MYSQL query for getting daily data for last 30 days count even if data not exists for any date

Question

I have table : "orders"(order_id,order_processed_date). I want count of orders per day for last 30 days. If any date has 0 orders, then it should print 0.

Something like this:

total  | date
1      | 2018-10-20
0      | 2018-10-19
0      | 2018-10-18
0      | 2018-10-17
2      | 2018-10-16
0      | 2018-10-15
1      | 2018-10-14
0      | 2018-10-13
0      | 2018-10-12
1      | 2018-10-11
1      | 2018-10-10
5      | 2018-10-09
1      | 2018-10-08

and so on upto 2018-09-20. I already searched in stackoverflow and get some queries but did not find exact solution for this. I get result using below query but it has only records which date has not 0 orders:

SELECT COUNT(order_id) AS total, DATE(order_processed_date) AS date
FROM orders 
WHERE order_processed_date BETWEEN '2018-09-20' AND '2018-10-20'
GROUP BY DATE(order_processed_date)
ORDER BY order_processed_date DESC

Can please someone help me to give me result as I required.

Answer 1

You could try to use a calendar table , an example of which is described here . Basically, this is a table with an ordered list of dates (+ extra properties if you'd like).

You could use the calendar table to LEFT JOIN your orders on, and use a GROUP BY to get the results eg per month.

Best of luck.