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MySQL Query - Maximum Frequency

Hi all,

I have a project with a table that contains information of various car models. The data schema is:

Table Name: CarModelTbl
Four fields:
sDate [date]
Model [varchar(50)]
EngineSize [varchar(50)]
Colour [varchar(50)]

The table currently only contains 7 records as displayed below:

2010-07-24, Honda,1.6,Red
2010-07-24,Ford,1.6,Green
2010-07-24,Toyota,1.6,Blue

2010-07-25,Audi,3.2,Red
2010-07-25,BMW,1.8,Green
2010-07-25,Toyota,1.4,Blue
2010-07-25,VW,1.4,Blue

I currently work out the Maximum frequency for a model which occurred the most for July 2010 and this is 2. This is calculated with the query below:

SELECT Max(A.no_count) FROM (SELECT COUNT(*) as no_count FROM CarModelTbl WHERE sDATE >= "2010-07-24" AND sDATE <="2010-07-25" Group by Model HAVING ( COUNT('Model ') > 0)) as A;

The above query works as expected - But now I have a requirement to also display the model which occurred the most and in this case it would Toyota.

Any ideas how to update the query....

Thanks in advance.

no worries :-) no nothing

It should be like this
select countmodel.cc, carmodel.model
(
SELECT Max(A.no_count) cc FROM (SELECT COUNT(*) as no_count FROM CarModelTbl WHERE sDATE >= "2010-07-24" AND sDATE <="2010-07-25" Group by Model HAVING ( COUNT('Model ') > 0)) as A;
) countmodel
left outer join
(
SELECT model, COUNT(*) as no_count FROM CarModelTbl WHERE sDATE >= "2010-07-24" AND sDATE <="2010-07-25" Group by Model HAVING ( COUNT('Model ') > 0)
) carmodel
on countmodel.cc=carmodel.no_count

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cyberkiwi

SQL Server 2008

;WITH TMP AS (
SELECT Model, COUNT(*) as no_count
FROM CarModelTbl
WHERE sDATE >= "2010-07-24" AND sDATE <="2010-07-25"
Group by Model
HAVING COUNT(*)>0
)
SELECT Model, no_count
from TMP
Where no_count = (select max(no_count) from TMP)

mikesung99

ASKER

Hi georgekl

Thanks the response - I've tested your solution and it worked as expected thank you.

All I did was to remove the closing statement i.e. ';' and it worked illustrated below is the solution iimplemented.

select countmodel.cc, carmodel.model

from
(

SELECT Max(A.no_count) cc FROM (SELECT COUNT(*) as no_count FROM ptTest.pt_test WHERE sDATE >= "2010-07-24" AND sDATE <="2010-07-25" Group by Model HAVING ( COUNT('Model ') > 0)) as A

) countmodel

left outer join

(

SELECT model, COUNT(*) as no_count FROM ptTest.pt_test WHERE sDATE >= "2010-07-24" AND sDATE <="2010-07-25" Group by Model HAVING ( COUNT('Model ') > 0)

) carmodel

on countmodel.cc=carmodel.no_count;

Thanks