I am trying to get the number of page opens on a per day basis using the following query.
SELECT day.days, COUNT(*) as opens
FROM day
LEFT OUTER JOIN track
You specify that the connected tracking.open_id must be 10. For the other rows it will be NULL, so they'll not show up!
The condition is in the WHERE
clause. After joining the tables the WHERE conditions are evaluated to filter out everything matching the criteria.Thus anything not matching tracking.open_id = 10
gets discarded.
If you want to apply this condition while joining the two tables, a better way is to use it with the ON
clause (i.e. joining condition) than the entire dataset condition.
Nanne's answer given explains why you don't get the desired result (your WHERE clause removes rows), but not how to fix it.
The solution is to change WHERE to AND so that the condition is part of the join condition, not a filter applied after the join:
SELECT day.days, COUNT(*) as opens
FROM day
LEFT OUTER JOIN tracking
ON day.days = DAY(FROM_UNIXTIME(open_date))
AND tracking.open_id = 10
GROUP BY day.days
Now all rows in the left table will be present in the result.