Selecting COUNT from different criteria on a table

Question

I have a table named \'jobs\'. For a particular user a job can be active, archived, overdue, pending, or closed. Right now every page request is generating 5 COUNT queries and

Answer 1

I would use this approach, use COUNT in combination with CASE WHEN.

SELECT 
    COUNT(CASE WHEN 
        jobs.status_id NOT IN (8,3,11) THEN 1 
    END) as [Count1],
    COUNT(CASE WHEN 
        jobs.due_date < '2011-06-14' 
        AND jobs.status_id NOT IN(8,11,5,3) THEN 1
    END) as [COUNT2],
    COUNT(CASE WHEN
            jobs.due_date BETWEEN '2011-06-14' AND '2011-06-15 06:00:00.000000'
    END) as [COUNT3]
FROM 
    "jobs"
WHERE 
     jobs.creator_id = 5