SQL trunc/group/order by dates (day/month/quarter/year) with sum skip dates with no data

Question

I involved in project where I need to build histogram by dates. Before me this done in Java code by tons of SQL queries to DB for each rectangles (date subregions).

I tr

Answer 1

Try something like this (simplified example):

with 
months_int as
(select trunc(min(inc_date), 'MM') min_month, trunc(max(inc_date), 'MM') max_month
 from data),
months as
(
  select add_months(min_month, level-1) mnth_date
  from months_int 
  connect by add_months(min_month, level-1)<= max_month
  )
select  mnth_date, sum(cnt) 
from data  right outer join months on trunc(inc_date, 'MM') = mnth_date
group by mnth_date
order by mnth_date

Here is a sqlfiddle example