Question

I have written a procedure that shows me the image path from picture table and I want to calculate the no. of unread messages.Here is what i am doing

CREATE PROCEDURE datehate.dashboard_message(IN UserID INT)
    BEGIN
        SELECT  picture.path_thumb,status
        FROM    picture,message,user_profile
        WHERE   (
                    (message.receiver_user_id=UserID)
                    AND
                    (user_profile.user_id=message.sender_user_id AND picture.picture_id=user_profile.picture_id)
                );
END

And this the output i am getting

path_thumb                                                  status

E:\DateOrHateUser\DEMO_2_Stockhlom\images\Male\1#j...   UNREAD
E:\DateOrHateUser\DEMO_2_Stockhlom\images\Male\3#j...   READ
E:\DateOrHateUser\DEMO_2_Stockhlom\images\Male\5#j...   UNREAD

Answer 1

use

SELECT count(*)

to get the number of records returned
and put

status="UNREAD"

in your WHERE condition