MYSQL : Group by all weeks of a year with 0 included - mysql

Question

I have a question about some mysql code.
I have a table referencing some employees with the date of arrival et the project id. I wanna calculate all the entries in the enterprise and group it by week.
A this moment, I can have this result
Project ID | Week | Count
1 | 2019-S01 | 2
1 | 2019-S03 | 1
2 | 2019-S01 | 1
2 | 2019-S04 | 5
2 | 2019-S05 | 3
2 | 2019-S06 | 2
This is good, but I would like to have all the weeks returned, even if a week has 0 as result :
Project ID | Week | Count
1 | 2019-S01 | 2
1 | 2019-S02 | 0
1 | 2019-S03 | 1
...
2 | 2019-S01 | 1
2 | 2019-S02 | 0
2 | 2019-S03 | 0
2 | 2019-S04 | 5
2 | 2019-S05 | 3
2 | 2019-S06 | 2
...
Here is my actual code :
SELECT
AP.SECTION_ANALYTIQUE AS SECTION,
FS_GET_FORMAT_SEMAINE(AP.DATE_ARRIVEE_PROJET) AS SEMAINE,
Count(*) AS COMPTE
FROM
RT00_AFFECTATIONS_PREV AP
WHERE
(AP.DATE_ARRIVEE_PROJET <= CURDATE() AND Year(AP.DATE_ARRIVEE_PROJET) >= Year(CURDATE()))
GROUP BY
SECTION, SEMAINE
ORDER BY
SECTION
Does anybody have a solution ?
I searched things on internet but didn't find anything accurate :(
Thank you in advance ! :)

Answer 1

The classic way to meet this requirement is to create a referential table to store all possible weeks.
create table all_weeks(week varchar(8) primary key);
insert into all_weeks values
('2019-S01'), ('2019-S02'), ('2019-S03'), ('2019-S04'), ('2019-S05'), ('2019-S06');
Once this is done, you can generate a cartesian product of all possible sections and weeks with a CROSS JOIN, and LEFT JOIN that with the original table.
Given your code snippet, this should look like:
SELECT
s.section_analytique AS section,
w.week AS semaine,
COUNT(ap.section_analytique) AS compte
FROM
(SELECT DISTINCT section_analytique from rt00_affectations_prev) s
CROSS JOIN all_weeks w
LEFT JOIN rt00_affectations_prev ap
ON s.section_analytique = ap.section_analytique AND w.week = FS_GET_FORMAT_SEMAINE(ap.date_arrivee_projet)
GROUP BY s.section_analytique, w.week
ORDER BY s.section_analytique
PS: be careful not to put conditions on the original table in the WHERE clause: this would defeat the purpose of the LEFT JOIN. If you need to do some filtering, use the referential table instead (you might need to add a few columns to it, like the starting date of the week maybe).