Re: people who buy A, also buy C, D, E

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>>> The goal of my query is: given a book, what did other people who
>>> bought this book also buy? I plan the list the 5 most popular such
>>> books.
>
> SELECT b.product_id, sum(quantity) as rank FROM ordered_products a,
> ordered_products b WHERE a.product_id=(the product id) AND
> b.order_id=a.order_id AND b.product_id != a.product_id GROUP BY
> b.product_id ORDER BY rank DESC LIMIT 6;

I don't think this is exactly what the original poster had in mind:
we want a ranking of a dynamically generated subset of all possible
products (e.g. books). So if someone buys "Harry Potter and the Proprietary
Database", then only the books bought by people who also bought /that/
book are considered, ranked, and ordered. There's not a lot of caching that
can be effectively done, due to the high number of combinations and large
potential for change.

> table ordered_products: order_id, product_id, quantity

I'm not sure where you are getting "quantity" from: as near as I
can tell, this will always be a quantity of 1: one person ordering
one item.

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