MySql graph query multiple series aligned to same time x-axis - mysql

Question

I have queries that I'm using to make a graph of earnings. But now people are able to earn from two different sources, so I want to separate this out into two lines on the same chart
This one for standard earnings:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day, SUM(earning_amount) AS earning_standard
FROM earnings
WHERE earning_account_id = ? AND earning_referral_id = 0 AND (earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY))
GROUP BY DATE(earning_created)
ORDER BY earning_created
And this one for referral earnings:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(e.earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day, SUM(e.earning_amount) AS earning_referral
FROM earnings AS e
INNER JOIN referrals AS r
ON r.referral_id = e.earning_referral_id
WHERE e.earning_account_id = ? AND e.earning_referral_id > 0 AND (e.earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY)) AND r.referral_type = 0
GROUP BY DATE(e.earning_created)
ORDER BY e.earning_created
How do I get it to run the queries together, so that it outputs two columns/series for the y-axis: earning_standard and earning_referral.
But with them both aligned to the same day column/scale for the x-axis - substituting zero when there are no earnings for a specific series.

Answer 1

You'll need to set both of those queries as subqueries
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(earnings.earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day,
COALESCE(es.earning_standard, 0) AS earning_standard,
COALESCE(er.earning_referral, 0) AS earning_referral
FROM earnings
LEFT JOIN (SELECT DATE_FORMAT(earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day,
SUM(earning_amount) AS earning_standard
FROM earnings
WHERE earning_account_id = ?
AND earning_referral_id = 0
AND (earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY))
GROUP BY DATE(earning_created)) AS es
ON (day = es.day)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT DATE_FORMAT(e.earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day,
SUM(e.earning_amount) AS earning_referral
FROM earnings AS e
INNER JOIN referrals AS r
ON r.referral_id = e.earning_referral_id
WHERE e.earning_account_id = ?
AND e.earning_referral_id > 0
AND (e.earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY))
AND r.referral_type = 0
GROUP BY DATE(e.earning_created)) AS er
ON (day = er.day)
WHERE earnings.earning_account_id = ?
ORDER BY day
where I'm assuming earning_account_id = ? is intended to be with a question mark because the language you're using to run the query is replacing it with the actual id before running the query.

Answer 2

SELECT
COALESCE(t1.amount,0) AS link_earnings,
COALESCE(t2.amount,0) AS publisher_referral_earnings,
COALESCE(t3.amount,0) AS advertiser_referral_earnings,
t1.day AS day
FROM
(
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day, SUM(earning_amount) AS amount
FROM earnings
WHERE earning_referral_id = 0
AND (earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY))
AND earning_account_id = ?
GROUP BY DATE(earning_created)
) t1
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(ep.earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day, (SUM(ep.earning_amount) * rp.referral_share) AS amount
FROM earnings AS ep
INNER JOIN referrals AS rp
ON ep.earning_referral_id = rp.referral_id
WHERE ep.earning_referral_id > 0
AND (ep.earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY))
AND ep.earning_account_id = ?
AND rp.referral_type = 0
GROUP BY DATE(ep.earning_created)
) t2
ON t1.day = t2.day
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(ea.earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day, (SUM(ea.earning_amount) * ra.referral_share) AS amount
FROM earnings AS ea
INNER JOIN referrals AS ra
ON ea.earning_referral_id = ra.referral_id
WHERE ea.earning_referral_id > 0
AND (ea.earning_created > DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 90 DAY))
AND ea.earning_account_id = ?
AND ra.referral_type = 1
GROUP BY DATE(ea.earning_created)
) t3
ON t1.day = t3.day
ORDER BY day
Seems to run ok....

Answer 3

You can simply use an outer join to retain earnings even when there is no matching referral, and then conditionally sum depending on whether a referral exists or not:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(e.earning_created, '%c/%e/%Y') AS day,
SUM(IF(r.referral_id IS NULL, e.earning_amount, 0)) earning_standard,
SUM(IF(r.referral_id IS NULL, 0, e.earning_amount)) earning_referral
FROM earnings e LEFT JOIN referrals r ON r.referral_id = e.earning_referral_id
WHERE e.earning_account_id = ?
AND e.earning_created > CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL 90 DAY
AND (r.referral_id IS NULL OR r.referral_type = 0)
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1
I've assumed here that earnings.earning_referral_id is never negative, though you can add an explicit test to filter such records if so desired.
I've also changed the filter on earnings.earning_created to base from CURRENT_DATE rather than NOW() to ensure that any earnings created earlier than the current time on the first day of the series are still included—this would typically be what one actually wants, but feel free to change back if not.