Question

I am making a survey-application in winforms that is connected to a MySQL database. Now I want to show the alternatives of a question, and how many answered each question. I have a table for alternatives called tblAlt and a table for answers from users called tblAnswers.

There are only 5 alternatives for each question. Is there a way to get each alternative, and how many answered each of them with one query?

This is what I made so far, but this is definitely wrong:

SELECT tblAlt.altText, Count(tblAnswers.answerID) 
 FROM tblAlt, tblAnswers 
WHERE tblAlt.questionID = " & CInt(questionID) & " 
  AND tblAnswers.altID = tblAlt.altID

Tables involved are:

_______________     _______________     ___________  _______________
|_tblUsers____|     |_tblAnswers___|    |_tblAlt__|  |_tblQuestion_|
| userID      |     | answerAltID  |    | altID   |  | questID     |
| username    |     | userID       |    | altText |  | questText   |
|_____________|     |______________|    |_questID_|  |_____________|

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I’m having trouble understanding your schema, hope this helps:

SELECT
    tblAlt.altText,
    Count(tblAnswers.answerID)
FROM tblAlt
LEFT JOIN tblAnswers ON (tblAlt.altId = tblAnswers.altID)
WHERE tblAlt.questionID = " & CInt(questionID) & "
GROUP BY tblAlt.altText;