Find Followers Count

Tags : mysql, sql, leetcode, easy

SQL Schema

Create table If Not Exists Followers(user_id int, follower_id int)
Truncate table Followers
insert into Followers (user_id, follower_id) values ('0', '1')
insert into Followers (user_id, follower_id) values ('1', '0')
insert into Followers (user_id, follower_id) values ('2', '0')
insert into Followers (user_id, follower_id) values ('2', '1')

Table: Flowers

+-------------+------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+------+
| user_id     | int  |
| follower_id | int  |
+-------------+------+
(user_id, follower_id) is the primary key for this table.
This table contains the IDs of a user and a follower in a social media app where the follower follows the user.

Your Task:

Write an SQL query that will, for each user, return the number of followers.

Return the result table ordered by user_id.

The query result format is in the following example

Example #

Input: 
Followers table:
+---------+-------------+
| user_id | follower_id |
+---------+-------------+
| 0       | 1           |
| 1       | 0           |
| 2       | 0           |
| 2       | 1           |
+---------+-------------+
Output: 
+---------+----------------+
| user_id | followers_count|
+---------+----------------+
| 0       | 1              |
| 1       | 1              |
| 2       | 2              |
+---------+----------------+
Explanation: 
The followers of 0 are {1}
The followers of 1 are {0}
The followers of 2 are {0,1}

Solutions #


-- Write your T-SQL query statement below
select user_id, count(follower_id) as "followers_count" 
from followers 
group by user_id
order by user_id
;