Thread: Not able to understand how to write group by

Not able to understand how to write group by

From
Arup Rakshit
Date:
Hi,

I am working on web development project. There I am using this awesome DB. Let
me tell you first the schema that I am having associated the problem.

I am having a table *users* - which has many fields. Out of them, the one I
need here is *gender*. This column can have value "f"/"m"/"n".

I have a table called *measures*. This table contains all possible answers of
questions lies in the table called *daily_actions*. It has a foreign key
columns as *daily_action_id*.

I have a table called *daily_actions*. It has a field *question* and several
other fields too.

I have a table called *daily_action_answers*. It has  foreign keys called
"user_id", "daily_action_id" and "measure_id". Another field is *value* and
"day". *day* is a _date_ field.



SELECT users.gender,count(*) as participant,avg(daily_action_answers.value) as
value
FROM "users" INNER JOIN "daily_action_answers" ON
"daily_action_answers"."user_id" = "users"."id"
INNER JOIN "measures" ON "measures"."id" = "daily_action_answers"."measure_id"
WHERE (((daily_action_answers.day between now() and <last_date_of_year>) and
daily_action_answers.daily_action_id = 1))
GROUP BY users.gender, measures.option

This is producing the below

gender  |    participants  |   value
   n                   2                  12
   n                   1                  3
   m                  1                   4
   m                  4                  12
   f                    3                  23
   f                   4                  15

Here n.m,f it comes 2 times, because the possible answer is 2. That's the
problem with my current query. I don't understand which average value for
which answer.

Can we make the output as below ?

gender    participants       answer1_avg   answer2_avg
n                      3                     12                  3
m                      5                     4                  12
f                       7                    15                    23


Please let me know if you need any more information on this ?

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Regards,
Arup Rakshit
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