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    templeowls is offline Competent Performer
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    Best way to identify an percent from data

    So I have a table with a column full of either 'yes' or 'no' responses. I'm trying to figure out the cleanest way for a query to simply show 'here's the percentage of fields in this column that are yes'



    I know it can be done, but again, I'm trying to find the simplest way to do this with the smallest amount of queries to get to the desired outcome.

    Any suggestions?

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    kd2017 is offline Well, I tried at least.
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    Maybe something like
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    SELECT count(*) / (SELECT count(*) FROM some_table) FROM some_table WHERE some_column='yes'

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    Q1 to sum grand totals,

    Q2 to do the groups and use Q1 to calculate the %.
    in the Q2 query, pull in your data table/qry and Q1 qry.

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    Since no real example provide I'm assuming you field is a yes/no field with a format property of yes/no. So not tested but perhaps

    SELECT -sum(myfield) / count(*) FROM some_table

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    kd2017 is offline Well, I tried at least.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CJ_London View Post
    Since no real example provide I'm assuming you field is a yes/no field with a format property of yes/no. So not tested but perhaps

    SELECT -sum(myfield) / count(*) FROM some_table
    Clever! I don't know why but little tricks like this get me excited

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    CJ_London is offline VIP
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    there is a lot than can be done with SQL. For example use of non standard (non-equi) joins are often not investigated because they can't be displayed in the query GUI, only in the sql window. Can often be done using a cartesian query in the query GUI, but much slower for large datasets.

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