Question

How would I combine these two queries into 1 and to run efficiently on a large table?

SELECT  field1, count(1) as requestCount
FROM table1
WHERE date_complete >= '2012-06-12 00:00:00' 
      AND date_complete <= '2012-07-12 23:59:59' 
GROUP BY field1

SELECT field2, count(1) as completeCount
FROM table1
WHERE date_complete >= '2012-06-12 00:00:00' 
      AND date_complete <= '2012-07-12 23:59:59' 
GROUP BY field2

Table holds information for a process where multiple users are involved. For example say the first person creates the request, second person completes the request and the third closes out the request by filing it.

I want to count how many each user requested, completed and filed in a specific time frame

I want these two combined to look like

+----------------+--------------+
| field1         | requestCount |
+----------------+--------------+
| PJB            |            1 |
| RFD            |            6 |
| YAS            |            4 |
+----------------+--------------+

+

+---------+---------------+
| field2  | completeCount |
+---------+---------------+
| PJB     |            4  |
| YAS     |            5  |
+---------+---------------+

=

+----------------+--------------+---------------+
| Username       | requestCount | completeCount |
+----------------+--------------+---------------+
| PJB            |            1 |             4 |
| RFD            |            6 |             0 |
| YAS            |            4 |             5 |
+----------------+--------------+---------------+

Answer 1

select  o.USERNAME, a.requestCount , b.completeCount from (SELECT  USERNAME
FROM owner_login_pass )
 as o left join (SELECT field1, count(1) as requestCount
FROM table1
WHERE date_complete between '2012-06-12 00:00:00' and '2012-07-12 23:59:59' 
GROUP BY field1) as a on o.USERNAME=a.field1
left join (SELECT field2, count(1) as completeCount
FROM table1
WHERE date_complete between '2012-06-12 00:00:00' and '2012-07-12 23:59:59' 
GROUP BY field2) as b on o.USERNAME=b.field2

You would need to ensure that field1 has all of the users that you would need to display data for. Otherwise, you would need to join to a users table as well.