Re: Counting countries

Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruce Therrien wrote:
> Trying to count the number of countries in a MySQL database. 
> Each client has a country entered, and we want to add the total
> countries we are in and display on our site.

Are you sure, that you do not simply need the query

     SELECT COUNT(*), country FROM $tablename GROUP BY country

and then read the counts (column 0) and the country names
(column 1)?


Jochen


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