SQL Exercise: The number of matches each referee has managed
SQL soccer Database: Joins Exercise-49 with Solution
49. From the following tables, write a SQL query to count the number of matches managed by referees of each country. Return country name, number of matches.
Sample table: match_mast
match_no | play_stage | play_date | results | decided_by | goal_score | venue_id | referee_id | audence | plr_of_match | stop1_sec | stop2_sec
----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+------------+----------+------------+---------+--------------+-----------+-----------
1 | G | 2016-06-11 | WIN | N | 2-1 | 20008 | 70007 | 75113 | 160154 | 131 | 242
2 | G | 2016-06-11 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20002 | 70012 | 33805 | 160476 | 61 | 182
3 | G | 2016-06-11 | WIN | N | 2-1 | 20001 | 70017 | 37831 | 160540 | 64 | 268
4 | G | 2016-06-12 | DRAW | N | 1-1 | 20005 | 70011 | 62343 | 160128 | 0 | 185
5 | G | 2016-06-12 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20007 | 70006 | 43842 | 160084 | 125 | 325
6 | G | 2016-06-12 | WIN | N | 1-0 | 20006 | 70014 | 33742 | 160291 | 2 | 246
7 | G | 2016-06-13 | WIN | N | 2-0 | 20003 | 70002 | 43035 | 160176 | 89 | 188
8 | G | 2016-06-13 | WIN | N | 1-0 | 20010 | 70009 | 29400 | 160429 | 360 | 182
9 | G | 2016-06-13 | DRAW | N | 1-1 | 20008 | 70010 | 73419 | 160335 | 67 | 194
10 | G | 2016-06-14 | WIN | N | 0-2 | 20004 | 70005 | 55408 | 160244 | 63 | 189
11 | G | 2016-06-14 | WIN | N | 0-2 | 20001 | 70018 | 34424 | 160197 | 61 | 305
12 | G | 2016-06-15 | DRAW | N | 1-1 | 20009 | 70004 | 38742 | 160320 | 15 | 284
13 | G | 2016-06-15 | WIN | N | 1-2 | 20003 | 70001 | 38989 | 160405 | 62 | 189
14 | G | 2016-06-15 | DRAW | N | 1-1 | 20007 | 70015 | 43576 | 160477 | 74 | 206
15 | G | 2016-06-16 | WIN | N | 2-0 | 20005 | 70013 | 63670 | 160154 | 71 | 374
16 | G | 2016-06-16 | WIN | N | 2-1 | 20002 | 70003 | 34033 | 160540 | 62 | 212
17 | G | 2016-06-16 | WIN | N | 0-2 | 20004 | 70016 | 51043 | 160262 | 7 | 411
18 | G | 2016-06-17 | DRAW | N | 0-0 | 20008 | 70008 | 73648 | 160165 | 6 | 208
19 | G | 2016-06-17 | WIN | N | 1-0 | 20010 | 70007 | 29600 | 160248 | 2 | 264
20 | G | 2016-06-17 | DRAW | N | 2-2 | 20009 | 70005 | 38376 | 160086 | 71 | 280
21 | G | 2016-06-18 | WIN | N | 3-0 | 20006 | 70010 | 33409 | 160429 | 84 | 120
22 | G | 2016-06-18 | WIN | N | 3-0 | 20001 | 70004 | 39493 | 160064 | 11 | 180
23 | G | 2016-06-18 | DRAW | N | 1-1 | 20005 | 70015 | 60842 | 160230 | 61 | 280
24 | G | 2016-06-19 | DRAW | N | 0-0 | 20007 | 70011 | 44291 | 160314 | 3 | 200
25 | G | 2016-06-20 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20004 | 70016 | 49752 | 160005 | 125 | 328
26 | G | 2016-06-20 | DRAW | N | 0-0 | 20003 | 70001 | 45616 | 160463 | 60 | 122
27 | G | 2016-06-21 | WIN | N | 0-3 | 20010 | 70006 | 28840 | 160544 | 62 | 119
28 | G | 2016-06-21 | DRAW | N | 0-0 | 20009 | 70012 | 39051 | 160392 | 62 | 301
29 | G | 2016-06-21 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20005 | 70017 | 58874 | 160520 | 29 | 244
30 | G | 2016-06-21 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20007 | 70018 | 44125 | 160177 | 21 | 195
31 | G | 2016-06-22 | WIN | N | 0-2 | 20002 | 70013 | 32836 | 160504 | 60 | 300
32 | G | 2016-06-22 | WIN | N | 2-1 | 20001 | 70008 | 37245 | 160085 | 70 | 282
33 | G | 2016-06-22 | WIN | N | 2-1 | 20008 | 70009 | 68714 | 160220 | 7 | 244
34 | G | 2016-06-22 | DRAW | N | 3-3 | 20004 | 70002 | 55514 | 160322 | 70 | 185
35 | G | 2016-06-23 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20003 | 70014 | 44268 | 160333 | 79 | 221
36 | G | 2016-06-23 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20006 | 70003 | 34011 | 160062 | 63 | 195
37 | R | 2016-06-25 | WIN | P | 1-1 | 20009 | 70005 | 38842 | 160476 | 126 | 243
38 | R | 2016-06-25 | WIN | N | 1-0 | 20007 | 70002 | 44342 | 160547 | 5 | 245
39 | R | 2016-06-26 | WIN | N | 0-1 | 20002 | 70012 | 33523 | 160316 | 61 | 198
40 | R | 2016-06-26 | WIN | N | 2-1 | 20004 | 70011 | 56279 | 160160 | 238 | 203
41 | R | 2016-06-26 | WIN | N | 3-0 | 20003 | 70009 | 44312 | 160173 | 62 | 124
42 | R | 2016-06-27 | WIN | N | 0-4 | 20010 | 70010 | 28921 | 160062 | 3 | 133
43 | R | 2016-06-27 | WIN | N | 2-0 | 20008 | 70004 | 76165 | 160235 | 63 | 243
44 | R | 2016-06-28 | WIN | N | 1-2 | 20006 | 70001 | 33901 | 160217 | 5 | 199
45 | Q | 2016-07-01 | WIN | P | 1-1 | 20005 | 70003 | 62940 | 160316 | 58 | 181
46 | Q | 2016-07-02 | WIN | N | 3-1 | 20003 | 70001 | 45936 | 160550 | 14 | 182
47 | Q | 2016-07-03 | WIN | P | 1-1 | 20001 | 70007 | 38764 | 160163 | 63 | 181
48 | Q | 2016-07-04 | WIN | N | 5-2 | 20008 | 70008 | 76833 | 160159 | 16 | 125
49 | S | 2016-07-07 | WIN | N | 2-0 | 20004 | 70006 | 55679 | 160322 | 2 | 181
50 | S | 2016-07-08 | WIN | N | 2-0 | 20005 | 70011 | 64078 | 160160 | 126 | 275
51 | F | 2016-07-11 | WIN | N | 1-0 | 20008 | 70005 | 75868 | 160307 | 161 | 181
Sample table: referee_mast
referee_id | referee_name | country_id
------------+-------------------------+------------
70001 | Damir Skomina | 1225
70002 | Martin Atkinson | 1206
70003 | Felix Brych | 1208
70004 | Cuneyt Cakir | 1222
70005 | Mark Clattenburg | 1206
70006 | Jonas Eriksson | 1220
70007 | Viktor Kassai | 1209
70008 | Bjorn Kuipers | 1226
70009 | Szymon Marciniak | 1213
70010 | Milorad Mazic | 1227
70011 | Nicola Rizzoli | 1211
70012 | Carlos Velasco Carballo | 1219
70013 | William Collum | 1228
70014 | Ovidiu Hategan | 1216
70015 | Sergei Karasev | 1217
70016 | Pavel Kralovec | 1205
70017 | Svein Oddvar Moen | 1229
70018 | Clement Turpin | 1207
Sample table: soccer_country
country_id | country_abbr | country_name
------------+--------------+---------------------
1201 | ALB | Albania
1202 | AUT | Austria
1203 | BEL | Belgium
1204 | CRO | Croatia
1205 | CZE | Czech Republic
1206 | ENG | England
1207 | FRA | France
1208 | GER | Germany
1209 | HUN | Hungary
1210 | ISL | Iceland
1211 | ITA | Italy
1212 | NIR | Northern Ireland
1213 | POL | Poland
1214 | POR | Portugal
1215 | IRL | Republic of Ireland
1216 | ROU | Romania
1217 | RUS | Russia
1218 | SVK | Slovakia
1219 | ESP | Spain
1220 | SWE | Sweden
1221 | SUI | Switzerland
1222 | TUR | Turkey
1223 | UKR | Ukraine
1224 | WAL | Wales
1225 | SLO | Slovenia
1226 | NED | Netherlands
1227 | SRB | Serbia
1228 | SCO | Scotland
1229 | NOR | Norway
Sample Solution:
SQL Code:
-- Selecting the country name and the count of matches officiated by referees from each country
SELECT
country_name, -- Selecting the country name from the soccer_country table
COUNT(match_no) -- Counting the number of matches for each country
FROM
match_mast a -- Specifying the match_mast table with alias 'a'
JOIN
referee_mast c ON a.referee_id = c.referee_id -- Joining the match_mast table with the referee_mast table based on referee ID
JOIN
soccer_country b ON c.country_id = b.country_id -- Joining the referee_mast table with the soccer_country table based on country ID
GROUP BY
country_name -- Grouping the results by country name
-- Ordering the results by the count of matches in descending order
ORDER BY
COUNT(match_no) DESC;
Sample Output:
country_name | count ----------------+------- England | 7 Italy | 4 Slovenia | 4 Spain | 3 Serbia | 3 Netherlands | 3 Turkey | 3 Germany | 3 Poland | 3 Sweden | 3 Hungary | 3 France | 2 Czech Republic | 2 Norway | 2 Russia | 2 Romania | 2 Scotland | 2 (17 rows)
Code Explanation:
The said query in SQL that selects the name of countries and the count of match numbers in the match_mast table for each country.
The JOIN clause in this query then joins the match_mast and referee_mast tables based on the referee_id column and joins the results with soccer_country tables based on the country_id column.
The query groups the results by country name using the GROUP BY clause and applies an aggregate function, count(), to count the number of match numbers for each country. The results are then ordered in descending order of the count of match numbers using the ORDER BY clause.
Alternative Solutions:
Subquery:
-- Selecting the country name and the count of matches officiated by referees from each country
SELECT
country_name, -- Selecting the country name from the subquery result
COUNT(match_no) -- Counting the number of matches for each country
FROM
( -- Subquery to join tables and retrieve match numbers and country names
SELECT
a.match_no, -- Selecting the match number from the match_mast table
b.country_name -- Selecting the country name from the soccer_country table
FROM
match_mast a -- Specifying the match_mast table with alias 'a'
JOIN
referee_mast c ON a.referee_id = c.referee_id -- Joining the match_mast table with the referee_mast table based on referee ID
JOIN
soccer_country b ON c.country_id = b.country_id -- Joining the referee_mast table with the soccer_country table based on country ID
) subquery -- Alias for the subquery
GROUP BY
country_name -- Grouping the results by country name
-- Ordering the results by the count of matches in descending order
ORDER BY
COUNT(match_no) DESC;
Explanation:
This query uses a subquery to first join the necessary tables and select the relevant columns. Then, it performs the grouping and counting operation on the result of the subquery.
Using HAVING Clause:
-- Selecting the country name and the count of matches officiated by referees from each country
SELECT
b.country_name, -- Selecting the country name from the soccer_country table
COUNT(a.match_no) -- Counting the number of matches for each country
FROM
match_mast a -- Specifying the match_mast table with alias 'a'
JOIN
referee_mast c ON a.referee_id = c.referee_id -- Joining the match_mast table with the referee_mast table based on referee ID
JOIN
soccer_country b ON c.country_id = b.country_id -- Joining the referee_mast table with the soccer_country table based on country ID
GROUP BY
b.country_name -- Grouping the results by country name
HAVING
COUNT(a.match_no) > 0 -- Filtering out countries with zero matches
-- Ordering the results by the count of matches in descending order
ORDER BY
COUNT(a.match_no) DESC;
Explanation:
This query directly groups the results by country_name and then uses the HAVING clause to filter out groups with zero matches. It then orders the result by the count of matches in descending order.
Cross Join and Grouping:
-- Selecting the country name and the count of matches officiated by referees from each country
SELECT
b.country_name, -- Selecting the country name from the soccer_country table
COUNT(a.match_no) -- Counting the number of matches for each country
FROM
match_mast a -- Specifying the match_mast table with alias 'a'
JOIN
referee_mast c ON a.referee_id = c.referee_id -- Joining the match_mast table with the referee_mast table based on referee ID
JOIN
soccer_country b ON c.country_id = b.country_id -- Joining the referee_mast table with the soccer_country table based on country ID
JOIN
(SELECT DISTINCT country_id FROM referee_mast) d ON b.country_id = d.country_id -- Joining with a subquery to ensure only countries with referees are included
GROUP BY
b.country_name -- Grouping the results by country name
-- Ordering the results by the count of matches in descending order
ORDER BY
COUNT(a.match_no) DESC;
Explanation:
This query introduces a cross join with a subquery that selects distinct country_id from referee_mast. This ensures that all countries are included in the result set. The rest of the query proceeds with grouping and counting as before.
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