Question

I have an external 3rd party program export the database to mysql in real time, and I want to show data for reporting. So, I can’t change the structure, because it’s being sync in real time.

The table structure is something like this

ID | Date       | Transaction
-----------------------------
12 | 2012-11-01 | 200
12 | 2012-11-02 | 250
12 | 2012-11-03 | 150
12 | 2012-11-04 | 1000
12 | 2012-11-05 | 225
....
13 | 2012-11-01 | 175
13 | 2012-11-02 | 20
13 | 2012-11-03 | 50
13 | 2012-11-04 | 100
13 | 2012-11-05 | 180
13 | 2012-11-06 | 195

The data are very large and keep getting bigger each day.

What I want to do is to build a report (view table) based on something like this:

ID | Date       | Transaction | Prev Day Transaction
----------------------------------------------------
12 | 2012-11-01 | 200         | 0
12 | 2012-11-02 | 250         | 200
12 | 2012-11-03 | 150         | 250
12 | 2012-11-04 | 1000        | 150
12 | 2012-11-05 | 225         | 1000
....
13 | 2012-11-01 | 175         | 0
13 | 2012-11-02 | 20          | 175
13 | 2012-11-03 | 50          | 20
13 | 2012-11-04 | 100         | 50
13 | 2012-11-05 | 180         | 100
13 | 2012-11-06 | 195         | 180

I just can’t get the fast select statement. Currently the original data is already 283,120 rows. And it will grow like 500 rows daily.

I’ve tried something like:

SELECT *, (SELECT transaction FROM table as t2 WHERE t1.id=t2.id 
AND t1.date>t2.date ORDER BY t2.date DESC LIMIT 0,1)
FROM table AS t1

It’s working, but the select statement is very slow. Most of the time, it’s getting cut of in the middle of the operation.

What I need help is a very fast sql statement, which later on I could use to build the view table.

Answer 1

See this link: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/54a5e/12

select t.id,t.cDate,t.cTrans
  ,(case when @pID=t.id then @pTran else 0 end) as preT 
  ,(@pID :=t.id) as `tID`,(@pTran := t.cTrans) as `tTrans` 
from tb_test_1 as t,(select @pID = 0, @pTran = 0) as t2
order by id,cDate;

tID and tTrans column must be retained, and cannot display on page.

Please forgive me as I only know a little english!