Sql: simultaneous aggregate from two tables

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Published on 2010-05-31T11:54:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 12:03 UTC
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I have two tables: a Files table, which includes the file type, and a File Properties table, which references the file table via a foreign key. Sample Files table:

| id | name  | type |
---------------------
|  1 | file1 | zip  |
|  2 | file2 | zip  |
|  3 | file3 | zip  |
|  4 | file4 | jpg  |

And the Properties table:

| file_id  | property |
-----------------------
|  1       |     x    |
|  2       |     x    |

I want to make a query, which shows the count of each file type, and how many files of that type have a property.

So in the example, the result would be

| type | filecount  | prop count |
----------------------------------
| zip  |    3       |     2      |
| jpg  |    1       |     0      |

I could accomplish this by

select f.type, (select count(id) from files where type = f.type), count(fp.id) from 
files as f, file_properties as fp where f.id = fp.file_id group by f.type;

But this seems very suboptimal and is very slow. Any better way to do this?

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