MySQL check if value is in result set before summing - mysql

I have a table of ratings for comments, when I fetch comments, I also fetch the ratings and I also want to be able to display which comments the logged user has already voted on. This is what I am doing now
SELECT
c.id,
c.text,
c.datetime,
c.author,
u.email AS author_name,
SUM(cr.vote) AS rating,
cr2.vote AS voted
FROM comments c
LEFT JOIN users u ON u.id = c.author
LEFT JOIN comments_ratings cr ON c.id = cr.comment
LEFT JOIN comments_ratings cr2 ON c.id = cr2.comment AND cr2.user = :logged_user_id
GROUP BY c.id ORDER BY c.id DESC
But I don't like how I'm performing a second join on the same table. I know it is perfectly valid but if I could get the information I want from the first join, which is there anyway, why perform a second one?
Is it possible to figure out if a row with column user equal to :logged_user_id exists on table comments_ratings cr before executing the aggregate function(s)?
P.S.: If someone could come up with a better title, people can find in future, I'd also appreciate that.

You can do what you want with conditional aggregation:
SELECT c.id, c.text, c.datetime, c.author, u.email AS author_name,
SUM(cr.vote) AS rating,
MAX(cr.user = :logged_user_id) as voted
FROM comments c LEFT JOIN
users u
ON u.id = c.author LEFT JOIN
comments_ratings cr
ON c.id = cr.comment
GROUP BY c.id
ORDER BY c.id DESC;

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How to run nested left join in mysql

I have three tables, likes, users and statuses. So I am returning from likes tables and joining likes table with user table to see who liked it and joining likes table with statuses table to see who posted it.
Now want to get the user information from status table to see who wrote the status. Here comes the problem.
SQL Fiddle http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/d0707b/2
My current query
select l.*, s.* , a.id as aid, a.userName from likes l
left join
statuses s on l.source_id = s.id
left join
users a on l.user_id = a.id
where
l.user_id in (5,7)
or
(s.privacy='Public' and s.interest in ('mobile', 'andriod') )
order by l.id desc
Here s.user_id=a.id I want to join the statuses table with user table.
[If question is not clear please comment, will try to edit]
Thank you.
You have to make a join to the user table again. Take a look here:
SELECT
l.*, s.*,
a.id AS aid,
a.userName,
b.userName
FROM
likes l
LEFT JOIN statuses s ON l.source_id = s.id
LEFT JOIN users a ON l.user_id = a.id
LEFT JOIN users b ON s.user_id = b.id
WHERE
l.user_id IN (5, 7)
OR (
s.privacy = 'Public'
AND s.interest IN ('mobile', 'andriod')
)
ORDER BY
l.id DESC

Making a query with several JOINS

I am stuck with some SQL query.
I have four tables. Which are connected:
user =>user_account=>acount_profile_entries=>profile_entries
From left to right they are one to many.
user_account has a user_id field as FK.
account_profile_field has user_account_id and profile_entry_id.
Profile_entries has a text field that I need to show for each user (account).
I need to write a query that will show me, all accounts for every user, and its profile entries.
I am sorry if this is confusing, I tried to make it simple
This is what I have done so far. I can show all accounts for every user and this is the point I am stuck with. Last two commented out Joins are not working properly. I believe I am close somewhat, I just need a push :)
SELECT
u.email AS Email,
u.id AS UserId,
ua.id AS UserAccountId,
ua.app_id AS Application
FROM users AS u
INNER JOIN user_accounts ua ON ua.user_id = u.id
-- INNER JOIN account_profile_entries ape ON ape.user_account_id = ua.id
-- INNER JOIN profile_entries as pe ON pe.id = ape.profile_entry_id
limit 10
Try this SQL Query with using LEFT JOIN
Description :- The MySQL LEFT JOIN joins two tables and fetches rows based on a condition, which is matching in both the tables and the unmatched rows will also be available from the table written before the JOIN clause.
SYNTAX
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2 ON table1.column_name = table2.column_name;
SELECT u.*,
u.id AS UserId,
ua.id AS UserAccountId,
ua.app_id AS Application,pe.* FROM `users` u
LEFT JOIN user_accounts ua ON ua.user_id = u.id
LEFT JOIN account_profile_entries ape ON ape.user_account_id = ua.id
LEFT JOIN profile_entries as pe ON pe.id = ape.profile_entry_id LIMIT 10

use 2 left join can't work but separately can get results

I have three tables, company, user and share. I want to count one company's user and share, they are not relevant.
There may be a row that has share value but not user value. so I used left join, I can get results separately, but it doesn't work together.
Here is my query:
SELECT c.name, count(u.company_id), count(s.company_id)
FROM company c
LEFT JOIN user u
ON c.id=u.company_id and u.company_id=337
WHERE u.company_id is NOT NULL
LEFT JOIN share s
ON c.id=s.id AND s.company_id=337
WHERE s.company_id is NOT NULL
You need to do at least one of the counts in a subquery. Otherwise, both counts will be the same, since you're just counting the rows in the resulting cross product.
SELECT c.name, user_count, share_count
FROM company AS c
JOIN (SELECT company_id, COUNT(*) AS user_count
FROM users
GROUP BY company_id) AS u
ON u.company_id = c.id
JOIN (SELECT company_id, COUNT(*) AS share_count
FROM share
GROUP BY company_id) AS s
ON s.company_id = c.id
WHERE c.company_id = 337
Another option is to count the distinct primary keys of the tables you're joining with:
SELECT c.name, COUNT(DISTINCT u.id) AS user_count, COUNT(DISTINCT s.id) AS share_count
FROM company AS c
JOIN users AS u on u.company_id = c.id
JOIN share AS s ON s.company_id = c.id
WHERE c.company_id = 337
Your code looks okay, except for the extra WHERE clause. However, you probably want COUNT(DISTINCT), because the two counts will return the same value:
SELECT c.name, count(distinct u.company_id), count(distinct s.company_id)
FROM company c LEFT JOIN
user u
ON c.id = u.company_id and u.company_id=337 LEFT JOIN
share s
ON c.id = s.id AND s.company_id=337
WHERE s.company_id is NOT NULL AND u.company_id IS NOT NULL;

Get results when where value is 'grade' or where it doesn't exist

I have a wordpress site that is used to store student grades on various lessons (from the quizzes on the site). I am trying to create a query that will pull out all of the lessons for all students in a certain group (using buddypress groups) and the students grades in each lesson.
I have created this query:
SELECT u.display_name, p.post_title, cm.meta_value
FROM wp_users u
JOIN wp_bp_groups_members gm
ON u.ID = gm.user_id
JOIN wp_comments c
ON u.ID = c.user_id
JOIN wp_commentmeta cm
ON c.comment_ID = cm.comment_id
JOIN (SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type LIKE 'lesson') p
ON c.comment_post_id = p.ID
WHERE gm.group_id = 4 AND cm.meta_key LIKE 'grade'
This currently returns all the grades for all students in a group in the lessons they have attempted the test. However it does not return any lessons they have not attempted the test in, which I need still.
Just to be clear: lessons are posts, grades are meta_values in a record with a meta_key of 'grades'. These are stored as comments, and comment_meta.
I hope this is all clear and you can help. Thanks.
After Ollie Jones help I made this:
SELECT u.display_name, p.post_title, IFNULL(cm.meta_value,'--nothing--') grade
FROM wp_users u
JOIN wp_comments c
LEFT JOIN wp_commentmeta cm
ON c.comment_ID = cm.comment_id AND cm.meta_key = 'grade'
JOIN wp_bp_groups_members gm
ON u.ID = gm.user_id
JOIN wp_posts p
ON c.comment_post_id = p.ID
WHERE gm.group_id = 4 AND p.post_type LIKE 'lesson'
Which almost works but returns all student grades, not just the ones in the group (though it only gives the one name of the student in the group).
This is the familiar key/value store problem, that comes up with commentmeta, postsmeta, and usermeta. When you JOIN two tables and the left one might not have a corresponding row, you need to use LEFT JOIN. When the left one is a key/value table, you need to adjust the ON condition accordingly. Finally, when you LEFT JOIN two tables and there's no matching row in it it, you get back NULLs for those columns, so you must allow for that.
So this kind of SQL pattern will do the trick for you
SELECT whatever, IFNULL(cm.meta_value,'--nothing--') grade
FROM whatever
LEFT JOIN wp_comments c ON whatever.id = c.user_id
LEFT JOIN wp_commentmeta cm ON c.comment_id = cm.comment_id
AND cm.meta_key = 'grade'
JOIN whatever
Is there a user_id in your comments table? I dont see where you joined which user posted which comment. So when you join the group_members to the users table, you are specifying which users to show, but since you are not joining on user id when you join to your comments table, it will show all the comments for all the users. Im not sure if this will work for your table, but try:
SELECT u.display_name, p.post_title, IFNULL(cm.meta_value,'--nothing--') grade
FROM wp_users u
LEFT JOIN wp_comments c
JOIN wp_commentmeta cm
ON c.comment_ID = cm.comment_id AND cm.meta_key = 'grade'
JOIN wp_bp_groups_members gm
ON c.user_ID = gm.user_id
ON u.user_id = c.user_id
JOIN wp_posts p
ON c.comment_post_id = p.ID
WHERE gm.group_id = 4 AND p.post_type LIKE 'lesson'
Hope this helps!

Selecting All Rows in SQL, With Specific Criteria

I have a fairly complicated SQL statement I am working on. Here is where I am at:
SELECT c.category
FROM master_cat as c
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT cat_id, user_id COUNT(cat_id) favoriteCat
FROM ratings
GROUP BY user_id
) a ON a.cat_id= c.cat_id
LEFT JOIN users AS u
ON u.user_id AND a.user_id
WHERE u.username = '{$user}' LIMIT 1
This statement is incomplete. I am missing a middle table here. cat_id is not actually in ratings. But items_id is from a table called items and cat_id is also in that table as well.
So what I am trying to do is this:
SELECT rating FROM ??? GROUP BY cat_id where u.user=$user
The only thing I can think of doing maybe is another LEFT join with items inside favoriteCat but I am not sure if that is allowed.
I was overthinking this, here is my final solution:
SELECT c.category, count(r.rating) AS totalCount
FROM ratings as r
LEFT JOIN items AS i
ON i.items_id = r.item_id
LEFT JOIN users AS u
ON u.user_id = r.user_id
LEFT JOIN master_cat AS c
ON c.cat_id = i.cat_id
WHERE r.user_id = '{$user_id}'
GROUP BY c.category
ORDER BY totalCount DESC