Question

I have connected three tables to each other.
I’m querying keywords + statistics.

I need to get data out by date range, and
if there is no data for that specific date range
i would like it to return 0 statistics

Lets say my query is:

SELECT keyword,SUM(stat) FROM keywords WHERE date >=’2012-07-10′ GROUP BY keyword;


It would return
|my keyword 1|3|
|my keyword 2|6|

Example table content:
| id | keyword          | stat | date            | keywordGroup |
| 1  | my keyword 1 | 2     | 2012-07-11 | 1 |
| 2  | my keyword 1 | 1     | 2012-07-12 | 1 |
| 3  | my keyword 2 | 6     | 2012-07-11 | 1 |
| 4  | my keyword 3 | 10   | 2012-07-09 | 1 |

But there are some keywords which have no stats for that date range
but I would still like to get those keywords showing 0 as stats.

Like this:

|my keyword 1|3|
|my keyword 2|6|
|my keyword 3|0|

The problem is that the where clause blocks values that are not found, is there a workaround.
As I said I have three tables with relations, I use LEFT JOIN to
query data, for simplification I left that part out of my example query.

Table: Campaigns
id
name

Table: KeywordGroup
id
name
campaign

Table: KeywordData
id
keyword
stat
date
keywordGroup

Answer 1

Assuming you are joing tables with left joins correctly, use:

select keyword, ifnull(sum(stat),0) ... group by keyword

If it is WHERE clause that filters out some stats before even grouping is applied, then you need to move the date condition into LEFT JOIN condition, ie.

from KeywordGroup left join KeywordData on ... and date > '2012-07-10'

But I cannot help further without seeing actual queries. 🙂