Question

I have a mysql select query that has a groupBy.
I want to count all the records after the group by statement.
Is there a way for this directly from mysql ?

thanks.

Answer 1

You can use FOUND_ROWS():

SELECT <your_complicated_query>;
SELECT FOUND_ROWS();

It’s really intended for use with LIMIT, telling you how many rows would have been returned without the LIMIT, but it seems to work just fine for queries that don’t use LIMIT.