Question

I have a MySQL table that looks something like this:

|---ID---|---COUNTER---|
|   1    |      2      |
|   2    |      6      |
|   3    |      1      |
|   5    |      9      |
|   6    |      10     |

I’m looking for a SELECT statement that returns ID’s and their COUNTER. The table only have ID’s such as: 1,2,3,5,6. Is there a statement where you say: I want ID’s 1 to 10 even if they doesn’t exist in the table, and if the ID doesn’t exist, return the ID anyway with the COUNTER value 0. For example:

|---ID---|---COUNTER---|
|   1    |      2      |
|   2    |      6      |
|   3    |      1      |
|   4    |      0      |
|   5    |      9      |
|   6    |      10     |
|   7    |      0      |
|   8    |      0      |
|   9    |      0      |
|   10   |      0      |

Do I have to create a SELECT statement that contains NOT EXIST parameters?

Thanks in advance, Steve-O

Answer 1

Without creating a temp table:

select t.num as id, coalesce(yt.counter, 0)
from your_table yt
right join (
    select 1 as num union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union
    select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9 union select 10
) t on yt.id = t.num
order by t.num

and bit more general:

select t.num as id, coalesce(yt.counter, 0)
from your_table yt
right join (
    select t1.num + t2.num * 10 + t3.num * 100 as num
    from (
        select 1 as num union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union
        select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9 union select 0
    ) t1
    cross join (
        select 1 as num union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union
        select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9 union select 0
    ) t2
    cross join (
        select 1 as num union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union
        select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9 union select 0
    ) t3
) t on yt.id = t.num
where t.num between (select min(id) from your_table) and (select max(id) from your_table)

You can define limit by yourself here I’ve used min and max of id value from your_table.