mysql: order -> limit -> sum... possible? - mysql

i am loosing it over the following problem:
i have a table with participants and points. each participant can have up to 11 point entries of which i only want the sum of the top 6.
in this example lets say we want the top 2 of 3
+----+---------------+--------+
| id | participantid | points |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 1 | 1 | 11 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 2 | 3 | 1 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 3 | 3 | 4 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 4 | 2 | 3 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 5 | 1 | 5 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 6 | 2 | 10 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 7 | 2 | 9 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 8 | 1 | 3 |
+----+---------------+--------+
| 9 | 3 | 4 |
+----+---------------+--------+
as a result i want something like
+---------------+--------+
| participantid | points |
+---------------+--------+
| 2 | 19 |
+---------------+--------+
| 1 | 16 |
+---------------+--------+
| 3 | 8 |
+---------------+--------+
(it should be ordered DESC by the resulting points)
is this at all possible with mysql? in one query?
oh and the resulting participant ids should be resolved into the real names from another 'partcipant' table where
+----+------+
| id | name |
+----+------+
| 1 | what |
+----+------+
| 2 | ev |
+----+------+
| 3 | er |
+----+------+
but that should be doable with a join at some point... i know...

Using one of the answers from ROW_NUMBER() in MySQL for row counts, and then modifying to get the top.
SELECT ParticipantId, SUM(Points)
FROM
(
SELECT a.participantid, a.points, a.id, count(*) as row_number
FROM scores a
JOIN scores b ON a.participantid = b.participantid AND cast(concat(a.points,'.', a.id) as decimal) <= cast(concat(b.points,'.', b.id) as decimal)
GROUP BY a.participantid, a.points, a.id
) C
WHERE row_number IN (1,2)
GROUP BY ParticipantId
Had an issue with ties until I arbitrarily broke them with the id

Related

MySQL Group By - Top 3 rows and nth row

I have a MySQL table like this:
+------+--------+--------+
| ID | UserID | Score |
+------+--------+--------+
| 1 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 14 |
| 5 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 13 |
+------+--------+--------+
From this I want to top 3 scores from entire table and a top score from particular user
+------+--------+--------+
| ID | UserID | Score |
+------+--------+--------+
| 4 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | 4 | 8 |
+------+--------+--------+
Is this something I can get done in a single query?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks in advance!
spoiler alert ;)
(SELECT * FROM tableA ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 3)
UNION
(SELECT * FROM tableB WHERE UserID = 4 ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 1);
For certain definitions of "single query", sure... If you're willing to use sub queries or a union.
The best performance will probably come from two queries, but you can join them in a UNION for convenience if you wish.

SQL query that randoms the id from all posible ids in table and outputs the rows containing that id

I want a query that selects all rows that have the UploadedbyUserID = Rand() (selects random id from possible UploadbyUserID in this case 4, 3 and 22 and only those 3 not 2 nor 5)
And if the rand gives 4 it outputs this:
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| id | name | date | UploadedbyUserID |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| 1 | 2222 | Testing | 4 |
| 2 | Jack | description| 4 |
| 6 | Zara | 2007-02-06 | 4 |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
This is the whole table
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| id | name | date | UploadedbyUserID |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| 1 | 2222 | Testing | 4 |
| 2 | Jack | description| 4 |
| 3 | ffdsd| 2007-05-06 | 4 |
| 4 | dsm | 2007-05-27 | 3 |
| 5 | dddd | 2007-04-06 | 3 |
| 6 | Zara | 2007-02-06 | 4 |
| 7 | John | 2007-01-24 | 22 |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
and if it randomizes 3 it outputs this
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| id | name | date | UploadedbyUserID |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| 4 | dsm | 2007-05-27 | 3 |
| 5 | dddd | 2007-04-06 | 3 |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
Ask if you need more information
Hmmm. This is one way:
select t.*
from (select uploadedbyuserid
from t
order by rand()
limit 1
) u join
t
using (uploadedbyuserid);
First, let me say that this is weighted by the number of times that a user has uploaded something. So, user "4" would appear a bit more often than "3", in your example. If this is an issue:
select t.*
from (select uploadedbyuserid
from (select distinct uploadedbyuserid from t) t
order by rand()
limit 1
) u join
t
using (uploadedbyuserid);
The next observation is that this can be compute intensive. If you have lots of rows, there are various ways to speed these up. For instance, one simple method would be to get about 1 out of 10000 rows:
select t.*
from (select uploadedbyuserid
from (select distinct uploadedbyuserid
from t
) t
where rand() < 0.001
order by rand()
limit 1
) u join
t
using (uploadedbyuserid);

SQL, difficult fetching data query

Suppose I have such a table:
+-----+---------+-------+
| ID | TIME | DAY |
+-----+---------+-------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 3 | 5 |
+-----+---------+-------+
I want to fetch a table which represents 2 IDs which got the largest sum of TIME within the last 3 days (means from 3 to 5 in a DAY column)
So the correct result would be:
+-----+---------+
| ID | SUM |
+-----+---------+
| 3 | 9 |
| 2 | 6 |
+-----+---------+
The original table is much larger and more complex. So i need a generic approach.
Thanks in advance.
And so I just learned that MySQL used LIMIT instead of TOP...
fiddle
CREATE TABLE tbl (ID INT,tm INT,dy INT);
INSERT INTO tbl (id, tm, dy) VALUES
(1,1,1)
,(2,2,1)
,(3,3,1)
,(1,1,2)
,(1,1,1)
SELECT ID
,SUM(SumTimeForDay) SumTimeFromLastThreeDays
FROM (SELECT ID
,SUM(tm) SumTimeForDay
FROM tbl
GROUP BY ID, dy
HAVING dy > MAX(dy) -3) a
GROUP BY id
ORDER BY SUM(SumTimeForDay) DESC
LIMIT 2
select t1.`id`, sum(t1.`time`) as `sum`
from `table` t1
inner join ( select distinct `day` from `table` order by `day` desc limit 3 ) t2
on t2.`da`y = t1.`day`
group by t1.`id`
order by sum(t1.`time`) desc
limit 2

SQL Group by using the First N elements in each group [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:
Top N per Group Sql problem in mysql
(1 answer)
Closed 9 years ago.
Suppose I have the next table:
+------------+---------+
| MovieId | rating |
+------------+---------+
| 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 |
+------------+---------+
I would like to get the average by group BUT using the first 2 elements on each group.
Example:
+------------+---------+
| MovieId | rating |
+------------+---------+
| 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 |
+------------+---------+
answer expected:
+------------+---------+
| MovieId | AVG |
+------------+---------+
| 1 | 3.5 |
| 2 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 3 |
+------------+---------+
This is the SQL query I have to get the AVG for all of the movies. But as I said, I would like to use just the first 2 elements for each group.
SELECT movieid, AVG(cast(rating as DECIMAL(10,2))) AS AVG
FROM ratings
group by movieid
If you can help me to make the SQL I appreciate. I will also use Linq just in case some of you know it.
In a SQL DBMS -- as in the relational model -- there is no "first". Do you mean any arbitrary 2 rows for each movie, or the two highest ratings, or something else?
If you can't define an order, then the query is meaningless.
If you can define an order, join the table to itself as I show in my canonical example to create a ranking, and select where RANK < 3.
FOR Mysql:-
select id, avg(rating)
from (SELECT a.*, #num := #num + 1 rownum,
(select count(*)
from movies m
where m.id<=a.id) last_count,
(select count(*)
from movies m1
where a.id=m1.id) grp_count
from movies a, (SELECT #num := 0) d) f
where grp_count-(last_count-rownum)<=2
group by id;
you can use rownum function in oracle. And row_number() function in sql server.
This is a solution in SQL
Create table #tempMovie (movieId int ,rating int)
INSERT INTO #tempMovie
Select * from table where movieidid=1 Limit 2
Union all
Select * from table where movieidid=2 Limit 2
Union all
Select * from table where movieidid=3 Limit 2
Union all
Select * from table where movieidid=4 Limit 2
Temporary table #tempmovie table will contain data like this
+------------+---------+
| MovieId | rating |
+------------+---------+
| 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 |
+------------+---------+
then apply group by
Select movieId, AVG(rating)
from #tempMovie
Group by movieId
Drop table #tempmovie

select random value from each type

I have two tables, rating:
+-----------+-----------+-------------+----------+
| rating_id | entity_id | rating_code | position |
+-----------+-----------+-------------+----------+
| 1 | 1 | Quality | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | Value | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | Price | 0 |
+-----------+-----------+-------------+----------+
And rating_option
+-----------+-----------+------+-------+----------+
| option_id | rating_id | code | value | position |
+-----------+-----------+------+-------+----------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 14 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 15 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
+-----------+-----------+------+-------+----------+
I need a SQL query (not application level, must stay in the database) which will select a set of ratings randomly. A sample result would look like this, but would pick a random value for each rating_id on subsequent calls:
+-----------+-----------+------+-------+----------+
| option_id | rating_id | code | value | position |
+-----------+-----------+------+-------+----------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 15 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
+-----------+-----------+------+-------+----------+
I'm totally stuck on the random part, and grouping by rating_id has been a crap shoot so far. Any MySQL ninjas want to take a stab?
Thanks,
Joe
EDIT: I've tried rand() in a bunch of combinations, and I'm sure that it will be necessary to create the randomness of the result, but I cannot figure out how to return one random row for each of the rows in rating. I cannot use order by rand() limit 1 because I need three rows, and order by rand() limit 3 won't give me one of each rating_id, which is the ultimate goal. I need a combination of rand() and either subqueries or joins so that I can ensure one of each rating_id.
Alright, a little messy, but seems to do the job. Someone may know what they're doing better than I do that can clean this up:
SELECT random.rating_id, random.rand_option_id, r3.code, r3.value, r3.position
FROM
(SELECT r.rating_id,
(SELECT r2.option_id
FROM rating_option r2
WHERE r2.rating_id = r.rating_id
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1) AS 'rand_option_id'
FROM rating_option r
GROUP BY r.rating_id
) random
LEFT JOIN rating_option AS r3 ON r3.option_id = rand_option_id
Results (varies every time, of course):
+-----------+----------------+------+-------+----------+
| rating_id | rand_option_id | code | value | position |
+-----------+----------------+------+-------+----------+
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
+-----------+----------------+------+-------+----------+
You could use the rand() function to do sorting in a select on the rating table.
For example:
select rating_id from rating order by rand() limit 1
As clarified in your comments, and the other posts above
select * from rating_option order by rand()
will return all records in a random order... However, if you want only X number, then inclue that as the limit as noted by others
select * from rating_option order by rand() limit 5 (or whatever number)
Have you looked into the rand() function?
SELECT column FROM table
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/466.cfm
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mathematical-functions.html#function_rand
Sample code
select *
from rating_option
group by rating_id
order by rand()