Question

Currently I have an sql query which finds the amount of records in the database for a specific person (Ms White), how can I repeat the function for every surname within the table and print them out in a sensible format?

  $query = "SELECT COUNT(Surname) FROM Customers WHERE Surname='White'";

Answer 1

Wouldn’t it be better to run just one query with the count per each surname?

select Surname, count(*) as Total from Customers
group by Surname

This will return results like this:

Person  Total
White       4
Mustard     2
Plum        1
etc...