Get column sum and use to calculate percent of total (mySQL)

Question

Here is a very basic look at my table. I have columns 1 and 2 and need to generate column 3. Column 3 is simply the total of the Number column for all Nam

Answer 1

You can get it with a subselect:

SELECT Name, Number, Number * 100 / (select sum(Number) FROM MYTABLE) AS '% of total'
FROM mytable

Answer 2

You just need to CROSS JOIN the SUM() of Number column:

SELECT Name, Number, Number * 100 / t.s AS `% of total`
FROM mytable
CROSS JOIN (SELECT SUM(Number) AS s FROM mytable) t

Demo Here

Answer 3

If I were doing this, I would start by storing a variable that held the total, like this:

SET @total := (SELECT SUM(number) FROM myTable);

Once I had that variable, I could run a query that got the percentage for each row like this:

SELECT name, number, (number / @total) * 100 AS percentage
FROM myTable;

If you don't want to use a variable, you can just move that subquery into your select statement:

SELECT name, number, (number / (SELECT SUM(number) FROM myTable)) * 100 AS percentage
FROM myTable;

Here is an SQL Fiddle example with each approach.