Question

My SQL Skills are next to none. After looking around for the past 2 hours trying to figure this out I need some help please.

I have 2 tables as below

Table1                    Table2 

ID  | Name                Status_id
-----------               ----------
1   |   Open                  1
2   |   Closed                2
3   |   On-Hold               1

What I would like to do is count the status_id in table 2 and group by the status_id. Then add the Name where the ID matches in the first column.

What I have at the moment is

SELECT status_id, COUNT(*) AS 'num' FROM table2 GROUP BY status_id

This is great so far and returns

1   |   2
2   |   1

What I need to return is

Open   |   2
Closed |   1

I hope that is clear. Can anyone help?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

SELECT a.name, COUNT(*) AS num FROM table2 b 
INNER JOIN table1 a 
ON b.status_id=a.id 
GROUP BY status_id