HQL/SQL select top 10 records based on count

Question

I have 2 tables:

CATEGORY (id)
POSTING (id, categoryId)

I am trying to write an HQL or SQL query to find top 10 Categories which have the most number of Postings.

Help is appreciated.

Answer 1

SQL query:

SELECT  c.Id, sub.POSTINGCOUNT
FROM CATEGORY c where c.Id IN
( 
    SELECT TOP 10 p.categoryId
    FROM POSTING p
    GROUP BY p.categoryId 
    order by count(1) desc
)

HQL:

Session.CreateQuery("select c.Id
        FROM CATEGORY c where c.Id IN
        ( 
            SELECT  p.categoryId
            FROM POSTING p
            GROUP BY p.categoryId 
            order by count(1) desc
        )").SetMaxResults(10).List();

http://sqlinthewild.co.za/index.php/2010/01/12/in-vs-inner-join/

Answer 2

In SQL you can do this:

SELECT c.Id, sub.POSTINGCOUNT
FROM CATEGORY c 
INNER JOIN 
( 
    SELECT p.categoryId, COUNT(id) AS 'POSTINGCOUNT'
    FROM POSTING p
    GROUP BY p.categoryId
) sub ON c.Id = sub.categoryId
ORDER BY POSTINGCOUNT DESC
LIMIT 10