Question

I have this table named “events” in my mysql database:

+-----+-----------+------------------------------+------------+
| ID  | CATEGORY  | NAME                         | TYPE       |
+-----+-----------+------------------------------+------------+
| 1   | 1         | Concert                      | music      |
| 2   | 2         | Basketball match             | indoors    |
| 3   | 1         | Theather play                | outdoors   |
| 4   | 1         | Concert                      | outdoors   |
+-----+-----------+------------------------------+------------+

I need a query to count the events with category 1 and which type is music and also outdoors
Meaning that from the table above the count should be only 1: there are three events with category 1
but only “Concert” has type outdoor and music (ID 1 and ID 4).

What would be that query? Can that be done?

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT count(DISTINCT e1.name)
FROM `events` AS e1
JOIN `events` AS e2 ON e1.name = e2.name
WHERE e1.category = 1 
    AND e2.category = 1 
    AND e1.type = 'music' 
    AND e2.type = 'outdoor'

Or a harder to understand way, but way faster than the previous one:

SELECT count(*) FROM (
    SELECT `name`
    FROM `events`
    WHERE `category` = 1
    GROUP BY `name`
    HAVING SUM( `type` = 'music') * SUM( `type` = 'outdoor' ) >= 1
) AS notNeeded