I am writing a query for a SQLite database in which I need to find the best selling product for each region in a list of 6 regions. However, some of the regions don't have any product sold in which case I am supposed to output 'No Product Sold'. I am trying to use an ifnull() statement, but can't get it working.
Currently, my query is as follows
SELECT area.name AS region,
CASE ifnull(sales.area_id, 'No Product Sold')
END AS most_sales
FROM product
JOIN sales ON product.rank = sales.rank
GROUP BY area name
I also know I will likely need to use a nested query, but I'm not sure how yet.
Unfortunately I cannot base this off of rank, it has to be the item with the highest sales in the region. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
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I have a list of unique customers who have made transactions over a year (Jan – Dec). They have bought products using 3 different methods (card, cash, check). My goal is to build a multi-classification model to predict the method pf payment.
To do this I am engineering some Recency and Frequency features into my training data, but am having trouble with the following frequency count because the only way I know how to do it is in Excel using the Countifs and SUMIFs functions, which are inhibitingly slow. If someone can help and/or suggest another solution, it would be very much appreciated:
So I have a data set with 3 columns (Customer ID, Purchase Date, and Payment Type) that is sorted by Purchase Date then Customer ID. How do I then get a prior frequency count of payment type by date that does not include the count of the current row transaction or any future transactions that are > the Purchase Date. So basically I want to do a running count of each payment option, based on a unique Customer ID, and a date range that is < purchase date of that training row. In my head I see it as “crawling” backwards through the transactions and counting. Simplified screenshot of data frame is below with the 3 prior count columns I am looking to generate programmatically.
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This gives you the answer as a list of CustomerID, PurchaseDate, PaymentMethod and prior counts
SELECT CustomerID, PurchaseDate, PaymentMethod,
(
select count(CustomerID) from History T
where
T.CustomerID=History.CustomerID
and T.PaymentMethod=History.PaymentMethod
and T.PurchaseDate<History.PurchaseDate
)
AS PriorCount
FROM History;
You can save this query and use it as the source for a crosstab query to get the columnar format you want
Some notes:
I assumed "History" as the source table name - you can change the query above to use the correct source
To use this as a query, open a new query in design view. Close the window that asks what tables the query is to be built on. Open the SQL view of the query design - like design view, but it shows the SQL instead of the normal design interface. Copy the above into the SQL view.
You should now be able to switch to datasheet view and see the results
When the query is working to your satisfaction, save it with any appropriate name
Open a new query in design view
When you get the list of tables to include, switch to the list of queries and include the query you just saved
Change the query type to crosstab and update the query as needed to select rows, columns and values - look up "access crosstab queries" if you need more help.
Another tip to see what is happening here:
You can take the subquery - the parts inside the () above - and make
just that statement into it's own query, excluding the opening and closing (). Then you can look at it's design view to see what it does
Save it with an appropriate name and put it into the query above in place of the statement in () - then you can look at the design view.
Sometimes it's easier to visualize and learn from 2 queries strung together this way than to work with sub queries.
I am building a hierarchy in PowerPivot and have an issue that I want to solve.
The hierarchy has 6 levels and view 4 columns of data. The two lowest levels is ordernumber and product groups (on the ordernumber).
Issue:
When viewing the the order number level (level 5), the values should show the full order value, even though some product groups are filter out.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Honestly, this isn't a particularly well written question but I think I know what you are trying to do.
Lets say you have a table called 'SalesData' with columns; Order_Number, Product_Category, Product_Code and Sales.
The following measure would allow you to slice your data by Product_Category and see sales for all transactions that contained a product in that category:
=
CALCULATE (
SUM ( 'SalesData'[Sales] ),
ALL ( 'SalesData'[Product_Category], 'SalesData'[Product_Code] ),
VALUES ( 'SalesData'[Order_Number] )
)
Effectively what it does is opens up the product stuff so that the result isn't restricted to the thing you have sliced on but then filters your SUM() by a list of the order_ids that were included in the original selection.
Post back more details of your specific case and I can try and tighten it up....
I have to point out that I'm fairly new to reporting outside of Microsoft Access, and new to the site, so please bear with me!
Stripped down to essential items, my data object has:
CategoryID, ParentCategoryID, TransactionID, TransactionDate, SplitID, CurrencyID and Value.
I don't think this is relevant, but just in case -
A Split has a Category and a Value, with one to many belonging to a Transaction.
Multiple Splits may exist for the same Category & Transaction with
different, or the same, Value (to support different combinations of the other data
items I haven't listed).
A Transaction has a TransactionDate and a CurrencyID, so all Splits
belonging to a Transaction are for the same Currency.
A Category belongs to a Category recursively.
A Split may be assigned a Category at any level in the recursive hierarchy and the crux of my problem is to report Transaction / Split detail under the appropriate Category heading, with a sub-total to include all those details AND the totals of all child Categories.
So, I have a Detail row group holding all the ancilliary data items that aren't relevant and a TransactionIDGroup row group on the same row. I then have a CategoryGroup row group based on CategoryID with a Parent of ParentCategoryID to handle the recursive nature of the data and a CurrencyIDGroup column group to handle the possible multiple currencies involved.
Also in the CategoryIDGroup row group is a total row with the Value cell holding an expression.
If I leave that expression as =Sum(Fields!AccountValue.Value), the report quite nicely totals the Value for each Currency column for all the details specifically in each Category (the default scope), so I thought I needed to make the Sum 'Recursive'. However, you don't seem able to specify the optional Recursive parameter without specifying the scope as well.
If I specify scope as CategoryIDGroup, I get all zero sub-totals. If I use CurrencyIDGroup I get each one being the same report total for the Currency. Anything else either gets me a build error or a combined-currency report total.
The other issue I have is that the recursive child Category groups are reported sequentially underneath the parent Category group (so, outside the header row, detail rows and total row, and not within the group. However, if I can get the total to reflect the children as well as the details at that level, I'd be happy enough, even though it wouldn't seem to add up until you realised what was going on.
What I have in mind is something like:
Category A
Transaction 1 10/02/2011 ...................... £100.00
---------------------- £14.50
Transaction 2 18/03/2011 ...................... $159.34
Category Ai
Transaction 3 18/06/2011 ---------------------- £295.60
Total Category Ai £295.60
Total Category A £410.10 $159.34*
But what I get is this:
Category A
Transaction 1 10/02/2011 ...................... £100.00
---------------------- £14.50
Transaction 2 18/03/2011 ...................... $159.34
Total Category A £114.50 $159.34*
Category Ai
Transaction 3 18/06/2011 ---------------------- £295.60
Total Category Ai £295.60
I guess the fundamental question is - am I asking the impossible? Do I need to take a different approach, perhaps with sub-reports for the details? I've wondered about including a Sum of the values of the child Categories within the data object at each Category level, but is there something simple I'm missing?
Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated after several days tearing my hair out :)
I have no idea whether there was something simple I missed, but resolved the issue to my satisfaction by including another property in the data object, being the sum of all child categories for each currency, and including a new row to print the sum of that field. Just in case someone else hits just the same question!
You have been so helpful in the past that I keep coming back searching for help and learning.
This time I am trying to get all products that have a quantity greater than 1 and that are in stock (is_in_stock = 1)
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
//$products->addAttributeToSelect('*');
//SELECT `e`.*, `stock`.`qty` FROM `catalog_product_entity` AS `e` LEFT JOIN `cataloginventory_stock_item` AS `stock` ON stock.product_id = e.entity_id
$products->getSelect()->joinLeft(
array('stock'=>'cataloginventory_stock_item'),
'stock.product_id = e.entity_id',
array('stock.qty', 'stock.is_in_stock')
);
This returns qty and is_in_stock columns attached to the products table. You can test it as follows:
$products->getFirstItem()->getQty();
$products->getFirstItem()->getIsInStock();
The issue begins when I try to filter by qty and is_in_stock.
$products->addFieldToFilter(array(
array('Qty','gt'=>'0'),
array('Is_in_stock','eq'=>'1'),
));
This returns - Invalid attribute name never performing filtering. I am guessing it is trying search for e.qty but cannot find it.
So, I tried to filter differently:
$products->getSelect()->where("`qty` > 0");
$products->getSelect()->where("`is_in_stock` = 1");
This is not filtering as well even though, if you look at its sql query, (var_dump((string) $products->getSelect())), and run that query in phpMyAdmin, it works.
Alan Storm in his tutorial mentions that 'The database query will not be made until you attempt to access an item in the Collection'. So, I make the $products->getFirstItem() call but it still not executing the query or filtering in another words.
What am I doing wrong? Any ideas how to filter by attributes that are joined to the table?
Thank you again,
Margots
I would suggest that you try using $products->addAttributeToFilter... instead of $products->addFieldToFilter... - the addField method only works when the field is on the main table that you are querying (in this case catalog_product_entity). Because the inventory fields are in a joined table, you need to use addAttribute.
Hope this helps,
JD
After looking under the hood I learned that _selectAttributes instance field was not assigned in Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Collection_Abstract class and that is why get exception. A solution usually would be what Jonathan Day suggested above - add addAttributeToFilter() method, however. It will return error since it cannot find such attribute for catalog/product. (qty and in_invetory are in cataloginventory_stock_item). I found two solutions to my problem both required going different direction:
One involved pursuing a way to query the Select statement that I had set for product collection(see above) but somehow it was not resetting the collection with new product. WhenI copied that Sql statment in phpMyAdmin, it worked, so how to query that statement from product collection:
$stmt = $products->getConnection('core_write')->query($products->getSelect()->__toString());
while($rows = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
echo "<br>Product Id ".$rows['entity_id'];
}
Instead of using catalog/product entity table I used the flat table - cataloginventory_stock_item to accomplish the same thing
$stockItem = new Mage_CatalogInventory_Model_Stock_Item();
$stockItems->addQtyFilter('>',0);
$stockItems->addFieldToFilter('is_in_stock',array('eq'=>'1'));
Now there is a collection of all products with qty > 0 and that are in stock.
i have a content type event with following fields date,type and using fivestar module for voting. The type takes 3 possible values 'art', 'entertainment', 'iq'. i try to generate a block that should display top event (by votes) in each category. any one have idea ??
You should be able to do this relatively easy in a custom module, I have a hard time seeing how you would do this in views with the UI.
You need a query that looks something like this
SELECT nid FROM {voting_api} AS v
LEFT JOIN {content_content_type} AS c on v.content_id = c.nid
WHERE c.field_name = 'art'
AND v.function = 'count'
AND c.content_type = 'node'
ORDER BY v.value
LIMIT 1;
You need to run a query for each value, art, entertainment and iq. If you want to make it more reliable, you should use content_fields() and content_database_info() to get the table name and column name of your CCK field (which can change over time).