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Asked: 2026-06-08T12:06:09+00:00

This is general question about the best way I should setup a database, it

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This is general question about the best way I should setup a database, it is not specific to a software but for information it is MYSQL.

I am monitoring 1000 “houses” and how many people are present at that house at a given time to later be used in some statistics such as:

Which house is normally the fullest at a specific time range
Average capacity in general
Busiest time frame for all houses, and for a specific house.

I will be checking how many people are present every hour.

Whats the best way to setup this mysql table?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like you would (optionally) want entries for each house (a house table to describe each location, with some sort of ID).

    Then you would want a transactional table which would contain the house ID, the number of people and the sample date/time.

    This way you can analyse what you need

    e.g.

    House
   HouseID int
   Address1 varchar
   etc etc..

Attendance
   RecordID int (optional I suppose)
   HouseID int
   People int
   SampleDate datetime

    Queries for stuff like averages are easy enough

    SELECT AVG(People) FROM Attendance WHERE HouseID = 1 AND SampleDate BETWEEN Date1 AND Date2

    Which house is fullest for a specific time range

    SELECT TOP 1 HouseID FROM Attendance GROUP BY HouseID ORDER BY SUM(People) DESC

    Disclaimer: some/all of these queries might not work 🙂

    Edit: They do work! Here’s a SQL fiddle showing them in action

    http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/293e4/8

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