UNION to create a symmetric friendship table that includes both (user1_id, user2_id) and (user2_id, user1_id) pairs.LEFT JOIN between the symmetric friendship table and the Likes table to find all pages liked by friends of each user.LEFT JOIN to exclude pages that the user has already liked.user_id and page_id.user_id, page_id, and the count as friends_likes for the final output.erDiagram
Friendship {
int user1_id
int user2_id
}
Likes {
int user_id
int page_id
}
Friendship ||--o{ Likes : likes