Add "filler" column to Query in Google sheets - google-sheets

I would like to query a range A1:B3 with two columns, adding an initial third column with a character.
This is the data:
These are my query attempts:
=QUERY($A$1:$B$3,"SELECT '-', A, B")
=QUERY($A$1:$B$3,"SELECT '-', A, B",0)
This is the output
Would love a solution that looks like this:
Thanks for considering my query.
Kent

Maybe add a second query where you use an offset ?
=QUERY(QUERY($A$1:$B$3,"SELECT '-', A, B",0), "offset 1")

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How can I separate a column into multiple columns based on values?

I have searched on a lot of pages but I cannot find a solution to my problem except in reverse order. I have simplified what I do, but I have a query that comes looking for information in my data sheet. Here there are 3 columns, the date, the amount and the source.
I would like, with a query function, to be able to make different columns which counts the information of column C based on the values of its cells per month, like this
I'm okay with the start of the formula
=QUERY(A2:C,"select month(A)+1, sum(B), count(C) where A is not null group by month(A)+1")
But as soon as I try a little different things by putting 2 query together in an arrayformula, obviously the row count doesn't match as some minus are 0 for some sources.
Do you have a solution for what I'm trying to do? Thank you in advance :)
Solution:
It's not possible in Google Query Language to have a single query statement that has one result grouped by one column and another result grouped by another.
The first two columns can be like this:
=QUERY(A2:C,"select month(A)+1, sum(B) where A is not null group by month(A)+1 label month(A)+1 'Month', sum(B) 'Amount'")
To create the column labels for the succeeding columns, use in the first row, in my example, I1:
=TRANSPOSE(UNIQUE(C2:C))
Then from cell I2, enter this:
=COUNTIFS(arrayformula(month($A$2:$A)),$G2,$C$2:$C,I$1)
Then drag horizontally and vertically to apply to the entire table.
Results:
try:
=INDEX({
QUERY({MONTH(A2:A), B2:C},
"select Col1,sum(Col2) where Col2 is not null group by Col1 label Col1'month',sum(Col2)'amount'"),
QUERY({MONTH(A2:A), B2:C, C2:C},
"select count(Col3) where Col2 is not null group by Col1 pivot Col4")})

Find every unique 2 word pairings from a column of terms in Google Sheets

Please see: Extracting and counting unique word frequency from a range
In that question the asker was seeking unique single words.
I'm trying to accomplish the same but finding every unique pair of words.
If a cell doesn't have two words, then it doesn't have any entries.
If a cell has 3 words then it would have two combinations A + B and B + C
I've tried to parse with splits and substitute pipes for spaces by using the len(cell) - len(substitute(cell," ","")) which gives me the number of words, but that doesn't work either.
Try this (assuming your words are in Column A, put this in cell B1):
=index(
query(
query(
trim(iferror(flatten(split(
regexreplace(regexreplace(lower(A:A),"[^A-Za-z\ \']+",""),"([\w\']+\ [\w\']+)","$1,")
&","&
regexreplace(regexreplace(lower(if(len(A:A)=len(substitute(A:A," ",""))+1,,A:A)),"[^A-Za-z\ \']+",""),"\w*\ ([\w\']+\ [\w\']+)","$1,")
,",",1,1)),)),
"where Col1 like '% %' order by Col1",1),
"select Col1, count(Col1) group by Col1 label Col1 'Word pairs', count(Col1) 'Qty'",0)
)
It's quite involved, but I'll break it down if it works for you!

Google Query SELECT statement concatenated with a NESTED IF result

Is it possible to return a Nested IF result from a CELL that will be concatenated to the SELECT statement in the QUERY function?
For example, I am trying to return the result for the following Nested IF function into the Query Function:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15i1E8AZHORRmPlu1VQqFRN1_7-aUyAz-hlYMOUtIlY4/edit?usp=sharing
Appreciate it, if anyone could take a look.
Regards
JVA
its done like this:
=QUERY(TESTDATA!A1:D16, "SELECT A, D, SUM(C) WHERE 1=1 "&
IF(AND(M3="NAME",N3="Customer"), " GROUP BY A, D PIVOT B",
IF(AND(N3 = "Customer"," AND A = '"&M3&"' GROUP BY A, D PIVOT B"),
" AND A = '"&M3&"' GROUP BY A, D PIVOT B",
" AND A = '"&M3&"'
AND D = '"&N3&"' GROUP BY A, D PIVOT B")), 1)
Sometimes, it's easier to FILTER the results before applying QUERY:
=ArrayFormula(QUERY(FILTER(A1:D16, A1:A16=M3, D1:D16=N3), "SELECT Col1, Col4, SUM(Col3) GROUP BY Col1, Col4 PIVOT Col2 LABEL Col1 'Name', Col4 'Customer'",0))
As you can see, this requires using Colx notation instead of letters to indicate columns in the SELECT clause; but this is actually (in my opinion) more versatile, since you don't have to rewrite the QUERY if you ever insert columns before the existing source data.
You'll also notice that I needed to LABEL the first two columns, since FILTER will have FILTERed out the headers. (In fact, for this reason, the ranges in the formula could just as easily have begun with row 2, e.g., A2:A16, etc.)
Finally, at least in your sample spreadsheet, you didn't need the sheet name to reference the source ranges, since the result is in the same sheet.

IF statement in query

I have a table with two columns A and B the first is a tag and the second is an amount. I am trying to write a query with two columns, one summing up negative values while the other summing up positive ones.
Coming from SQL, I tried the following
=QUERY(A1:B100,
"SELECT A, SUM( B * IF(B>0, 0, 1) ),
SUM( B * IF(B<0, 0, 1) ) GROUP BY A ")
But it seems that the IF function is not supported in a query. I know I can create two intermediate columns in my sheet (one for positive value and one for negative ones), but I was wondering if it's possible to achieve what I want with a query or somehow without intermediate columns.
If you must use the query function, assuming your Tag Data is in Column A, and your Values in Column B:
=arrayformula(query({A1:A100,if(B1:B100>0,B1:B100,),if(B1:B100<0,B1:B100,)},"Select Col1, sum(Col2), sum(Col3) where Col1 <>'' group by Col1 label Col1 'Tag', sum(Col2) 'Positive', sum(Col3) 'Negative'"))
Here's the example output: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DW5CyPCC71CopW48uKy6basn-WP4hMfh7kuuJXT-C4o/edit#gid=1606239479
=arrayformula(query({a1:a100,if(b1:b100>0,b1:b100,),if(b1:b100<0,b1:b100,)},"Select Col1,sum(Col2),sum(Col3) group by Col1"))
Please see this sheet for an example of using the FILTER function which is probably better than your query function for this use case:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DW5CyPCC71CopW48uKy6basn-WP4hMfh7kuuJXT-C4o/edit?usp=sharing
I didn't know what you meant by tag, but I just created a list of random words, 10 negative, and 10 positive
With Tags in Column A and Numbers in Column B. Then in Column D I put this for the "positive" filter:
=filter($A$2:$A,$B$2:$B>0)
And for the Positive Sum:
=sum(filter($B$3:$B,$B$3:$B>0))
And in Column E for the Negative filter:
=filter($A$2:$A,$B$2:$B<0)
And for the Negative Sum:
=sum(filter($B$3:$B,$B$3:$B<0))
EDIT: I added another sheet in the workbook that shows you how to list the sum next to each tag in a filtered list of the tags:
On this sheet, I created examples of how to list the total sums of each particular tag: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DW5CyPCC71CopW48uKy6basn-WP4hMfh7kuuJXT-C4o/edit#gid=1784614303
This formula will look at the list of tags/values in Columns A & B, and then match and sum all tags that are in the cell to the left in Column D:
=sum(filter($B$3:$B,$B$3:$B>0,$A$3:$A=D3))

Google SpreadSheet Query: Can I remove column header?

I'm doing this query at my google spreadsheet:
=QUERY(H4:L35;"select sum(L) where H='First Week'"; -1)
But it returns a little table with "sum" as header and result below it. What I want is just the result! How I remove header? Can I?
Try this:
=QUERY(H4:L35,"select sum(L) where H='First Week' label sum(L) ''")
=QUERY(QUERY(A1:D, "SELECT *", 1), "SELECT * OFFSET 1", 0)
The outer query: "SELECT * OFFSET 1" excludes the first row (the header).
The inner query explicitly specifies one row of headers (via the third argument supplied to QUERY), whilst the outer query specifies none.
=INDEX(QUERY(H4:L35;"select sum(L) where H='First Week'"; -1),2,1)
This just parses the returned array and selects the 2nd record returned in the first column.
You can also do this with the filter function which is less compute intensive.
=SUM(FILTER(L4:L35, H4:H35 = "First Week"))
I have a QUERY which is returning the top 3. I could not get this to work when returning multiple rows. I ended up just hiding the row with the formula and only the answers show now.
For queries using pivot, try using INDEX to remove headers from the pivoted columns.
=INDEX(QUERY('Class hours'!A2:C11,
"select sum(C)
where A = '"&A5&"'
group by A
pivot B"), 2)
Got the answer from this thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/63468791/5424088
... or this
=QUERY(QUERY(H4:L35;"select sum(L) where H='First Week'"),"OFFSET 1",0)
This is more concise when ALL label classes are not wanted.
Note that 'select' and 'where' classes are not required in the second QUERY statement.
Instead of labeling column names as blanks using '', you can omit all headers like this:
=QUERY(H4:L35,"select sum(L) where H='First Week'", 0)
See the format here.
Example:
=QUERY(B4:C38,
"SELECT C, sum(B) where C!='' group by C label C 'Member', sum(B) 'Sum'"
)

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