Question

i have a table named attendance with 2 attributes (id, remarks). i want to display the tally of absence or late per id from the attendance table.

Attendance Table
|ID         | Remarks       |
=============================
|1          | Absent        |
|1          | Late          |
|2          | Absent        |
|2          | Absent        |
|3          | Late          |

Sample Output
|ID         | Absent   | Late    |
==================================
|1          | 1        | 1       |
|2          | 2        |         |
|3          |          | 1       |

currently, i can only output 2 columns, (ID and Absent) or (ID and Late) using this code:

SELECT id, count(remarks) AS Absent 
FROM attendance 
WHERE remarks = 'Absent' 
GROUP BY id;

i can’t display absent and late column simultaneously.. please help. thanks.

Answer 1

This is basically a PIVOT. If you do not have access to a PIVOT function then, you can replicate it with an aggregate function and a CASE statement:

select id,
  sum(case when remarks = 'Absent' then 1 else 0 end) Absent,
  sum(case when remarks = 'Late' then 1 else 0 end) Late
from attendance
group by id

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

Or you can use COUNT():

select id,
  count(case when remarks = 'Absent' then 1 else null end) Absent,
  count(case when remarks = 'Late' then 1 else null end) Late
from attendance
group by id;

See SQL Fiddle with Demo