1050. Actors and Directors Who Cooperated At Least Three Times

Description

Table: ActorDirector

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| actor_id    | int     |
| director_id | int     |
| timestamp   | int     |
+-------------+---------+
timestamp is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.

Write a solution to find all the pairs (actor_id, director_id) where the actor has cooperated with the director at least three times.

Return the result table in any order.

The result format is in the following example.

Example 1:

Input: 
ActorDirector table:
+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| actor_id    | director_id | timestamp   |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 1           | 1           | 0           |
| 1           | 1           | 1           |
| 1           | 1           | 2           |
| 1           | 2           | 3           |
| 1           | 2           | 4           |
| 2           | 1           | 5           |
| 2           | 1           | 6           |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+
Output: 
+-------------+-------------+
| actor_id    | director_id |
+-------------+-------------+
| 1           | 1           |
+-------------+-------------+
Explanation: The only pair is (1, 1) where they cooperated exactly 3 times.

Solutions

Solution 1: Group By + Having

We can use the GROUP BY statement to group the data by the actor_id and director_id fields, and then use the HAVING statement to filter out the actor_id and director_id that appear at least three times.

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# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT actor_id, director_id
FROM ActorDirector
GROUP BY 1, 2
HAVING COUNT(1) >= 3;