I use the following queries: 1. to extract date & number of activated users SELECT DATE(i_date),count(*) FROM users where user_status=2 group by DATE(i_date) o/P: 2009/02/22, 393 2. Date & number of all registered users SELECT DATE(i_date),count(*) FROM users group by DATE(i_date) o/P: 2009/02/22, 585 3. Date & messages sent on that date SELECT DATE(sentdate),count(*) FROM messages group by DATE(sentdate) o/P: 2009/02/22, 36 I want a single query, whole result-set has - Date, count of active users, count of all registrations, count of messages sent. o/P: 2009/02/22, 393, 585, 36
I suggest you give a try to subselect. SELECT DATE(i_date),count(*), (SELECT DATE(i_date),count(*) FROM users group by DATE(i_date)) as userCount, (SELECT DATE(sentdate),count(*) FROM messages group by DATE(sentdate)) as todayMessage FROM users where user_status=2 group by DATE(i_date) Example from : http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html