Question

I have a table that contains articles posted by users. The structure of the table is like this:

id      uid       author       article_name     article     num_views      edit_time

id is the article id, uid is the author id and num_views is how many times this article is being viewed.

What I need is to display ONLY the most viewed article according to uid

In short , if uid is author id and article id is 5 , what I need is to display something like :

id     uid     article_name     num_views 
5       1      article title       100

I tried to run several queries in Mysql but i could not figure it out , can anyone help please ??

Answer 1

The most viewed article and its count by each user:

SELECT `id`, `uid`, `article_name`, `num_views` 
FROM `table` 
WHERE `num_views` IN ( 
    SELECT MAX(`num_views`) FROM table GROUP BY `uid`)

For only given uid

SELECT `id`, `article_name`, MAX(`num_views`) 
FROM `table` 
WHERE `uid` = <user id>