Tag Archives: aggregate-functions

Combine two mysql COUNT(*) results, different columns

I’m trying to combine the counts for the following queries:

  SELECT recipient AS otheruser, COUNT(*)
    FROM privatemessages
   WHERE sender = '$userid'
GROUP BY recipient

  SELECT sender AS otheruser, COUNT(*)
    FROM privatemessages
   WHERE recipient = '$userid'
GROUP BY sender

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How to Update a column from the results of a SUM from other table column?

What im looking for is to update a column from table 1 using the results from the SUM of a different column in table 2 for example :
table 1

id             | views |
--------------------
1          |   0  |
2          

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MySQL GROUP BY UNIX TIMESTAMP

I’m trying to fetch a number of rows from a MySQL database and group them by the day they were posted.
End result I would like the following..
Monday
-Article 1
-Article 2
-Article 3
Tuesday
-Article 1
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Running queries on tables with more than 1million rows in

I am indexing all the columns that I use in my Where / Order by, is there anything else I can do to speed the queries up?
The queries are very simple, like:

SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM TABLE
 WHERE user = 

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