Select all items and count in related table by criteria - mysql

Question

I have tables Match and Reaction as following:
REACTION
+----------+----------+----------+----------+
| user_id | game_id | item_id | reaction |
+----------+----------+----------+----------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
+----------+----------+----------+----------+
MATCH:
+----------+----------+
| game_id | item_id |
+----------+----------+
| 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 2 |
+----------+----------+
Now I want (if possible without subqueries) to select ALL item_ids from MATCH table AND count of rows where field reaction in table Reaction is equal to 1 for user with id = 2. For example, for defined tables I want to get following results:
+----------+----------+
| item_id | count |
+----------+----------+
| 1 |  1 |
| 2 | 0 |
+----------+----------+
I've tried something like
SELECT match.item_id, COUNT(reaction.user_id) as c
FROM match
LEFT JOIN reaction ON reaction.item_id = match.item_id
WHERE reaction.reaction = 1 AND match.game_id = 2
GROUP BY match.item_id
HAVING c > 0
but it didn't work as expected. I cannot get count for particular user.

Answer 1

I think you are close. I think you just need to move conditions on the second table to the ON clause:
SELECT m.item_id, COUNT(r.user_id) as c
FROM match m LEFT JOIN
reaction r
ON r.item_id = m.item_id AND
r.reaction = 1 AND
r.user_id = 2
WHERE m.game_id = 2
GROUP BY m.item_id;
I'm not sure what the HAVING clause is for, because you seem to want counts of 0.
Note that this also introduces table aliases so the query is easier to write and to read.

Answer 2

SELECT match.item_id, COUNT(reaction.user_id) as c
FROM match JOIN reaction ON (reaction.item_id = match.item_id and reaction.reaction = 1 AND match.game_id = 2)
GROUP BY match.item_id
HAVING COUNT(reaction.user_id)
I think you need to filter 'before' join -> so use the 'on' clause.
Filters in where are applied after the join is made while filter applied on on clause are applied before the join is made

Answer 3

You have not game_id = 2 so this should return no value
and you should not use left joined table columns in where condition otherwise these wprk as inner join ... in these cases you shou move the related condition in ON clause
SELECT match.item_id, COUNT(reaction.user_id) as c
FROM match
LEFT JOIN reaction ON reaction.item_id = match.item_id
AND reaction.reaction = 1
WHERE match.game_id = 2
GROUP BY match.item_id
HAVING c > 0
but try also
SELECT match.item_id, COUNT(reaction.user_id) as c
FROM match
LEFT JOIN reaction ON reaction.item_id = match.item_id
AND reaction.reaction = 1
GROUP BY match.item_id