Question

I have a problem, please see my database:

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| id | article_id |
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| 1  |      1     |
| 2  |      1     |
| 3  |      1     |
| 4  |      2     |
| 5  |      2     |
| 6  |      3     |
| 7  |      3     |
| 8  |      3     |
| 9  |      3     |
| 10 |      3     |

And I want to receive something like this (order by votes, from max to min):

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| id | article_id | votes |
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| 1  |      3     |    5  |
| 2  |      1     |    3  |
| 3  |      2     |    2  |

Could you please help me to write proper sql query?

Answer 1

SELECT article_id, COUNT(article_id) AS votes
FROM votes_table
GROUP BY article_id
ORDER BY votes DESC;