Question

this is my first question so forgive me if I am doing this wrong. I have been trying to think up a query for the above described problem and I can’t seem to get anywhere.

SELECT SUM(slots) AS totals,date 
  FROM 
     (
         SELECT start, end, date, slots 
           FROM 1000_appointments 
          WHERE date > NOW() AND HOUR(end) <= 12 AND employeeID='1000001'
     ) q 
 GROUP BY date HAVING totals < 6

This gets me the days where the total of slots is less than 6 and that is great but I also need all rows for that date and, if at all possible, dates that have no entries in the table. I could possible do the sorting and listing in php but I figured there might be a more elegant way of doing this within mysql.

I hope this describes the problem well enough. The reasoning behind this is that I need to find dates where “slots” are still available ie dates that aren’t booked out.

Thank you, for your help in advance.

Answer 1

Wrapping that will get all the rows for you:

SELECT start, end, a.date, slots, totals 
        FROM 1000_appointments a
        JOIN
        (SELECT SUM(slots) AS totals,date
            FROM 1000_appointments 
            WHERE date > NOW() AND HOUR(end) <= 12 AND employeeID='1000001'
            GROUP BY date HAVING totals < 6
        ) t 
        where a.date = t.date

It’s not so easy to get the dates not in the table. It will probably require using cursors. I’d recommend doing this in your php code.