Question

I basically have 7 select statements that I need to have the results output into separate columns. Normally I would use a crosstab for this but I need a fast efficient way to go about this as there are over 7 billion rows in the table. I am using the vertica database system. Below is an example of my statements:

SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100101' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100101
SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100102' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100102
SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100103' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100103
SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100104' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100104
SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100105' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100105
SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100106' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100106
SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS '20100107' FROM event_log_facts WHERE date_dim_id=20100107

should return something like:

20100101 | 20100102 | 20100103 | 20100104 | 20100105 | 20100106 | 20100107
1234     | 1234     | 36564    | 45465    | 356754   | 3455     | 4556675

Answer 1

You could use a series of queries unioned together. Kind of ugly, but it should work

SELECT  
  COUNT(user_id) AS '20100101'  
 ,NULL AS '20100102'  
 ,NULL AS '20100103'  
 ,NULL AS '20100104'  
 ,NULL AS '20100105'  
FROM  
  event_log_facts  
WHERE  
  date_dim_id=20100101  
UNION  
SELECT  
  NULL AS '20100101'  
 ,COUNT(user_id) AS '20100102'  
 ,NULL AS '20100103'  
 ,NULL AS '20100104'  
 ,NULL AS '20100105'  
FROM   
  event_log_facts  
WHERE  
  date_dim_id=20100102  
UNION  
SELECT  
  NULL AS '20100101'  
 ,NULL AS '20100102'  
 ,COUNT(user_id) AS '20100103'  
 ,NULL AS '20100104'  
 ,NULL AS '20100105'  
FROM  
  event_log_facts  
WHERE  
  date_dim_id=20100103  

ETC…