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RushVan
RushVan

Reputation: 363

How can I sum and then remove duplicate fields MySql?

Sorry if this turns out to be duplicate but I am having a hard time finding the exact answer...

I have table that contains 'email'(varchar) and 'clicks'(int).

The email field contains duplicate instances of email values. I would like to remove the duplicates and keep just one instance but also sum all values found in 'clicks' for that given email instance and update the remaining record to reflect that.

I can use distinct and group by to get a view of the records I am after, its the sum and update part I am stumped with.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1535

Answers (3)

Juan Carlos Oropeza
Juan Carlos Oropeza

Reputation: 48187

Only update the email with more clicks.

UPDATE yourTable a 
JOIN (SELECT email, 
             MAX(clicks) as m_clicks, 
             SUM(clicks) as s_clicks
      FROM yourTable
      GROUP BY email) b
  ON a.email = b.email
 AND a.clicks = b.m_clicks
SET a.clicks = b.s_clicks;

Then DELETE

DELETE yourTable a
LEFT JOIN   yourTable b
       ON   a.clicks > b.clicks
WHERE b.clicks is NOT NULL

EDIT:

I just realize you can have two rows with same number of clicks. That is why you should always have one ID columns to work as PK.

So you can add to eliminate any duplicates.

ALTER IGNORE TABLE yourTable
ADD UNIQUE INDEX idx_clicks (email, clicks);

Upvotes: 1

Geo Tom
Geo Tom

Reputation: 280

You may use aggregate function sum() and group by.

SELECT email, sum(clicks) as sum FROM tableName group by email

Upvotes: 0

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 521178

I don't think you need to use DISTINCT here, but rather you can just group on each email value, taking the sum of clicks as you go along:

SELECT email, SUM(clicks) AS clickSum
FROM yourTable
GROUP BY email

When you mentioned "remaining" record, you neglected to mention how the duplicate records ever got deleted. It would be a bunch of work to selectively remove all but one duplicate record. I might go about this by just inserting the above query into a new table, deleting the old table, and renaming the new one to the old one:

CREATE TABLE yourNewTable (`email` varchar(255), `clicks` int);
INSERT INTO yourNewTable (`email`, `clicks`)
SELECT email, SUM(clicks)
FROM yourTable
GROUP BY email

DROP TABLE yourTable
ALTER TABLE yourNewTable RENAME TO yourTable

Upvotes: 2

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