Question

Hi I got in my database logs about users browser, and it shows, f.ex:
Firefox 6.0.2, Firefox 6.0.0
Chrome 14.0.835.163 and other versions….
and more

it’s all about version of browser. my question is it possible to do sql question where browser name is -> firefox (all versions), chrome(all version). And i need count them
Now I got something like this:

SELECT `logs`.`log_browser`, COUNT(*) AS `amount` 
FROM `logs` GROUP BY `log_browser`

But it returns me Firefox 6.0.2 and Firefox 6.0.0 as different row
Is it possible? Or do I must do it in php with result?

Answer 1

How about something like this? This uses LOCATE to find the first space, and will group by and return the left part of the browser name.

SELECT LEFT(log_browser, LOCATE(' ', log_browser)) AS browser, COUNT(*) AS amount
FROM logs
GROUP BY LEFT(log_browser, LOCATE(' ', log_browser))

See it in action

Schema

CREATE TABLE logs (
  log_browser varchar(25));

INSERT INTO logs VALUES
('Firefox 6.0.2'),
('Firefox 6.0.0'),
('Chrome 14.0.835.163')

Result

|  BROWSER | AMOUNT |
---------------------
|  Chrome  |      1 |
| Firefox  |      2 |