Question

I’m having trouble on generating a report in MySQL. I have this table:

CREATE TABLE users (
    id INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    birthday DATE,
    title VARCHAR(255)
);

I need to generate a report that throws how many titles exist for a given month. My first idea was something like this:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(MONTH(birthday))) AS q 
  FROM users

Of course that only returns how many months exist in the records. What I need is something like this:

Month | Count
-------------
2     | 384
5     | 131
12    | 585

Answer 1

This should work:

SELECT MONTH(birthday), COUNT(*) AS BirthdayCount
FROM user
GROUP BY MONTH(birthday)

This will give you the month number and the count of the records in that month, thus what you are looking for.