"Richard Davey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In the 5th line I changed "thread.id" to "thread.threadid" so the name was
> correct but the same error occurs.
Ok, I was guessing at your field names...
> to give a perfectly satisfactory res
"Hugh Bothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Instead, you want a query which returns a record
> with "thread count" and "message count" for each
> group.
>
> SELECT
> COUNT(DISTINCT threadid) AS threads,
> COUNT(*) AS messages
> FROM
>
"Richard Davey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 1. SELECT SUM(IF(boardid='2',1,0)) AS b2, SUM(IF(boardid='1',1,0)) AS b1,
> COUNT(*) AS total FROM thread
>
> 2. SELECT SUM(IF(boardid='2',1,0)) AS b2, SUM(IF(boardid='1',1,0)) AS b1,
> COUNT(*) AS
