Question

Im having a little trouble trying with the count function in SQL.

What I am attempting is to count the amount of people with a certain name

For example:

Name | Number
==============
Ivan | 9      
Brody| 8
Ray  | 7

And where there are the same instance sort alphabetically.

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

When using COUNT() which is an AGGREGATE FUNCTION it needs to have GROUP BY Clause. Try this,

SELECT Name, COUNT(name)
FROM tableName
GROUP BY Name
ORDER BY COUNT(name) DESC

or you can just add ALIAS on it

SELECT Name, COUNT(name) totalCount
FROM tableName
GROUP BY Name
ORDER BY totalCount DESC