MySQL to get the count of rows that fall on a date for each day of a month - sql

Question

I have a table that contains a list of community events with columns for the days the event starts and ends. If the end date is 0 then the event occurs only on the start day. I have a query that returns the number of events happening on any given day:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM p_community e WHERE
(TO_DAYS(e.date_ends)=0 AND DATE(e.date_starts)=DATE('2009-05-13')) OR
(DATE('2009-05-13')>=DATE(e.date_starts) AND DATE('2009-05-13')<=DATE(e.date_ends))
I just sub in any date I want to test for "2009-05-13".
I need to be be able to fetch this data for every day in an entire month. I could just run the query against each day one at a time, but I'd rather run one query that can give me the entire month at once. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might do that?
And no, I can't use a stored procedure.

Answer 1

Try:
SELECT COUNT(*), DATE(date) FROM table WHERE DATE(dtCreatedAt) >= DATE('2009-03-01') AND DATE(dtCreatedAt) <= DATE('2009-03-10') GROUP BY DATE(date);
This would get the amount for each day in may 2009.
UPDATED: Now works on a range of dates spanning months/years.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, MySQL lacks a way to generate a rowset of given number of rows.
You can create a helper table:
CREATE TABLE t_day (day INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY)
INSERT
INTO t_day (day)
VALUES (1),
(2),
…,
(31)
and use it in a JOIN:
SELECT day, COUNT(*)
FROM t_day
JOIN p_community e
ON day BETWEEN DATE(e.start) AND IF(DATE(e.end), DATE(e.end), DATE(e.start))
GROUP BY
day
Or you may use an ugly subquery:
SELECT day, COUNT(*)
FROM (
SELECT 1 AS day
UNION ALL
SELECT 2 AS day
…
UNION ALL
SELECT 31 AS day
) t_day
JOIN p_community e
ON day BETWEEN DATE(e.start) AND IF(DATE(e.end), DATE(e.end), DATE(e.start))
GROUP BY
day