I want to show first two top voted Posts then others sorted by id
This is table
+----+-------+--------------+--------+
| Id | Name | Post | Votes |
+====+=======+==============+========+
| 1 | John | John's msg | -6 |
| 2 |Joseph |Joseph's msg | 8 |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan's msg | 3 |
| 4 |Natalie|Natalie's msg | 10 |
+----+-------+--------------+--------+
After query result should be:
+----+-------+--------------+--------+
| Id | Name | Post | Votes |
+====+=======+==============+========+
| 4 |Natalie|Natalie's msg | 10 |
| 2 |Joseph |Joseph's msg | 8 |
-----------------------------------------------
| 1 | John | John's msg | -6 |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan's msg | 3 |
+----+-------+--------------+--------+
I have 1 solution but i feel like there is better and faster way to do it.
I run 2 queries, one to get top 2, then second to get others:
SELECT * FROM table order by Votes desc LIMIT 2
SELECT * FROM table order by Id desc
And then in PHP i make sure that i show 1st query as it is, and on displaying 2nd query i remove entry's that are in 1st query so they don't double.
Can this be done in single query to select first two top voted, then others?
You would have to use subqueries or union - meaning you have a single outer query, which contains multiple queries inside. I would simply retrieve the IDs from the first query and add a id not in (...) criterion to the where clause of the 2nd query - thus filtering out the posts retrieved in the first query:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE Id NOT IN (...) ORDER BY Id DESC
With union the query would look like as follows:
(SELECT table.*, 1 as o FROM table order by Votes desc LIMIT 2)
UNION
(SELECT table.*, 0 FROM table
WHERE Id NOT IN (SELECT Id FROM table order by Votes desc LIMIT 2))
ORDER BY o DESC, if(o=1,Votes,Id) DESC
As you can see, it wraps 3 queries into one and has a more complicated ordering as well because in union the order of the records retrieved is not guaranteed.
Two simple queries seem to be a lot more efficient to me in this particular case.
There could be different ways to write a query that returns the rows in the order you want. My solution is this:
select
table.*
from
table left join (select id from table order by votes desc limit 2) l
on table.id = l.id
order by
case when l.id is not null then votes end desc,
tp.id
the subquery will return the first two id ordered by votes desc, the join will succeed whenever the row is one of the first two otherwise l.id will be null instead.
The order by will order by number of votes desc whenever the row is the first or the second (=l.id is not null), when l.id is null it will put the rows at the bottom and order by id instead.
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I am not very good at sql but I am getting there. I have searched stackoverflow but I can't seem to find the solution and I hope someone out there can help me. I have a table (users) with data like the following. The book_id column is a key to another table that contains a book the user is subscribed to.
|--------|---------------------|------------------|
| id | book_id | name |
|--------|---------------------|------------------|
| 1 | 1 | jim |
| 2 | 1 | joyce |
| 3 | 1 | mike |
| 4 | 1 | eleven |
| 5 | 2 | max |
| 6 | 2 | dustin |
| 7 | 2 | lucas |
|--------|---------------------|------------------|
I have a function in my PHP code that returns two random users from a specific book id (either 1 or 2). Query one returns the result in column 1 and result two returns the results in column 2 like:
|---------------------|------------------|
| 1 | 2 |
|---------------------|------------------|
| jim | max |
| joyce | dustin |
|---------------------|------------------|
I have achieved this by running two separate queries as seen below. I want to know if it's possible to achieve this functionality with one query and how.
$random_users_with_book_id_1 = SELECT name FROM users WHERE book_id=1 LIMIT 2
$random_users_with_book_id_2 = SELECT name FROM users WHERE book_id=2 LIMIT 2
Again, I apologise if it's too specific. The query below has been closest to what I was trying to achieve.:
SELECT a.name AS book_id_1, b.name AS book_id_2
FROM users a, users b
WHERE a.book_id=1 AND b.book_id = 2
LIMIT 2
EDIT: I have created a fiddle to play around with his. I appreciate any help! Thank you!! http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/7fcbca/1
It is easy actually :)
you can use UNION like this:
SELECT * FROM (
(SELECT * FROM user WHERE n_id=1 LIMIT 2)
UNION
(SELECT * FROM user WHERE n_id=2 LIMIT 2))
collection;
if you read this article about the documentation you can use the () to group the individual queries and the apply the union in the middle. Without the parenthesis it would still LIMIT 2 and show only the two first. Ref. "To apply ORDER BY or LIMIT to an individual SELECT, place the clause inside the parentheses that enclose the SELECT:"
If you want to combine the queries in MySQL, you can just use parentheses:
(SELECT name
FROM users
WHERE n_id = 1
LIMIT 2
) UNION ALL
(SELECT name
FROM users
WHERE n_id = 2
LIMIT 2
);
First, only use UNION if you specifically want to incur the overhead of removing duplicates. Otherwise, use UNION ALL.
Second, this does not return random rows. This returns arbitrary rows. In many cases, this might be two rows near the beginning of the data. If you want random rows, then use ORDER BY rand():
(SELECT name
FROM users
WHERE n_id = 1
ORDER by rand()
LIMIT 2
) UNION ALL
(SELECT name
FROM users
WHERE n_id = 2
ORDER BY rand()
LIMIT 2
);
There are other methods that are more efficient, but this should be fine for up to a few thousand rows.
Student table :
----------------------
id | name
______________________
1 | Name 1
2 | Name 2
Course Table :
id | student_id | ctype | level
__________________________________
1 | 2 | beginner | complete
2 | 2 | advanced | current
3 | 1 | beginner | current
4 | 2 | intermed | skipped
From the above two table i am trying to get the latest user records based on the level from course table . the level should be matched such that it checks for current, complete and skipped in the same order so if the user has a level of current for any course type it should be fetched else check the level complete...
i am using the following query .
SELECT `sc`.`student_id`,
`s`.`name`,
`sc`.`id` as `course_id`,
`sc`.`ctype`,
`sc`.`level`,
FROM `course` `sc`
LEFT JOIN `students` `s` ON `s`.`id` = `sc`.`student_id`
WHERE sc.id = (SELECT ssc.id FROM course ssc WHERE ssc.student_id = sc.student_id
ORDER BY FIELD(`ssc`.`level`,"current","complete","skipped") DESC LIMIT 1,1)
GROUP BY `sc`.`student_id`
ORDER BY `sc`.`id` DESC
LIMIT 20
The problem with the above query is it displays only if there is more than one user id matching in course table . so the final output i get is it displays only the student with id 2 and ignore the student with id 1 as there is no more than one .
Result form above query
student_id | name | course_id | ctype | level |
=====================================================
2 | Name 2 | 2 | advanced | current
Expected Result
student_id | name | course_id | ctype | level |
=====================================================
2 | Name 2 | 2 | advanced | current
1 | Name 1 | 3 | beginner | current
NOTE : I have also tried FIELD_IN_SET and IN instead of FIELD im getting the same result
Change LIMIT 1,1 to LIMIT 0,1 or just LIMIT 1.
Unlike most other things in SQL, the offset field in the LIMIT clause is 0-based, not 1-based. So if there's only 1 matching row, LIMIT 1,1 skips over it. And if there are 2 or more matching rows, you're not getting the top match, you're getting the 2nd match.
Also, the ordering should be ASC, not DESC, since you want to prefer the lowest field (current), not the highest.
SELECT `sc`.`student_id`,
`s`.`name`,
`sc`.`id` as `course_id`,
`sc`.`ctype`,
`sc`.`level`
FROM `course` `sc`
LEFT JOIN `students` `s` ON `s`.`id` = `sc`.`student_id`
WHERE sc.id = (
SELECT ssc.id FROM course ssc
WHERE ssc.student_id = sc.student_id
ORDER BY FIELD(`ssc`.`level`,"current","complete","skipped") ASC
LIMIT 0,1)
GROUP BY `sc`.`student_id`
ORDER BY `sc`.`id` DESC
LIMIT 20
DEMO
There's also no need for GROUP BYsc.student_id`. The query is only returning one course ID per student, so there can't be multiple rows for each student.
Suppose we have a table like the one below.
Id | Name | Group
-----------------
1 | John | 1
2 | Zayn | 2
3 | Four | 2
4 | Ben_ | 3
5 | Joe_ | 2
6 | Anna | 1
The query below will select all of them.
SELECT `Name` FROM `Table` WHERE 1;
How would I select only one person from each group? Who it is doesn't really matter, as long as there's only one name from group 1 and one name from group 2 etc.
The GROUP BY clause isn't fit for this (according to my error console) because I am selecting non aggregated values, which makes sense.
The DISTINCT clause isn't great here either, since I don't want to select the "Group" and definitely not group by their names.
If is not important the resulting name You can anawy leverage some group functions eg with max or min..
leverage the group functions
select max(name) from your_table
group by Group;
otherwise you can use subquery
select name from your_table
where Id in (select min(Id) from your_table group by Group);
This topic appears to be a popular one and definitely saturated in terms of the number of related posts, however, I've been working on this for 3 days and I cannot get this figured out.
I've been scouring this site and many others with potential solutions to this and some are executing, but I am not getting the expected results.
Here's what I'm trying to do...
SELECT and COUNT the number of reviews a user has submitted in the reviews table.
SELECT and COUNT the number of up-votes a user has in the reviewVotes table.
GROUP BY username (which is a key in both tables - usernames are unique, but exist in multiple rows).
Order the result set by the SUM of those COUNTs DESC. (This is something I keep trying, but can't get to even execute, so I am ordering by userReviewNum DESC right now.)
LIMIT the result set to the first 10.
The result set should give me the top 10 reviewers which is calculated by the number of reviews plus (+) the number of up-votes.
Here is my latest attempt which executes, but appears to be multiplying userReviewNum * reviewVotesNum and I need it to add them (but I have been extremely unsuccessful at any attempt to include the SUM command - so bad in fact that I am embarrassed to even show my attempts).
SELECT
reviews.username,
count(reviews.username) userReviewNum,
count(reviewVotes.username) reviewVotesNum
FROM reviews
LEFT JOIN reviewVotes ON reviews.username = reviewVotes.username
GROUP by reviews.username
ORDER BY userReviewNum DESC
LIMIT 0, 10
I've tried using a JOIN and a UNION and I can't seem to get either of them to work.
Any help anyone can provide is greatly appreciated!
UPDATE:
Here is the structure and some sample data.
Reviews Table (there are other fields, but these are the important ones):
| username | comment | rating | productID |
| foo | this is awesome! | 5 | xxxx |
| bar | i don't like this | 1 | xxxx |
| foo2 | it's ok | 3 | xxxx |
| foo | bleh - nasty | 1 | xxxx |
reviewVotes Table (again, more fields than this, but these are the important ones):
| username | voterUsername | productID |
| foo | foo2 | xxxx |
| foo2 | foo | xxxx | (the simple idea here is one user is up-voting another user's post)
So I need to count the number of reviews a user has in the Reviews table, then count the number of upvotes a user has in the reviewVotes table, and then order by the sum of those two numbers.
Additional UPDATE:
In the example above, here are the expected results:
Username | # Reviews
foo | 2
bar | 1
foo2 | 1
Username | # Up-Votes
foo | 1
foo2 | 1
Username | Total Sum
foo | 3
bar | 1
foo2 | 2
Try counting distinct reviews and votes like this:
SELECT
reviews.username,
COUNT(DISTINCT reviews.id) AS userReviewNum,
COUNT(DICTINCT reviewVotes.id) AS reviewVotesNum,
COUNT(DISTINCT reviews.id) + COUNT(DICTINCT reviewVotes.id) AS userRating
FROM
reviews
LEFT JOIN reviewVotes ON reviews.username = reviewVotes.username
GROUP by reviews.username
ORDER BY userRating DESC
LIMIT 10
Try this:
SELECT username, SUM(userReviewNum + reviewVotesNum) AS userRank
FROM (
SELECT
reviews.username,
count(reviews.username) userReviewNum,
count(reviewVotes.username) reviewVotesNum
FROM reviews
LEFT JOIN reviewVotes ON reviews.username = reviewVotes.username
GROUP by reviews.username
ORDER BY userReviewNum DESC
LIMIT 0, 10)
AS result_set
GROUP BY username
The group by there is, I think, required for the SUM to work.
Try this:
SELECT Res1.*, SUM(IF(reviewVotes.Username IS NULL, 0, 1)) AS UpVotes,
userReviewNum + SUM(IF(reviewVotes.Username IS NULL, 0, 1)) AS TotalSum FROM (
SELECT username, Count(*) AS userReviewNum
FROM reviews
GROUP BY username) AS Res1
LEFT OUTER JOIN reviewVotes ON res1.username = reviewVotes.username
GROUP BY Res1.username
ORDER BY TotalSum DESC
There result would be this:
foo 2 1 3
foo2 1 1 2
bar 1 0 1
I have a table, like that one:
| B | 1 |
| C | 2 |
| B | 2 |
| A | 2 |
| C | 3 |
| A | 2 |
I would like to fetch it, but sorted and grouped. That is, I would like it grouped by the letter, but sorted by the highest sum of the group. Also, I want to show all entries within the group:
| C | 3 |
| C | 2 |
| A | 2 |
| A | 2 |
| B | 2 |
| B | 1 |
The order is that way because C has 3 and 2. 3+2=5, which is higher than 2+2=4 for A which in turn is higher than 2+1=3 for B.
I need to show all "grouped" letters because there are other columns that are distinct all of which I need shown.
EDIT:
Thanks for the quick reply. I have the audacity, however, to inquire further.
I have this query:
SELECT * FROM `ip_log` WHERE `IP` IN
(SELECT `IP` FROM `ip_log` GROUP BY `IP` HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT `uid`) > 1)
GROUP BY `uid` ORDER BY `IP`
The letters in the upper description are ip (I need it grouped by the IP addresses) and the numbers are timestamp (I need it sorted by the sum (or just used as the sorting parameter)). Should I create a temporary table and then use the solution below?
select t.Letter, t.Value
from MyTable t
inner join (
select Letter, sum(Value) as ValueSum
from MyTable
group by Letter
) ts on t.Letter = ts.Letter
order by ts.ValueSum desc, t.Letter, t.Value desc
SQL Fiddle Example
If your table's columns are letter and number, the way I would go around to doing this would be the following:
SELECT
letter,
GROUP_CONCAT(number ORDER BY number DESC),
SUM(number) AS total
FROM table
GROUP BY letter
ORDER BY total desc
What you will get, based on your example is the following:
| C | 3,2 | 5
| A | 2,2 | 4
| B | 2,1 | 3
You can then process that data to get the actual information you want/need.
If you still want the data in the format you requested originally, it is not possible with a single query. The reason for that is that you can't sort based on an aggregated data that you are not calculating in the same query (the SUM of the number column). So you will need to make a sub-query to calculate that and feed it back into the original query (disclaimer: untested query):
SELECT
letter,
number
FROM table
JOIN (SELECT ltr, SUM(number) AS total FROM table GROUP BY letter) AS totals
ON table.letter = totals.ltr
ORDER BY totals.total desc, letter desc, number desc