countIf

Description

The If combinator can be applied to the count function to count the number of rows where the condition is true, using the countIf aggregate combinator function.

Example usage

In this example, we'll create a table that stores user login attempts, and we'll use countIf to count the number of successful logins.

CREATE TABLE login_attempts(
    user_id UInt32,
    timestamp DateTime,
    is_successful UInt8
) ENGINE = MergeTree
ORDER BY ();

INSERT INTO login_attempts VALUES
    (1, '2024-01-01 10:00:00', 1),
    (1, '2024-01-01 10:05:00', 0),
    (1, '2024-01-01 10:10:00', 1),
    (2, '2024-01-01 11:00:00', 1),
    (2, '2024-01-01 11:05:00', 1),
    (2, '2024-01-01 11:10:00', 0);

SELECT
    user_id,
    countIf(is_successful = 1) AS successful_logins
FROM login_attempts
GROUP BY user_id;

The countIf function will count only the rows where is_successful = 1 for each user.

   ┌─user_id─┬─successful_logins─┐
1. │       1 │                 2 │
2. │       2 │                 2 │
   └─────────┴───────────────────┘

See also

• count
• If combinator