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PostgreSQL: Multiple GROUP BY using GROUPING SETS in Single SQL Query

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In this post, I am sharing one demonstration of PostgreSQL GROUPING SETS.
This is very useful for PostgreSQL Database Developers who require to perform multiple GROUP BY in one single query.

Now take one example, you want to find the count of Employee based on two columns: Employee Department , Employee Joining Year.
For this query, you have to write different two queries and If you want to combine results of both the query, you should use UNION clause.

But using GROUPING SETS, we can prepare this result into one single query.

Below is a full demonstration of this:

Create a table with Sample data:

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CREATE TABLE tbl_Employees
(
EmpID INT
,EmpName CHARACTER VARYING
,EmpDepartment CHARACTER VARYING
,JoiningDate TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE
);
 
INSERT INTO tbl_Employees
VALUES
(1,'Anvesh','Database','2012-09-06')
,(2,'Roy','Animation','2012-10-08')
,(3,'Martin','JAVA','2013-12-25')
,(4,'Eric','JAVA','2014-01-26')
,(5,'Jenny','JAVA','2014-05-20')
,(6,'Kavita','Database','2014-12-12')
,(7,'Marlin','SQL','2015-08-08')
,(8,'Mahesh','PHP','2016-06-16');

Count of Employee, Group By Department column:

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SELECT
EmpDepartment
,COUNT(1) AS EmployeeCount
FROM tbl_Employees
GROUP BY EmpDepartment;

Count of Employee, Group By Joining Year:

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SELECT
EXTRACT(YEAR FROM JoiningDate) AS JoiningYear
,COUNT(1) AS EmployeeCount
FROM tbl_Employees
GROUP BY EXTRACT(YEAR FROM JoiningDate);

GROUP BY above two queries using GROUPING SETS:

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SELECT
EmpDepartment
,EXTRACT(YEAR FROM JoiningDate) AS JoiningYear
,COUNT(1) AS EmployeeCount
FROM tbl_Employees
GROUP BY GROUPING SETS (EmpDepartment,EXTRACT(YEAR FROM JoiningDate));

The Result:

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EmpDepartment | JoiningYear | EmployeeCount
---------------------------------------------
Animation 1
Database 2
JAVA 3
PHP 1
SQL 1
2012 2
2013 1
2014 3
2015 1
2016 1

Aug 18, 2016Anvesh Patel
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Comments: 1
  1. Bruno Felipe
    August 18, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    Nice post!!! Thanks very much!

Anvesh Patel
Anvesh Patel

Database Engineer

August 18, 2016 PostgreSQLAnvesh Patel, database, database research and development, dbrnd, group by, Grouping SETS, plpgsql, Postgres Query, postgresql, PostgreSQL Administrator, PostgreSQL Error, PostgreSQL Programming, PostgreSQL Tips and Tricks
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