Question

I have been banging my head around trying to come up with a query to display a datetime to show years -> months -> count(months with that year).

Example:
I want to show my results like this:

Year    Mth     #
2012    Apr     595
2012    Mar     27
2011    Oct     1
etc...

my table looks like this:

create table `log` (
    `datetime` datetime ,
    `username` varchar (75),
    `clientaddr` varchar (225),
    `action` varchar (75),
    `details` varchar (300)
);

I want to show all the records in in the logs table as shown above. Anyone have any suggestions? Feel free to share an algorithm to do the same thing.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

How about:

select year(datetime) as year, monthname(datetime) as month, count(*) from log group by year, month order by year, month;