Re: count()

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 13), Eric Anderson said:
> 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'
> ...

select status,count(*) from table group by status

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	Dan Nelson
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