Unless I'm having thinking problems as well,
select status, count(*) group by status
should work.
steve
At 03:36 PM 5/13/03, 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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