Today I was working on my last project that involves some statistics on data. I had a table like this:

I needed the daily, monthly and yearly sum of the value field. The simplest approach was to have three different queries to retrieve the needed values:
--day SELECT SUM(value) FROM table WHERE DATE(time)=CURDATE(); -- month SELECT SUM(value) FROM table WHERE MONTH(time)=MONTH(CURDATE()) AND YEAR(time)=YEAR(CURDATE()); -- year SELECT SUM(value) FROM table WHERE YEAR(time)=YEAR(CURDATE());
But I wasn’t satisfied. I wanted to have all three values using only one query. So I searched for this issue and this is the resulting query:
SELECT
SUM(CASE WHEN DATE(time)=CURDATE()
THEN value
ELSE 0 end) AS value_day,
SUM(CASE WHEN MONTH(time)=MONTH(CURDATE()) AND YEAR(time)=YEAR(CURDATE())
THEN value
ELSE 0 end) AS value_month,
SUM(CASE WHEN YEAR(time)=YEAR(CURDATE())
THEN value
ELSE 0 end) AS value_year
FROM table
Using the CASE construct, we increment independently the three values so that each row that satisfies the condition gets summed up.
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