Question

I am using the below query to return the names of artists which appear in a table multiple times AND the first character is starting with A

SELECT DISTINCT artist FROM releases WHERE artist LIKE 'a%' ORDER BY artist

I now want to take this a bit further and want to only return artists which appear more than 10 times

How would I do this?

Cheers!

Answer 1

The best way to do this would be to use a GROUP BY to get the counts of the times the artists appear, then using HAVING to indicate they need to appear at least a certain number of times.

I believe this query will give you what you want:

SELECT artist, count(*) 
FROM releases 
WHERE artist LIKE 'a%'
GROUP BY artist 
ORDER BY artist
HAVING count(*) > 10