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William
William

Reputation: 6610

Print Multiple Results from a Database

Currently I have an sql query which finds the amount of records in the database for a specific person (Ms White), how can I repeat the function for every surname within the table and print them out in a sensible format?

  $query = "SELECT COUNT(Surname) FROM Customers WHERE Surname='White'";

Upvotes: 1

Views: 134

Answers (3)

Fahim Parkar
Fahim Parkar

Reputation: 31657

Use 

SELECT count(1) as "Counter", surname FROM Customers GROUP BY surname

This will give you output like below.

Counter  +  Surname
++++++++++++++++++++
  10     +  SN1
  15     +  SN2
  11     +  SN3

Upvotes: 0

Mosty Mostacho
Mosty Mostacho

Reputation: 43494

Wouldn't it be better to run just one query with the count per each surname?

select Surname, count(*) as Total from Customers
group by Surname

This will return results like this:

Person  Total
White       4
Mustard     2
Plum        1
etc...

Upvotes: 2

cotton.m
cotton.m

Reputation: 455

GROUP BY I think is what you are looking for

SELECT COUNT(*),Surname FROM Customers GROUP BY Surname

Upvotes: 5

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