> > Thanks Martijn, Barry, > > I was wondering whether it could be done in a single query. > > I want users to decide how many countries they want, > > and show world sales on top of report followed by the N countries. > > This to enable relative country shares, both for reporting and > > graphs. > > For example, Top-10 countries + Rest in a pie graph. > > So I need one additional row in the Top-N query. > > > > > >>Anybody with smart ideas to get Top-N rows plus the rest row ? > > >>Suppose I have ranked sales values descending for 2005, like: > > >>Select Country, Sum(Sales) AS Sales From myTable > > >>Where Year=2005 Group By Country > > >>Order By Sales DESC LIMIT 25; > > >> > > >>Then I get Top-25 sales rows, but I also want a rest row, > > >>where all 26 rows represent the world total. > > >>I'm using MySQL 5.0.15. > > > > > > What about just removing the LIMIT clause? > > > > > > Or, alternatively, do a skip of the first 25 rows? (check the docs > > > for that) > > > > > > > > > Do you want to get this in a single result, or additional result? > > Have you considered using the WITH ROLLUP modifier? > > Select Country > , Sum(Sales) AS Sales > >From myTable > Where Year=2005 > Group By Country WITH ROLLUP > Order By Sales DESC > LIMIT 25; > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html
That sounds like what he needs, excellent :-) Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development tool for Firebird and more! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
