group by month and year, count from another table

Question

im trying to get my query to group rows by month and year from the assignments table, and count the number of rows that has a certain value from the leads

Answer 1

You can sort of truncate your timestamps to months and use the obtained values for grouping, then derive the necessary date parts from them:

SELECT
  YEAR(d_yearmonth) AS d_year,
  MONTHNAME(d_yearmonth) AS d_month,
  …
FROM (
  SELECT
    LAST_DAY(FROM_UNIXTIME(a.date_assigned)) as d_yearmonth,
    …
  FROM assignments AS a
    LEFT JOIN leads AS l ON (l.id = a.id_lead)
  WHERE id_dealership = '$id_dealership2'
  GROUP BY
    d_yearmonth
) AS s
ORDER BY
  d_year            ASC,
  MONTH(d_yearmonth) ASC

Well, LAST_DAY() doesn't really truncate a timestamp, but it does turn all the values belonging to the same month into the same value, which is basically what we need.

And I guess the counts should be related to the rows you are actually selecting, which is not what your subqueries are. Something like this might do:

…
COUNT(d.website = 'newsite.com' OR NULL) AS d_new,
/* or: COUNT(d.website) - COUNT(NULLIF(d.website, 'newsite.com')) AS d_new */
COUNT(NULLIF(d.website, 'newsite.com'))  AS d_subprime
…

Here's the entire query with all the modifications mentioned:

SELECT
  YEAR(d_yearmonth) AS d_year,
  MONTHNAME(d_yearmonth) AS d_month,
  d_new,
  d_subprime
FROM (
  SELECT
    LAST_DAY(FROM_UNIXTIME(a.date_assigned)) as d_yearmonth,
    COUNT(d.website = 'newsite.com' OR NULL) AS d_new,
    COUNT(NULLIF(d.website, 'newsite.com'))  AS d_subprime
  FROM assignments AS a
    LEFT JOIN leads AS l ON (l.id = a.id_lead)
  WHERE id_dealership = '$id_dealership2'
  GROUP BY
    d_yearmonth
) AS s
ORDER BY
  d_year            ASC,
  MONTH(d_yearmonth) ASC