如果没有要在第二个表中计数的匹配条件的行，如何显示一个表中的所有行

Question

I have two tables. "members" is list of all members, "stats" is a list of dates worked. The shared field is memberID. I need a COUNT of the number of days each person worked and I want everyone listed in the output table, even if they have not yet had a work day.

Simplified database structure is:

**members**                 **stats**       
memberID lname    fname     memberID    date    statsID
1        Mertz    Fred      1        2017-12-31    1
2        Doe      Jane      3        2017-12-31    2
3        Smith    Frank     4        2017-12-31    3
4        Ricardo  Lucy      2        2018-12-31    4
5        Starr    Ringo     4        2018-12-31    5
                            2        2019-05-05    6
                            3        2019-05-05    7

Output desired is:

memberID  lname  fname  Total Days 
2         Doe    Jane       2 
1         Mertz  Fred       1 
4         Ricardo Lucy      2 
3         Smith   Frank     2 
5         Starr   Ringo     0 OR blank

Ringo has not yet worked any days and does NOT appear on the output table.

My code is:

$sql = "SELECT  u.*,
   COUNT(s.memberID)as tot_days
   FROM members u
   LEFT JOIN stats s
    ON s.memberID = u.memberID 
    GROUP BY s.memberID
    ORDER BY lname,fname";

$members = mysqli_query($dbc,$sql) or die(mysqli_error());

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($members)){ 
        $row = array_map('htmlspecialchars', $row);
        echo <<< HTML  etc.

This does everything I want it to do EXCEPT include those members who have not yet worked a day. JOIN, LEFT JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, RIGHT OUTER JOIN all produce the same result. I tried LEFT and RIGHT INNER JOIN, if those even exist, which produced error Warning: mysqli_error() expects exactly 1 parameter, 0 given.

Someone suggested using COALESCE (COUNT(s.memberID),0) as tot_daysbut that just produces the same error as above.

I've been at this for days and am getting just a teensy bit frustrated!

Answer 1

u will have to reframe your query

create table members (id int primary key auto_increment, lname varchar(30), fname varchar(30));
insert into members values (1, 'Mertz',   'Fred') ,(2, 'Doe',     'Jane') ,(3, 'Smith',   'Frank'),(4, 'Ricardo', 'Lucy') ,(5, 'Starr',   'Ringo');


create table stats (member_id int, dates date, stat_id int);
insert into stats values (1, '2017-12-31', 1),(3, '2017-12-31', 2),(4, '2017-12-31', 3),(2, '2018-12-31', 4),(4, '2018-12-31', 5),(2, '2019-05-05', 6),(3, '2019-05-05', 7);



mysql> (select 
    -> m.id,
    -> m.fname,
    -> count(*) as total_days
    -> from 
    -> members m inner join stats s on m.id = s.member_id
    -> group by m.id)
    -> union
    -> (select
    -> m.id,
    -> m.fname,
    -> 0 as total_days
    -> from
    -> members m where not exists ( select * from stats s where m.id = s.member_id));
+----+-------+------------+
| id | fname | total_days |
+----+-------+------------+
|  1 | Fred  |          1 |
|  3 | Frank |          2 |
|  4 | Lucy  |          2 |
|  2 | Jane  |          2 |
|  5 | Ringo |          0 |
+----+-------+------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)