I want to create a new Table B based on the information from another existing Table A. I'm wondering if MySQL has the functionality to take into account a range of time and group column A values then only sum up the values in a column B based on those groups in column A.
Table A stores logs of events like a journal for users. There can be multiple events from a single user in a single day. Say hypothetically I'm keeping track of when my users eat fruit and I want to know how many fruit they eat in a week (7days) and also how many apples they eat.
So in Table B I want to count for each entry in Table A, the previous 7 day total # of fruit and apples.
EDIT:
I'm sorry I over simplified my given information and didn't thoroughly think my example.
I'm initially have only Table A. I'm trying to create Table B from a query.
Assume:
- User/id can log an entry multiple times in a day.
- sum counts should be for id between date and date - 7 days
- fruit column stands for the total # of fruit during the 7 day interval ( apples and bananas are both fruit)
- The data doesn't only start at 2013-9-5. It can date back 2000 and I want to use the 7 day sliding window over all the dates between 2000 to 2013.
The sum count is over a sliding window of 7 days
Here's an example:
Table A:
| id | date-time | apples | banana |
---------------------------------------------
| 1 | 2013-9-5 08:00:00 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2013-9-5 09:00:00 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 2013-9-5 16:00:00 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 2013-9-6 08:00:00 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2013-9-9 08:00:00 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 2013-9-11 08:00:00 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 2013-9-12 08:00:00 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2013-9-13 08:00:00 | 1 | 1 |
note: user 1 logged 2 entries on 2013-9-5
The result after the query should be Table B.
Table B
| id | date-time | apples | fruit |
--------------------------------------------
| 1 | 2013-9-5 08:00:00 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 2013-9-5 09:00:00 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 2013-9-5 16:00:00 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 2013-9-6 08:00:00 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2013-9-9 08:00:00 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 2013-9-11 08:00:00 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 2013-9-12 08:00:00 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 2013-9-13 08:00:00 | 2 | 4 |
At 2013-9-12 the sliding window moves and only includes 9-6 to 9-12. That's why id 1 goes from a sum of 2 apples to 0 apples.