How to produce group subtotals and a grand total in Oracle?

Problem Statement:
You want to find out totals, subtotals and a grand total in Oracle.

Solution:
Oracle ROLLUP function performs grouping at multiple levels, using a right to left method of rolling up through intermediate levels to any grand total. To demonstrate the ROLLUP function we will create a table to hold tennis player along with the ATP tour titles and Grandslam titles acheived by the player.

We will begin by create the necessary data for this requirement.

Example

-- Drop table
DROP TABLE atp_titles;

-- Create table
CREATE TABLE atp_titles (
  player             VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL,
  title_type         VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL,
  titles             NUMBER NOT NULL);

Example

-- insert  ATP tour titles won by the player
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Roger Federer','ATP Tour Titles',103);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Rafael Nadal','ATP Tour Titles',86);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Novak Djokovic','ATP Tour Titles',81);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Pete Sampras','ATP Tour Titles',64);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Andre Agassi','ATP Tour Titles',52);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Andy Murray','ATP Tour Titles',46);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Thomas Muster','ATP Tour Titles',39);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Andy Roddick','ATP Tour Titles',32);

Example

-- insert  grandslam titles won by the player
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Roger Federer','Grandslams',20);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Rafael Nadal','Grandslams',20);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Novak Djokovic','Grandslams',17);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Pete Sampras','Grandslams',14);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Andre Agassi','Grandslams',8);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Andy Murray','Grandslams',3);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Thomas Muster','Grandslams',1);
INSERT INTO atp_titles VALUES('Andy Roddick','Grandslams',0);

COMMIT;

Now we will look at few records inserted into atp_titles table.

Example

SELECT * FROM atp_titles ORDER BY 1;

Output

Andre Agassi    ATP Tour Titles     52
Andre Agassi    Grandslams          8
Andy Murray Grandslams          3
Andy Murray ATP Tour Titles     46
Andy Roddick    ATP Tour Titles     32
Andy Roddick    Grandslams          0
............................
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Oracle ROLLUP expression produces group subtotals from right to left along with grand total. With above data, let’s say we wanted to identify the total titles (i.e. ATP tour titles + Grandslam Titles) acheived by player “Roger Federer”.

Example

SELECT player,title_type, SUM(titles) AS total_titles
  FROM atp_titles
 WHERE player = 'Roger Federer'
GROUP BY ROLLUP (player,title_type)
ORDER BY player,title_type ;

Output

ROLLUP produces n+1 levels of subtotals for “n” number of columns listed in the ROLLUP. In above example after performing normal grouping by player and title_type, the ROLLUP function rolls up all title_type values so that we see sum for the Grandslams level for the player “Roger Federer”. You can see the rolled up rows in bold in the output.

Now we will apply the ROLLUP function for all the players in the table as below:

SQL:

Example

SELECT player, title_type, SUM(titles) As total
  FROM atp_titles
GROUP BY ROLLUP (player,title_type)
ORDER BY player,title_type;

Output

ROLLUP functions allows us to perform partial rollup to reduce the number of subtotals calculated. The output from the following partial rollup is shown below:

SQL:

Example

SELECT player, title_type, SUM(titles) As total
  FROM atp_titles
GROUP BY ROLLUP (player,title_type)
ORDER BY player,title_type;

Output

Kiran P

Updated on: 04-Dec-2020

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