[PHP-DB] Re: Quering the mySQL DB for statistics results - best way of doing this

2003-11-24 Thread Justin Patrin
You can do it all in one query, just as you're already doing it: SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM stats GROUP BY ip Kim Steinhaug wrote: Hello, Im about to write a script that will generate several reports from a database which loggs all visits. I see that my script will need alot of queries

[PHP-DB] Re: Quering the mySQL DB for statistics results - best way of doing

2003-11-24 Thread Justin Patrin
Whoops, forgot the rest of the fields. SELECT COUNT(*) AS count, * FROM stats GROUP BY ip Note that this will not work on Oracle and some other DBs. It will work in MySQL. Oracle will only let you do: SELECT COUNT(*) count, ip, FROM stats GROUP BY ip Justin Patrin wrote: You can do it all in

[PHP-DB] Re: Quering the mySQL DB for statistics results - best way of doing

2003-11-24 Thread Kim Steinhaug
Thanks for your ideas, im sitting here drinking beer and drinks, so Im having a little difficulty grasping the whole idea with this new SQl statement, but it works! Thanks a lot. To help the other people reading this who might not get it I did some benchmarking, my method (mentioned in the