MySQL SELECT Multiple DISTINCT COUNT - mysql

Here is what I'm trying to do. I have a table with user assessments which may contain duplicate rows. I'm looking to only get DISTINCT values for each user.
In the example of the table below. If only user_id 1 and 50 belongs to the specific location, then only the unique video_id's for each user should be returned as the COUNT. User 1 passed video 1, 2, and 1. So that should only be 2 records, and user 50 passed video 2. So the total for this location would be 3. I think I need to have two DISTINCT's in the query, but am not sure how to do this.
+-----+----------+----------+
| id | video_id | user_id |
+-----+----------+----------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 50 |
| 3 | 1 | 115 |
| 4 | 2 | 25 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | 6 | 98 |
| 7 | 1 | 1 |
+-----+----------+----------+
This is what my current query looks like.
$stmt2 = $dbConn->prepare("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT user_assessment.id)
FROM user_assessment
LEFT JOIN user ON user_assessment.user_id = user.id
WHERE user.location = '$location'");
$stmt2->execute();
$stmt2->bind_result($video_count);
$stmt2->fetch();
$stmt2->close();
So my query returns all of the count for that specific location, but it doesn't omit the non-unique results from each specific user.
Hope this makes sense, thanks for the help.

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ua.video_id, ua.user_id)
FROM user_assessment ua
INNER JOIN user ON ua.user_id = user.id
WHERE user.location = '$location'
You can write a lot of things inside a COUNT so don't hesitate to put what you exactly want in it. This will give the number of different couple (video_id, user_id), which is what you wanted if I understood correctly.

The query below joins a sub-query that fetches the distinct videos per user. Then, the main query does a sum on those numbers to get the total of videos for the location.
SELECT
SUM(video_count)
FROM
user u
INNER JOIN
( SELECT
ua.user_id,
COUNT(DISTINCT video_id) as video_count
FROM
user_assessment ua
GROUP BY
ua.user_id) uav on uav.user_id = u.user_id
WHERE
u.location = '$location'
Note, that since you already use bindings, you can also pass $location in a bind parameter. I leave this to you, since it's not part of the question. ;-)

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| | |
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select a.user_id
from activities a1 join
activities a
on a1.activity = a.activity and
a1.user_id = #user_id
group by a.user_id
having count(*) = (select count(*) from activities a1 where a1.user_id = #user_id);
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FROM activities a
JOIN activities b
ON a.activity = b.activity
WHERE a.user_id = 1 AND b.user_id != 1
GROUP BY b.user_id
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
An SQLfiddle to test with.

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This may be simple for some, but I cannot work it out.
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------------------- ------------------ -----------------------
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------------------- ------------------ -----------------------
1 | 2 1 | dan 2 | myTag | 1
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I need a query which will provide a list of users in any given team,
with a total number of tags they have.
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SELECT t.teamId, u.userId, u.username, count(ta.userId) as numTags
FROM teams t JOIN
users u
ON t.teamUserID = u.UserId LEFT JOIN
tags ta
ON u.userID = ta.userID
WHERE t.teamId = #teamId -- this can be removed
GROUP BY t.teamId, u.userId, u.username;
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LEFT JOIN szak s ON r.szak_id = r.id
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Something like this?
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FROM (SELECT r.user_id,
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FROM user_reservations r
LEFT OUTER JOIN user_kar k
ON k.user_id = r.user_id
GROUP BY r.user_id) t
LEFT OUTER JOIN szak sz
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GROUP BY sz.name;

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I have 2 tables that look like this:
users (uid, name)
-------------------
| 1 | User 1 |
| 2 | User 2 |
| 3 | User 3 |
| 4 | User 4 |
| 5 | User 5 |
-------------------
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-------------------
| 3 | 12005 |
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-------------------
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------------------------
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FROM users a
INNER JOIN highscores b
on a.uid = b.user_id
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SQLFiddle Demo
Your effort of grouping users was correct. You just needed to use MAX(time) aggregate function instead of selecting only time.
I think you wrote older query was like this:
SELECT name, time
FROM users
INNER JOIN highscores ON users.uid = highscores.user_id
GROUP BY name,time
But actual query should be:
SELECT user.name, MAX(`time`) AS topScore
FROM users
INNER JOIN highscores ON users.uid = highscores.user_id
GROUP BY user.name

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FROM users u
LEFT JOIN allow a
ON u.rank = a.rank
GROUP BY a.rank_id
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