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Tyler Pernes
Learning & Development Consultant
What is reporting?

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What is reporting?

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What is reporting?

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What is reporting?

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What is reporting?

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SQL and reporting

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Course goals
Create real-world reports

Use real-world data

Overcome real-world obstacles

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Case study

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Case study

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Case study

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What is a dashboard?

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What is a base report?

SELECT
country,
SUM(wins) AS wins
FROM game_log
GROUP BY country
ORDER BY wins DESC
LIMIT 3;

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Your dashboard

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Querying time!
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 The Olympics
dataset
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Tyler Pernes
Learning & Development Consultant
Entity-Relationship (E:R) diagram
Visual representation of database structure

Lays out tables and elds

Identi es relationships

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Olympics dataset E:R diagram

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Olympics dataset E:R diagram

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Olympics dataset E:R diagram

SELECT *
FROM countries AS c1
JOIN country_stats AS c2
ON c1.id = c2.country_id;

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Tables and elds

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Tables and elds

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Tables and elds

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Tables and elds

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Reference for queries

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Reference for queries

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Reference for queries

SELECT
region,
SUM(pop_in_millions) AS pop_in_millions
FROM countries AS c1
JOIN country_stats AS c2
ON c1.id = c2.country_id
GROUP BY region;

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Practice time!
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 Exploring our data
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Tyler Pernes
Learning & Development Consultant
Exploring with the console

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Exploring with the console
May show an inaccurate picture

preview of table: summer_games

+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------+
| sport | event | bronze |
|-------------|-----------------------------------------|--------|
| Gymnastics | Gymnastics Men's Individual All-Around | null |
| Gymnastics | Gymnastics Men's Floor Exercise | null |
| Gymnastics | Gymnastics Men's parallel Bars | null |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------+

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Exploring with the console
No insight into distributions

preview of table: clients

+--------------------+
| country_of_client |
|--------------------|
| United States |
| United States |
| Mexico |
| United States |
| Canada |
| Canada |
+--------------------+

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Exploring with queries
SELECT DISTINCT region
FROM countries;

+-------------------------+
| region |
|-------------------------|
| WESTERN EUROPE |
| null |
| C.W. IF IND. STATES |
| OCEANIA |
| NEAR EAST |
| SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA |
+-------------------------+

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Exploring with queries
SELECT region
FROM countries
GROUP BY region;

+-------------------------+
| region |
|-------------------------|
| WESTERN EUROPE |
| null |
| C.W. IF IND. STATES |
| OCEANIA |
| NEAR EAST |
| SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA |
+-------------------------+

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Field-level aggregations
SELECT region, COUNT(*) AS row_num
FROM countries
GROUP BY region
ORDER BY row_num DESC;

+-------------------------+---------+
| region | row_num |
|-------------------------|---------|
| SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | 49 |
| LATIN AMER. & CARIB | 38 |
| ASIA (EX. NEAR EAST) | 26 |
| WESTERN EUROPE | 23 |
| OCEANIA | 15 |
| EASTERN EUROPE | 15 |
+-------------------------+---------+

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Field-level aggregations
SELECT revenue_source, SUM(revenue) AS revenue
FROM orders
GROUP BY revenue_source
ORDER BY revenue DESC;

+----------------+----------+
| revenue_source | revenue |
|----------------|----------|
| Olympics | 122000 |
| NFL | 80500 |
| MLB | 300 |
| NBA | 220 |
| NCAAF | 120 |
| NCAAB | 90 |
+----------------+----------+

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Table-level aggregations
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM country_stats;

+---------+
| count |
|---------|
| 3451 |
+---------+

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Query validation

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Query validation
QUERY: ORIGINAL TABLE:
SELECT SUM(rev) AS revenue SELECT SUM(rev) AS revenue
FROM FROM orders;
(SELECT country, SUM(rev) AS rev
FROM orders AS o
+------------+
JOIN countries AS c
| revenue |
ON o.country_id = c.id
|------------|
GROUP BY country);
| 500.00 |
+------------+
+------------+
| revenue | Our Query (Left) = $50
|------------|
| 50.00 | Original Table (Right) = $500
+------------+
Lost 90% of revenue from JOIN

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Query validation
QUERY: ORIGINAL TABLE:
SELECT SUM(rev) AS revenue SELECT SUM(rev) AS revenue
FROM FROM orders;
(SELECT country, SUM(rev) AS rev
FROM orders AS o
+------------+
JOIN country_stats AS cs
| revenue |
ON o.country_id = cs.country_id
|------------|
GROUP BY country);
| 500.00 |
+------------+
+------------+
| revenue | Our Query (Left) = $5,000
|------------|
| 5,000.00 | Original Table (Right) = $500
+------------+
10x duplication from JOIN

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