count column items in mysql - mysql

I have a column called "WasCancelled" in a MySQL DB, it's of a Boolean type.
I save the number 0,1 and 2 to it.
I need a query that will count how many one's, two's and zeros are there.
for example:
my column:
WasCanceled
-----------
0
0
1
1
1
2
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
I need the query to output:
number | times
-------|------
"0" | 7
"1" | 4
"2" | 2
please help.
thank you.
Dave.

You can do this by grouping:
SELECT WasCancelled, COUNT(*)
FROM <Table>
GROUP BY WasCancelled
If you need more information, look here for details on Group By and Count.
Update
To include the question in the comments: to restrict on special values, you can add a WHERE clause:
SELECT WasCancelled, COUNT(*)
FROM <Table>
WHERE WasCancelled = "1"
GROUP BY WasCancelled
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Update 2
SQL also allows the HAVING clause, which is like WHERE but allows the comparison of aggregated values. See here for details (e.g. you want to know which value appears more than 5 times, etc.).

Use GROUP BY with COUNT fuction:
Try this:
SELECT WasCanceled, COUNT(1) as times
FROM tableA
GROUP BY WasCanceled;

I think this might work!
select
count(WasCanceled) as CNT, WasCancelled
from
YourTableNameHere
group by
WasCanceled

This works for me
SELECT WasCanceled AS number, COUNT(WasCanceled) AS times FROM tblTest GROUP BY WasCanceled

Related

ORDER BY and GROUP BY those results in a single query

I am trying to query a dataset from a single table, which contains quiz answers/entries from multiple users. I want to pull out the highest scoring entry from each individual user.
My data looks like the following:
ID TP_ID quiz_id name num_questions correct incorrect percent created_at
1 10154312970149546 1 Joe 3 2 1 67 2015-09-20 22:47:10
2 10154312970149546 1 Joe 3 3 0 100 2015-09-21 20:15:20
3 125564674465289 1 Test User 3 1 2 33 2015-09-23 08:07:18
4 10153627558393996 1 Bob 3 3 0 100 2015-09-23 11:27:02
My query looks like the following:
SELECT * FROM `entries`
WHERE `TP_ID` IN('10153627558393996', '10154312970149546')
GROUP BY `TP_ID`
ORDER BY `correct` DESC
In my mind, what that should do is get the two users from the IN clause, order them by the number of correct answers and then group them together, so I should be left with the 2 highest scores from those two users.
In reality it's giving me two results, but the one from Joe gives me the lower of the two values (2), with Bob first with a score of 3. Swapping to ASC ordering keeps the scores the same but places Joe first.
So, how could I achieve what I need?
You're after the groupwise maximum, which can be obtained by joining the grouped results back to the table:
SELECT * FROM entries NATURAL JOIN (
SELECT TP_ID, MAX(correct) correct
FROM entries
WHERE TP_ID IN ('10153627558393996', '10154312970149546')
GROUP BY TP_ID
) t
Of course, if a user has multiple records with the maximal score, it will return all of them; should you only want some subset, you'll need to express the logic for determining which.
MySql is quite lax when it comes to group-by-clauses - but as a rule of thumb you should try to follow the rule that other DBMSs enforce:
In a group-by-query each column should either be part of the group-by-clause or contain a column-function.
For your query I would suggest:
SELECT `TP_ID`,`name`,max(`correct`) FROM `entries`
WHERE `TP_ID` IN('10153627558393996', '10154312970149546')
GROUP BY `TP_ID`,`name`
Since your table seems quite denormalized the group by name-par could be omitted, but it might be necessary in other cases.
ORDER BY is only used to specify in which order the results are returned but does nothing about what results are returned - so you need to apply the max()-function to get the highest number of right answers.

Retrieve unique data from MYSQL database

I have a table in my database which contains 5 rows. I am trying to write an sql statement that will retrieve all rows which only have 1 agency assigned to them.
case_id agency_ID
1 4
2 4
3 3
4 2
4 4
To clarify I would like to select the required rows (and any further rows) but only if the case_id is unique. Any rows with duplicates would be ommited.
I have tried to use DISTINCT(case_id), COUNT(*) to count all rows but it doesn't work and it's slowly sapping away my soul. It is probably an easy fix, but for the life of me I just can't see it.
Hope this is enough information to go on. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SELECT * FROM your_table GROUP BY case_id HAVING COUNT(agency_ID) = 1
You can try
SELECT case_id,agency_ID,COUNT(case_id) as c
FROM yourTable
GROUP BY case_id
HAVING (c=1)

Complicated joining on multiple id's

I have a table like this
id | user_id | code | type | time
-----------------------------------
2 2 fdsa r 1358300000
3 2 barf r 1358311000
4 2 yack r 1358311220
5 3 surf r 1358311000
6 3 yooo r 1358300000
7 4 poot r 1358311220
I want to get the concatenated 'code' column for user 2 and user 3 for each matching time.
I want to receive a result set like this:
code | time
-------------------------------
fdsayooo 1358300000
barfsurf 1358311000
Please note that there is no yackpoot code because the query was not looking for user 4.
You can use GROUP_CONCAT function. Try this:
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(code SEPARATOR '') code, time
FROM tbl
WHERE user_id in (2, 3)
GROUP BY time
HAVING COUNT(time) = 2;
SQL FIDDLE DEMO
What you are looking for is GROUP_CONCAT, but you are missing a lot of details in your question to provide a good example. This should get you started:
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(code), time
FROM myTable
WHERE user_id in (2, 3)
GROUP BY time;
Missing details are:
Is there an order required? Not sure how ordering would be done useing grouping, would need to test if critical
Need other fields? If so you will likely end up needing to do a sub-select or secondary query.
Do you only want results with multiple times?
Do you really want no separator between values in the results column (specify the delimiter with SEPARATOR '' in the GROUP_CONCAT
Notes:
You can add more fields to the GROUP BY if you want to do it by something else (like user_id and time).

count rows where date is equal but separated by name

I think it will be easiest to start with the table I have and the result I am aiming for.
Name | Date
A | 03/01/2012
A | 03/01/2012
B | 02/01/2012
A | 02/01/2012
B | 02/01/2012
A | 02/01/2012
B | 01/01/2012
B | 01/01/2012
A | 01/01/2012
I want the result of my query to be:
Name | 01/01/2012 | 02/01/2012 | 03/01/2012
A | 1 | 2 | 2
B | 2 | 2 | 0
So basically I want to count the number of rows that have the same date, but for each individual name. So a simple group by of dates won't do because it would merge the names together. And then I want to output a table that shows the counts for each individual date using php.
I've seen answers suggest something like this:
SELECT
NAME,
SUM(CASE WHEN GRADE = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS GRADE1,
SUM(CASE WHEN GRADE = 2 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS GRADE2,
SUM(CASE WHEN GRADE = 3 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS GRADE3
FROM Rodzaj
GROUP BY NAME
so I imagine there would be a way for me to tweak that but I was wondering if there is another way, or is that the most efficient?
I was perhaps thinking if the while loop were to output just one specific name and date each time along with the count, so the first result would be A,01/01/2012,1 then the next A,02/01/2012,2 - A,03/01/2012,3 - B,01/01/2012,2 etc. then perhaps that would be doable through a different technique but not sure if something like that is possible and if it would be efficient.
So I'm basically looking to see if anyone has any ideas that are a bit outside the box for this and how they would compare.
I hope I explained everything well enough and thanks in advance for any help.
You have to include two columns in your GROUP BY:
SELECT name, COUNT(*) AS count
FROM your_table
GROUP BY name, date
This will get the counts of each name -> date combination in row-format. Since you also wanted to include a 0 count if the name didn't have any rows on a certain date, you can use:
SELECT a.name,
b.date,
COUNT(c.name) AS date_count
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT name FROM your_table) a
CROSS JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT date FROM your_table) b
LEFT JOIN your_table c ON a.name = c.name AND
b.date = c.date
GROUP BY a.name,
b.date
SQLFiddle Demo
You're asking for a "pivot". Basically, it is what it is. The real problem with a pivot is that the column names must adapt to the data, which is impossible to do with SQL alone.
Here's how you do it:
SELECT
Name,
SUM(`Date` = '01/01/2012') AS `01/01/2012`,
SUM(`Date` = '02/01/2012') AS `02/01/2012`,
SUM(`Date` = '03/01/2012') AS `03/01/2012`
FROM mytable
GROUP BY Name
Note the cool way you can SUM() a condition in mysql, becasue in mysql true is 1 and false is 0, so summing a condition is equivalent to counting the number of times it's true.
It is not more efficient to use an inner group by first.
Just in case anyone is interested in what was the best method:
Zane's second suggestion was the slowest, I loaded in a third of the data I did for the other two and it took quite a while. Perhaps on smaller tables it would be more efficient, and although I am not working with a huge table roughly 28,000 rows was enough to create significant lag, with the between clause dropping the result to about 4000 rows.
Bohemian's answer gave me the least amount to code, I threw in a loop to create all the case statements and it worked with relative ease. The benefit of this method was the simplicity, besides creating the loop for the cases, the results come in without the need for any php tricks, just simple foreach to get all the columns. Recommended for those not confident with php.
However, I found Zane's first suggestion the quickest performing and despite the need for extra php coding it seems I will be sticking with this method. The disadvantage of this method is that it only gives the dates that actually have data, so creating a table with all the dates becomes a bit more complicated. What I did was create a variable that keeps track of what date it is supposed to be compared to the table column which is reset on each table row, when the result of the query is equal to that date it echoes the value otherwise it does a while loop echoing table cells with 0 until the dates do match. It also had to do a check to see if the 'Name' value is still the same and if not it would switch to the next row after filling in any missing cells with 0 to the end of that row. If anyone is interested in seeing the code you can message me.
Results of the two methods over 3 months of data (a column for each day so roughly 90 case statements) ~ 12,000 rows out of 28,000:Bohemian's Pivot - ~0.158s (highest seen ~0.36s)Zane's Double Group by - ~0.086s (highest seen ~0.15s)

Returning query results in predefined order

Is it possible to do a SELECT statement with a predetermined order, ie. selecting IDs 7,2,5,9 and 8 and returning them in that order, based on nothing more than the ID field?
Both these statements return them in the same order:
SELECT id FROM table WHERE id in (7,2,5,9,8)
SELECT id FROM table WHERE id in (8,2,5,9,7)
I didn't think this was possible, but found a blog entry here that seems to do the type of thing you're after:
SELECT id FROM table WHERE id in (7,2,5,9,8)
ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(id,"7,2,5,9,8");
will give different results to
SELECT id FROM table WHERE id in (7,2,5,9,8)
ORDER BY FIND_IN_SET(id,"8,2,5,9,7");
FIND_IN_SET returns the position of id in the second argument given to it, so for the first case above, id of 7 is at position 1 in the set, 2 at 2 and so on - mysql internally works out something like
id | FIND_IN_SET
---|-----------
7 | 1
2 | 2
5 | 3
then orders by the results of FIND_IN_SET.
Your best bet is:
ORDER BY FIELD(ID,7,2,4,5,8)
...but it's still ugly.
Could you include a case expression that maps your IDs 7,2,5,... to the ordinals 1,2,3,... and then order by that expression?
All ordering is done by the ORDER BY keywords, you can only however sort ascending and descending. If you are using a language such as PHP you can then sort them accordingly using some code but I do not believe it is possible with MySQL alone.
This works in Oracle. Can you do something similar in MySql?
SELECT ID_FIELD
FROM SOME_TABLE
WHERE ID_FIELD IN(11,10,14,12,13)
ORDER BY
CASE WHEN ID_FIELD = 11 THEN 0
WHEN ID_FIELD = 10 THEN 1
WHEN ID_FIELD = 14 THEN 2
WHEN ID_FIELD = 12 THEN 3
WHEN ID_FIELD = 13 THEN 4
END
You may need to create a temp table with an autonumber field and insert into it in the desired order. Then sort on the new autonumber field.
Erm, not really. Closest you can get is probably:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id IN (3, 2, 1, 4) ORDER BY id=4, id=1, id=2, id=3
But you probably don't want that :)
It's hard to give you any more specific advice without more information about what's in the tables.
It's hacky (and probably slow), but you can get the effect with UNION ALL:
SELECT id FROM table WHERE id = 7
UNION ALL SELECT id FROM table WHERE id = 2
UNION ALL SELECT id FROM table WHERE id = 5
UNION ALL SELECT id FROM table WHERE id = 9
UNION ALL SELECT id FROM table WHERE id = 8;
Edit: Other people mentioned the find_in_set function which is documented here.
You get answers fast around here, don't you…
The reason I'm asking this is that it's the only way I can think of to avoid sorting a complex multidimensional array. I'm not saying it would be difficult to sort, but if there were a simpler way to do it with straight sql, then why not.
One Oracle solution is:
SELECT id FROM table WHERE id in (7,2,5,9,8)
ORDER BY DECODE(id,7,1,2,2,5,3,9,4,8,5,6);
This assigns an order number to each ID. Works OK for a small set of values.
Best I can think of is adding a second Column orderColumn:
7 1
2 2
5 3
9 4
8 5
And then just do a ORDER BY orderColumn