Question

I have the following MySql table – user_actions:
id – int
user_id – int
timestamp – datetime
action – int

a data example:

1|5|01.01.2011 21:00:00|1
2|5|01.01.2011 21:00:00|3
3|6|01.01.2011 21:00:00|5
3|6|01.02.2011 21:00:00|5

I want to count the number of users who made an action in each day (no matter how many actions), in the above example the output should be:

01.01.2011|2 
01.02.2011|1 

• meaning 2 users made actions in 01.01.2011 and one user in 01.02.2011

any thoughts?

Answer 1

SELECT count(DISTINCT user_id)
     , DATE_FORMAT(timestamp, '%Y-%m-%d') 
  from table 
 group by DATE_FORMAT(timestamp, '%Y-%m-%d')