I have a table with 3 columns: id, updated_at, click_sum.
Many rows have the exact same updated_at value which makes it hard to simply retrieve the data, order by updated_at and display the sums in a chart.
Since there are multiple sums for the same dates which screws the chart.
What I try to achieve is to get the following output:
update_at | click_sum
-----------+-----------
date1 | 100
date2 | 3
date3 | 235
date4 | 231
Optionally only those dates which are form the last month, week or day AND not simply the dates which are NOW() - 1 month.
The current query I build is very large and doesn't work that well.
It groups by dates (no duplicated dates appear) and SUM()s the clicks correctly but defining from when (last month, week, day) the dates are doesn't seem to work properly.
Query: ($interval stands for MONTH or DAY or SECOND or WEEK)
SELECT d.updated_at, SUM(d.clicks_sum) AS click_sum
FROM aggregated_clicks d
JOIN
(
SELECT c.id, MAX(StartOfChains.updated_at) AS ChainStartTime
FROM aggregated_clicks c
JOIN
(
SELECT DISTINCT a.updated_at
FROM aggregated_clicks a
LEFT JOIN aggregated_clicks b ON (b.updated_at >= a.updated_at - INTERVAL 1 DAY AND b.updated_at < a.updated_at)
WHERE b.updated_at IS NULL
) StartOfChains ON c.updated_at >= StartOfChains.updated_at
GROUP BY c.id
) GroupingQuery
ON d.id = GroupingQuery.id
WHERE GroupingQuery.ChainStartTime >= DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 $interval)
GROUP BY GroupingQuery.ChainStartTime
ORDER BY GroupingQuery.ChainStartTime ASC