At 1:44 PM +0100 8/21/01, Russ Michell wrote:
> > I always love that feeling when you beat a problem that refuses to go away.
>So do I - but I aint beaten it yet! :-(
>
>I'm still getting '2' as being the number of posts in each category
>when '2' is actually only the
>number of posts in *one* of the categories...weird-huh?
>
Try
SELECT category, COUNT(category) AS cat_count FROM postings GROUP BY
category ORDER BY category
I find using the specific field you want count, instead of the count
all fields changes the count results on occasion.
Alnisa
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