A question about "case when" i have the following table create table test( id integer primary key, category text, rating integer ) the "rating" column takes value 1 to 5, I need to get number of 1 to 5 rated records for each category and for this i used the query, select category, sum(case when rating=1 then 1 else 0 end) as onestar, sum(case when rating=2 then 1 else 0 end) as twostar, sum(case when rating=3 then 1 else 0 end) as threestar, sum(case when rating=4 then 1 else 0 end) as fourstar, sum(case when rating=5 then 1 else 0 end) as fivestar from test1 group by category
i also tried the following query which also worked select category, sum(rating=1) as onestar, sum(rating==2) as twostar, //both =and == work sum(rating=3) as threestar, sum(rating=4) as fourstar, sum(rating=5) as fivestar from test1 group by category which of the queries is better? are the two queries just the same behind the scenes? Thanks, Karthik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users