Question

I have two tables on MySQL (using phpMyAdmin), looking like the following:
Table 1:

Country    Total Minutes
USA        100
USA        90
Canada     60
Mexico     80
UK         90
France     70
France     10
Germany    10

In Table 2, what I need to do is the following:

Region           Total Minutes
North America    USA+USA+Canada+Mexico Mins
Europe           UK+France+France+Germany Mins

Is there a way to have a row be the result of a query?

Answer 1

You either need a region column in table 1:

SELECT region, SUM(`Total Minutes`)
FROM timespent
GROUP BY region;

Or a separate region <-> country table:

SELECT region, SUM(`Total Minutes`)
FROM myregions r
INNER JOIN timespent t USING (country)
GROUP BY r.region;

The regions table would look like this:

region        | country
--------------+--------
North America | USA
North America | Mexico

If you can’t change anything in your database, look at Andomar’s solution 🙂