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Asked: 2026-05-14T05:00:31+00:00

How do I count the number of records in a MySQL table based on

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How do I count the number of records in a MySQL table based on a timestamp column per unit of time where the unit of time is arbitrary?

Specifically, I want to count how many record’s timestamps fell into 15 minute buckets during a given interval. I understand how to do this in buckets of 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day etc. using MySQL date functions, e.g.

SELECT YEAR(datefield) Y, MONTH(datefield) M, DAY(datefield) D, COUNT(*) Cnt FROM mytable GROUP BY YEAR(datefield), MONTH(datefield), DAY(datefield)

but how can I group by 15 minute buckets?

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  1. Editorial Team
    GROUP BY
    YEAR(datefield),
    MONTH(datefield),
    DAY(datefield),
    HOUR(datefield),
    FLOOR(MINUTE(datefield)/15)

    You could alternatively say just:

    SELECT FLOOR(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(datefield)/900) AS t, COUNT(*) AS cnt
FROM mytable
GROUP BY t

    with the application responsible for formatting the timestamp for each 15-minute period back out to readable y/m/d/h/m. (If you needed to have local time in a crazy non-quarter-hour-aligned timezone, you’d need a hack offset though.)

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