How to Get the Total Count of Projects Per Workflow in Jira via the Database

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Summary

Purpose of this article

The purpose of this article is to provide SQL queries meant to retrieve the number of projects using each workflow in the Jira application.

Environment

Jira Server/Data Center on any version from 8.0.0.

Solution

For MySQL

Run the following SQL query (note: This query is written in MySQL syntax. You will have to change the syntax to run on another DB)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 select wse.workflow, count(p.pname) as `Total number of projects that use this workflow` from nodeassociation n inner join project p on p.ID = n.source_node_ID inner join workflowscheme ws on ws.ID = n.SINK_NODE_ID inner join workflowschemeentity wse on wse.scheme = ws.ID where n.source_node_entity = 'Project' and n.sink_node_entity = 'WorkflowScheme' group by wse.workflow order by workflow;

For PostgreSQL

Run the following SQL query (note: This query is written in PostgreSQL syntax. You will have to change the syntax to run on another DB)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 select wse.workflow, count(p.pname) as "Total number of projects that use this workflow" from nodeassociation n inner join project p on p.ID = n.source_node_ID inner join workflowscheme ws on ws.ID = n.SINK_NODE_ID inner join workflowschemeentity wse on wse.scheme = ws.ID where n.source_node_entity = 'Project' and n.sink_node_entity = 'WorkflowScheme' group by wse.workflow order by workflow;
Updated on April 2, 2025

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