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Counting distinct records

Thread began 3/27/2013 6:15 am by john70964 | Last modified 3/28/2013 10:51 am by john70964 | 1140 views | 2 replies |

john70964

Counting distinct records

I have a table with a field for category names.

I would like to list the category name in groups maybe with distinct in the mysql table and them have a count result, like
cat1 50
cat2 25
cat3 500
etc
Can you say how this is carried out please?
Many thanks

John

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

SELECT *, COUNT(idColumn) as categoryCount FROM tblName GROUP BY nameColumn

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john70964

Many thanks Jason

Exactly correct as usual.

Regards

John

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