How to query the database for issue type statistics per project in Jira Datacenter or Server
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Summary
The SQL queries in this article are only provided on best-effort basis and are not supported by Atlassian.
Admins may want to pull statistics of how many issue types there are per project in Jira.
Solution
Run the SQL query:
⚠️ This query was written for Postgres and may have to be updated to work on another database:
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SELECT p.pkey, it.pname, COUNT(i.id) FROM jiraissue i
INNER JOIN project p ON i.project = p.id
INNER JOIN issuetype it ON it.id = i.issuetype
GROUP BY (p.id, it.id) ORDER BY p.pkey, count DESC;Here's a sample output of the results from a test system:
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pkey | pname | count
------------+-----------------+-------
ITSRVDSK | Service Request | 35
ITSRVDSK | Incident | 4
ITSRVDSK | Task | 3
ITSRVDSK | Change | 2
ITSRVDSK | Problem | 1
PMGMT | Task | 6
SCRUMMY | Story | 36
SCRUMMY | Sub-task | 10
SCRUMMY | Bug | 4
SCRUMMY | Epic | 2
SCRUMMY | Task | 1
SCRUMMY | Initiative | 1
SCRUMMYTWO | Story | 16
SCRUMMYTWO | Bug | 4
SCRUMMYTWO | Sub-task | 3
SD | Service Request | 32
SD | Incident | 5
SD | Change | 2
SD | Problem | 1
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