Question

How to find data for the following query

Original Source question 89

Table structure:
Product(Maker, Model, Type)

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Task:
Find out those makers who have the most number of models in the
Product table as well as those who have the least number of models.
Output: maker, number of models

Hints given in question are GROUP BY, HAVING and IN

I tried various ways to find this basically what I came up with is I need to use Max(COUNT(model))

Result should be

maker   qty 
A        7 --max
C        1 --min

One solution I came up with is

select maker, count(ps.model) as Count from product as ps
group by ps.maker
having count(ps.model) in
(
select max(cnt) from (select count(model) as cnt from product group by maker)t
union
select min(cnt) from (select count(model) as cnt from product group by maker)t
)

Is there any other way.

Answer 1

If you are using SQL Server 2008, you can simplify it with this: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!3/25ba8/7

with counts as
(
  select maker, count(ps.model) as Count from product as ps
  group by ps.maker
)
select cx.*
from counts cx
join
(
  select min(count) as lo, max(count) as hi
  from counts
) as hi_lo 
on cx.count = hi_lo.lo or cx.count = hi_lo.hi;