I have the following database schema:
table courses:
id
tutor_id
title
table course_categories:
id
category_id
course_id
table categories:
id
name
table tutors:
id
name
table subscribers:
id
course_id
user_id
I need to make 1 sql to get a course with all it's categories, and the tutor for that course and the number of subscribers for that course. Can this be done in 1 query? Should this be done using stored procedures?
With this query you get what you want:
select co.title as course,
ca.name as category,
t.name as tutor,
count(s.*) as total_subscribers
from courses co
inner join course_categories cc on c.id = cc.course_id
inner join categories ca on cc.category_id = ca.id
inner join tutors t on co.tutor_id = t.tutor_id
left join subscribers s on co.id = s.course_id
where co.title = 'Cat1'
group by co.title, ca.name, t.name
I used left join
on subscribers
because there might be no one for a given course
. I'm assuming that all the other tables have data on it for every course
, categorie
and tutor
. If not, you can user left join
as well but then you'll have data with null.