Best way to use DISTINCT values in a SQL view as a dynamic source for another table in the DB
Hi,
I'm not sure the best way to describe what I need but here goes. I'm currently building a Tag Cloud functionality for a site in ASP.NET 2 with c# which displays the most popular searches on a site. I'm logging each searchterm in a table and the language it was searched in and using a stored procedure to aggregate the top 10 search terms with the itemcount as source for the tag cloud. As below:
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 SearchTerm,
(SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM SearchesTracking WHERE SearchTerm = s.SearchTerm AND Language = @lang) AS ItemCount
FROM SearchesTracking s
WHERE Language = @lang
ORDER BY SearchTerm
I've been asked to create an admin screen wher the user can see a view of all the aggregated search terms and then select which ones are published into the tag cloud via a check/uncheck box. Herein lies my problem, as the tracking table I have at the moment records every search term and then I aggregate it
in a SQL query. Ideally I would create a reference table say TermStatus with 2 rows, Published and NotPublished. A middle table with a the ID of the distinct searchterm and the TermStatus field.
But since the aggregated search terms are dynamic , this is not possible. Reading up on Views they seem difficult to implement an updateable view on this and plus I don't think it would generate a ID value!
What would be the best way to achieve this do you think? Apologies if this is unclear. Please ask for any clarification. Thanks very much in advance
I'm not sure the best way to describe what I need but here goes. I'm currently building a Tag Cloud functionality for a site in ASP.NET 2 with c# which displays the most popular searches on a site. I'm logging each searchterm in a table and the language it was searched in and using a stored procedure to aggregate the top 10 search terms with the itemcount as source for the tag cloud. As below:
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 SearchTerm,
(SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM SearchesTracking WHERE SearchTerm = s.SearchTerm AND Language = @lang) AS ItemCount
FROM SearchesTracking s
WHERE Language = @lang
ORDER BY SearchTerm
I've been asked to create an admin screen wher the user can see a view of all the aggregated search terms and then select which ones are published into the tag cloud via a check/uncheck box. Herein lies my problem, as the tracking table I have at the moment records every search term and then I aggregate it
in a SQL query. Ideally I would create a reference table say TermStatus with 2 rows, Published and NotPublished. A middle table with a the ID of the distinct searchterm and the TermStatus field.
But since the aggregated search terms are dynamic , this is not possible. Reading up on Views they seem difficult to implement an updateable view on this and plus I don't think it would generate a ID value!
What would be the best way to achieve this do you think? Apologies if this is unclear. Please ask for any clarification. Thanks very much in advance
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SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 SearchTerm,
Count(*)
FROM SearchesTracking s
WHERE Language = @lang
GROUP BY SearchTerm
ORDER BY Count(*) Desc
This should give you the top 10 Search Terms along with the number of times that the search term was searched for.