Cheers Brian
Thats sounds more like i am looking for....
Although i have put the other code examples offered for this prob in my code
folder for later cause you never now when you'll need them.
Cheers
Dave C
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> At 10:06 AM 3/30/01 -0800, Larry Rivera wrote:
> >I think you have to run multiple queries, ie run some loop after finding
out
> >what topics you wil count from e==>
> >
> >run a select distinct to get the topics
> >run a while or for loop then run queries again like count(*) where
> >topic='$topic'
>
> Better yet (and less db-intensive), run a
>
> SELECT TOPIC,COUNT(*) FROM table_name
> WHERE condition
> GROUP BY TOPIC
> ORDER BY COUNT(*);
>
> That'll return:
>
> TOPIC COUNT(*)
> -------- --------
> Topic A 8
> Topic B 3
> Topic C 1
> Topic D 0
> Topic E 0
>
>
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