[thelist] MySQL COUNT() question
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 19:52:46 CST 2005
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Aron Lurie wrote:
> Hey, I have a MySQL problem that is posing a severe challenge to me regarding COUNT().
> Right now I have the following code:
>
>
> select CONCAT(fpe.fname,' ',fpe.lname) fullname,
> pe.alias,
> fce.Course,
> COUNT(*) student_num
> from f05people fpe,
> f05classes fce,
> people pe,
> f05studentsched fss
> where pe.hcid=fpe.hcid
> and pe.alias=fce.Faculty
> and fpe.Faculty='Yes'
> and fce.Branch='HC-Tuesday'
> and fce.period='1'
> and fss.period='1'
> and fss.branch='HC-Tuesday'
> and fss.teacher = pe.alias
> group by fss.branch, fss.teacher,fss.period order by fce.Faculty ASC;
>
> This works fine so far returning all the values I want, however...
>
> The problem is that I want another COUNT(*) column that is grouped by a different set of fields in a different table. Is there a way to have two group by statements? How would I do this?
>
Not like that, no.
What count do you want? If it is truly separate from this query, you
need another query. However, if it is a field in this query, we can
probably come up with a solution for you.
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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com
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