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

Michael Conard answer is great but I needed intervals of 15 minutes where the time must always start at the top of every 15th minute:

SELECT a.Days 
FROM (
    SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME( FLOOR( UNIX_TIMESTAMP() / (15 * 60) ) * (15 * 60)) - INTERVAL 15 * (a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a)) MINUTE AS Days
    FROM       (SELECT 0 AS a UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) AS a
    CROSS JOIN (SELECT 0 AS a UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) AS b
    CROSS JOIN (SELECT 0 AS a UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9) AS c
) a
WHERE a.Days >= curdate() - INTERVAL 30 DAY

This will set the current time to the previous round 15th minute:

FROM_UNIXTIME( FLOOR( UNIX_TIMESTAMP() / (15 * 60) ) * (15 * 60))

And this will remove time with a 15 minute step:

- INTERVAL 15 * (a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a)) MINUTE

If there's a simpler way to do it, please let me know.