From: Peter Brawley Date: January 30 2006 11:12pm Subject: Re: How to restrict this query... (need subquery?) List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/194374 Message-Id: <43DE9D46.2040405@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit René >What I need to do, somehow, is apply that WHERE clause >to the COUNT part of the SELECT. Any ideas? Did you try moving your WHERE condition to the ON clause? PB ----- René Fournier wrote: > Hello, > > I have two tables: Accounts and History. Basically, I want to see how > much activity each account has during a given period of time. Even if > an account has no activity, I still want to see it in the result > (naturally with zeros or null). In the history table, there is a > column called time_sec—it's a UNIX timestamp. That is the column > needed to restrict the counting to a particular day or month. My > problem is that either I get all the accounts (good) without > restricting to a day or month (bad)... > > SELECT > accounts.id, > accounts.account_name, > accounts.company_name, > history.msg_src, > COUNT(history.msg_src) as msg_num > FROM accounts > LEFT JOIN history ON history.account_id = accounts.id > GROUP BY accounts.id, msg_src > ORDER BY accounts.id DESC, history.msg_src ASC > > ... or I get a result that is restricted (good), but without showing > all the accounts (bad)... > > SELECT > accounts.id, > accounts.account_name, > accounts.company_name, > history.msg_src, > COUNT(history.msg_src) as msg_num > FROM accounts > LEFT JOIN history ON history.account_id = accounts.id > WHERE > history.time_sec > 1138604400 AND history.time_sec < 1138652381 > GROUP BY accounts.id, msg_src > ORDER BY accounts.id DESC, history.msg_src ASC > > What I need to do, somehow, is apply that WHERE clause to the COUNT > part of the SELECT. Any ideas? > > ...Rene > --MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=peter.brawley@stripped > > > > --No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: > 1/27/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006