Re: Keeping Result Table

From: Mark Grand <mdg_at_netcom7.netcom.com>
Date: 1995/08/05
Message-ID: <MDG.95Aug5051354_at_netcom7.netcom.com>#1/1


In article <1995Aug4.104459.2232_at_figmnt.tayloru.edu> dganderso_at_figmnt.tayloru.edu (Doug Anderson) writes:

> Also, is there a better way to do the following? I wish to show the average
> number of rows per block for a given table. This is all that I could come
> up with...
>
> CREATE VIEW TMPVIEW
> AS select count(*) ZORK
> from &tablename
> group by substr(rowid,1,8);
>
> SELECT AVG(ZORK)
> FROM TMPVIEW;
>
> DROP VIEW TMPVIEW;
Yes. Try

   SELECT AVG(ZORK)

      FROM (select count(*) ZORK
              from &tablename
              group by substr(rowid,1,8));
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