Count with Join in mysql - mysql

Question

So I have this two table where it records what kind of food is the user's favorite:
users table
------------
id | country
------------
1 | US
2 | PH
3 | US
4 | US
5 | PH
food_favourites table
-----------------
food_id | user_id
-----------------
3 | 1
7 | 1
3 | 2
3 | 3
3 | 4
I want to know how many unique users from US tagged food_id 3 as their favorite.
So far I have this query:
select *, count(user_id) as total
from food_favourite
inner join users on users.id = food_favourites.user_id
where food_favourites.food_id = 3
and users.country = 'US'
group by users.id
Well This doesn't work coz it returns total to 4 instead of just 3.
I also tried doing subqueries - no luck, I think I'm missing something.

Answer 1

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS users;
CREATE TABLE users
(user_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY
,country CHAR(2) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO users VALUES
(1,'US'),
(2,'EU'),
(3,'US'),
(4,'US'),
(5,'EU');
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS favourite_foods;
CREATE TABLE favourite_foods
(food_id INT NOT NULL
,user_id INT NOT NULL
,PRIMARY KEY(food_id,user_id)
);
INSERT INTO favourite_foods VALUES
(3,1),
(7,1),
(3,2),
(3,3),
(3,4);
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT u.user_id) distinct_users
FROM users u
JOIN favourite_foods f
ON f.user_id = u.user_id
WHERE u.country = 'US'
AND f.food_id = 3;
+----------------+
| distinct_users |
+----------------+
| 3 |
+----------------+

Answer 2

First of all the answer to the above question should be 3 as id 1,3,4 all have food_id 3 as their favorite food.
To just print the query try this, it will surely work:
select count(*) as total from food_favourites
inner join users on users.id=food_favourites.user_id
where food_id=3 and country='US';

Answer 3

I want to know how many unique users from US tagged food_id 3 as their favorite.
You count unique values with COUNT DISTINCT:
select count(distinct ff.user_id) as total
from food_favourite ff
inner join users u on u.id = ff.user_id
where ff.food_id = 3
and u.country = 'US';
Don't group by user, because you don't want a result per user. You want one row with one number, telling you how many US users prefer food 3.
An alternative that I prefer over the join. The query reads like I would word the task: count users from US that like food 3.
select count(*) as total
from users
where country = 'US'
and id in (select user_id from food_favourites where food_id = 3);
No unnecessary join and hence no need to get back to distinct values.

Answer 4

The sub_query is
SELECT u.country, f.food_id, COUNT(u.id) AS 'Total users'
FROM users u
INNER JOIN food_favourites AS f ON (u.id = f.[user_id])
WHERE u.country = 'US'
GROUP BY u.country, f.food_id

Answer 5

select count(user_id) as total, Country
from food_favourites
inner join users on users.id = food_favourites.user_id
where food_favourites.food_id = 3
and users.country = 'US'
group by country
Untested, but I think this is what you're after? This will return results only for the US and a food id of 3. If you want something more reusable that you can simply loop through the results for ALL countries...something like this should work (once again, untested...):
select count(user_id) as total, Country, food_id
from food_favourites
inner join users on users.id = food_favourites.user_id
group by country, food_id
order by country, food_id

Answer 6

Try:
select count(user_id) as total
from food_favourites
inner join users on users.id = food_favourites.user_id
where food_favourites.food_id = 3
and users.country = 'US'