Question

I need SQL query for MySQL to select top 10 people with most followers

my table

id | user_id | follow_id
1     3          6
2     3          7
3     4          6
4     5          6
5     7          3
6     9          7

From example user with id 6 have 3 time followed , 7->2 and 3->1, so TOP 10 will be

user with id 6,7,3 …

Answer 1

You want to use MySQL GROUP BY aggregation funciton

SELECT user_id, COUNT(follow_id) AS total_followers
FROM users 
GROUP BY follow_id 
ORDER BY total_followers LIMIT 10;