Counting null and non-null values in a single query

Question

I have a table

create table us
(
 a number
);

Now I have data like:

a
1
2
3
4
null
null
null
8
9

Now I need

Answer 1

usually i use this trick

select sum(case when a is null then 0 else 1 end) as count_notnull,
       sum(case when a is null then 1 else 0 end) as count_null
from tab
group by a