Question

I am pulling through the latest five entries in a database. I also want to show the total number of entries beside this.

Currently I’m running two queries – the first, to get the latest five:

SELECT reference.id, reference.name
FROM reference
WHERE (status = 2 OR status = 3)
ORDER BY reference.date
LIMIT 5

The second, to count the total:

SELECT COUNT(reference.status) AS complete_count
FROM reference
WHERE (status = 2 OR status = 3)

Is there any way to join these two into one? When I try and add another column to the first query’s output (the COUNT), it only returns one row.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This should give you what you’re hoping for:

SELECT reference.id, reference.name, COUNT(1) AS complete_count
FROM reference
WHERE status = 2
   OR status = 3
GROUP BY reference.id, reference.name
ORDER BY reference.date
LIMIT 5