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Author Query help: Get category and number of items in one query
mfyahya@gmail.com

2005-06-25, 3:23 am

Hi,
I have a `category` table with columns cat_id and cat_name. And another
`items` table with columns item_id, item_name and cat_id.
I want a query which will select display each category name and the
number of items in that category. I could do this in two sql
statements, is it possible to do it in one?

Thanks~

Bill Karwin

2005-06-26, 3:23 am

mfyahya@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a `category` table with columns cat_id and cat_name. And another
> `items` table with columns item_id, item_name and cat_id.
> I want a query which will select display each category name and the
> number of items in that category. I could do this in two sql
> statements, is it possible to do it in one?


Look up GROUP_CONCAT in the MySQL reference documentation.

Also see this thread on this newsgroup from a couple of weeks back:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...1350b921027cc2/

Regards,
Bill K.
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