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tim peterson
tim peterson

Reputation: 24305

Using SELECT CASE and SUM: MYSQL

I can't figure out how to SUM up and down votes on a certain item while also returning whether or not a given user voted on this item.

Here's my Votes table:

item_id vote voter_id
1        -1     joe
1         1     bob
1         1     tom
3         1     bob

For item_id=1 here's the data I want to show:

If Joe is looking at the page:

total up votes: 2
total down votes: 1
my_vote: -1

Bob:

total up votes: 2
total down votes: 1
my_vote: 1

Here's my code: 

SELECT MAX(CASE WHEN voter_id = 'joe' and vote=1 THEN 1 
WHEN voter_id = 'joe' and vote='-1' THEN -1
ELSE 0 END)
AS my_vote, item_id, sum(vote=1) yes, sum(vote='-1') no
FROM Votes
WHERE item_id=1

The issue is that my_vote=0 if I use the MAX function and vote=-1 (Joe's scenario). Similarly, my_vote=0 if I use the MIN function and the vote=1 (Bob's scenario).

Thoughts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7902

Answers (4)

Jeff Scott
Jeff Scott

Reputation: 326

My answer's pretty much the same, but for those of us who love stored procs I've cleaned it up a little:

declare p_item_id int;
declare p_voter_id varchar(10);

select 
    sum(vote = 1) as TotalUpVotes
    , sum(vote = -1) as TotalDownVotes
    , sum(vote) as TotalScore
    , sum(case when p_voter_id = voter_id then vote else 0 end) as my_vote
from Votes v
where p_item_id = v.item_id

Upvotes: 1

Andrey Belykh
Andrey Belykh

Reputation: 2654

You can use something like this

select 'total up votes' as descr, count(*) as num from Votes where item_id=1 and vote=1 union all select 'total down votes', count(*) from Votes where item_id=1 and vote=-1 union all select 'my_vote' as descr, vote from Votes where item_id=1 and voter_id = 'joe'

Upvotes: 0

MatBailie
MatBailie

Reputation: 86715

SELECT
  item_id,
  MAX(CASE WHEN voter_id = 'Joe' THEN vote ELSE NULL END)   AS my_vote,
  sum(vote= 1)   AS yes_votes,
  sum(vote=-1)   AS no_votes
FROM
  Votes
WHERE
  item_id = 1
GROUP BY
  item_id


Or, possibly more flexible...

SELECT
  Votes.item_id,
  MAX(CASE WHEN Users.user_id IS NOT NULL THEN Votes.vote ELSE NULL END)   AS my_vote,
  sum(Votes.vote= 1)   AS yes_votes,
  sum(Votes.vote=-1)   AS no_votes
FROM
  Votes
LEFT JOIN
  Users
    ON  Users.user_id = Votes.voter_id
    AND Users.user_id = 'Joe'
WHERE
  Votes.item_id = 1
GROUP BY
  Votes.item_id

Upvotes: 3

John Woo
John Woo

Reputation: 263723

You can use correlated subquery to get the user vote and assuming that the user can only vote once per item_id.

SELECT  SUM(vote = 1) totalUpVotes,
        SUM(vote = -1) totalDownVotes,
        (SELECT MAX(vote) 
        FROM votes b
        WHERE a.item_id = b.item_id AND
                b.voter_id = 'joe') my_vote
FROM    votes a
WHERE   item_id = 1

Upvotes: 1

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