Question

I have a table that I’d like to run some calculations on but this select statement is above my oracle wheelhouse.

I wanted to attempt (as much of this) in oracle. But ultimately this will end up getting run through php to get output to the screen.

This is for Oracle 8i

I have 4 important pieces of data – (Customer Id, New_Item, Suggested_net, and Volume by year)

customer_id = #
new_item = 0 or 1
suggested_net = #
year_1_n =  #
year_2_n =  #
year_3_n =  #
year_1_e =  #
year_2_e =  #
year_3_e =  #

new_items = 0 correlates only to year_1_e, year_2_e, year_3_e

new_items = 1 correlates only to year_1_n, year_2_n, year_3_n

Here’s an example

customer_id, new_item, suggested_net, year_1_n, year_2_n, year_3_n, year_1_e, year_2_e, year_3_e

2, 0, 4.25, null, null, null, 100, 100, 100;
2, 0, 5.25, null, null, null, 100, 100, 100;
3, 0, 2.50, null, null, null, 100, 100, 100;
1, 0, 3.50, null, null, null, 100, 100, 100;
2, 1, 5.99, 100, 200, 300, null, null, null;
3, 1, 4.99, 200, 400, 600, null, null, null;

So I need to get this info:
For each row, add the volumes up (year_x…) * suggested_net, Then add that amount to a grouped customer_id by new_item = 0 or 1.

So using the above table

Customer 2, new_item = 0 would have a sum of (1275 + 1575)
Customer 1, new_item = 0 would have a sum of 1050
Customer 2, new_item = 1 would have a sum of 3594

etc. etc.

Now this may or may not be possible or efficient to do in a select statement, but like I said I wanted to do as much of the heavy lifting with oracle, the rest I can handle with php.

Answer 1

SELECT Coustomer_Id,
       new_item,
       SUM((CASE WHEN new_item = 1 THEN year_1_n + year_2_n + year_3_n 
                 WHEN new_item = 0 THEN year_1_e + year_2_e + year_3_e
            END ) * suggested_net) AS TotalSum
  FROM Table1
 GROUP BY Coustomer_Id,
       new_item

OR

SELECT Coustomer_Id,
       new_item,
       SUM(DECODE(new_item, 1, year_1_n + year_2_n + year_3_n 
                          , 0, year_1_e + year_2_e + year_3_e
                          , 0) * suggested_net) AS TotalSum
  FROM Table1
 GROUP BY Coustomer_Id,
          new_item