You may want to look at this page:
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/MySQLWiz/page1.html
What you are wanting to do is (at least as I see) is called a crosstab.
It takes a bit of trickery in MySQL, but it can be done.
On Tue, 13 May 2003 15:36:24 -0700 (PDT), Eric Anderson wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if I'm just having problems thinking today but if you've
> got a field:
>
> status enum('pending','active','cancelled') NOT NULL default 'pending'
>
> and you want to get a total of each the entries, is there any way to do
> it in one pass, as opposed to:
>
> select count(*) from <table> where status='pending'
> select count(*) from <table> where status='active'
> ...
>
> mysql,sql
>
>
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