I have a seemingly simple task, but I cannot find an elegant solution using 1 query ...
Problem:
I have a table of recorded “clicks” on “posts”, where each post is part of a “category”. I want to find 16 items with the highest click in the last 30 days, but I want to avoid duplication of categories.
It seems very simple actually, but I seem to be stuck.
I know how to get the most clicks in the last 30, but I cannot figure out how to avoid duplicating cats.
SELECT cat_id,
post_id,
COUNT(post_id) AS click_counter
FROM cs_coupon_clicks
WHERE time_of_click > DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 30 DAY)
GROUP BY post_id
ORDER BY click_counter DESC
I tried to get creative / hack it ... this is close but not correct:
SELECT cat_id,
Max(sort) AS sortid
FROM (SELECT cat_id,
post_id,
COUNT(post_id) AS click_counter,
CONCAT(COUNT(post_id), '-', post_id) AS sort
FROM cs_coupon_clicks
WHERE time_of_click > DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 30 DAY)
GROUP BY cat_id, post_id) t1
GROUP BY cat_id
ORDER BY cat_id ASC
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EDIT ():
CREATE TABLE `cs_coupon_clicks` (
`id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`src` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`cat_id` int(20) NOT NULL,
`post_id` int(20) NOT NULL,
`tag_id` int(20) NOT NULL,
`user_id` int(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`ip_address` char(30) DEFAULT NULL,
`referer` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`browser` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
`server_var` text NOT NULL,
`time_of_click` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `cat_id` (`cat_id`),
KEY `post_id` (`post_id`),
KEY `user_id` (`user_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
(HACKY):
SELECT
cat_id,
MAX(sort) AS sortid
FROM (
SELECT
cat_id,
post_id,
COUNT(post_id) AS click_counter,
RIGHT(Concat('00000000', COUNT(post_id), '-', post_id), 16) AS SORT
FROM cs_coupon_clicks
WHERE time_of_click > DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 30 DAY)
GROUP BY cat_id, post_id
) AS t1
GROUP BY cat_id
ORDER BY sortid DESC