Performing a query on a result from another query?

Question

I have a the query:

SELECT availables.bookdate AS Date, DATEDIFF(now(),availables.updated_at) as Age
FROM availables
INNER JOIN rooms
ON availables.room_id=rooms.id
WHERE availables.bookdate BETWEEN '2009-06-25' AND date_add('2009-06-25', INTERVAL 4 DAY) AND rooms.hostel_id = 5094
GROUP BY availables.bookdate

Which returns something like:

Date               Age
2009-06-25         0
2009-06-26         2
2009-06-27         1
2009-06-28         0
2009-06-29         0

How can I then do a Count on the number of rows which is returned.. (in this case 5) and an SUM of the Ages? To return just one row with the Count and the SUM?

Count         SUM
5             3

Thanks

Answer 1

Usually you can plug a Query's result (which is basically a table) as the FROM clause source of another query, so something like this will be written:

SELECT COUNT(*), SUM(SUBQUERY.AGE) from
(
  SELECT availables.bookdate AS Date, DATEDIFF(now(),availables.updated_at) as Age
  FROM availables
  INNER JOIN rooms
  ON availables.room_id=rooms.id
  WHERE availables.bookdate BETWEEN '2009-06-25' AND date_add('2009-06-25', INTERVAL 4 DAY) AND rooms.hostel_id = 5094
  GROUP BY availables.bookdate
) AS SUBQUERY