sql - Different value counts on same column

Question

I am new to Oracle. I have an Oracle table with three columns: serialno, item_category and item_status. In the third column the rows have values of serviceable, under_repair or condemned.

I want to run the query using count to show how many are serviceable, how many are under repair, how many are condemned against each item category.

I would like to run something like:

select item_category
  , count(......) "total"
  , count (.....) "serviceable"
  , count(.....)"under_repair"
  , count(....) "condemned"
from my_table
group by item_category ......

I am unable to run the inner query inside the count.

Here's what I'd like the result set to look like:

item_category    total    serviceable      under repair      condemned
=============    =====    ============     ============      ===========
chair              18        10               5                3
table              12        6                3                3 

Answer 1

You can either use CASE or DECODE statement inside the COUNT function.

  SELECT item_category,
         COUNT (*) total,
         COUNT (DECODE (item_status, 'serviceable', 1)) AS serviceable,
         COUNT (DECODE (item_status, 'under_repair', 1)) AS under_repair,
         COUNT (DECODE (item_status, 'condemned', 1)) AS condemned
    FROM mytable
GROUP BY item_category;

Output:

ITEM_CATEGORY   TOTAL   SERVICEABLE UNDER_REPAIR    CONDEMNED
----------------------------------------------------------------
chair           5       1           2               2
table           5       3           1               1