I have a table consists of films, categories and prices. Now I want to select only categories with total price (sum of all the price per film under that category) that is higher than the average of those categories' total prices. I have been able to find the average of the total prices (thanks to this web) but can't combine it together. Here are the queries:
-- Return the average sums of the price per category
SELECT AVG(sum_price)
FROM
(
SELECT category, sum(price) AS sum_price
FROM film_list
GROUP BY category
) AS inner_query;
-- Return category and its total price
SELECT category, SUM(price)
FROM film_list
GROUP BY category;
--[Error] Return only the category with sums of price larger than the average of sum of prices
SELECT category, SUM(price)
FROM film_list
WHERE SUM(price) >
(
SELECT AVG(sum_price)
FROM
(
SELECT category, sum(price) AS sum_price
FROM film_list
GROUP BY category
) AS inner_query
);
Any help will be much appreciated, thanks!
Try adding group by
and then using having
SELECT category, SUM(price)
FROM film_list
GROUP BY category
HAVING SUM(price) >
(
SELECT AVG(sum_price)
FROM
(
SELECT category, sum(price) AS sum_price
FROM film_list
GROUP BY category
) AS inner_query
);