mysql - Return default result for IN value regardless

Question

I have a query that gets all user that have been online between a certain date range. This is done via an IN query due to how I want to display the data. However, I would like to return a default value if no records were found for an ID that was parsed into the IN condition.

Simplified Query:

SELECT users.Name, users.ID, SUM(users.Minutes) AS MinutesOnline
     FROM UserTable
     LEFT JOIN OnlineUseage ON OnlineUseage.ID = UserTable.ID
     WHERE OnlineUseage.Date >= '2016-01-01 00:00:00' AND OnlineUseage.Date <= '2016-12-31 23:59:59'
     AND UserTable.ID IN(332,554,5764,11,556,.........)
     GROUP BY users.ID
     ORDER BY FIELD(UserTable.ID, 332,554,5764,11,556,.........)

Now the above query will only pull in those row that meet the condition, as expected. I would also like the query to pull in a default value for the ID's within the IN condition that don't meet the condition.

Using IFNULL in this instance will not work as the record is never returned

SELECT users.Name, users.ID, IFNULL(SUM(users.Minutes), 0) AS MinutesOnline
     FROM UserTable
     LEFT JOIN OnlineUseage ON OnlineUseage.ID = UserTable.ID
     WHERE OnlineUseage.Date >= '2016-01-01 00:00:00' AND OnlineUseage.Date <= '2016-12-31 23:59:59'
     AND UserTable.ID IN(332,554,5764,11,556,.........)
     GROUP BY users.ID
     ORDER BY FIELD(UserTable.ID, 332,554,5764,11,556,.........)

FYI - i'm parsing this query into a custom PDO function. I'm not using deprecated mysql functions

Answer 1

You have a condition on OnlineUseage the left join become like a inner join.

move your condition to the from clause will be better :

SELECT
    users.Name,
    users.ID,
    IFNULL(SUM(users.Minutes), 0) AS MinutesOnline
FROM
    users
    LEFT JOIN OnlineUseage ON
        OnlineUseage.ID = users.ID and
        OnlineUseage.Date >= '2016-01-01 00:00:00' AND
        OnlineUseage.Date <= '2016-12-31 23:59:59'
WHERE
    users.ID IN (332,554,5764,11,556,.........)
GROUP BY
    users.ID,users.Name
ORDER BY
    users.ID