Approach to extract top records from table based upon aggregate

From: droberts <david(dot)roberts(at)riverbed(dot)com>
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Subject: Approach to extract top records from table based upon aggregate
Date: 2015-11-02 22:14:09
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Hi, I have a table that contains call records. I'm looking to get only
records for users who made the most calls over a particular time duration in
an efficient way.

calls()

time, duration, caller_number, dialed_number

-- query to get top 10 callers
select caller_number, count(1) from calls group by caller_number order by
calls desc limit 10

--my current query to get those callers

select * from call where caller_number in (above query)

It works but I was hoping for something a little more efficient if anyone
has an idea.

Tahnks

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