[thelist] MySQL COUNT() question

Aron Lurie alurie at hebrewcollege.edu
Mon Nov 14 19:55:23 CST 2005


 
The new COUNT would be of the same type (branch,teacher,period) as fss, but it would be from a different table called f05lr_comments
 
 
Aron Lurie 
alurie [at] hebrewcollege [dot] edu

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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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Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
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