I am new to writing raw SQL queries so forgive me for this being easy to solve. The database is Postgres.
I have a table similar to:
taskId providerName lastScan ignore
==================================================
3 rentCanada null false
4 rentCanada today false
5 rentSeeker null false
My goal is to write a query that selects all rows where providerName is rentCanada
or rentSeeker
and the lastScan value is either null or not null. I wish to count the values for each query.
I tried:
SELECT COUNT(providerName) FROM public."Tasks" HAVING Tasks.providerName=rentSeeker
Gives
ERROR: column "providername" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT COUNT(providerName) FROM public."Tasks" HAVING Tasks....
^
HINT: Perhaps you meant to reference the column "Tasks.providerName".
So I tried to add:
SELECT COUNT("Tasks.providerName") FROM public."Tasks" HAVING Tasks.providerName=rentSeeker
Gives ERROR: column "Tasks.providerName" does not exist LINE 1: SELECT COUNT("Tasks.providerName") FROM public."Tasks" HAVIN...
Ok so maybe without the quotations: SELECT COUNT(Tasks.providerName) FROM public."Tasks" HAVING Tasks.providerName=rentSeeker
Nope, ERROR: missing FROM-clause entry for table "tasks" LINE 1: SELECT COUNT(Tasks.providerName) FROM public."Tasks" HAVING ...
I found PostgreSQL COUNT() function overview and tried: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM public."Tasks" HAVING providerName=rentSeeker
Gives
ERROR: column "providername" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM public."Tasks" HAVING providerName=rent...
^
HINT: Perhaps you meant to reference the column "Tasks.providerName".
I don't understand why so many of the queries I've tried that look like they should work, do not work. As far as I can tell I should be getting results for SELECT * FROM Tasks WHERE lastScan = null
but it gives
ERROR: relation "tasks" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM Tasks WHERE lastScan = null
^
A video I'm watching says SELECT * FROM public.customers WHERE id = 3
so one would think that SELECT * FROM public.Tasks WHERE taskId = 3
would run for me since my table is called Tasks
and the id field is called taskId
. But no. It doesn't run.