Average Time Of Process Per Machine Problem
Description
LeetCode Problem 1661.
Table: Activity
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+----------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+----------------+---------+
| machine_id | int |
| process_id | int |
| activity_type | enum |
| timestamp | float |
+----------------+---------+
The table shows the user activities for a factory website.
(machine_id, process_id, activity_type) is the primary key of this table.
machine_id is the ID of a machine.
process_id is the ID of a process running on the machine with ID machine_id.
activity_type is an ENUM of type ('start', 'end').
timestamp is a float representing the current time in seconds.
'start' means the machine starts the process at the given timestamp and 'end' means the machine ends the process at the given timestamp.
The 'start' timestamp will always be before the 'end' timestamp for every (machine_id, process_id) pair.
There is a factory website that has several machines each running the same number of processes. Write an SQL query to find the average time each machine takes to complete a process.
The time to complete a process is the ‘end’ timestamp minus the ‘start’ timestamp. The average time is calculated by the total time to complete every process on the machine divided by the number of processes that were run.
The resulting table should have the machine_id along with the average time as processing_time, which should be rounded to 3 decimal places.
The query result format is in the following example:
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Activity table:
+------------+------------+---------------+-----------+
| machine_id | process_id | activity_type | timestamp |
+------------+------------+---------------+-----------+
| 0 | 0 | start | 0.712 |
| 0 | 0 | end | 1.520 |
| 0 | 1 | start | 3.140 |
| 0 | 1 | end | 4.120 |
| 1 | 0 | start | 0.550 |
| 1 | 0 | end | 1.550 |
| 1 | 1 | start | 0.430 |
| 1 | 1 | end | 1.420 |
| 2 | 0 | start | 4.100 |
| 2 | 0 | end | 4.512 |
| 2 | 1 | start | 2.500 |
| 2 | 1 | end | 5.000 |
+------------+------------+---------------+-----------+
Result table:
+------------+-----------------+
| machine_id | processing_time |
+------------+-----------------+
| 0 | 0.894 |
| 1 | 0.995 |
| 2 | 1.456 |
+------------+-----------------+
There are 3 machines running 2 processes each.
Machine 0's average time is ((1.520 - 0.712) + (4.120 - 3.140)) / 2 = 0.894
Machine 1's average time is ((1.550 - 0.550) + (1.420 - 0.430)) / 2 = 0.995
Machine 2's average time is ((4.512 - 4.100) + (5.000 - 2.500)) / 2 = 1.456
MySQL Solution
We can use group by statement to put the rows with the same machine_id together. Then we can use the sum function to add up the process time for each machine. To calculate the process time, we need to use the end timestamp to minus the start timestamp. To achieve this calculation, we can use an if statement to turn all the start timestamp to be a negative value. Then we can simply use the sum function to add up all the process time togeter. Next, to calculate the average process time, we also need to count how many process there are for each machine. We can use the count distinct function to do it. Finally, we use the round function to round the result to 3 decimal places.
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select machine_id,
round(sum(if(activity_type='start', -timestamp, timestamp)) / count(distinct process_id), 3) as processing_time
from Activity
group by machine_id
order by machine_id