Quartiles in SQL query

Question

I have a very simple table like that:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS LuxLog (
  Sensor TINYINT,
  Lux INT,
  PRIMARY KEY(Sensor)
)

It contains

Answer 1

Something like this should do it:

select
    ll.*,
    if (a.position is not null, 1,
        if (b.position is not null, 2, 
        if (c.position is not null, 3, 
        if (d.position is not null, 4, 0)))
    ) as quartile
from
    luxlog ll
    left outer join luxlog a on ll.position = a.position and a.lux > (select count(*)*0.00 from luxlog) and a.lux <= (select count(*)*0.25 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog b on ll.position = b.position and b.lux > (select count(*)*0.25 from luxlog) and b.lux <= (select count(*)*0.50 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog c on ll.position = c.position and c.lux > (select count(*)*0.50 from luxlog) and c.lux <= (select count(*)*0.75 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog d on ll.position = d.position and d.lux > (select count(*)*0.75 from luxlog)
;    

Here's the complete example:

use example;

drop table if exists luxlog;

CREATE TABLE LuxLog (
  Sensor TINYINT,
  Lux INT,
  position int,
  PRIMARY KEY(Position)
);

insert into luxlog values (0, 1, 10);
insert into luxlog values (0, 2, 20);
insert into luxlog values (0, 3, 30);
insert into luxlog values (0, 4, 40);
insert into luxlog values (0, 5, 50);
insert into luxlog values (0, 6, 60);
insert into luxlog values (0, 7, 70);
insert into luxlog values (0, 8, 80);

select count(*)*.25 from luxlog;
select count(*)*.50 from luxlog;

select
    ll.*,
    a.position,
    b.position,
    if(
        a.position is not null, 1,
        if (b.position is not null, 2, 0)
    ) as quartile
from
    luxlog ll
    left outer join luxlog a on ll.position = a.position and a.lux >= (select count(*)*0.00 from luxlog) and a.lux < (select count(*)*0.25 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog b on ll.position = b.position and b.lux >= (select count(*)*0.25 from luxlog) and b.lux < (select count(*)*0.50 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog c on ll.position = c.position and c.lux >= (select count(*)*0.50 from luxlog) and c.lux < (select count(*)*0.75 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog d on ll.position = d.position and d.lux >= (select count(*)*0.75 from luxlog) and d.lux < (select count(*)*1.00 from luxlog)
;    


select
    ll.*,
    if (a.position is not null, 1,
        if (b.position is not null, 2, 
        if (c.position is not null, 3, 
        if (d.position is not null, 4, 0)))
    ) as quartile
from
    luxlog ll
    left outer join luxlog a on ll.position = a.position and a.lux > (select count(*)*0.00 from luxlog) and a.lux <= (select count(*)*0.25 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog b on ll.position = b.position and b.lux > (select count(*)*0.25 from luxlog) and b.lux <= (select count(*)*0.50 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog c on ll.position = c.position and c.lux > (select count(*)*0.50 from luxlog) and c.lux <= (select count(*)*0.75 from luxlog)
    left outer join luxlog d on ll.position = d.position and d.lux > (select count(*)*0.75 from luxlog)
;