mysql - count rows from two tables

Question

so i have this tables

log_in

+---------+------------+---------+
| date_id | date_today | user_id |
+---------+------------+---------+
|    1    | 2017/03/19 |    16   |
|    2    | 2017/03/20 |    17   |
|    3    | 2017/03/20 |    12   |
|    4    | 2017/03/21 |    16   |
|    5    | 2017/03/22 |    10   |
|    6    | 2017/03/22 |    11   |
+---------+------------+---------+

file_downloads

+---------+------------+---------+
| date_id | date_today | user_id |
+---------+------------+---------+
|    1    | 2017/03/20 |    17   |
|    2    | 2017/03/20 |    17   |
|    3    | 2017/03/20 |    12   |
|    4    | 2017/03/20 |    17   |
|    5    | 2017/03/20 |    12   |
|    6    | 2017/03/20 |    12   |
|    7    | 2017/03/20 |    12   |
|    8    | 2017/03/20 |    12   |
|    9    | 2017/03/22 |    10   |
|    10   | 2017/03/22 |    10   |
|    11   | 2017/03/22 |    11   |
+---------+------------+---------+

and this is my desired result:

+------------+-----------+--------+
| date_today | login_num | dl_num |
+------------+---------+----------+
| 2017/03/19 |     1     |   0    |
| 2017/03/20 |     2     |   8    |
| 2017/03/21 |     1     |   0    |
| 2017/03/22 |     2     |   3    |
+------------+-----------+--------+

i am still new to mysql so any help would be much appreciated. thank you! :)

Answer 1

I think the easiest way is union all and group by :

select date_today, sum(login) as logins, sum(dl) as dls
from ((select date_today, 1 as login, 0 as dl from log_in
      ) union all
      (select date_today, 0, 1 from file_downloads
      )
     ) lfd
group by date_today;