LeetCode: Game Play Analysis I

Yixuan Zhou
2 min readAug 10, 2020

Table: Activity

+--------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+--------------+---------+
| player_id | int |
| device_id | int |
| event_date | date |
| games_played | int |
+--------------+---------+
(player_id, event_date) is the primary key of this table.
This table shows the activity of players of some game.
Each row is a record of a player who logged in and played a number of games (possibly 0) before logging out on some day using some device.

Write an SQL query that reports the first login date for each player.

The query result format is in the following example:

Activity table:
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------------+
| player_id | device_id | event_date | games_played |
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------------+
| 1 | 2 | 2016-03-01 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 2016-05-02 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 | 2017-06-25 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 2016-03-02 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 2018-07-03 | 5 |
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------------+
Result table:
+-----------+-------------+
| player_id | first_login |
+-----------+-------------+
| 1 | 2016-03-01 |
| 2 | 2017-06-25 |
| 3 | 2016-03-02 |
+-----------+-------------+

MySQL solution:

# Write your MySQL query statement below
select player_id, min(event_date) as first_login from activity group by player_id;

Performance Evaluation:

Runtime: 678 ms, faster than 48.66% of MySQL online submissions for Game Play Analysis I.

Memory Usage: 0B, less than 1

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