Question

I’m trying to do a sum of a count. I’m running the below query. I want a sum of BrowserCount however I want to return the datatable which is returned by this query. Is that possible should I be using a return value? Or is there another way? I realize there’s been a decent amount of posts on this but I couldn’t get this to run using them.

SELECT  UA.Browser_ID
      , B.Browser_Name_NM
      , COUNT(B.Browser_Name_NM) AS BrowserCount
FROM    llc.User_Agent_TB AS UA
        LEFT JOIN llc.Browser_TB AS B ON UA.Browser_ID = B.Browser_ID
GROUP BY B.Browser_Name_NM
      , UA.Browser_ID
ORDER BY BrowserCount DESC

This is sql server 2005 so I can’t do a group of a set. I also have tried to get a union of two queries to work and it keeps giving me a syntax error.

Answer 1

This might be what you’re after:

SELECT  UA.Browser_ID
  , B.Browser_Name_NM
  , COUNT(B.Browser_Name_NM) AS BrowserCount
FROM    llc.User_Agent_TB AS UA
    LEFT JOIN llc.Browser_TB AS B ON UA.Browser_ID = B.Browser_ID
GROUP BY B.Browser_Name_NM
  , UA.Browser_ID
WITH ROLLUP
ORDER BY BrowserCount DESC

See here for some more detailed examples, including how to show a more meaningful summary line

https://web.archive.org/web/20211020145951/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/073003-1.aspx