SQL Oracle - Multiple count queries on multiple tables - sql

Question

Maybe for some people it might look very simple, but I just cant get it.
My tables are:
CREATE TABLE USERS (user_ID number PRIMARY KEY, username varchar2(32), password varchar2(32));
CREATE TABLE VIDEOS (video_ID number PRIMARY KEY, title varchar(64), description varchar(128));
CREATE TABLE VIEWS (view_ID number PRIMARY KEY, user_ID number, video_ID number);
CREATE TABLE FAVORITES (fav_ID number PRIMARY KEY, user_ID number, video_ID number);
I ve created those separated queries:
SELECT u.username AS "Username", count(*) AS "Views"
FROM Views v, Videos vd, Users u
WHERE v.user_id = u.user_id
AND v.video_id = vd.video_id
GROUP BY u.username
SELECT u.username AS "Username", count(*) AS "Favorites"
FROM Favorites f, Videos vd, Users u
WHERE f.user_id = u.user_id
AND f.video_id = vd.video_id
GROUP BY u.username
And I want a query to show something like that in only one simple query:
Username Views Favorites
-------------------------------
Person1 12 1
Person2 234 21
...
I Googled bunch of similar questions but I couldnt make any of them to work.
So any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You are progressing on the right track. -> You got two queries and you wish to see them together. You could perform a full outer join to get your results you are looking for as below.
with fave
as (
SELECT u.username AS "Username"
, count(*) AS "Favorites"
FROM Favorites f
JOIN Videos vd
ON f.video_id = vd.video_id
JOIN Users u
ON f.user_id = u.user_id
GROUP BY u.username
)
,views
as (SELECT u.username AS "Username"
, count(*) AS "Views"
FROM Views v
JOIN Videos vd
ON v.video_id = vd.video_id
JOIN Users u
ON v.user_id = u.user_id
GROUP BY u.username
)
select isnull(f.username,v.username) as username
,f.favourites
,v.views
from fave f
full outer join views v
on f.username=v.username
Since you know your data better, you could optimize the query further. Eg: it could be a rule that user who has set a favourite would also have viewed the video. If this is true then you can write a better query to optimize the dataset in a single block, instead of two blocks using full outer join

Answer 2

Aggregate separately in Views:
select user_id, count(*) counter
from Views
group by user_id
and Favorites
select user_id, count(*) counter
from Favorites
group by user_id
and finally LEFT join Users to the above queries:
select u.username,
coalesce(v.counter, 0) Views,
coalesce(f.counter, 0) Favorites
from users u
left join (
select user_id, count(*) counter
from Views
group by user_id
) v on v.user_id = u.user_id
left join (
select user_id, count(*) counter
from Favorites
group by user_id
) f on f.user_id = u.user_id
I used LEFT joins because there may exist users that did not see any video or do not have any favorites. In any of these cases COALESCE() will return 0 instead of null.
The table Videos is not needed.