Question

Here I am with a problem I can’t solve myself.

My problem is:

I need to SELECT the count of a column, but I also need to GROUP BY on that same column. What I’ve tried so far is not returning as I expected.

Here is what I tried:

'SELECT COUNT(user_id) AS total_donors
    FROM ' . DONATION_SECURITY_TABLE .
    " WHERE payment_status = 'Completed' 
    GROUP BY user_id"

This is how my table looks like:

id    user_id    payment_status
1     20         Completed
2     33         Completed
3     44         Completed
4     20         Pending
5     33         Pending
6     44         Completed
7     20         Completed

As you see, a single user_id can be Pending or Completed more than once, but I want my query to return 3 (based on the table example above).

So, I want my query to COUNT GROUPED user_ids if payment status is completed.

Ideas?

Answer 1

You can use the DISTINCT keyword to select the unique User ID’s like so

"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT user_id) AS total_donors
FROM " . DONATION_SECURITY_TABLE .
" WHERE payment_status = 'Completed'