Example: Reporting the Bottom Percentile of Items Using QUANTILE in a QUALIFY Clause - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Working with SQL

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The following example reports the bottom percentile of items by profitability:

     SELECT item, profit, QUANTILE(100, profit) AS percentile
     FROM (SELECT item, SUM(sales)-(COUNT(sales)*items.itemcost)
           AS profit
           FROM daily_sales, items
           WHERE daily_sales.item = items.item
           GROUP BY item) AS itemprofit
     QUALIFY percentile = 99;

The results look similar to the following table.

item profit percentile
Carrot-flavored ice cream                10.79 99
Low fat carrot-flavored ice cream           - 100.55 99
Low fat sugar-free carrot-flavored ice cream        - 1,110.67 99
Regular broccoli-flavored ice cream        - 2,913.88 99
Low fat broccoli-flavored ice cream        - 4,492.12 99