Howdy, Meike.
Not sure if this is what you want, but
if you write
SELECT "sample site" , COUNT("date")
FROM samples
GROUP BY "sample site"
It will return the number of surveys for each one of the site.
Ain't I right?
Best,
Oliver
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: [NOVICE] Postgresql-query for absolute beginner
Hey folks,
as you may have guessed from the title, Im an absolute beginner using PostgreSQL and I need some help. I have a table with the columns country (text), sample site (text) and date (timestamp with time zone):
country sample site date
AA a1 01.01.2000
AA a1 12.02.1999
AA a2 01.01.2000
BB b1 23.04.1984
BB b2 05.05.2000
BB b3 01.01.2000
CC c1 15.03.1998
CC c1 24.10.2002
CC c2 15.03.1998
What I want to know now is how often the different sampling sites were tested. How do I have to write my query? I tried using something like
Select country, sample site, count (date) from samples
But the result was rubbish. I could Imagine that I have to create a loop for this query (the table has overall more than 1 mio rows) to get a result table with a list of sampling sites and the number of surveys for each of them.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Yours, Meike