Exercise 7/8 - Why my values become NULL

[alikhanzadi]

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I am trying to understand why this code either brings value of 100 or NULL. What am I not getting right? By the way I already know the correct answer but just trying to understand how this code is causing the non 100% results become NULL. Thanks.

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SELECT state,
100.00 * (CASE WHEN elevation >= 2000 THEN count(elevation) END / count(*)) as percentage_high_elevation_airports
from airports
group by 1
order by 1;

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[tn23]

I think it’s because you don’t have an ELSE statement before END, so SQL automatically fills it with NULL if the CASE WHEN elevation >= 2000 is not met.

[blogsurfer88956]

SELECT state,
100.0 * COUNT(CASE WHEN elevation >= 2000 THEN 1 ELSE NULL END) / COUNT(*) AS percentage_high_elevation_airports
FROM airports
GROUP BY state;

[rudikk99]

thank you very much!