Question

I have this query…

SELECT SUM(brownlow_votes) AS votes, 
player_id, 
player_name, 
player_team, 
COUNT(*) AS vote_count 
FROM afl_brownlow_phantom, afl_playerstats 
WHERE player_id=brownlow_player 
AND brownlow_match=player_match 
GROUP BY player_id 
ORDER BY votes DESC LIMIT 50

So “votes” becomes the number of votes a player has, “vote_count” becomes the number of times (matches in which) a player has been voted for. This works fine.

However, I have another column called “brownlow_lock” which is either blank, or ‘Y’. How do I get the number of occurances of ‘Y’? I know I could solve this changing it to 0 or 1 and just doing a SUM() but I don’t want to have to go and edit the tons of pages that are inserting data.

Answer 1

If I have understood you correctly you just need to add

COUNT(CASE WHEN brownlow_lock='Y' THEN 1 END) AS Cnt

to your query