Select multiple top3 from database - mysql

I would like to create a database view. I have got table, which contains records about the peoples, which solved some logical examples during year and they got points for that.
I need to create view from SQL query, but I have got a problem - I need to get TOP 3 users per every year by one query.
SELECT solver, year, SUM(points) as TotalPoints
FROM solving
GROUP BY solver, year
ORDER BY year, TotalPoints DESC
I got solvers per years sorted by points and year. I know I need to use limit, but I also know I will need one Select more, but I dont know where.

There are several ways to solve this in MySQL. Probably the most efficient is to use variables. The following enumerates the values:
SELECT yt.*,
(#rn := if(#y = year, #rn + 1,
if(#y := year, 1, 1)
)
) as seqnum
FROM (SELECT solver, year, SUM(points) as TotalPoints
FROM solving
GROUP BY solver, year
) yt CROSS JOIN
(SELECT #y := 0, #rn := 0) vars
ORDER BY year, TotalPoints DESC;
Then use this as a subquery to get the top three:
SELECT yt.*
FROM (SELECT yt.*,
(#rn := if(#y = year, #rn + 1,
if(#y := year, 1, 1)
)
) as seqnum
FROM (SELECT solver, year, SUM(points) as TotalPoints
FROM solving
GROUP BY solver, year
) yt CROSS JOIN
(SELECT #y := 0, #rn := 0) vars
ORDER BY year, TotalPoints DESC
) yt
WHERE seqnum <= 3;

this may help you out.
SELECT solver,
year,
SUM(points) AS TotalPoints
FROM (
SELECT solver,
year,
SUM(points) AS TotalPoints
FROM solving
ORDER BY year,
TotalPoints DESC
)
WHERE rownum <= 3
ORDER BY year,
TotalPoints DESC;

Related

Rank each employee based on their merit points from highest to lowest

Create two tables emp_merits (meritid, empid, date, meritpoints),emp1(empid,empname) Each employee will be given merit points every month based on their performance. So same employee can have multiple entries in the table with different meritpoints.
List all the merits received by a specific employee (empid will be input here) between specific dates
Rank each employee based on their merit points from highest to lowest
so far i have tried this query
select empid , sum (meritpoints) as totalmerits , (DENSE_RANK()OVER (PARTITION BY empid ORDER BY meritpoints desc)) AS rank from emp_merit
group by empid,meritpoints
order by empid ,totalmerits desc
You could try this:
SELECT #rownum := #rownum + 1 AS rank, a.*
FROM (
SELECT empid, sum(meritpoints) AS totalmerits
FROM emp_merits
GROUP BY empid
ORDER BY totalmerits) a, (SELECT #rownum := 0) r ;
you probably need your specific dates in the WHERE-clause.
You can implement dense_rank() using variables:
select empid, totalmerits,
(#rn := if(#m = totalmerits, #rn,
if(#m := totalmerits, #rn + 1, #rn + 1)
)
) as rank
from (select empid, sum(meritpoints) as totalmerits
from emp_merit
group by empid
order by totalmerits desc
) e cross join
(select #m := -1, #rn := 0) params;

I need to find any 5 rows that match where clause and they occur "in a row" (they are neighbors)

I have a MySQL table for fictional fitness app.
Let's say that app is monitoring user progress on doing pushups day by day.
TrainingDays
id | id_user | date | number_of_pushups
Now, I need to find if user have ever managed to do more than 100 pushups 5 days in a row.
I know this is probably doable by fetching all days and then making some php loops, but I wonder if there is possibility to do this in plain mysql...
In MySQL, the easiest way is to use variables. The following gets all sequences of days with 100 or more pushups:
select grp, count(*) as numdaysinarow
from (select (date - interval rn day) as grp, td.*
from (select td.*,
(#rn := if(#i = id_user, #rn + 1
if(#i := id_user, 1, 1)
) as rn
from trainingdays td cross join
(select #rn := 0, #i := NULL) vars
where number_of_pushups >= 100
order by id_user, date
) td
) td
group by grp;
This uses the observation that when you subtract a sequence of numbers from a series of dates that increment, then the resulting value is constant.
To determine if there are 5 or more days in a row, use max():
select max(numdaysinarow)
from (select grp, count(*) as numdaysinarow
from (select (date - interval rn day) as grp, td.*
from (select td.*,
(#rn := if(#i = id_user, #rn + 1
if(#i := id_user, 1, 1)
) as rn
from trainingdays td cross join
(select #rn := 0, #i := NULL) vars
where number_of_pushups >= 100
order by id_user, date
) td
) td
group by grp
) td;
Your app can then check the value against whatever minimum you like.
Note: this assumes that there is only one record per day. The above can easily be modified if you are looking for the sum of the number of pushups on each day.
Order of records shouldn't be relied on, e.g. with ORDER BY you can change the sequence.
However, you have many functions at hand in a database, which also enables you to use less PHP. What you want is SUM function. Combined with a WHERE clause, this should get you started:
SELECT SUM(number_of_pushups) AS sum_pushups
FROM TrainingDays
WHERE date >= :start_day
AND user_id = :user_id

Finding the most rented car of each year in SQL

I have tables as follows:
Car(id, make, ....)
Deal(id,datetime,car_id,....)
I want to write a query that would return a year, and a car make for the cars that have the most deals (ie the most deal ids) and the number of deals for that car make.
I started out,
SELECT YEAR(D.datetime) AS the_year, C.make, COUNT(D.id) AS num
FROM Deal D, Car C
WHERE D.car_id=C.id
GROUP BY the_year
Unfortunately, this has returned the year and the total number of deals.
So I am thinking to create this within another table and then call MAX(tbl.num), but I am confused on the syntax.
Can somebody help me out please?
This is an interesting problem. What you are looking for is specifically called the "mode" in statistics. In MySQL, you would get this by using variables or the group_conat()/substring_index()` trick. I'll show the latter:
SELECT the_year,
substring_index(group_concat(cd.make order by num desc), ',', 1) as the_mark
FROM (SELECT YEAR(D.datetime) AS the_year, C.make, COUNT(D.id) AS num
FROM Deal D JOIN
Car C
ON D.car_id = C.id
GROUP BY the_year, c.make
) cd
GROUP BY the_year;
EDIT:
The version using variables:
SELECT the_year,
substring_index(group_concat(cd.make order by num desc), ',', 1) as the_mark
FROM (SELECT YEAR(D.datetime) AS the_year, C.make, COUNT(D.id) AS num,
#rn := if(#year = YEAR(D.datetime), #rn + 1, 1) as rn,
#year := YEAR(D.datetime)
FROM Deal D JOIN
Car C
ON D.car_id = C.id CROSS JOIN
(SELECT #year := 0, #rn := 0) vars
GROUP BY the_year, c.make
ORDER BY the_year, num DESC
) cd
WHERE rn = 1;

MySql Ranking users

I am using this code to rank users:
SELECT #rn:=#rn+1 AS rank, userid, amount
FROM (
SELECT userid, sum(amount) AS amount
FROM leads WHERE date(time)='2013-09-15'
GROUP BY userid
ORDER BY amount DESC
) t1 , (SELECT #rn:=0) t2;
The result is like this:
rank userid amount
1 11 1.15
2 10 1.15
It keeps adding rank even if the user has the same amount, any ideas how to fix this? Yes, I have searched google and here on stackoverflow, but I have not been able to fix this problem.
First, you don't need a subquery to do what you want.
The following does a dense ranking of the amounts, by introducing another variable to remember the total amount:
SELECT userid, sum(amount) AS amount,
if(#amount = amount, #rn, #rn := #rn + 1) as ranking,
#amount := amount
FROM leads cross join
(select #rn := 0, #amount := -1) const
WHERE date(time) = '2013-09-15'
GROUP BY userid
ORDER BY amount DESC;

COUNT() with nulls, inside subquery

I have a bit of a problem with an advanced query that I am struggling to get my head around.
Essentally there are votes in a votes table that correspond to a given soundtrack. My query needs to get a rank for a soundtrack based on the votes that it has been awarded.
My approach below works just fine when there are votes in the table but the rank is given a NULL value when there are none in there.
Here's the query:
SELECT soundtrack.*,
(SELECT WrappedQuery.rank
FROM (SELECT #rownum := #rownum + 1 AS rank,
prequery.soundtrack_id
FROM (SELECT #rownum := 0) sqlvars,
(SELECT Count(*),
soundtrack_id
FROM vote
GROUP BY vote.soundtrack_id
ORDER BY Count(*) DESC) prequery) WrappedQuery
WHERE WrappedQuery.soundtrack_id = soundtrack.id) AS rank
FROM soundtrack
WHERE soundtrack.id = 33
AND live = 1
ORDER BY rank ASC
I have a feeling the problem is to do with the (SELECT COUNT(*)) part, but everything I have tried so far isn't working out.
Hoping someone could shed some light on my issue.
EDIT
Here's the SQLFiddle
http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/c8db2/2/0
THAT ONE IS GOOD:
SELECT soundtrack.*,
(SELECT WrappedQuery.rank
FROM (SELECT #rownum := #rownum + 1 AS rank,
prequery.soundtrack_id
FROM (SELECT #rownum := 0) sqlvars,
(
SELECT COALESCE(COUNT(vote.soundtrack_id),0) AS no_rows,
soundtrack.id AS soundtrack_id
FROM soundtrack
LEFT JOIN vote ON soundtrack.id=vote.soundtrack_id
GROUP BY soundtrack.id
ORDER BY 1 DESC
) prequery) WrappedQuery
WHERE WrappedQuery.soundtrack_id = soundtrack.id) AS rank
FROM soundtrack
ORDER BY rank ASC;
SEE: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/74698/2/0
I've had some luck ranking in my own work using the row_number function. But otherwise, the coalesce function might help you out.
SELECT soundtrack.*, rankquery.rank
FROM (
SELECT row_number() over(partition by prequery.soundtrack_id order by prequery.num_votes) as rank,
prequery.soundtrack_id
FROM (
SELECT COALESCE(COUNT(*),0) as num_votes, soundtrack_id
FROM vote
GROUP BY soundtrack_id
ORDER BY num_votes DESC
) prequery
) rankquery
INNER JOIN soundtrack
rankquery.soundtrack_id = soundtrack.id
WHERE soundtrack.id = 33
AND live = 1
ORDER BY rank
SELECT soundtrack.*, rankquery.rank
FROM(
SELECT prequery.*, #rownum := #rownum + 1 AS rank
(
SELECT COALESCE(Count(*),0) as num_votes,
soundtrack_id
FROM vote
GROUP BY soundtrack_id
ORDER BY num_votes DESC
) as prequery,
(SELECT #rownum := 0) as sqlvars
) rankquery
INNER JOIN soundtrack
rankquery.soundtrack_id = soundtrack.id
WHERE soundtrack.id = 33
AND soundtrack.live = 1
ORDER BY rankquery.rank ASC