MySQL how to fill missing dates in range?

Question

I have a table with 2 columns, date and score. It has at most 30 entries, for each of the last 30 days one.

date      score
-----------------
1.8.2010  19
2         


        

Answer 1

Time went by since this question was asked. MySQL 8.0 was released in 2018 and added support for recursive common table expressions, which provide an elegant, state-of-the-art way to solve this question.

The following query can be used to generate a list of dates, say for the first 15 days of August 2010:

with recursive all_dates(dt) as (
    -- anchor
    select '2010-08-01' dt
        union all 
    -- recursion with stop condition
    select dt + interval 1 day from all_dates where dt + interval 1 day <= '2010-08-15'
)
select * from all_dates

You can then left join this resultset with your table to generate the expected output:

with recursive all_dates(dt) as (
    -- anchor
    select '2010-08-01' dt
        union all 
    -- recursion with stop condition
    select dt + interval 1 day from all_dates where dt + interval 1 day <= '2010-08-15'
)
select d.dt date, coalesce(t.score, 0) score
from all_dates d
left join mytable t on t.date = d.dt
order by d.dt

Demo on DB Fiddle:

date       | score
:--------- | ----:
2010-08-01 |    19
2010-08-02 |    21
2010-08-03 |     0
2010-08-04 |    14
2010-08-05 |     0
2010-08-06 |     0
2010-08-07 |    10
2010-08-08 |     0
2010-08-09 |     0
2010-08-10 |    14
2010-08-11 |     0
2010-08-12 |     0
2010-08-13 |     0
2010-08-14 |     0
2010-08-15 |     0