Re: Count syntax

1 means that 1 will be added to the sum if the condition tests, otherwise 0 will be added to the sum. the condition in this case is (supportertype = 'L') and will be applied to every row.

On 9/28/07, Beauford <php-list-user@netscan.ca> wrote:
> Thanks - it works, but what does the 1 and 0 do in this -
> SUM(IF(supportertype = 'L', 1, 0))
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:baron@xaprb.com]
> > Sent: September 28, 2007 1:00 PM
> > To: Beauford
> > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
> > Subject: Re: Count syntax
> >
> > Beauford wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have the following line of code and I keep getting wrong
> > results from it.
> > > Can someone let me know what I'm doing wrong here. I just
> > can't quite
> > > figure out the syntax that I need.
> > >
> > > select count(*) as numrows, count(supportertype) as leadcar from
> > > registrar where supportertype = 'L';
> > >
> > > What I want to do is count the total number of records and then the
> > > total number of records that have "L" as the supportertype
> > and then display them.
> > >
> > > So I should have something like "There are 100 total records and 22
> > > with Supporter Type L".
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > SELECT COUNT(*), SUM(IF(supportertype = 'L', 1, 0)) FROM registrar;
> >
> > Baron
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