Counting Occurences over multiple columns

I have searched the forums and found how to calculate the number of occurrences of a word in a single column.
I am working on a sales project and I need to calculate the number of occurrences for a specific sales agent in multiple columns. Then a total of the sales next to the occurrences
Column 1 will be the sales agent for a home buyer.
Column 2 will be the sales agent for a home seller.
I need to find out how many times a specific agent represents both buyers and sellers.
Then I need a total of all the sales for each of the agents.
I have very large tables with multiple categories for each sale.
Yvan you seem to be the guru.
Please help.
All the best,
Will

Will,
Jerry has given you a good solution in general terms but there are some ambiguities in your question.
For example, your question suggests there is transaction amount column, as one might expect, but did not specify if these amounts are listed in separate buyer/seller columns. The solution below assumes they are in a single column.
An auxiliary column (hidden) was added to the Data Table to determine whether or not an agent represented both buyer and seller. The agent's name appears in this column if he/she did, and the formula is:
=IF(OR(Sell Agt="",Buy Agt=""),"",Sell Agt)
The Summary table raises the question of whether the agent's amount is doubled when he/she represents both buyer and seller. Here again, an assumption was made, namely, that it does not. If this is incorrect, the last segment (after the "-" sign) of the formula below can be dropped:
=IF(A="","",SUMIF(Sales Data :: Sell Agt, A, Sales Data :: Trans Amt)+SUMIF(Sales Data :: Buy Agt, A, Sales Data :: Trans Amt)-SUMIF(Sales Data :: 'Buyer & Seller Rep', A, Sales Data :: Trans Amt))
And finally, the number of times an agent represented both buyer and seller:
=IF(COUNTIF(Sales Data :: 'Buyer & Seller Rep', A)=0,"",COUNTIF(Sales Data :: 'Buyer & Seller Rep', A))
I hope this represents your situation and that it answers your questions.
pw

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01-Jan-1996 00:00:00          PRESS_RELEASE           4             4
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20 UNION ALL SELECT TO_DATE('23/06/2000','dd/mm/yyyy') AS CDATE, 'Y' AS BROCHURE, 'Y' AS WEBSITE, 'N' AS DIRECT_MAIL, 'N' AS PRESS_RELEASE, 'N' AS JOURNAL_AD FROM DUAL
21 UNION ALL SELECT TO_DATE('13/09/2000','dd/mm/yyyy') AS CDATE, 'Y' AS BROCHURE, 'Y' AS WEBSITE, 'Y' AS DIRECT_MAIL, 'Y' AS PRESS_RELEASE, 'N' AS JOURNAL_AD FROM DUAL
22 )
23 SELECT * FROM (
24      SELECT cyear
25            ,ctype
26            ,RANK()       OVER (PARTITION BY cyear ORDER BY num_media DESC) ranking
27            ,DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY cyear ORDER BY num_media DESC) dense_ranking
28      FROM (SELECT TRUNC(CDATE,'Y') CYEAR
29                 ,'BROCHURE' CTYPE, SUM(DECODE(BROCHURE, 'Y', 1, 0)) NUM_MEDIA
30            FROM test
31            GROUP BY TRUNC(CDATE,'Y')
32            UNION ALL
33            SELECT TRUNC(CDATE,'Y') CYEAR
34                 ,'WEBSITE' CTYPE, SUM(DECODE(WEBSITE, 'Y', 1, 0))
35            FROM test
36            GROUP BY TRUNC(CDATE,'Y')
37            UNION ALL
38            SELECT TRUNC(CDATE,'Y') CYEAR
39                 ,'DIRECT_MAIL' CTYPE, SUM(DECODE(DIRECT_MAIL, 'Y', 1, 0))
40            FROM test
41            GROUP BY TRUNC(CDATE,'Y')
42            UNION ALL
43            SELECT TRUNC(CDATE,'Y') CYEAR
44                 ,'PRESS_RELEASE' CTYPE, SUM(DECODE(PRESS_RELEASE, 'Y', 1, 0))
45            FROM test
46            GROUP BY TRUNC(CDATE,'Y')
47            UNION ALL
48            SELECT TRUNC(CDATE,'Y') CYEAR
49                 ,'JOURNAL_AD' CTYPE, SUM(DECODE(JOURNAL_AD, 'Y', 1, 0))
50            FROM test
51            GROUP BY TRUNC(CDATE,'Y')
52           )
53      )
54 where RANKING <= 4
55* order by cyear desc, ranking
56 /
CYEAR                         CTYPE             RANKING DENSE_RANKING
01-Jan-2000 00:00:00          WEBSITE                 1             1
01-Jan-2000 00:00:00          BROCHURE                1             1
01-Jan-2000 00:00:00          DIRECT_MAIL             3             2
01-Jan-2000 00:00:00          PRESS_RELEASE           4             3
01-Jan-1999 00:00:00          BROCHURE                1             1
01-Jan-1999 00:00:00          WEBSITE                 1             1
01-Jan-1999 00:00:00          DIRECT_MAIL             3             2
01-Jan-1999 00:00:00          JOURNAL_AD              4             3
01-Jan-1999 00:00:00          PRESS_RELEASE           4             3
01-Jan-1998 00:00:00          BROCHURE                1             1
01-Jan-1998 00:00:00          WEBSITE                 1             1
01-Jan-1998 00:00:00          JOURNAL_AD              3             2
01-Jan-1998 00:00:00          PRESS_RELEASE           4             3
01-Jan-1998 00:00:00          DIRECT_MAIL             4             3
01-Jan-1997 00:00:00          WEBSITE                 1             1
01-Jan-1997 00:00:00          BROCHURE                2             2
01-Jan-1997 00:00:00          JOURNAL_AD              3             3
01-Jan-1997 00:00:00          DIRECT_MAIL             4             4
01-Jan-1996 00:00:00          BROCHURE                1             1
01-Jan-1996 00:00:00          WEBSITE                 2             2
01-Jan-1996 00:00:00          DIRECT_MAIL             3             3
01-Jan-1996 00:00:00          PRESS_RELEASE           4             4

Size of a specific table on disk? Queries over multiple (2) tablespaces?

I am looking for a way to find out (for Oracle 9.2.0.1.0).
How much space does each or a specific table require on disk?
(whether with indices or without is the other question).
And how much "payload" data is in each or a specific table?
Another question - of my team leader - is:
Is it possible to make queries over multiple (2) tablespaces?
I assume - no - am I right?
Thank you for precise answers as well as links to other threads in this forum (where I did not find it until now),
and chapters in online documentation - or other sources.
PS: I know SQL, PL/SQL a bit.
We have Oracle Enterprise Manager console and SQL*Plus console.

>
The table size can not be found in bytes precisely, but in number of blocks of a certain size allocated for this table (index etc.).
select segment_type,segment_name, Sum(Bytes)/1024 as kB from DBA_EXTENTS
where tablespace_name = 'xyz' group by segment_type,segment_name;
There are more blocks allocated for a table than space is needed by the current data amount.
I guess, that this table was once bigger and has been emptied a bit.
>
A table grows in extents that get filled then with new rows. The columns
blocks and bytes of user_tables get populated from dba_stats.
In below example, the table rows have filled up to MB_TABLE the extents:
SQL> select table_name,blocks*8/1024 as mb from user_tables order by 1;
TABLE_NAME                   MB_TABLE
CUSTOMERS            11.6015625
SALES                 278.96875
SQL> select segment_name,bytes/1024/1024 as mb from user_segments order by 1;
SEGMENT_NAME                 MB_SEGMENT
CUSTOMERS                    12
SALES                       285If you later on delete again from the tables, that does not deallocate extents nor remove the high water mark unless you reorganize the table:
SQL> select count(*) from customers;
COUNT(*)
     55500
SQL> delete from customers where rownum<25000;
24999 rows deleted.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> select segment_name,bytes/1024/1024 as mb from user_segments order by 1;
SEGMENT_NAME                 MB
CUSTOMERS                    12
SALES                       285
SQL> select table_name,blocks*8/1024 as mb from user_tables order by 1;
TABLE_NAME                   MB
CUSTOMERS            11.6015625
SALES                 278.96875
SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('ADAM','CUSTOMERS')
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select table_name,blocks*8/1024 as mb from user_tables order by 1;
TABLE_NAME                   MB
CUSTOMERS            11.6015625
SALES                 278.96875
SQL> alter table customers enable row movement;
Table altered.
SQL> alter table customers shrink space;
Table altered.
SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats('ADAM','CUSTOMERS')
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select segment_name,bytes/1024/1024 as mb from user_segments order by 1;
SEGMENT_NAME                 MB
CUSTOMERS                6.4375
SALES                       285
SQL> select table_name,blocks*8/1024 as mb from user_tables order by 1;
TABLE_NAME                   MB
CUSTOMERS             6.2265625
SALES                 278.96875Kind regards
Uwe
http://uhesse.wordpress.com

Result to be in multiple columns instead of one

Hi,
i have used the below sql :
select parent_id, max(sys_connect_by_path(name,'^')) History
from (select parent_id, name, row_number() over (partition by parent_id order by name) rn
from notes )
start with rn = 1
connect by prior rn = rn-1
and prior parent_id = parent_id
group by parent_id
order by parent_id
this gets me the 'HISTORY' row returned in a single column. Problem is if i have 5 HISTORY notes, they all appear in same column with delimiter ^.
Please help to modify query as to get History as multiple columns instead of 1
Below is example of sample data returned , NOTE: history could contain any amount of rows.
ID     HISTORY
1     ^TT updates requested^TT updates requested^Update on TT #104836
2     ^Call back actioned^Delivery Update^Internation Dialing ^TT Follow up (147023)
3     ^Queried poor signal strength
Idea case would be :
ID     HISTORY HISTORY1 HISTORY2
1     TT updates requested TT updates requested Update on TT #104836

Hi,
You might want to leave the results as one long string, but just add some spacing.
Right now you're using
sys_connect_by_path(name,'^')and getting output like
1 ^TT updates requested^TT updates requested^Update on TT #104836
2 ^Call back actioned^Delivery Update^Internation Dialing ^TT Follow up (147023)
3 ^Queried poor signal strengthwhich is as hard to read as an OTN posting that doesn't use \ tags. Naturally you're not going to insult your uses by asking them to read something like that.
If you use this instead:REPLACE ( sys_connect_by_path ( RPAD (name, 32)
               ,'^'
     , '^'
then the output will look like this:TT updates requested          TT updates requested          Update on TT #104836
Call back actioned          Delivery Update               Internation Dialing           TT Follow up (147023)
Queried poor signal strength
See this thread:
Re: Report count and sum from many rows into many columns
for various ways to deal with problems like this.

SELECT in SELECT returning multiple columns ?

10.2.0.3 version.
I am trying to tune this query
SELECT A.EMPLID, A.EFFDT, A.ACAD_PROG,
(SELECT A1.DESCR FROM PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL A1
WHERE A1.INSTITUTION = 'AUAO1' AND A1.ACAD_PROG = A.ACAD_PROG AND A1.EFFDT = (SELECT MAX (EFFDT) FROM PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL WHERE INSTITUTION = A1.INSTITUTION AND ACAD_PROG = A1.ACAD_PROG),
(SELECT A2.DESCRSHORT FROM PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL A2
WHERE A2.INSTITUTION = 'AUAO1' AND A2.ACAD_PROG = A.ACAD_PROG AND A2.EFFDT = (SELECT MAX (EFFDT) FROM PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL WHERE INSTITUTION = A2.INSTITUTION AND ACAD_PROG = A2.ACAD_PROG),
as you can see it reading the table PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL two time to get two cloumns DESCR (alias A1) and DESCRSHORT (alias A2) exactly with the same where condition.
I am trying to replace it with just one select returning multiple columns like this
SELECT A.EMPLID, A.EFFDT, A.ACAD_PROG,
(SELECT A1.DESCR, A1.DESCRSHORT FROM PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL A1
WHERE A1.INSTITUTION = 'AUAO1' AND A1.ACAD_PROG = A.ACAD_PROG AND A1.EFFDT = (SELECT MAX (EFFDT) FROM PS_ACAD_PROG_TBL WHERE INSTITUTION = A1.INSTITUTION AND ACAD_PROG = A1.ACAD_PROG),
but I am getting ORA-00913: too many values.
Please help on how to get around this. Thanks in advance.

William,
On similar lines I am struggling with the below query based on your suggestions.
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Aug 5 14:17:21 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> WITH arch_dup AS
2       (SELECT   a.file_id,
3                 a.sale_start,
4                 a.activity_start,
5                 a.activity_end,
6                 a.item_code_cust,
7                 a.division,
8                 (SELECT MAX (DISTINCT (NVL (b.advertised, 'No')))
9                    FROM ah_cust_gis_arch_stg b
10                   WHERE b.file_id = a.file_id
11                     AND NVL (b.sale_start, 'NULL') = NVL (a.sale_start, 'NULL')
12                     AND NVL (b.activity_start, 'NULL') = NVL (a.activity_start, 'NULL')
13                     AND NVL (b.activity_end, 'NULL') = NVL (a.activity_end, 'NULL')
14                     AND b.item_code_cust = a.item_code_cust
15                     AND b.division = a.division) advertised,
16                 COUNT (*)
17            FROM ah_cust_gis_arch_stg a
18           WHERE a.file_id = 209
19             AND a.status_id = 21
20        GROUP BY a.file_id, a.sale_start, a.activity_start, a.activity_end, a.item_code_cust, a.d
ivision
21          HAVING COUNT (*) > 1)
22 SELECT dup.*,
23         (SELECT activity_id
24            FROM (SELECT activity_id,
25                         ROW_NUMBER () OVER (ORDER BY (activity_retail / activity_mult)) rnk
26                    FROM ah_cust_gis_arch_stg
27                   WHERE status_id = 21
28                     AND NVL (sale_start, 'NULL') = NVL (dup.sale_start, 'NULL')
29                     AND NVL (activity_start, 'NULL') = NVL (dup.activity_start, 'NULL')
30                     AND NVL (activity_end, 'NULL') = NVL (dup.activity_end, 'NULL')
31                     AND item_code_cust = dup.item_code_cust
32                     AND division = dup.division
33                     AND file_id = 209
34                     AND UPPER (NVL (advertised, 'N')) = dup.advertised)
35           WHERE rnk = 1) activity_id
36    FROM arch_dup dup;
                   AND UPPER (NVL (advertised, 'N')) = dup.advertised)
ERROR at line 34:
ORA-00904: "DUP"."ADVERTISED": invalid identifierCan you throw some light on what to do to make the outer query columns available to inner query?
Thanks,
Raj.

How do I run a table over multiple pages?

Hi I write TV scripts using a simple two column table which can be many rows long - how can I get Pages to automatically run the table over multiple pages whilst still allowing me to cut and paste and rearrange the script? This is simple in Word and must work in pages but I can't work out how to get it to work. I've tried looking at the Page Break feature but it won't come up from the table?
many thanks

At this time, There is no way to drive tables in Pages with AppleScript.
Do your job in Numbers which allow that.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 6 février 2009 13:54:35)

How do i print multiple columns on 1 page in numbers

I think I am over thinking this but I have confused myself. I am using Numbers to create a spreadsheet of family names with their corresponding number. I would like to print multiple columns of names on one page to save paper but I can't figure how to do it. Will someone please help me???

Hi BestMommy,
Here is one way. Don't mess with your database. Create a new table for printing.
Database with a Header Row (named Table 1 as an example) might look like this:
Name
1
Name 1
2
Name 2
3
Name 3
4
Name 4
5
Name 5
6
Name 6
7
Name 7
8
Name 8
9
Name 9
10
Name 10
11
Name 11
12
Name 12
13
Name 13
14
Name 14
15
Name 15
New table for printing:
Name
Name
1
Name 1
8
Name 8
2
Name 2
9
Name 9
3
Name 3
10
Name 10
4
Name 4
11
Name 11
5
Name 5
12
Name 12
6
Name 6
13
Name 13
7
Name 7
14
Name 14
Formula in A2
=Table 1::A2
Formula in B2
=Table 1::B2
Formula in C2
=Table 1::A9
Formula in D2
=Table 1::B9
So it loops back from the bottom of a page to start a new column.
I made this example small for the pics, but obviously you could have more rows and columns per page.
Having created your table for printing, select it, Cut, add a new sheet and Paste. Print just that sheet.
Have a look at 'More Like This' at the bottom of this page. Trying to format page to print table in two columns Jerry suggests using Pages instead of Numbers.
Regards,
Ian.
Edit: Having created your table for printing, select it, Cut, add a new sheet and Paste. Print just that sheet. Ian.

How do I select multiple columns in a recordset

I am very new to Dreamweaver/PHP/MYSQL
I have created my recordset but I cant work out how I select multiple columns.
How do I select multiple columns, I want to search for data that is spread over different columns.
My recordset looks like this just now.
SELECT *
FROM names
WHERE nameone = john
I have 11 columns where the name john my or may not appear so how would I select all the columns. What would the recordset look like.
As I have said I,m very new to this and forgive me if what i have just said makes no sense.
Thanks

>I have 11 columns where the name john my
>or may not appear so how would I select all
>the columns. What would the recordset look like.
You could try a Full-Text search (if mysql supports it) but on the surface, this sounds like a badly designed data structure. What does your database and table design look like?

How Can I Put Multiple Columns in a Drop-Down Menu?

We are trying to put multiple columns in a drop-down menu, similar to what is on these web sites...
http://www.cabelas.com/
http://www.target.com/ (This site has the multiple columns on the Women, Home, Kitching & Dining, Toys, Electronics, and See More categories).
If anyone has any suggestions for coding, please reply.
Thank you.
Wil Radcliffe

As an <li> tag is not a block level element like a <p> or <div> tag you can store a <div> container within the <li> tag and create an element in that menu item and us the following tutorial to create multiple columns depending on the ordering:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists
Depending on your target browser you could also use the CSS3 column-count to define the amount of columns. But with just a quick glance at this I would say it only works in the the later versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE9+.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_column-count.asp

How can I display multiple column results of a sql query?

I'm wanting to display the results of a query selecting from multiple columns, but I can't seem to find an item type that will allow this. I've tried LOV, multiselect, display as text and others. Any ideas on how to do this. Here is my basic query:
Select ul.meaning,
rqa.submission_date,
rqa.location_num
from
cfa_rqa_doc_submit_dates rqa,
cfa_user_lookups ul
where
rqa.location_num in (Select location_num from cfa_current_locations_mv
where operator_person_id = :P1_PERSON_ID and substr(location_num,1,1) = '8')
and
ul.lookup_type_id='1269'
and
to_char(rqa.submission_date, 'month') = to_char(sysdate, 'month')
and
rqa.submission_date >= (SYSDATE-365)
and ul.lookup_ID= rqa.document_type_id
;

Hi,
Do you just wish to display the result of the query? If so, you can simply parse it out in HTML.
You can then choose if you want to use tables or css.
Multiple column layout in tables are based on <tr> and <td>.
<tr> is a table row, where <td> is a column.
All tags should be closed.
Example:
<table>
<tr>
<td>col1</td><td>col2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">spans over 2 cols</td>
</tr>
</table>If you want to do the same in css:
(Seems this forum removes the styles!):
float:left; width:50; << first div and 2 div (col 1 and col 2 style)
float:left;clear:both; width:100%; << clear both, double width (spans over 2)
<div>
<div style="float:left; width:50;">col1</div><div style="float:left;width:50%;">col2</div>
<div style="float:left;clear:both; width=100%;">Spans over 2 cols</div>
</div>The div might look more complicated, but if you refrain from styling in the tags them selves, you can define different styles in the .css file.
You need the clear:both to start a new line with the divs that float.
I usually run a dedicated "new line" div, without content.. (exception beeing the html-entities version of ' ' (& nbsp ; << without the spaces)).
eg.:
<div style="cls"> </div>Parsing out the values from the PL SQL you do like so:
begin
declare
cursor c_search is
Select ul.meaning,
rqa.submission_date,
rqa.location_num
from
cfa_rqa_doc_submit_dates rqa,
cfa_user_lookups ul
where
rqa.location_num in (Select location_num from cfa_current_locations_mv
where operator_person_id = :P1_PERSON_ID and substr(location_num,1,1) = '8')
and
ul.lookup_type_id='1269'
and
to_char(rqa.submission_date, 'month') = to_char(sysdate, 'month')
and
rqa.submission_date >= (SYSDATE-365)
and ul.lookup_ID= rqa.document_type_id
begin
htp.p('<div style="width:80%;">');
for v_search in c_search loop
htp.p('<div style="float:left;clear:none;">'||v_search.location_num||'</div>');
htp.p('<div style="float:left;clear:none;">'||v_search.submission_date||'</div>');
end loop;
htp.p('</div>');
end;
end;Ps. hope I understood you correctly, also this code is untested.. but I hope it can still help.
Edited by: Olav Alexander Mjelde on May 12, 2010 9:36 AM

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