MySQL - Join 2 tables and count number of entries - mysql

I'm trying to join 2 tables and count the number of entries for unique variables in one of the columns. In this case I'm trying to join 2 tables - patients and trials (patients has a FK to trials) and count the number of patients that show up in each trial. This is the code i have so far:
SELECT patients.trial_id, trials.title
FROM trials
JOIN(SELECT patients, COUNT(id) AS Num_Enrolled
FROM patients
GROUP BY trials) AS Trial_Name;
The Outcome I'm trying to acheive is:
Trial_Name Num_Patients
Bushtucker 5
Tribulations 7
I'm completely new to sql and have been struggling with the syntax compared to scripting languages.

It's not 100% clear from your question of the names of your columns however you are after a basic aggregation. Adjust the names of the columns if necessary:
select t.title Trial_Name, Count(*) Num_Patients
from Trials t
join Patients p on p.Trial_Id = t.Id
group by t.title;

Based on Stu-'s answer, I want to say that your column naming is wrong.But you can write query based on logic like this.
SELECT trial.title AS Trial_Name, COUNT(p.id) AS Num_Patients
FROM trial
INNER JOIN patients AS p
ON trial.patient_fk_id = p.id
GROUP BY trial.title,p.id;

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Joining three tables and finding a sum of payments in MySQL

I am struggling with this problem in MySQL. The question asks...
Find the names of the individuals and businesses that have made no more than three payments.
Individuals is a table, businesses is a table, and payments is a table. The problem I am having is Payments only contains columns dateFiled and amountPaid. I tried creating a count operation, but it shows blank results.
Here is my code:
SELECT Individuals.name, Businesses.name, Payments.taxpayerID, COUNT(*) AS 'Payments'
FROM Payments
JOIN Individuals ON Payments.taxpayerID=Individuals.taxpayerID
JOIN Businesses ON Payments.taxpayerID=Businesses.taxpayerID
GROUP BY Businesses.name, Individuals.name, Payments.taxpayerID
HAVING COUNT(*) <= 3;
If anyone can help me solve this it would be greatly appreciated.
I guess what you are looking for is not a join of three tables but a union of two selects:
SELECT Individuals.name, Payments.taxpayerID, COUNT(*) AS 'Payments'
FROM Payments
JOIN Individuals ON Payments.taxpayerID=Individuals.taxpayerID
GROUP BY Individuals.name, Payments.taxpayerID
HAVING COUNT(*) <= 3
UNION
SELECT Businesses.name, Payments.taxpayerID, COUNT(*) AS 'Payments'
FROM Payments
JOIN Businesses ON Payments.taxpayerID=Businesses.taxpayerID
GROUP BY Businesses.name, Payments.taxpayerID
HAVING COUNT(*) <= 3;
Your version is giving zero results, because a tax ID is either associated with a business or an individual. Therefore you need to query both independently and combine the results with union.
That said, yes you could work with joins and only a single select but then you'd need outer joins and the query would be less readable IMHO.

MySQL Differences with counts caused by joins

i have a problem in MySQL where I use the COUNT function for conditions. However, when combining this with joins, although I use grouping, the COUNT values include ALL rows, even the ones filtered out.
I'm providing a minimal working example, which however maybe does not make a practical sense or is designed smartly.
So assume I have 3 tables:
products with fields: productId, name, active (boolean)
teams with fields: teamId, name
rel_production with fields: teamId, productId
So basically I have products and teams with ids and names. Products can be active (lets say that means that they are still in production or so).
And then I have a relation which team is working on which product.
To explain my problem, assume the following minimal amount of data to clarify the problem is contained inside the tables:
products
teams
rel_production
Now the query that I want to do is, in plain english: "I want all teams that are working on exactly 2 products while atleast one product must be active."
The query in general works and is the following in mysql:
SELECT
teams.*,
"r_count:",
r_count.*,
COUNT(r_count.productId),
"r_active:",
r_active.*,
"p_active:",
p_active.*
FROM teams
INNER JOIN rel_production r_active ON r_active.teamId = teams.teamId
INNER JOIN products p_active ON p_active.productId = r_active.productId AND p_active.active
INNER JOIN rel_production r_count ON r_count.teamId = teams.teamId
GROUP BY teams.teamId, r_active.teamId
HAVING COUNT(r_count.productId) = 2 #4 is the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now them problem is with team 1. Because it is working on 2 active products, COUNT(r_count.productId) will be 4 and not 2. So my query will filter it out.
Here is the screenshot with the result without the HAVING clause:
I see why this happens, because the two inner joins on rel_production will cause 4 rows to be generated. But then they are merged always together to one using the GROUP BY. So what I need is the COUNT after the GROUP and not before.
How can I fix this?
Perform the filtering on teams in a separate subquery, and then join to that:
SELECT
t1.teamId,
t1.name
FROM teams t1
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT t1.teamId
FROM rel_production t1
INNER JOIN products t2
ON t1.productId = t2.productId
GROUP BY t1.teamId
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT t1.productId) = 2 AND SUM(t2.active) > 0
) t2
ON t1.teamId = t2.teamId;
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Multiple joins on the same table with counting in one query

I have an elementary question about SQL query with joining the same table twice. It sounds very simple, but I have some troubles with it. I hope, anyone can help me with this issue :)
I have two little tables: "peoples" (columns: id, name, ...) and "likes" (id, who, whom). People may set the "likes" to each other. The relationship is many to many.
I want get the table with peoples likes: count of received "likes", delivered and count of mutual likes.
All is correctly, when I use only one join. But for two joins (or more) MySQL combine all rows (as expected) and I get wrong values in counts. I don't know, how I must use count/sum/group-by operators in this case:( I would like to do this without subqueries in one query.
I used a query like this:
SELECT *, count(l1.whom), count(l2.whom)
FROM people p
LEFT JOIN likes l1 ON l1.who = p.id
LEFT JOIN likes l2 ON l2.whom = p.id
GROUP BY p.id;
SELECT p.id, name,
count(lwho.who) delivered_likes,
count(lwhom.whom) received_likes,
count(lmut.who) mutual_likes
FROM people AS p
LEFT JOIN likes AS lwho ON p.id = lwho.who
LEFT JOIN likes AS lwhom ON lwhom.id = lwho.id
LEFT JOIN likes AS lmut ON lwhom.who = lmut.whom AND lwhom.whom = lmut.who
GROUP BY p.id;
But it's calculated the counts of likes incorrect.
It's issue just for training and performance is not important, but I guess, that three joins in my last query is too much. Can I do it using 2 joins?
Thanks in advance for help.
I surmise that there is a 1:N relationship between people and likes.
One problem with your second query, as far as I can tell, is that the lwhom correlation of likes is joined to lwho via id=id. Basically lwhom is lwho. I'd recommend changing the ON clause for this correlation from lwhom.id = lwho.id to p.id = lwhom.whom.
The counts will still be affected by the JOINs, however. Supposing that you have an ID column in the likes table, though, you could then have each COUNT tally the distinct Like IDs per person – if not, consider just using COUNT(DISTINCT correlation.*) instead.
Digressions aside, the following should hopefully work:
SELECT p.id, name,
count(distinct lwho.id) delivered_likes,
count(distinct lwhom.id) received_likes,
count(distinct lmut.id) mutual_likes
FROM people AS p
LEFT JOIN likes AS lwho ON p.id = lwho.who
LEFT JOIN likes AS lwhom ON p.id = lwhom.whom
LEFT JOIN likes AS lmut ON lwhom.who = lmut.whom AND lwhom.whom = lmut.who
GROUP BY p.id,p.name;
I have an SQL Fiddle here.

using JOIN and subquery in mysql

I posted a question about 2 weeks ago about 'one to many' relation between SQL tables. Now I have a bit of a different scenario. Basically, there are two tables - coffee_users and coffee_product_registrations. The latter is connected to coffee_users table with 'uid' column. So basically coffee_users.uid = coffee_product_registrations.uid
A single user can have multiple products registered.
What I want to do is to display some product information (from coffee_product_registrations) along with some user information (from coffee_users), BUT retrieve only those rows that have more than 1 product registrations.
So to simplify, here are the steps I need to take:
Join two tables
Select users that have multiple products registered
Display all their products along with their names and stuff
My current SQL query looks like this:
SELECT c.uid, c.name, cpr.model
FROM coffee_users c
JOIN coffee_product_registrations cpr on c.uid = cpr.uid
GROUP BY c.uid
HAVING COUNT(cpr.uid) > 1
This joins the two tables on 'uid' column but displays only 1 row for each user. It selects just users that have multiple products registered.
Now I need to take these IDs and select ALL the products from coffee_product_registrations based on them.
I cannot figure out how to put this in one query.
Replace cpr.*, c.* with columns which you want to extract feom the query
Try this:
SELECT cpr.*, c.*
FROM coffee_product_registrations cpr
INNER JOIN coffee_users c ON c.uid = cpr.uid
INNER JOIN (SELECT cpr.uid
FROM coffee_product_registrations cpr
GROUP BY cpr.uid
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT cpr.productId) > 1
) AS A ON c.uid = A.uid;

Multiple mysql joins

I have three tables that I need get information from, 1 table has the information in and the other two hold information that i need to count.
so the first tables structure is:
tbl_img
img_id
img_name
tbl_comments
comment_id
img_id
comment
tbl_vote
vote_id
logo_id
I want the results to have the count of comments and votes that relate to each logo.
I have a bit of the query which is for the count of comments, but have no idea for the syntax for the second join.
SELECT l.img_id, l.img_name, COUNT(c.comment_id) AS comment_count
FROM tbl_images as l
LEFT OUTER JOIN tbl_comments AS c USING (img_id);
Can anyone help?
how about this :
SELECT l.img_id, l.img_name,
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl_comments c WHERE i.img_id = c.img_id ) AS comment_count,
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl_vote v WHERE i.img_id = v.img_id ) AS vote_count
FROM tbl_images i
Sounds like you need two queries for this: One for counting the votes, and one for counting the comments.
As far as I know, COUNT counts result rows, and joins create result rows to display all allowed permutations of joined tables.
Assuming you have I entries, each with J comments and K votes, you would receive J*K rows for each entry after joins, and COUNTs would both return that J*K instead of the correct amount.
I do not remember if you can do inner queries in MySQL, but that would be the way to go.
(See #Kevin Burtons answer)