How to use the COUNT function to count up to the current row for each row?

Question

I had trouble phrasing the question, but I think the following example will clear things up.

Context: Trying to create a query for Microsoft Report Builder, need to perform some logic on the data in one of the tables.

I have a SQL Table (let's call it AllEvents) in the database with a format like this:

UserName   |    Grouping    | EventDate | NumberOfEvents
________________________________________________________
Alice      | Red Grouping   | 1/1/2000  | 1
Alice      | Red Grouping   | 1/2/2000  | 2
Alice      | Red Grouping   | 1/3/2000  | 3
Alice      | Blue Grouping  | 1/4/2000  | 1
Alice      | Blue Grouping  | 1/5/2000  | 2
Anderson   | Red Grouping   | 1/3/2000  | 1
Anderson   | Blue Grouping  | 1/5/2000  | 1
Anderson   | Green Grouping | 1/6/2000  | 1
Anderson   | Green Grouping | 1/7/2000  | 2

And I want to select the results such that I get an output of the following form, where it counts the number of events for the UserName before and up to the row's EventDate.

UserName    | EventDate   | EventNumber
_______________________________________
Alice       | 1/1/2000    | 1
Alice       | 1/2/2000    | 2
Alice       | 1/3/2000    | 3
Alice       | 1/4/2000    | 4
Alice       | 1/5/2000    | 5
Anderson    | 1/3/2000    | 1
Anderson    | 1/5/2000    | 2
Anderson    | 1/6/2000    | 3
Anderson    | 1/7/2000    | 4

We can ignore the grouping column, since we're only interested in the rows with the same UserName.

What I have been trying to do is use a subquery like below:

SELECT

   SUM
   (
      CASE WHEN AE.EventDate> AllEvents.EventDate
         THEN 1
         ELSE 0
      END
   )
   OVER (PARTITION BY UserName, Grouping)

FROM AllEvents AS AF

WHERE
   AE.UserName= AllEvents.PatientId
   AND AE.EventDate= AllEvents.EventDate

In the following query:

SELECT
   UserName,
   EventDate,
   [The subquery above] AS EventNumber

FROM
  AllEvents

However, the subquery is returning more than one value and I'm struggling to determine how to troubleshoot.

I have also been toying with the COUNT function, but have failed to have it count conditionally based upon the current row's EventDate value.

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. I have been trying to be creative in my approach, but I don't know if I've hit the best method.

Answer 1

This will do it

select UserName, 
       EventDate, 
       row_number over (partition by UserName order by EventDate asc) as EventNumber 
  from AllEvents