Hi there people:
I have a MySQL table consisting of category names among other things.
I would like to be able to construct a query that tells me the number of times a
unique category
name occurs in the table:
//Table 'posts' from command-line
mysql> explain posts;
+----------+-------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+-------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+
| id | tinyint(3) | | PRI | 0 | auto_increment |
| category | varchar(25) | | | | |
| user | varchar(12) | | | | |
| dateFrom | date | | | 0000-00-00 | |
| dateTo | date | | | 0000-00-00 | |
| title | varchar(25) | | | | |
| body | text | | | NULL | |
+----------+-------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)
//Table 'posts' in phpMyAdmin tab
id category user dateFrom dateTo title body
3 some stuff maurice 2001-09-23 2001-11-05 Maurcie's post this is
Maurice's test
4 russ category russmichell 2001-08-17 2001-08-27 Russ is theone this is another
test
9 russ category russmichell 2001-08-16 2001-08-19 Begon by Monday! This entry
should dissapear
10 russ category russmichell 2001-08-16 2001-09-04 testing This is another
test!
For example I would like to know how many posts there are in the category 'russ
category' (Should
tell me there are 3 and only 1 for 'some stuff' ...
Can anyone help me toward a nice SQL query that would to this for me!?
Cheers all.
Russ
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