hoping someone can help. MySQL JOIN
statements have never been my strong point and they just hurt my brain trying to figure them out.
I have table which stores ratings of an item in another table, tracked by ID.
What I need to do now though is display a list of items ordered by the ratings, high to low and low to high.
I can get a list of ratings per item, grouped by ID from the ratings table easily enough, but it's getting it JOINed to the items I get stuck on. Not all items have ratings either (yet), and so it would also be beneficial if the combined list didn't just stop at the end of the ratings that do exist.
OK, so here's my grouping statement:
SELECT `themeID` , SUM( `rating` ) AS ratings
FROM `votes`
GROUP BY `themeID`
ORDER BY `ratings` DESC
outputs
themeID ratings
1 6
3 3
2 2
6 2
Then the details
table consists of various info, such as id
, filename
, name
, date
etc
Between the two tables, themeID
and id
are the same which links them. I've looked at some of the other answers to similar queries on SO, but I couldn't get any of the answers to work with my tables/queries (probably because I don't fully grasp JOIN
's)
ANy help would be saving me a massive headache!
Just join the two tables and add the aggregation function.
SELECT d.id, d.filename, d.name, IFNULL(SUM(v.rating), 0) AS ratings
FROM details AS d
LEFT JOIN votes AS v ON d.id = v.themeID
GROUP BY d.id
I used LEFT JOIN
so this will show the details even if there are no votes.
I have tested in sql server same u can get in Mysql
DROP TABLE #Item
create table #Item (ID int identity(1,1),ItemNAme varchar(10))
INSERT INTO #Item(ItemNAme)
SELECT 'A'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'B'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'C'
DROP TABLE #ItemRating
create table #ItemRating (ItemID int ,rating int)
INSERT INTO #ItemRating(ItemID,rating)
SELECT 3,2
UNION ALL
SELECT 2,11
UNION ALL
SELECT 1, 3
UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 4
union all
SELECT 1,5
UNION ALL
SELECT 3,12
UNION ALL
SELECT 1, 4
UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 1
SELECT m.ItemNAme,SUM(I.rating) as Rating
FROM #Item m INNER JOIN #ItemRating I ON m.ID=I.ItemID
group by m.ItemNAme
ORDER BY SUM(I.rating) asc
--OR same thing can achive
SELECT ItemNAme, Rating
FROM (
SELECT m.ItemNAme,SUM(I.rating) as Rating
FROM #Item m INNER JOIN #ItemRating I ON m.ID=I.ItemID
group by m.ItemNAme
)P
ORDER BY Rating Desc