Step 5: Try example queries using the query editor

To set up and use the Amazon Redshift query editor v2 to query a database, see Working with query editor v2 in the Amazon Redshift Management Guide.

Now, try some example queries, as shown following. For more information on working with the SELECT command, see SELECT in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

-- Get definition for the sales table.
SELECT *    
FROM pg_table_def    
WHERE tablename = 'sales';  

-- Find total sales on a given calendar date.
SELECT sum(qtysold) 
FROM   sales, date 
WHERE  sales.dateid = date.dateid 
AND    caldate = '2008-01-05';

-- Find top 10 buyers by quantity.
SELECT firstname, lastname, total_quantity 
FROM   (SELECT buyerid, sum(qtysold) total_quantity
        FROM  sales
        GROUP BY buyerid
        ORDER BY total_quantity desc limit 10) Q, users
WHERE Q.buyerid = userid
ORDER BY Q.total_quantity desc;   

-- Find events in the 99.9 percentile in terms of all time gross sales.
SELECT eventname, total_price 
FROM  (SELECT eventid, total_price, ntile(1000) over(order by total_price desc) as percentile 
       FROM (SELECT eventid, sum(pricepaid) total_price
             FROM   sales
             GROUP BY eventid)) Q, event E
       WHERE Q.eventid = E.eventid
       AND percentile = 1
ORDER BY total_price desc;