1 MOTORCYCLE TOYOTA 3 CAR VOLVO 3 MOTORCYCLE VW 2 CAR
For example, in the previous example I have to return:
FORD NISSAN TOYOTA VW
explanation: the previous brands sells more cars than engine/motorcycle. CHEVY is not considered due that they sells 3 engine and only 1 car.
I have been trying to approach the problem with conditional SELECT statements, however I don not know if that is a good approach.
Thanks so much.
SELECT BRAND FROM CARS A WHERE A.TYPE = 'CAR' AND A.UNIT_SELLS > (SELECT B.UNIT_SELLS FROM CARS B WHERE B.TYPE = 'ENGINE' AND A.MAKER=B.MAKER) OR A.UNIT_SELLS > (SELECT B.UNIT_SELLS FROM CARS B WHERE B.TYPE = 'MOTORCYCLE' AND A.BRAND=B.BRAND); SELECT BRAND FROM CARS A WHERE A.TYPE = 'CAR' AND A.UNIT_SELLS > (SELECT B.UNIT_SELLS FROM CARS B WHERE B.TYPE = 'ENGINE' AND A.MAKER=B.MAKER) OR A.UNIT_SELLS > (SELECT B.UNIT_SELLS FROM CARS B WHERE B.TYPE = 'MOTORCYCLE' AND A.BRAND=B.BRAND);
Currently I am able to get the rows where CAR unit_sold ar greater, however still I am not able to get those rows where any number of cars are sold and they do not have any motorcycle/engine sold.
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Answer
Using conditional aggregation you can get each total and compare.
SELECT brand, -- just for debug SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'CAR' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END) as total_cars, SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'ENGINE' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END) as total_engines, SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'MOTORCYCLE' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END) as total_motorcycles FROM cars GROUP BY brand HAVING SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'CAR' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END) > SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'ENGINE' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END) AND SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'CAR' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END) > SUM(CASE WHEN TYPE = 'MOTORCYCLE' THEN UNIT_SOLD ELSE 0 END)
OUTPUT
| brand | total_cars | total_engines | total_motorcycles | |--------|------------|---------------|-------------------| | FORD | 3 | 1 | 1 | | NISSAN | 2 | 1 | 0 | | TOYOTA | 3 | 0 | 1 | | VW | 2 | 0 | 0 |