Lesson 4: Aggregations

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Aggregate Functions

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 Objectives

What are Aggregate

Functions

Useful Aggregate Functions

Examples

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 Aggregate Functions

ProductID CityID MonthID SalesQuantity SalesValue

1 1 201512 100 8000.00
1 2 201605 33 5640.00
1 6 201511 600 7590.00
1 7 201603 55 3433.00
1 9 201601 659 9432.00

Total Sales Quantity :

SUM(SalesValue) = 8000 + 5640 + 7590 + 3433 + 9432
= 34, 095
Sum aggregate function sums up all values in SalesValue column

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 What is Aggregate Function?

Find the total quantities sold through Internet Sales in

the year 2006

Column

Select SUM (OrderQuantity) as TotalQuantity from

FactInternetSales where OrderDateKey/10000 = 2006

SUM is an aggregate function here. It aggregates all the

values in OrderQuantity column to return a single value.
Type of aggregation is defined by the function used, in
this case it is sum

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 Useful Aggregate Functions

Function Meaning

SUM() Returns sum of all the values in the column

AVG() Returns average of all the values in the column

MIN() Returns the lowest/minimum of all the values in the column

MAX() Returns the highest/maximum of all the values in the column

COUNT() Returns the count of number of values in the column

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 Example – AVG() Function

ProductID CityID MonthID SalesQuantity SalesValue

1 1 201512 100 8000.00
1 2 201605 33 5640.00
1 6 201511 600 7590.00
1 7 201603 55 3433.00
1 9 201601 659 9432.00

Average Sales Value :

AVG(SalesValue) = (8000 + 5640 + 7590 + 3433 + 9432)/5
= 6819

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 Example – AVG() Function

Write a query to fetch the average unit price of the

Intenet sales recorded in year 2005 for SalesTerritory 6

Select AVG(UnitPrice) as Average_Price from

FactInternetSales where OrderDateKey/10000 =
2005 and SalesTerritorykey=6

AVG is an aggregate function here. It returns the

average of all the values in UnitPrice column

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 Example – MIN() Function

ProductID CityID MonthID SalesQuantity SalesValue

1 1 201512 100 8000.00
1 2 201605 33 5640.00
1 6 201511 600 7590.00
1 7 201603 55 3433.00
1 9 201601 659 9432.00

Minimum Sales Quantity :

MIN(SalesQuantity) = 33

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 Example – MIN() Function

Write a query to fetch the minimum of

SalesAmountQuota for year 2006 from FactSalesQuota

Select MIN(SalesAmountQuota) as Min_Quota

from FactSalesQuota where CalendarYear=2006

MIN is an aggregate function here. It returns the

minimum of all the values in SalesAmountQuota
column

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 Example – MAX() Function

ProductID CityID MonthID SalesQuantity SalesValue

1 1 201512 100 8000.00
1 2 201605 33 5640.00
1 6 201511 600 7590.00
1 7 201603 55 3433.00
1 9 201601 659 9432.00

Maximum Sales Quantity :

MAX(SalesQuantity) = 659

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 Example – MAX() Function

Write a query to fetch the maximum of

SalesAmountQuota for year 2006 from FactSalesQuota

Select MAX(SalesAmountQuota) as Max_Quota

from FactSalesQuota where CalendarYear=2006

MAX is an aggregate function here. It returns the

minimum of all the values in SalesAmountQuota
column

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 Example – Count() Function

ProductID CityID MonthID SalesQuantity SalesValue

1 1 201512 100 8000.00
1 2 201605 33 5640.00
1 6 201511 600 7590.00
1 7 201603 55 3433.00
1 9 201601 659 9432.00

Count Records :
Count(*) = 5

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 Example – COUNT() Function

Write a query to fetch the count of Silver coloured

products from DimProduct table

Could use wildcard character * to refer to all the

columns or could use the specific column name

Select Count(*) as Silver_Products from

DimProduct where Color = Silver
Count is an aggregate function here. It returns the
number of rows returned by the query

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