How to get this specific user rankings query in mysql? - mysql

Question

I've got tbl_items in my user database that I want to sort user rankings on a particular item with certain id (514). I have test data on my dev environment with this set of data:
mysql> select * from tbl_items where classid=514;
+---------+---------+----------+
| ownerId | classId | quantity |
+---------+---------+----------+
| 1 | 514 | 3 |
| 2 | 514 | 5 |
| 3 | 514 | 11 |
| 4 | 514 | 46 |
| 5 | 514 | 57 |
| 6 | 514 | 6 |
| 7 | 514 | 3 |
| 8 | 514 | 27 |
| 10 | 514 | 2 |
| 11 | 514 | 73 |
| 12 | 514 | 18 |
| 13 | 514 | 31 |
+---------+---------+----------+
12 rows in set (0.00 sec)
so far so good :) I wrote the following query:
set #row=0;
select a.*, #row:=#row+1 as rank
from (select a.ownerid,a.quantity from tbl_items a
where a.classid=514) a order by quantity desc;
+---------+----------+------+
| ownerid | quantity | rank |
+---------+----------+------+
| 11 | 73 | 1 |
| 5 | 57 | 2 |
| 4 | 46 | 3 |
| 13 | 31 | 4 |
| 8 | 27 | 5 |
| 12 | 18 | 6 |
| 3 | 11 | 7 |
| 6 | 6 | 8 |
| 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 10 | 2 | 12 |
+---------+----------+------+
12 rows in set (0.00 sec)
that ranks correctly the users. However in a table with lots of records, I need to do the following:
1) be able to get small portion of the list, around where the user ranking actually resides, something that would get me the surrounding records, preserving the overall rank:
I tried to do these things with setting a user variable to the ranking of the current user and by using offset and limit, but couldn't preserve the overall ranking.
This should get me something like the following (for instance ownerId=2 and surroundings limit 5:
+---------+----------+------+
| ownerid | quantity | rank |
+---------+----------+------+
| 3 | 11 | 7 |
| 6 | 6 | 8 |
| 2 | 5 | 9 | --> ownerId=2
| 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 1 | 3 | 11 |
+---------+----------+------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
2) I'd also need another query (preferably single query) that gets me the top 3 places + the ranking of particular user with certain id, preferably with a single query, no matter if he's among the top 3 places or not. I couldn't get this as well
It would look like the following (for instance ownerId=2 again):
+---------+----------+------+
| ownerid | quantity | rank |
+---------+----------+------+
| 11 | 73 | 1 |
| 5 | 57 | 2 |
| 4 | 46 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 | 9 | --> ownerId=2
+---------+----------+------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Also I'm in a bit of a concern about the performance of the queries on a table with millions of records...
Hope someone helps :)

Answer 1

1) 5 entries around a given id.
set #row=0;
set #rk2=-1;
set #id=2;
select b.* from (
select a.*, #row:=#row+1 as rank, if(a.ownerid=#id, #rk2:=#row, -1) as rank2
from (
select a.ownerid,a.quantity
from tbl_items a
where a.classid=514) a
order by quantity desc) b
where b.rank > #rk2 - 3
limit 5;
Though you'll get an extra column rank2: you probably want to filter it out by explicit list of columns instead of b.*. Maybe it's possible whith a having clause rather than an extra nesting.
2) 3 top ranked entries + 1 specific id
select b.* from (
select a.*, #row:=#row+1 as rank
from (
select a.ownerid,a.quantity
from tbl_items a
where a.classid=514) a
order by quantity desc) b
where b.rank < 4 or b.ownerid=#id