I have a sheet with 2 columns, A which is a group name and B which is a Role name.
Each Group appears multiple times with different roles, I want to find the most appearing role value in Column B for each Group value in column A.
How can I achieve it using Google query ?
I didnt manage to succes,
i tried using this google query :
=QUERY(A1:B, "SELECT b GROUP BY A HAVING COUNT(B) = MAX(COUNT(B))",1)
but I get an error:
Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2:
PARSE_ERROR: Encountered " "HAVING "" at line 1, column 21. Was expecting one of: "pivot" ... "order" ... "skipping" ... "limit" ... "offset" ... "label" ... "format" ... "options" ... "," ... "" ... "+" ... "-" ... "/" ... "%" ... "" ... "/" ... "%" ... "+" ... "-" ...
You can do a QUERY to count the number of appearences, but then (at least with the tools I have) you should filter the values to find the different MAX combinations:
The query being:
=QUERY(A:B,"SELECT A,B,COUNT(B) GROUP BY A,B")
And the complete formula:
=LAMBDA(quer,MAP(FILTER(UNIQUE(A:A),UNIQUE(A:A)<>""),
LAMBDA(each,SORTN(FILTER(quer,INDEX(quer,,1)=each),1,0,1,1))))
(QUERY(A:B,"SELECT A,B,COUNT(B) GROUP BY A,B"))
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I am querying data from a sheet and want to only display the results where column A from that sheet matches the values in a column on the current sheet.
Error Message
Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2: PARSE_ERROR: Encountered " <UNEXPECTED_CHAR> "! "" at line 1, column 34. Was expecting one of: "group" ... "pivot" ... "order" ... "skipping" ... "limit" ... "offset" ... "label" ... "format" ... "options" ... "and" ...
Here is what I tried:
=QUERY(DFSdata!1:975,"SELECT * WHERE A MATCHES BetMaker!&A1:A15'",1)
=QUERY(DFSdata!1:975,"SELECT * WHERE A MATCHES 'BetMaker!&A1:A15''",1)
=QUERY(DFSdata!1:975,"SELECT * WHERE A MATCHES 'A1:A15'",1)
You can try by referring to those values joined:
=QUERY(DFSdata!1:975,"SELECT * WHERE A MATCHES '"&TEXTJOIN("|",1,BetMaker!&A1:A15)&"'",1)
I have issue to list the training program with the name that has symbol '. The participant name is James 'Lee
=QUERY(IMPORTRANGE("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...", "'record'!A:Z"), "Select Col7,Col18 where Col1 = '"&C5&"' and Col1 is not null", 0)
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I received the error message:
Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2: PARSE_ERROR: Encountered " "Lee "" at line 1, column 40. Was expecting one of: "group" ... "pivot" ... "order" ... "skipping" ... "limit" ... "offset" ... "label" ... "format" ... "options" ... "and" ... "or" ...
Try
=QUERY( IMPORTRANGE ("..., "...."), "Select Col7, Col18 where Col1 = """&C5&"""", 0)
and see if that works?
Select Col7,Col18 where Col1 like '"®exreplace(C5,"\'","\%")&"' and Col1 is not null
will remove the hyphen and replace it with a wild card character %.
The side effect is that it will also bring back results like 'James OtherLee'
In order to cleanse some outlying bad data I need to implement a conditional statement into the SELECT statement of a query in Google Sheets, but GS does not want to cooperate
My attempted statement:
=QUERY('JSON Data'!A1:AS,"Select A, IF(SUM(AP)/SUM(AS) > 1,1,SUM(AP)/SUM(AS)) where B is not null GROUP BY A pivot B label IF(SUM(AP)/SUM(AS) > 1,1,SUM(AP)/SUM(AS)) 'ratio' ",1)
Error thrown:
Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2:
PARSE_ERROR: Encountered " "(" "( "" at line 1, column 13. Was
expecting one of: "where" ... "group" ... "pivot" ... "order"
... "skipping" ... "limit" ... "offset" ... "label" ... "format" ...
"options" ... "," ... "" ... "+" ... "-" ... "/" ... "%" ... "" ...
"/" ... "%" ... "+" ... "-" ...
Note that the following statement works:
Select A, SUM(AP)/SUM(AS) where B is not null GROUP BY A pivot B label SUM(AP)/SUM(AS) 'ratio'
The following statement does not work (testing to see if labelling the field has an effect):
Select A, IF(SUM(AP)/SUM(AS) > 1,1,SUM(AP)/SUM(AS)) where B is not null GROUP BY A pivot B
The sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1raQI22n3J08nKCHnz2LxRCXRP3dDnYJtGCEb8o4VUWY/edit#gid=1466522015
How to (Can I) execute a proper IF/THEN in the SELECT portion of a Google Sheets QUERY statement?
Try to process the if then before the query. See if this works
=ArrayFormula(QUERY({'JSON Data'!A1:B, IF('JSON Data'!AP1:AP/'JSON Data'!AS1:AS > 1, 1, 'JSON Data'!AP1:AP/'JSON Data'!AS1:AS) } ,"Select Col1, sum(Col3) where Col3 is not null GROUP BY Col1 pivot Col2",1))
I am trying to copy data over from one sheet to another using Google Sheets and am using this query in the second sheet
=query(IMPORTRANGE("5UAxxxxxxxxxxxx-GMcxccccccccp-xsdff0","SheetName!A4:AI1000"),"select Col1, Col2, Col3, Col5, Col7, Col9, Col14, Col16, Col 18, Col19, Col20, Col21 where Col35 = 'Yes'")
Unable to understand what this error means.
Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2: PARSE_ERROR: Encountered " <INTEGER_LITERAL> "18 "" at line 1, column 62. Was expecting one of: <EOF> "where" ... "group" ... "pivot" ... "order" ... "skipping" ... "limit" ... "offset" ... "label" ... "format" ... "options" ... "," ... "*" ... "+" ... "-" ... "/" ... "%" ... "*" ... "/" ... "%" ... "+" ... "-" ...
My Sheet1 where I am copying data from has columns A-Z and AA-AI, so I have A4:AI1000 to capture all the data assuming we won't have more than 1000 records with the headers taking up from 1-3 rows.
A simple one, you have a space between in the column reference Col 18.
The error message was pretty clear:
QUERY Parameter 2 is the query string itself
Encountered " <INTEGER_LITERAL> "18 "" means that it found the number 18 when it was expecting either a column reference or an SQL clause…
I'm trying to use a Google charts query in my spreadsheet to count the number of form responses by a specific person on a given date.
I'm very new to the Google Charts query language (I just started trying to figure it out about an hour ago), but I know SQL so I thought it wouldn't be too hard.
Anyway, here's what my query looks like right now:
=QUERY('Form Responses'!A2:F100, "select count(*) where name = 'Ajedi32' and date timestamp = date '2013-11-19'", {"timestamp", "name", "done", "todo", "blocker", "comment"})
And here's the error I'm getting:
error: Invalid query: Query parse error: Encountered " " * " " * "" at line 1, column 14. Was expecting one of: "min" ... "max" ... "avg" ... "count" ... "sum" ... "no_values" ... "no_format" ... "is" ... "null" ... "year" ... "month" ... "day" ... "hour" ... "minute" ... "second" ... "millisecond" ... "with" ... "contains" ... "starts" ... "ends" ... "matches" ... "like" ... "now" ... "dateDiff" ... "quarter" ... "lower" ... "upper" ... "dayOfWeek" ... "toDate" ... ... ...
I don't get it. Why would it be expecting a function name instead of *?
I think the problem is likely that count(*) is not a valid construct in the Query language. Try using a column name instead of *.
[edit - answer pertains to a different API; new answer below]
After reading over some questions from other users (link1, link2, [link3(Google spreadsheet Query Error - column doesn't exist)), it seems like the QUERY function does not support the use of column names. You can either refer to columns by letter:
=QUERY($A$1:$C$10, 'select A, B, C');
or by column index in the selected range:
=QUERY($A$1:$C$10, 'select col1, col2, col3');
Try that and see if addressing your columns by letter or index works.
Ultimately, I ended up avoiding the query function entirely by using the filter function instead:
=COUNT(FILTER('Form Responses'!$A$1:$F$100; DATEVALUE('Form Responses'!$A1:$A100)=DATEVALUE('2013-11-19'); 'Form Responses'!$B1:$B100='Ajedi32'))
Expanded for readability:
=COUNT(
FILTER(
'Form Responses'!$A$1:$F$100;
DATEVALUE('Form Responses'!$A1:$A100)=DATEVALUE('2013-11-19');
'Form Responses'!$B1:$B100='Ajedi32'
)
)
(If anyone still wants to have a go at answering my original question, feel free.)