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1729. Find Followers Count
Description
Table: Followers
+-------------+------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+------+ | user_id | int | | follower_id | int | +-------------+------+ (user_id, follower_id) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) 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.
Write a solution that will, for each user, return the number of followers.
Return the result table ordered by user_id in ascending order.
The result format is in the following example.
Example 1:
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
Solution 1: Grouping and Aggregation
We can directly group the Followers table by user_id, and use the COUNT function to count the number of followers for each user.
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# Write your MySQL query statement below SELECT user_id, COUNT(1) AS followers_count FROM Followers GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1;