Question

I know this should be easy but it’s just not my day today.

I have a table like this

user     |  points     
---------|------------
Smith    |    100
Neo      |    200
Morpheus |    300
Smith    |    100
Neo      |    200
Morpheus |    300

and the select I’m looking for would produce this

user     |  points     
---------|------------
Morpheus |    600
Neo      |    400

So, I would like to print out the users who have more than 300 points total and i would like to print them out sorted by sum from highest to lowest.

I’m using:

$ mysql -V
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.61, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1

The SQL I’ve been trying is this:

SELECT user, SUM(points) AS sum FROM users GROUP BY user HAVING SUM(points)>300

and this gives me all the correct output, though it doesn’t give me sorted output. And I did try inserting the ORDER BY but to no luck.

Answer 1

SELECT user, SUM(points) AS sum 
FROM users 
GROUP BY user 
HAVING sum > 300
order by sum desc