Posted by David Portas on 08/16/06 20:57

ian.l.guthrie@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a table consisting of two fields, OStype and OSversion, with
> entries like:
>
> OStype OSversion
> solaris 2.5
> solaris 2.6
> redhat 6.2
> redhat 6.2
> solaris 8
> redhat AS4
> solaris 10
> solaris 10
> redhat AS2.1
> redhat AS3
> redhat AS4
>
> I want to create a select statement that returns for each OS type, the
> total number of entries and for each version the total number of
> entries.
>
> In the example the result would be:
>
> OStype OStype Count OSversion OSversion Count
> solaris 5
> 2.5 1
> 2.6 1
> 8 1
> 10 2
> redhat 6
> 6.2 2
> AS2.1 1
> AS3 1
> AS4 2
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Ian

Try CUBE/ROLLUP:

SELECT ostype, osversion, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM tbl
GROUP BY ostype, osversion
WITH ROLLUP ;

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