Count Number of Consecutive Occurrence of values in Table
You could use windowed functions like LAG
and running total:
WITH cte AS (
SELECT Id, Name, grp = SUM(CASE WHEN Name = prev THEN 0 ELSE 1 END) OVER(ORDER BY id)
FROM (SELECT *, prev = LAG(Name) OVER(ORDER BY id) FROM t) s
)
SELECT name, cnt = COUNT(*)
FROM cte
GROUP BY grp,name
ORDER BY grp;
db<>fiddle demo
The first cte returns group number:
+-----+-------+-----+
| Id | Name | grp |
+-----+-------+-----+
| 1 | A | 1 |
| 2 | A | 1 |
| 3 | B | 2 |
| 4 | B | 2 |
| 5 | B | 2 |
| 6 | B | 2 |
| 7 | C | 3 |
| 8 | B | 4 |
| 9 | B | 4 |
+-----+-------+-----+
And main query groups it based on grp
column calculated earlier:
+-------+-----+
| name | cnt |
+-------+-----+
| A | 2 |
| B | 4 |
| C | 1 |
| B | 2 |
+-------+-----+
One approach is the difference of row numbers:
select name, count(*)
from (select t.*,
(row_number() over (order by id) -
row_number() over (partition by name order by id)
) as grp
from t
) t
group by grp, name;
The logic is easiest to understand if you run the subquery and look at the values of each row number separately and then look at the difference.