Retrieve rows grouped by hour with MySQL - mysql

I have a table containing access logs. I want to know how many accesses to resource_id '123' occured in each hour in a 24 hour day.
My first thought for retrieving this info is just looping through each hour and querying the table in each loop with something like... and time like '$hour:%', given that the time field holds data in the format 15:47:55.
Is there a way I can group by the hours and retrieve each hour and the number of rows within each hour in a single query?
Database is MySQL, language is PHP.

SELECT HOUR(MyDatetimeColumn) AS h, COUNT(*)
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY h;

You can use the function HOUR to get the hour out of the time. Then you should be able to group by that.

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Looking up times in DB based off actual time or actual time including Delay

I am looking for a way to be able to grab rows from a database from a time.
Two columns exist:
Time - scheduled Time
Delay - +seconds that time is delayed.
Let's say:
ID,time,delay
1,18:23,360
2,18:25,0
3,17:15,-60
Now, let's say I am searching for buses after actually arriving at/after 18:25, how would i do it to include these two results:
2,18:25,0
1,18:23,360 (note: 18:23 + 360 seconds = 18:29)
in a query like
where `time` >= '18:23'
Thanks
SELECT * FROM [TABLE] WHERE DATE_ADD(Time,INTERVAL TimeDelay SECOND) >= '18:25:00'
MySql Date_Add Function

Aggregating/Grouping a set of rows/records in MySQL

I have a table say "sample" which saves a new record each five minutes.
Users might ask for data collected for a specific sampling interval of say 10 min or 30 min or an hour.
Since I have a record every five minutes, when a user asks for data with a hour sample interval, I will have to club/group every 12 (60/5) records in to one record (already sorted based on the time-stamp), and the criteria could be either min/max/avg/last value.
I was trying to do this in Java once I fetch all the records, and am seeing pretty bad performance as I have to iterate through the collection multiple times, I have read of other alternatives like jAgg and lambdaj, but wanted to check if that's possible in SQL (MySQL) itself.
The sampling interval is dynamic and the aggregation function (min/max/avg/last) too is user provided.
Any pointers ?
You can do this in SQL, but you have to carefully construct the statement. Here is an example by hour for all four aggregations:
select min(datetime) as datetime,
min(val) as minval, max(val) as maxval, avg(val) as avgval,
substring_index(group_concat(val order by datetime desc), ',', 1) as lastval
from table t
group by floor(to_seconds(datetime) / (60*60));

Grouping by time ignoring the Date portion

I have a table that has a column that is called scores and another one that is called date_time
I am trying to find out for each 5 minute time increment how many I have that are above a certain score. I want to ignore the date portion completely and just base this off of time.
This is kind of like in a stats program where they display your peak hours with the only difference that I want to go is detailed as 5 minute time segments.
I am still fairly new at MySQL and Google seems to be my best companion.
What I have found so far is:
SELECT id, score, date_time, COUNT(id)
FROM data
WHERE score >= 500
GROUP BY TIME(date_time) DIV 300;
Would this work or is there a better way to do this.
I don't think your query would work. You need to do a bit more work to get the time rounded to 5 minute intervals. Something like:
SELECT SEC_TO_TIME(FLOOR(TIME_TO_SEC(time(date_time))/300)*300) as time5, COUNT(id)
FROM data
WHERE score >= 500
GROUP BY SEC_TO_TIME(FLOOR(TIME_TO_SEC(time(date_time))/300)*300)
ORDER BY time5;

SQL Statement to get daily totals

I'm storing some data in a table and I want to be able to display the total data points per day on the graph. So the first graph point might be 7 for Monday, Jan 1, 2013, and then 3 for Tuesday, Jan 2, 2013...etc.
I have full time/date stamps for each of my data points in my table of SQL type datetime.
My pseudo statement looks like this, but I'm concerned since I'm using the datetime data type:
SELECT
DATE(created_at) AS create_date
COUNT(id) AS total
FROM
data_table
GROUP BY
create_date
How can I get the total data points per day, regardless of the timestamp?
Try this
SELECT
DATE(created_at) AS create_date,
COUNT(id) AS total
FROM
data_table
GROUP BY
DATE(created_at)
Best would be to start a daily cron job that stores the number of the data points for every day. So you can every day count the number between let's say 24.00.00 to 23.59.59.
If you want to count them on the fly you might have slow requests on huge data amounts, since the grouping query cannot use table index.
But maybe you can add a new table column where you store just the date additionally to the timestamp.

MySQL count rows in multiple date ranges?

I want to count the rows in several date ranges (i.e: last hour, today, this week, last 30 days) from a given table.
I need to know how many entries are in this time/date periods to be able to tell if a given user has reach the limit for each one of this ranges. For instance, a user can have max 300 entries one month but with a (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly) limit.
So far I'm trying with a subquery approach using a SELECT CASE similar to this one: group by range in mysql
Which should be the best way of doing this?
In mysql you could use a series of count functions with if statements so that only the required dates are counted, like so.
SELECT COUNT(IF(date >= DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 HOUR), 1, null)) AS hourHits,
and so on
Edited as per comments