Question

I have the following select statement which works fine

SELECT status_id, COUNT(status_id) As total
FROM tbl_project INNER JOIN lkp_status
ON tbl_project.status_id = lkp_status.record_id
GROUP BY status_id

I would like to include the status_name field in the result table but this is not allowed:

SELECT **status_name**, status_id, COUNT(status_id) As total
FROM tbl_project INNER JOIN lkp_status
ON tbl_project.status_id = lkp_status.record_id
GROUP BY status_id

“because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause”

But I just want to have a third column indicating the name of the status_id for each count, which may not be unique :S

Thanks for any suggestions

Answer 1

SELECT  tp.status_name,
        a.status_id,
        a.total

FROM (  SELECT status_id, COUNT(status_id) As total
        FROM tbl_project INNER JOIN lkp_project_status
        ON tbl_project.status_id = lkp_project_status.record_id
        GROUP BY status_id) A

INNER JOIN tbl_project tp
ON a.status_id = tp.status_id