Question

I have a db:

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| section | name    |
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| food    | steak   |
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| food    | chicken |
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| drink   | water   | 
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| food    | pork    | 
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| drink   | soda    | 
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| drink   | steak   | 
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I am trying to count the number of rows with each section. The problem is, I don’t have static section names. I am trying to do it with one query.

Here is the result I am looking for:

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| food  | 3 |
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| drink | 3 |
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Answer 1

SELECT section, COUNT(name) FROM table_name GROUP BY section