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Asked: 2026-05-15T10:52:36+00:00

I have a table (MySQL) that captures samples every n seconds. The table has

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I have a table (MySQL) that captures samples every n seconds. The table has many columns, but all that matters for this is two: a time stamp (of type TIMESTAMP) and a count (of type INT).

What I would like to do, is get sums and averages of the count column over a range of times. For instance, I have samples every 2 seconds recorded, but I would like the sum of the count column for all the samples in a 10 second or 30 second window for all samples.

Here’s an example of the data:

+---------------------+-----------------+
| time_stamp          | count           |
+---------------------+-----------------+
| 2010-06-15 23:35:28 |               1 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |               1 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |               1 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |             942 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |             180 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |               4 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |              52 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |              12 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |               1 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |               1 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:33 |            1468 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:33 |             247 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:33 |               1 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:33 |              81 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:33 |              16 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:35 |            1828 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:35 |             214 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:35 |              75 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:35 |               8 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:37 |            1799 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:37 |              24 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:37 |              11 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:37 |               2 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:40 |             575 |
| 2010-06-15 23:35:40 |               1 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:35 |               2 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:35 |               2 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:35 |               1 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:35 |               2 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:35 |               1 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:40 |              35 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:40 |              19 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:40 |              37 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:42 |              64 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:42 |               3 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:42 |              31 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:42 |               7 |
| 2010-06-17 10:39:42 |             246 |
+---------------------+-----------------+

The output I would like (based on the data above) should look like this:

+---------------------+-----------------+
| 2010-06-15 23:35:00 |               1 |  # This is the sum for the 00 - 30 seconds range
| 2010-06-15 23:35:30 |            7544 |  # This is the sum for the 30 - 60 seconds range
| 2010-06-17 10:39:35 |             450 |  # This is the sum for the 30 - 60 seconds range
+---------------------+-----------------+

I have used GROUP BY to gather these numbers by the second, or by the minute, but I can’t seem to figure out the syntax to get the sub-minute or range of seconds GROUP BY commands to work correctly.

I am mostly going to be using this query to syphon data from this table to another table.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    GROUP BY UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time_stamp) DIV 30

    or say for some reason you wanted to group them in 20-second intervals it would be DIV 20 etc. To change the boundaries between GROUP BY values you could use

    GROUP BY (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time_stamp) + r) DIV 30

    where r is a literal nonnegative integer less than 30. So

    GROUP BY (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time_stamp) + 5) DIV 30

    should give you sums between hh:mm:05 and hh:mm:35 and between hh:mm:35 and hh:mm+1:05.

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