Question

Have a table users and there is a field invited_by_id showing user id of the person who invited this user. Need to make a MySQL query returning rows with all the fields from users plus a invites_count field showing how many people were invited by each user.
Something like this:

SELECT
    User.*, Count.count
FROM
    users AS User,
    (
        SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM users WHERE users.invited_by_id=User.id
    ) AS Count;

This one is not working so I need a working one.

Answer 1

SELECT  u.*,
        (
        SELECT  COUNT(*)
        FROM    users ui
        WHERE   ui.invited_by_id = u.id
        ) AS cnt
FROM    users u