Order by COUNT per value - mysql

I have a table which stores IDs and the city where the store is located.
I want to list all the stores starting with the stores that are in the city where there are the most stores.
TABLE
ID CITY
1 NYC
2 BOS
3 BOS
4 NYC
5 NYC
The output I want is the following since I have the most stores in NYC, I want all the NYC location to be listed first.
1 NYC
4 NYC
5 NYC
2 BOS
3 BOS

SELECT count(City), City
FROM table
GROUP BY City
ORDER BY count(City);
OR
SELECT count(City) as count, City
FROM table
GROUP BY City
ORDER BY count;
Ahh, sorry, I was misinterpreting your question. I believe Peter Langs answer was the correct one.

This one calculates the count in a separate query, joins it and orders by that count (SQL-Fiddle):
SELECT c.id, c.city
FROM cities c
JOIN ( SELECT city, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM cities
GROUP BY city
) c2 ON ( c2.city = c.city )
ORDER BY c2.cnt DESC;

This solution is not a very optimal one so if your table is very large it will take some time to execute but it does what you are asking.
select c.city, c.id,
(select count(*) as cnt from city c2
where c2.city = c.city) as order_col
from city c
order by order_col desc
That is, for each city that you come across you are counting the number of times that that city occurs in the database.
Disclaimer: This gives what you are asking for but I would not recommend it for production environments where the number of rows will grow too large.

SELECT `FirstAddressLine4`, count(*) AS `Count`
FROM `leads`
WHERE `Status`='Yes'
AND `broker_id`='0'
GROUPBY `FirstAddressLine4`
ORDERBY `Count` DESC
LIMIT 0, 8

Related

How to sum top results?

I'm wondering how one would sum the results from a query?
I want to know how many people live in total in the three biggest cities in Norway. I'm using mysql, the world.sql sample database in mysql workbench.
This is the closest I've gotten
SELECT population
FROM city
WHERE CountryCode = 'NOR'
ORDER BY population DESC
LIMIT 3
There's a few problems here namely this gives me three results instead of one, and while using LIMIT which actually limits how many results it gives, not how many it uses.
Any ideas?
You would use a subquery:
SELECT SUM(population)
FROM (SELECT population
FROM city
WHERE CountryCode = 'NOR'
ORDER BY population DESC
LIMIT 3
) cp
simply sum the result:
select sum(population) from (SELECT population
FROM city
WHERE CountryCode = 'NOR'
ORDER BY population DESC
LIMIT 3) t1
select sum(population) from (SELECT population FROM city WHERE
CountryCode = 'NOR' ORDER BY population DESC LIMIT 3) temp
Read on subqueries.
Make your current query a subquery and get sum from your subquery.
SELECT SUM(population) FROM (
SELECT population
FROM city
WHERE CountryCode = 'NOR'
ORDER BY population DESC
LIMIT 3) p
You query will now act as a virtual table, from which you can you can write a select query to get the sum

Mysql: Union two columns with count

I'm looking for a sql statement for the following problem:
Here is an excerpt from my table
'from_city' 'to_city'
New York Boston
Chicago New York
New York Los Angeles
Dallas San Francisco
Miami New York
Dallas Los Angeles
The expected result should look like this:
City Count Percentage
New York 4 33%
Los Angeles 2 17%
Dallas 2 17%
San Francisco 1 8%
Miami 1 8%
Chicago 1 8%
Boston 1 8%
So I need to union the two columns 'from_city' and 'to_city' which I was able to with:
(SELECT from_city AS City FROM table) UNION
(SELECT to_city AS City FROM table)
But now I don't know how to appy the count and percentage on the result set.
Can you please help me out?
Thanks in advance!
You may want to use subquery:
SELECT
city,
COUNT(1) AS c,
CONCAT(100*COUNT(1)/sums.total, '%') AS p
FROM
(SELECT from_city AS city FROM t
UNION ALL
SELECT to_city FROM t) AS cities
CROSS JOIN
(SELECT
COUNT(from_city)
+COUNT(to_city) AS total
FROM t) AS sums
GROUP BY
city
ORDER BY
c DESC
-note, that double count won't work in common case (thus used sum of counts by both columns) Check the demo.
Also you've not specified format of percentage - i.e. how many signs should be in it (because it may be non-integer) - so I've left it as it is
SELECT City, COUNT(*) AS Count, ROUND(100*COUNT(*)/total) AS Percentage
FROM (SELECT from_city AS City
FROM table
UNION ALL
SELECT to_city AS City
FROM table
) AS u
CROSS JOIN (SELECT 2 * COUNT(*) AS total
FROM table) AS t
GROUP BY City
ORDER BY Count DESC
DEMO
SELECT
cities.City,
COUNT(*) as `Count`,
CONCAT((COUNT(*) / (SELECT COUNT(*)*2 FROM table)) * 100, '%') as Percentage
FROM (
SELECT from_city AS City FROM table UNION ALL
SELECT to_city AS City FROM table
) as cities
GROUP BY cities.City
I believe the following query will provide your desired results
SELECT
city,
count(*),
count(*)/(SELECT count(*)*2 FROM table)
FROM
(SELECT from_city AS city FROM table
union all
SELECT to_city AS city FROM table) a
GROUP BY
city

How can I select the first time a number shows up in more than one column in MySQL?

I have a table of flights, which have an origin and destination city, represented as a foreign id.
A very simplified example of this table looks like:
id | origin | destination
023 1 3
044 3 2
332 2 1
509 1 3
493 1 4
I need to get the first time that a city shows up as an origin or a destination; a list of all the flights that contain a city that hasn't been flown to or from yet.
What I would like to get for the above example would be:
023: 1, 3
044: 2
493: 4
Flights 332 and 509 aren't in the output because they only visit cities that have already been visited.
Here's what I've tried:
(SELECT distinct(origin), distinct(destination) FROM flights ORDER BY id)
Doesn't work because you can't select more than one distinct column
SELECT (distinct(origin) FROM flights ORDER BY id) UNION (distinct (destination) FROM flights ORDER BY id)
Doesn't work because of syntax errors, but mainly because it doesn't take into account that a city should be unique in the origin and destination columns.
If there's not a quick way to do this in SQL I'm also happy to just iterate through and keep track of cities that have been visited (this app has literally one user, and he doesn't care about a few milliseconds of computation because he's over 80), but I'd love to know just so that I can learn more about SQL!
This does it:
SELECT id, GROUP_CONCAT(city ORDER BY city) cities
FROM (
SELECT city, min(id) id
FROM (
SELECT origin city, MIN(id) id
FROM flights
GROUP BY city
UNION
SELECT destination city, MIN(id) id
FROM flights
GROUP BY city) u
GROUP BY city) x
GROUP BY id
DEMO

Select distinct column along with some other columns in MySQL

I can't seem to find a suitable solution for the following (probably an age old) problem so hoping someone can shed some light. I need to return 1 distinct column along with other non distinct columns in mySQL.
I have the following table in mySQL:
id name destination rating country
----------------------------------------------------
1 James Barbados 5 WI
2 Andrew Antigua 6 WI
3 James Barbados 3 WI
4 Declan Trinidad 2 WI
5 Steve Barbados 4 WI
6 Declan Trinidad 3 WI
I would like SQL statement to return the DISTINCT name along with the destination, rating based on country.
id name destination rating country
----------------------------------------------------
1 James Barbados 5 WI
2 Andrew Antigua 6 WI
4 Declan Trinidad 2 WI
5 Steve Barbados 4 WI
As you can see, James and Declan have different ratings, but the same name, so they are returned only once.
The following query returns all rows because the ratings are different. Is there anyway I can return the above result set?
SELECT (distinct name), destination, rating
FROM table
WHERE country = 'WI'
ORDER BY id
Using a subquery, you can get the highest id for each name, then select the rest of the rows based on that:
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE id IN (
SELECT MAX(id) FROM table GROUP BY name
)
If you'd prefer, use MIN(id) to get the first record for each name instead of the last.
It can also be done with an INNER JOIN against the subquery. For this purpose the performance should be similar, and sometimes you need to join on two columns from the subquery.
SELECT
table.*
FROM
table
INNER JOIN (
SELECT MAX(id) AS id FROM table GROUP BY name
) maxid ON table.id = maxid.id
The problem is that distinct works across the entire return set and not just the first field. Otherwise MySQL wouldn't know what record to return. So, you want to have some sort of group function on rating, whether MAX, MIN, GROUP_CONCAT, AVG, or several other functions.
Michael has already posted a good answer, so I'm not going to re-write the query.
I agree with #rcdmk . Using a DEPENDENT subquery can kill performance, GROUP BY seems more suitable provided that you have already INDEXed the country field and only a few rows will reach the server. Rewriting the query giben by #rcdmk , I added the ORDER BY NULL clause to suppress the implicit ordering by GROUP BY, to make it a little faster:
SELECT MIN(id) as id, name, destination as rating, country
FROM table WHERE country = 'WI'
GROUP BY name, destination ORDER BY NULL
You can do a GROUP BY clause:
SELECT MIN(id) AS id, name, destination, AVG(rating) AS rating, country
FROM TABLE_NAME
GROUP BY name, destination, country
This query would perform better in large datasets than the subquery alternatives and it can be easier to read as well.

how to number the datas from mysql

This is a doubt on mysql select query
let me axplain my doubt with a simple example
consider this is my query
SELECT dbCountry from tableCountry
tableCountry has fields dbCuntryId, dbCountry and dbState
I have the result as
dbCountry
india
america
england
kenya
pakisthan
I need the result as
1 india
2 america
3 england
4 kenya
5 pakisthan
the numbers 12345 must be generated with the increase in data and it is not an autoincrement id.
How can i get it
is it something like loop
You can try this:
SELECT dbCountry,
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tableCountry t2 WHERE t2.dbCountry <= t1.dbCountry)
AS RowNum
FROM tableCountry t1
ORDER BY dbCountry
The following should do what you need. It uses a variable that is incremented and returned for each row:
SELECT
#rownum:=#rownum+1 number,
c.dbCountry
FROM
tableCountry c,
(SELECT #rownum:=0) r
If you want the result to always be in the same order you'll need to add an order by constraint to the query, for example, ORDER BY c.dbCountry to order by the country name.