Re: apply limit to sum function

On 04/27/2012 12:27 PM, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
>   Is it possible to apply the 'sum' function, but limit the value and
>   then show the tuples of the result? For example, the table has:
>
>   text1, 10
>   text2, 12,
>   text3, 23
>
>   Instead of applying the 'sum' function to all values, the request is
>   to be able to select those values that result in a sum of a target
>   value (e.g.<  22) and then return the tuples.
>
Yes. Um, I think. I am trying to decipher exactly what you want. If you
just want categories that sum to more than some amount then you can use
"having":

select somelabel, sum(somevalue) from sometable group by somelabel
having sum(somevalue) > yourtargetvalue;

If you want all the original records that contribute to a sum of more
than some value, you can use the above as the basis on which to select
records having that label. There are numerous variants of this.

One way is to use the above as a subselect. Another is with common table
expressions:

with labelcount as
     (select somelabel, sum(somevalue) as groupsum from sometable group
by somelabel)
select * from
sometable
join labelcount on sometable.somelabel=labelcount.somelabel
where labelcount.groupsum > yourtargetvalue;

Yet another uses windowing functions:

select * from (
select *, sum(somevalue) over (partition by somelabel) as labelcount
from sometable) as foo
where labelcount > yourtargetvalue;

Cheers,
Steve