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SQL: How to select one row per day

I have a database that has a row entry for every minute (86,000 values per day) and I am trying to write PHP to select only one row per day. I have a column "timestamp" that has the current timestamp in regular format (2017-12-09 06:49:02).

Does anyone know how to write a select statement to do what I am trying to do?

Example output:

2017-12-09 06:49:02, datavalue
2017-12-10 06:49:02, datavalue
2017-12-11 06:49:02, datavalue
2017-12-12 06:49:02, datavalue
Solution

  • Here is one method:

    select t.*
from t join
     (select min(t2.timestamp) as min_timestamp
      from t t2
      group by date(t2.timestamp)
     ) t2
     on t.timestamp = t2.min_timestamp;