MySQL按组选择最常用

Question

如何获取MySQL中每个标签出现频率最高的类别？理想情况下，我希望模拟一个聚合函数来计算列的mode。

SELECT 
  t.tag 
  , s.category 
FROM tags t 
LEFT JOIN stuff s 
USING (id) 
ORDER BY tag;

+------------------+----------+
| tag              | category |
+------------------+----------+
| automotive       |        8 |
| ba               |        8 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |       10 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |        9 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |       10 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| bamboo           |        9 |
| bamboo           |        8 |
| banana tree      |        8 |
| banana tree      |        8 |
| banana tree      |        8 |
| banana tree      |        8 |
| bath             |        9 |
+-----------------------------+

Answer 1

SELECT t1.*
FROM (SELECT tag, category, COUNT(*) AS count
      FROM tags INNER JOIN stuff USING (id)
      GROUP BY tag, category) t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN 
     (SELECT tag, category, COUNT(*) AS count
      FROM tags INNER JOIN stuff USING (id)
      GROUP BY tag, category) t2
  ON (t1.tag = t2.tag AND (t1.count < t2.count 
      OR t1.count = t2.count AND t1.category < t2.category))
WHERE t2.tag IS NULL
ORDER BY t1.count DESC;

我同意这对于单个SQL查询来说有点太多了。在子查询中使用任何GROUP BY都会让我退缩。您可以通过使用视图使其看起来更简单：

CREATE VIEW count_per_category AS
    SELECT tag, category, COUNT(*) AS count
    FROM tags INNER JOIN stuff USING (id)
    GROUP BY tag, category;

SELECT t1.*
FROM count_per_category t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN count_per_category t2
  ON (t1.tag = t2.tag AND (t1.count < t2.count 
      OR t1.count = t2.count AND t1.category < t2.category))
WHERE t2.tag IS NULL
ORDER BY t1.count DESC;

但它基本上是在幕后做同样的工作。

您评论说，您可以在应用程序代码中轻松地执行类似的操作。那你为什么不这么做呢？执行更简单的查询以获取每个类别的计数：

SELECT tag, category, COUNT(*) AS count
FROM tags INNER JOIN stuff USING (id)
GROUP BY tag, category;

并在应用程序代码中对结果进行排序。

Answer 2

SELECT  tag, category
FROM    (
        SELECT  @tag <> tag AS _new,
                @tag := tag AS tag,
                category, COUNT(*) AS cnt
        FROM    (
                SELECT  @tag := ''
                ) vars,
                stuff
        GROUP BY
                tag, category
        ORDER BY
                tag, cnt DESC
        ) q
WHERE   _new

对于您的数据，这将返回以下内容：

'automotive',  8
'ba',          8
'bamboo',      8
'bananatree',  8
'bath',        9

下面是测试脚本：

CREATE TABLE stuff (tag VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL, category INT NOT NULL);

INSERT
INTO    stuff
VALUES
('automotive',8),
('ba',8),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',10),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',9),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',10),
('bamboo',8),
('bamboo',9),
('bamboo',8),
('bananatree',8),
('bananatree',8),
('bananatree',8),
('bananatree',8),
('bath',9);

Answer 3

(编辑:在ORDER BYs中忘记DESC )

子查询中的限制很容易做到。MySQL是否仍然有子查询中没有限制的限制？下面的示例使用的是PostgreSQL。

=> select tag, (select category from stuff z where z.tag = s.tag group by tag, category order by count(*) DESC limit 1) AS category, (select count(*) from stuff z where z.tag = s.tag group by tag, category order by count(*) DESC limit 1) AS num_items from stuff s group by tag;
    tag     | category | num_items 
------------+----------+-----------
 ba         |        8 |         1
 automotive |        8 |         1
 bananatree |        8 |         4
 bath       |        9 |         1
 bamboo     |        8 |         9
(5 rows)

只有在需要计数的情况下，才需要第三列。