Aggregate and find most used room by customer using SQL












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I am trying to find all bookings grouped by my customers, and only showing the most used room by them (and the count booked).



This is the query I have so far, but the problem is that it will show all their bookings and counts, I'm only interested in their most booked room, I'm not sure what the best function to use to achieve this. I thought querying by the account table and then a subquery for getting the booking numbers but I feel this might be less efficient (especially as we have around 10M account records).



Schema:



CREATE TABLE rooms (
room_id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
room_name varchar(50)
);

CREATE TABLE bookings (
id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
account_id int,
room_id int
);


Sample data:



INSERT INTO rooms (room_id, room_name)
VALUES ('1', 'Suite A'),
('2', 'Suite B'),
('3', 'Suite C'),
('4', 'Suite D'),
('5', 'Suite X');

INSERT INTO bookings (account_id, room_id)
VALUES ('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '2'),
('123', '3'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '5'),
('123', '1'),
('124', '4'),
('124', '5'),
('124', '1');


Query:



select account_id, count(room_id), room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id


SQL Fiddle Link



Desired Output:



account_id | most booked room | count
123 | Room A | 2
124 | Room B | 30









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    Sample data and desired results in the question would clarify what you want. I'm not sure why you set up a MySQL fiddle for a question tagged tsql.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 11:58













  • I have updated the question to include the desired output, tsql wasn't supported in the tool used but the question is for tsql not mysql hence the tags used.

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:07
















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I am trying to find all bookings grouped by my customers, and only showing the most used room by them (and the count booked).



This is the query I have so far, but the problem is that it will show all their bookings and counts, I'm only interested in their most booked room, I'm not sure what the best function to use to achieve this. I thought querying by the account table and then a subquery for getting the booking numbers but I feel this might be less efficient (especially as we have around 10M account records).



Schema:



CREATE TABLE rooms (
room_id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
room_name varchar(50)
);

CREATE TABLE bookings (
id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
account_id int,
room_id int
);


Sample data:



INSERT INTO rooms (room_id, room_name)
VALUES ('1', 'Suite A'),
('2', 'Suite B'),
('3', 'Suite C'),
('4', 'Suite D'),
('5', 'Suite X');

INSERT INTO bookings (account_id, room_id)
VALUES ('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '2'),
('123', '3'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '5'),
('123', '1'),
('124', '4'),
('124', '5'),
('124', '1');


Query:



select account_id, count(room_id), room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id


SQL Fiddle Link



Desired Output:



account_id | most booked room | count
123 | Room A | 2
124 | Room B | 30









share|improve this question




















  • 1





    Sample data and desired results in the question would clarify what you want. I'm not sure why you set up a MySQL fiddle for a question tagged tsql.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 11:58













  • I have updated the question to include the desired output, tsql wasn't supported in the tool used but the question is for tsql not mysql hence the tags used.

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:07














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I am trying to find all bookings grouped by my customers, and only showing the most used room by them (and the count booked).



This is the query I have so far, but the problem is that it will show all their bookings and counts, I'm only interested in their most booked room, I'm not sure what the best function to use to achieve this. I thought querying by the account table and then a subquery for getting the booking numbers but I feel this might be less efficient (especially as we have around 10M account records).



Schema:



CREATE TABLE rooms (
room_id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
room_name varchar(50)
);

CREATE TABLE bookings (
id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
account_id int,
room_id int
);


Sample data:



INSERT INTO rooms (room_id, room_name)
VALUES ('1', 'Suite A'),
('2', 'Suite B'),
('3', 'Suite C'),
('4', 'Suite D'),
('5', 'Suite X');

INSERT INTO bookings (account_id, room_id)
VALUES ('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '2'),
('123', '3'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '5'),
('123', '1'),
('124', '4'),
('124', '5'),
('124', '1');


Query:



select account_id, count(room_id), room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id


SQL Fiddle Link



Desired Output:



account_id | most booked room | count
123 | Room A | 2
124 | Room B | 30









share|improve this question
















I am trying to find all bookings grouped by my customers, and only showing the most used room by them (and the count booked).



This is the query I have so far, but the problem is that it will show all their bookings and counts, I'm only interested in their most booked room, I'm not sure what the best function to use to achieve this. I thought querying by the account table and then a subquery for getting the booking numbers but I feel this might be less efficient (especially as we have around 10M account records).



Schema:



CREATE TABLE rooms (
room_id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
room_name varchar(50)
);

CREATE TABLE bookings (
id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
account_id int,
room_id int
);


Sample data:



INSERT INTO rooms (room_id, room_name)
VALUES ('1', 'Suite A'),
('2', 'Suite B'),
('3', 'Suite C'),
('4', 'Suite D'),
('5', 'Suite X');

INSERT INTO bookings (account_id, room_id)
VALUES ('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '1'),
('123', '2'),
('123', '3'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '4'),
('123', '5'),
('123', '1'),
('124', '4'),
('124', '5'),
('124', '1');


Query:



select account_id, count(room_id), room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id


SQL Fiddle Link



Desired Output:



account_id | most booked room | count
123 | Room A | 2
124 | Room B | 30






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  • 1





    Sample data and desired results in the question would clarify what you want. I'm not sure why you set up a MySQL fiddle for a question tagged tsql.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 11:58













  • I have updated the question to include the desired output, tsql wasn't supported in the tool used but the question is for tsql not mysql hence the tags used.

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:07














  • 1





    Sample data and desired results in the question would clarify what you want. I'm not sure why you set up a MySQL fiddle for a question tagged tsql.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 11:58













  • I have updated the question to include the desired output, tsql wasn't supported in the tool used but the question is for tsql not mysql hence the tags used.

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:07








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1





Sample data and desired results in the question would clarify what you want. I'm not sure why you set up a MySQL fiddle for a question tagged tsql.

– Gordon Linoff
Nov 13 '18 at 11:58







Sample data and desired results in the question would clarify what you want. I'm not sure why you set up a MySQL fiddle for a question tagged tsql.

– Gordon Linoff
Nov 13 '18 at 11:58















I have updated the question to include the desired output, tsql wasn't supported in the tool used but the question is for tsql not mysql hence the tags used.

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 12:07





I have updated the question to include the desired output, tsql wasn't supported in the tool used but the question is for tsql not mysql hence the tags used.

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 12:07












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You want the most common room per account. Statistically, this is called the mode.



You can calculate it using window functions:



select ar.*
from (select account_id, room_id, count(*) as cnt,
row_number() over (partition by account_id order by count(*) desc) as seqnum
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
) ar
where seqnum = 1;


Here is the dbfiddle, using MySQL 8, so the syntax is more compatible with SQL Server.






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  • In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:04











  • Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:08











  • @Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 18:39



















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You can use correlated subquery



DEMO



select * from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)A inner join rooms on A.room_id=rooms.room_id
where cnt in (select max(cnt) from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)B where A.account_id=B.account_id)





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  • In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:14











  • it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:15













  • @fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

    – Sanal Sunny
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:17











  • @SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:18











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You want the most common room per account. Statistically, this is called the mode.



You can calculate it using window functions:



select ar.*
from (select account_id, room_id, count(*) as cnt,
row_number() over (partition by account_id order by count(*) desc) as seqnum
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
) ar
where seqnum = 1;


Here is the dbfiddle, using MySQL 8, so the syntax is more compatible with SQL Server.






share|improve this answer


























  • In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:04











  • Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:08











  • @Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 18:39
















0














You want the most common room per account. Statistically, this is called the mode.



You can calculate it using window functions:



select ar.*
from (select account_id, room_id, count(*) as cnt,
row_number() over (partition by account_id order by count(*) desc) as seqnum
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
) ar
where seqnum = 1;


Here is the dbfiddle, using MySQL 8, so the syntax is more compatible with SQL Server.






share|improve this answer


























  • In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:04











  • Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:08











  • @Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 18:39














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You want the most common room per account. Statistically, this is called the mode.



You can calculate it using window functions:



select ar.*
from (select account_id, room_id, count(*) as cnt,
row_number() over (partition by account_id order by count(*) desc) as seqnum
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
) ar
where seqnum = 1;


Here is the dbfiddle, using MySQL 8, so the syntax is more compatible with SQL Server.






share|improve this answer















You want the most common room per account. Statistically, this is called the mode.



You can calculate it using window functions:



select ar.*
from (select account_id, room_id, count(*) as cnt,
row_number() over (partition by account_id order by count(*) desc) as seqnum
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
) ar
where seqnum = 1;


Here is the dbfiddle, using MySQL 8, so the syntax is more compatible with SQL Server.







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  • In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:04











  • Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:08











  • @Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 18:39



















  • In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:04











  • Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 17:08











  • @Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

    – Gordon Linoff
    Nov 13 '18 at 18:39

















In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 17:04





In the event where there is an account with equal number of bookings in a venue... what is the output? and is it possible to say order by last bookings.order_date

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 17:04













Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 17:08





Can you also explain what the partition and over functions are doing here, I'd like to understand how this works. Thanks!

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 17:08













@Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

– Gordon Linoff
Nov 13 '18 at 18:39





@Imran . . . docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/…. If there are equal numbers, then an arbitrary matching value is returned. For the most recent room, you can use order by count(*) desc, max(order_date) desc.

– Gordon Linoff
Nov 13 '18 at 18:39













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You can use correlated subquery



DEMO



select * from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)A inner join rooms on A.room_id=rooms.room_id
where cnt in (select max(cnt) from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)B where A.account_id=B.account_id)





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  • In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:14











  • it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:15













  • @fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

    – Sanal Sunny
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:17











  • @SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:18
















0














You can use correlated subquery



DEMO



select * from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)A inner join rooms on A.room_id=rooms.room_id
where cnt in (select max(cnt) from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)B where A.account_id=B.account_id)





share|improve this answer


























  • In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:14











  • it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:15













  • @fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

    – Sanal Sunny
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:17











  • @SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:18














0












0








0







You can use correlated subquery



DEMO



select * from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)A inner join rooms on A.room_id=rooms.room_id
where cnt in (select max(cnt) from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)B where A.account_id=B.account_id)





share|improve this answer















You can use correlated subquery



DEMO



select * from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)A inner join rooms on A.room_id=rooms.room_id
where cnt in (select max(cnt) from
(select account_id, count(room_id) as cnt, room_id
from bookings
group by account_id, room_id
)B where A.account_id=B.account_id)






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  • In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:14











  • it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:15













  • @fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

    – Sanal Sunny
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:17











  • @SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:18



















  • In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

    – Imran
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:14











  • it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:15













  • @fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

    – Sanal Sunny
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:17











  • @SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

    – fa06
    Nov 13 '18 at 12:18

















In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 12:14





In the demo provided this still shows more than one instance of each account_id

– Imran
Nov 13 '18 at 12:14













it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

– fa06
Nov 13 '18 at 12:15







it's because of your sample data - you can see that for 124 you've entered 1, 4, 5 room - so the room no is unique here, so for each room the count is one - in this case which one you want to pick

– fa06
Nov 13 '18 at 12:15















@fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

– Sanal Sunny
Nov 13 '18 at 12:17





@fa06 whenever I tries to access the demo it redirects to the homepage of dbfiddle

– Sanal Sunny
Nov 13 '18 at 12:17













@SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

– fa06
Nov 13 '18 at 12:18





@SanalSunny - db-fiddle.com/f/hNedhkY8AHSYcVEVmrSV8q/0 - you need to exeute the query

– fa06
Nov 13 '18 at 12:18


















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