Question

I have two tables that I’m working with One dependent on the other. And I would like to get the information of the independent tables and count the number of times each row of data was used by the dependent table. With My current query I only get a record count of 1 when I know there in fact 38 records total. What am I doing wrong?

SELECT r.rid, r.name, COUNT(b.bid) AS brewtot 
FROM recipes r, brews b
WHERE r.uid = '#cookie.id#' AND b.rid = r.rid

Answer 1

I suspect what you want to do is add a

GROUP BY b.rid

assuming your question is “How many brews are there for each recipe.”

Also you might want to use a LEFT JOIN to also count 0 rows when there is no brew to a recipe:

SELECT r.rid, r.name, COUNT(b.bid) AS brewtot 
FROM recipes r LEFT JOIN brews b
ON b.rid = r.rid
WHERE r.uid = '#cookie.id#'
GROUP BY b.rid