Eduardo,

Thanks for the reply, but I still get only one record for prj1. While prj2
does not show up with 0 hours.


CREATE TABLE PROJECT (
  ID_PROJECT int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  NM_PROJECT varchar(255) NOT NULL default ''
  PRIMARY KEY  (ID_PROJECT)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

INSERT INTO PROJECT VALUES (100,'prj1');
INSERT INTO PROJECT VALUES (101,'prj2');

CREATE TABLE DAYLOG (
  ID_PROJECT int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  DATE datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  HOURS float NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (ID_PROJECT,DATE)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

INSERT INTO DAYLOG VALUES (100,'2002-08-17 00:00:00',8);
INSERT INTO DAYLOG VALUES (100,'2002-08-18 00:00:00',8);

Thanks,
-Manu





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        Hi,


        Try the following query :


             SELECT
             p.id_project, p.nm_project, sum( dl.hours)
             FROM PROJECT p
             LEFT OUTER JOIN  DAYLOG dl ON (p.id_project = dl.id_project)
             WHERE
             (MONTH(dl.DATE) = 8 AND (YEAR(dl.DATE)  = 2002) or (dl.DATE is
     NULL)
             GROUP BY p.id_project





             Best Regards


     Eduardo






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     Assunto:                Aggregate + left outer join






     Hi,


     I am relatively new to MySQL.. I am having trouble getting an
     aggregate
     function and an outer join to work together.


     I have  two tables


     PROJECT (id_project, nm_project)
     100, prj1
     101, prj2


     DAYLOG (id_project, date, hours)
     100, 2002-08-17, 8
     100, 2002-08-18, 8


     DAYLOG table contains number of hours booked against a project for a
     date.


     I needed to list the total hours booked against each project for any
     given
     month.


     My query


     SELECT
     p.id_project, p.nm_project, sum( dl.hours)
     FROM PROJECT p
     LEFT OUTER JOIN  DAYLOG dl ON (p.id_project = dl.id_project)
     WHERE
     MONTH(dl.DATE) = 8
     AND YEAR(dl.DATE)  = 2002
     GROUP BY p.id_project


     +------------+------------+------------------------------------+
     | id_project | nm_project | sum( dl.hours)          |
     +------------+------------+------------------------------------+
     |        100 | prj1     |                                 16 |
     +------------+------------+------------------------------------+
     The problem with this result set is that it does not have projects
     with
     zero hours booked. ie. . if there are no records in DAYLOG, then that
     project is not displayed. I was expecting the left outer join to pick
     up
     records (prj2) from PROJECT even if there are no records in DAYLOG.


     So I tried another variation with the select
     SELECT p.id_project, p.nm_project, sum( dl.hours)+ IFNULL(dl.hours,0)


     added the IFNULL. Yet the query lists only projects which have records
     for
     the given month.


     Any insight, help, thoughts etc are greatly appreciated.


     Thanks,
     -Manu






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