[sql] SQL Query - SUM(CASE WHEN x THEN 1 ELSE 0) for multiple columns

I'm looking to see if there is a better approach to the query below. What I'm trying to do is create a summary report, compiling stats by date.

 SELECT CAST(Detail.ReceiptDate AS DATE) AS 'DATE'
, SUM(CASE WHEN Detail.Type = 'TotalMailed' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'TOTALMAILED'
, SUM(CASE WHEN Detail.Type = 'TotalReturnMail' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED'
, SUM(CASE WHEN Detail.Type = 'TraceReturnedMail' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED'
FROM
(
select SentDate AS 'ReceiptDate', 'TotalMailed' AS 'Type'
from MailDataExtract
where sentdate is not null
UNION ALL
select MDE.ReturnMailDate AS 'ReceiptDate', 'TotalReturnMail' AS 'Type'
from MailDataExtract MDE
where MDE.ReturnMailDate is not null
UNION ALL
select MDE.ReturnMailDate AS 'ReceiptDate', 'TraceReturnedMail' AS 'Type'
from MailDataExtract MDE
    inner join DTSharedData.dbo.ScanData SD ON SD.ScanDataID = MDE.ReturnScanDataID
where MDE.ReturnMailDate is not null AND SD.ReturnMailTypeID = 1
) AS Detail
GROUP BY CAST(Detail.ReceiptDate AS DATE)
ORDER BY 1   

This is only a sample of the query (which is used in a report) as there are a number of other columns and the logic for the other stats are way more complicated. Is there a more elegant approach to getting this kind of information/writing this kind of report?

I think you should make a subquery to do grouping. In this case inner subquery returns few rows and you don't need a CASE statement. So I think this is going to be faster:

select Detail.ReceiptDate AS 'DATE',
       SUM(TotalMailed),
       SUM(TotalReturnMail),
       SUM(TraceReturnedMail)

from
(

select SentDate AS 'ReceiptDate', 
       count('TotalMailed') AS TotalMailed, 
       0 as TotalReturnMail, 
       0 as TraceReturnedMail
from MailDataExtract
where sentdate is not null
GROUP BY SentDate

UNION ALL
select MDE.ReturnMailDate AS 'ReceiptDate', 
       0 AS TotalMailed, 
       count(TotalReturnMail) as TotalReturnMail, 
       0 as TraceReturnedMail
from MailDataExtract MDE
where MDE.ReturnMailDate is not null
GROUP BY  MDE.ReturnMailDate

UNION ALL

select MDE.ReturnMailDate AS 'ReceiptDate', 
       0 AS TotalMailed, 
       0 as TotalReturnMail, 
       count(TraceReturnedMail) as TraceReturnedMail

from MailDataExtract MDE
    inner join DTSharedData.dbo.ScanData SD 
        ON SD.ScanDataID = MDE.ReturnScanDataID
   where MDE.ReturnMailDate is not null AND SD.ReturnMailTypeID = 1
GROUP BY MDE.ReturnMailDate

) as Detail
GROUP BY Detail.ReceiptDate
ORDER BY 1