practical-sql-2/Chapter_06/Chapter_06.sql

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-- Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data, 2nd Edition
-- by Anthony DeBarros

-- Chapter 6 Code Examples
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-- Listing 6-1: Basic addition, subtraction and multiplication with SQL

SELECT 2 + 2;    -- addition
SELECT 9 - 1;    -- subtraction
SELECT 3 * 4;    -- multiplication

-- Listing 6-2: Integer and decimal division with SQL

SELECT 11 / 6;   -- integer division
SELECT 11 % 6;   -- modulo division
SELECT 11.0 / 6; -- decimal division
SELECT CAST(11 AS numeric(3,1)) / 6;

-- Listing 6-3: Exponents, roots and factorials with SQL

SELECT 3 ^ 4;    -- exponentiation
SELECT |/ 10;    -- square root (operator)
SELECT sqrt(10); -- square root (function)
SELECT ||/ 10;   -- cube root
SELECT 4 !;      -- factorial

-- Order of operations

SELECT 7 + 8 * 9; 	-- answer: 79
SELECT (7 + 8) * 9;	-- answer: 135

SELECT 3 ^ 3 - 1;   -- answer: 26
SELECT 3 ^ (3 - 1); -- answer: 9

-- Listing 6-4: Selecting Census population estimate columns with aliases

SELECT county_name AS county,
       state_name AS state,
       pop_est_2019 AS pop,
       births_2019 AS births,
       deaths_2019 AS deaths,
       international_migr_2019 AS int_migr,
       domestic_migr_2019 AS dom_migr,
       residual_2019 AS residual
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

SELECT * FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-5: Subtracting two columns in us_counties_pop_est_2019

SELECT county_name AS county,
       state_name AS state,
       births_2019 AS births,
       deaths_2019 AS deaths,
       births_2019 - deaths_2019 AS natural_increase
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-6: Checking Census data totals

SELECT county_name AS county,
       state_name AS state,
       pop_est_2019 AS pop,
       pop_est_2018 + births_2019 - deaths_2019 + 
           international_migr_2019 + domestic_migr_2019 +
           residual_2019 AS components_total,
       pop_est_2019 - (pop_est_2018 + births_2019 - deaths_2019 + 
           international_migr_2019 + domestic_migr_2019 +
           residual_2019) AS difference
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019
ORDER BY difference DESC;

-- Listing 6-7: Calculating the percent of a county's area that is water

SELECT county_name AS county,
       state_name AS state,
       area_water::numeric / (area_land + area_water) * 100 AS pct_water
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019
ORDER BY pct_water DESC;


-- Listing 6-8: Calculating percent change

CREATE TABLE percent_change (
    department text,
    spend_2019 numeric(10,2),
    spend_2022 numeric(10,2)
);

INSERT INTO percent_change
VALUES
    ('Assessor', 178556, 179500),
    ('Building', 250000, 289000),
    ('Clerk', 451980, 650000),
    ('Library', 87777, 90001),
    ('Parks', 250000, 223000),
    ('Water', 199000, 195000);

SELECT department,
       spend_2019,
       spend_2022,
       round( (spend_2022 - spend_2019) /
                    spend_2019 * 100, 1 ) AS pct_change
FROM percent_change;

-- Listing 6-9: Using sum() and avg() aggregate functions

SELECT sum(pop_est_2019) AS county_sum,
       round(avg(pop_est_2019), 0) AS county_average
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-10: Testing SQL percentile functions

CREATE TABLE percentile_test (
    numbers integer
);

INSERT INTO percentile_test (numbers) VALUES
    (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6);

SELECT
    percentile_cont(.5)
    WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY numbers),
    percentile_disc(.5)
    WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY numbers)
FROM percentile_test;

-- Listing 6-11: Using sum(), avg(), and percentile_cont() aggregate functions

SELECT sum(pop_est_2019) AS county_sum,
       round(avg(pop_est_2019), 0) AS county_average,
       percentile_cont(.5)
       WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019) AS county_median
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-12: Passing an array of values to percentile_cont()

-- quartiles
SELECT percentile_cont(ARRAY[.25,.5,.75])
       WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019) AS quartiles
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Extra:
-- quintiles
SELECT percentile_cont(ARRAY[.2,.4,.6,.8])
       WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019) AS quintiles
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- deciles
SELECT percentile_cont(ARRAY[.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9])
       WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019) AS deciles
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-13: Using unnest() to turn an array into rows

SELECT unnest(
            percentile_cont(ARRAY[.25,.5,.75])
            WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019)
            ) AS quartiles
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-14: Creating a median() aggregate function in PostgreSQL
-- Source: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Aggregate_Median

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _final_median(anyarray)
   RETURNS float8 AS
$$
  WITH q AS
  (
     SELECT val
     FROM unnest($1) val
     WHERE VAL IS NOT NULL
     ORDER BY 1
  ),
  cnt AS
  (
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM q
  )
  SELECT AVG(val)::float8
  FROM
  (
    SELECT val FROM q
    LIMIT  2 - MOD((SELECT c FROM cnt), 2)
    OFFSET GREATEST(CEIL((SELECT c FROM cnt) / 2.0) - 1,0)
  ) q2;
$$
LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE;

CREATE AGGREGATE median(anyelement) (
  SFUNC=array_append,
  STYPE=anyarray,
  FINALFUNC=_final_median,
  INITCOND='{}'
);

-- Listing 6-15: Using a median() aggregate function

SELECT sum(pop_est_2019) AS county_sum,
       round(avg(pop_est_2019), 0) AS county_average,
       median(pop_est_2019) AS county_median_func,
       percentile_cont(.5)
       WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019) AS county_median_perc
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;

-- Listing 6-16: Finding the most-frequent value with mode()

SELECT mode() WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pop_est_2019)
FROM us_counties_pop_est_2019;