Strong Friendship Problem
Description
LeetCode Problem 1949.
Table: Friendship
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+-------------+------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+------+
| user1_id | int |
| user2_id | int |
+-------------+------+
(user1_id, user2_id) is the primary key for this table.
Each row of this table indicates that the users user1_id and user2_id are friends.
Note that user1_id < user2_id.
A friendship between a pair of friends x and y is strong if x and y have at least three common friends.
Write an SQL query to find all the strong friendships.
Note that the result table should not contain duplicates with user1_id < user2_id.
Return the result table in any order.
The query result format is in the following example:
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Friendship table:
+----------+----------+
| user1_id | user2_id |
+----------+----------+
| 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 7 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 6 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 6 |
+----------+----------+
Result table:
+----------+----------+---------------+
| user1_id | user2_id | common_friend |
+----------+----------+---------------+
| 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 3 | 3 |
+----------+----------+---------------+
Users 1 and 2 have 4 common friends (3, 4, 5, and 6).
Users 1 and 3 have 3 common friends (2, 6, and 7).
We did not include the friendship of users 2 and 3 because they only have two common friends (1 and 6).
MySQL Solution
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with friendtable as(
select user1_id as userid, user2_id as friend
from friendship
union
select user2_id as userid, user1_id as friend
from friendship
)
select f1.userid as user1_id, f2.userid as user2_id, count(f1.friend) as common_friend
from friendtable as f1
join friendtable as f2
on f1.friend=f2.friend
where f1.userid<f2.userid
and (f1.userid, f2.userid) in(
select user1_id, user2_id
from friendship
)
group by f1.userid, f2.userid
having count(f2.friend)>=3