Hi Peter,
Yes, after I posted the question, I did some more reading and learned
that it's possible to have several conditions in the ON clause. I tried:
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 AND
history.time_sec BETWEEN 1138604400 AND 1138652381
GROUP BY accounts.id, history.msg_src
ORDER BY accounts.id DESC, history.msg_src ASC
...and it does exactly what I need. Thanks for the reply though.
...Rene
On 30-Jan-06, at 4:12 PM, Peter Brawley wrote:
> 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
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