I would like to group query results by consecutive appearances of a column values. Let's say I have a table which lists the winners of a competition for each year as follows:
year team_name
2000 AAA
2001 CCC
2002 CCC
2003 BBB
2004 AAA
2005 AAA
2006 AAA
I would like a query which outputs:
start_end total team_name
2000 1 AAA
2001-2002 2 CCC
2003 1 BBB
2004-2006 3 AAA
I'm not too much worried about the format of "start_end" at long as I have the start and end or range (.e.g. one could use GROUP_CONCAT to produce 2004,2005,2006 instead of 2004-2006 and that would still be OK).
解决方案
Provided that your table looks like this :
"id";"year";"team"
"1";"2000";"AAA"
"2";"2001";"CCC"
"3";"2002";"CCC"
"4";"2003";"BBB"
"5";"2004";"AAA"
"6";"2005";"AAA"
"7";"2006";"AAA"
This query should do the trick :
SELECT a.year AS start
, MIN(c.year) AS end
, MIN(c.year)-a.year+1 AS total
, CONCAT_WS('-', a.year, IF(a.year = min(c.year), NULL, min(c.year))) as start_end
, a.team
FROM
( SELECT x.year, x.team, COUNT(*) id
FROM results x
JOIN results y
ON y.year <= x.year
GROUP BY x.id
) AS a
LEFT JOIN
( SELECT x.year, x.team, COUNT(*) id
FROM results x
JOIN results y
ON y.year <= x.year
GROUP BY x.id
) AS b ON a.id = b.id + 1 AND b.team = a.team
LEFT JOIN
( SELECT x.year, x.team, COUNT(*) id
FROM results x
JOIN results y
ON y.year <= x.year
GROUP BY x.id
) AS c ON a.id <= c.id AND c.team = a.team
LEFT JOIN
( SELECT x.year, x.team, COUNT(*) id
FROM results x
JOIN results y
ON y.year <= x.year
GROUP BY x.id
) AS d ON c.id = d.id - 1 AND d.team = c.team
WHERE b.id IS NULL AND c.id IS NOT NULL AND d.id IS NULL
GROUP BY start;
BTW You might find the Common Queries Tree handy to solve these problems (check the answers for "Find previous and next values in a sequence") :p.