Question

I’m currently playing with the query

SELECT sex, count(sex) as [count], problem1, problem2, problem3
from myTable
group by sex, problem1, problem2, problem3
order by sex, problem1, problem2, problem3

and this will give me a count of all possible bit cominbations for each sex (1, 1,1 or 1,01) etc

Is there any way I can use a union query to get the TOTAL number of males and females in an extra column?

so

sex count problem1 problem2 problem3 (count of sex goes here)

If I can’t do that for both sexes, is there a way I could do it for just one?

edited: the last column, total# of women is what I want to add.

Answer 1

You could achieve this using a temporary table. One note though: Your counts will be repeated for each row of a particular sex.

CREATE TABLE #Temp
(
    sex varchar(10), -- or whatever datatype you are using
    totalCount INT
)

INSERT INTO #Temp
(
    sex,
    totalCount
)
SELECT
    sex,
    count(1)
FROM
    myTable
GROUP BY
    sex

SELECT m.sex, count(m.sex) as [count], m.problem1, m.problem2, m.problem3, t.totalCount
from myTable AS m
JOIN #Temp AS t
ON t.sex = m.sex
group by m.sex, m.problem1, m.problem2, m.problem3, t.totalCount
order by m.sex, m.problem1, m.problem2, m.problem3, t.totalCount