DB Quacks SQL Tutorial · Chapter 2

HAVING a Ball with Conditional Counting

Fancy duck Reginald glides over with a monocle and bow tie. Im president of the Numerous Species Club - we only accept species with more than 2 members! Find which species qualify for our exclusive club.

Your task

Show only species from the ducks table that have more than 2 members, along with their count. You will be filtering groups based on their aggregate values.

Hint

After grouping, you need to filter the groups themselves, not individual rows.

Expected result

A table showing species with more than 2 members and their counts.

Tables

duck_diaries (10 rows)

columntype
diary_idBIGINT
duck_idBIGINT
entry_dateDATE
diary_textVARCHAR
moodVARCHAR

duck_surveys (5000 rows)

columntype
survey_idBIGINT
duck_idBIGINT
ageBIGINT
favorite_foodVARCHAR
favorite_pondBIGINT
swimming_ratingBIGINT
migration_preferenceVARCHAR
social_behaviorVARCHAR
health_statusVARCHAR
activity_levelVARCHAR
survey_dateDATE
survey_locationBIGINT

ducks (15 rows)

columntype
idBIGINT
nameVARCHAR
ageBIGINT
speciesVARCHAR
birth_dateDATE
arrival_dateDATE

ponds (3 rows)

columntype
pond_idBIGINT
pond_nameVARCHAR
location_latDOUBLE
location_lngDOUBLE
capacityBIGINT
featuresVARCHAR[]
amenitiesVARCHAR[]

Database: https://dbquacks.com/data/databases/tutorial.duckdb

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