MySQL SELECT combining 3 SELECTs INTO 1
- by Martin Tóth
Consider following tables in MySQL database:
entries:
creator_id INT
entry TEXT
is_expired BOOL
other:
creator_id INT
entry TEXT
userdata:
creator_id INT
name VARCHAR
etc...
In entries and other, there can be multiple entries by 1 creator. userdata table is read only for me (placed in other database).
I'd like to achieve a following SELECT result:
+------------+---------+---------+-------+
| creator_id | entries | expired | other |
+------------+---------+---------+-------+
| 10951 | 59 | 55 | 39 |
| 70887 | 41 | 34 | 108 |
| 88309 | 38 | 20 | 102 |
| 94732 | 0 | 0 | 86 |
... where entries is equal to SELECT COUNT(entry) FROM entries GROUP BY creator_id,
expired is equal to SELECT COUNT(entry) FROM entries WHERE is_expired = 0 GROUP BY creator_id and
other is equal to SELECT COUNT(entry) FROM other GROUP BY creator_id.
I need this structure because after doing this SELECT, I need to look for user data in the "userdata" table, which I planned to do with INNER JOIN and select desired columns.
I solved this problem with selecting "NULL" into column which does not apply for given SELECT:
SELECT
creator_id,
COUNT(any_entry) as entries,
COUNT(expired_entry) as expired,
COUNT(other_entry) as other
FROM (
SELECT
creator_id,
entry AS any_entry,
NULL AS expired_entry,
NULL AS other_enry
FROM entries
UNION
SELECT
creator_id,
NULL AS any_entry,
entry AS expired_entry,
NULL AS other_enry
FROM entries
WHERE is_expired = 1
UNION
SELECT
creator_id,
NULL AS any_entry,
NULL AS expired_entry,
entry AS other_enry
FROM other
) AS tTemp
GROUP BY creator_id
ORDER BY
entries DESC,
expired DESC,
other DESC
;
I've left out the INNER JOIN and selecting other columns from userdata table on purpose (my question being about combining 3 SELECTs into 1).
Is my idea valid? = Am I trying to use the right "construction" for this?
Are these kind of SELECTs possible without creating an "empty" column? (some kind of JOIN)
Should I do it "outside the DB": make 3 SELECTs, make some order in it (let's say python lists/dicts) and then do the additional SELECTs for userdata?
Solution for a similar question does not return rows where entries and expired are 0.
Thank you for your time.
