Question

I’m in over my head with this query. I have a table which looks something like this (simplified):

Date         Weight kg
-------------------
2012-04-16     12.4
2012-04-17      9.6
2012-04-16      5.4
2012-04-18      2.8
2012-04-16      4.5
...             ...

I want the query to return this result:

Week.no.  <3kg  3-7kg   >7kg
----------------------------
16         2.8    9.9   22.0
...        ...    ...   ....

This is what I have so far:

SELECT *, CONCAT(WEEK(`Date`)) AS Week, SUM(`Weight`) AS TotalWeight,
   (SELECT SUM(`Weight`) FROM tbl_fangster WHERE `Weight` < 3 AND
   `Date` >= '2012-04-01 00:00:00' AND `Date` <= '2012-04-30 00:00:00'
   AND `Species` = 'Salmon' ) AS SumSmall
FROM tbl_fangster
WHERE `Date` >= '2012-04-01 00:00:00'
AND `Date` <= '2012-04-30 00:00:00'
AND `Species` = 'Salmon'
GROUP BY CONCAT(WEEK(`Date`))

but SumSmall returns the same number on each row, namely the total SumSmall rather than the SumSmall for each week. I’ve tried to copypaste my GROUP clause into the subquery, but it didn’t work.

Answer 1

Use a CASE statement to handle the various conditions.

SELECT *, CONCAT(WEEK(`Date`)) AS Week, SUM(`Weight`) AS TotalWeight,
       SUM(CASE WHEN Weight < 3 THEN Weight ELSE 0 END) AS SumSmall,
       SUM(CASE WHEN Weight >= 3 AND Weight <= 7 THEN Weight ELSE 0 END) AS SumMedium,
       SUM(CASE WHEN Weight > 7 THEN Weight ELSE 0 END) AS SumLarge
FROM tbl_fangster
WHERE `Date` >= '2012-04-01 00:00:00'
AND `Date` <= '2012-04-30 00:00:00'
AND `Species` = 'Salmon'
GROUP BY CONCAT(WEEK(`Date`))