Question

Thanks for reading.

I’m trying to write a query to list the names of people who have recevied the most votes using two tables:

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votes
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vote_id, giver_user_id, receiver_user_id, datetime

etc..

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users
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user_id, name, surname

etc…

So far I have:

$top_query = "SELECT * FROM vote, user WHERE vote.receiver_user_id = user.user_id GROUP BY receiver_user_id  ";

This kind of works, but it doesn’t list the user with the most votes at the top of the list.

How can I order it this way?

Thank you.

OP

Answer 1

SELECT  u.*, COUNT(vote_id) AS votes_count
FROM    users u
LEFT JOIN
        votes v
ON      v.receiver_user_id = u.user_id
GROUP BY
        u.user_id
ORDER BY
        votes_count DESC