Question

Say I have table1 which contains a field called Name and a field called ItemID which is a foreign key to table2.

What I want is a query that contains each Name, and how many entries in table2 have the same ItemID as that entry.

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

select Name, count(ItemID) as itemCount
from table1 inner join table2 on table1.ItemID = table2.id
group by Name

but my sql-fu may be rusty 😛

Note that this will give no rows for Names where table2 contains no matching rows, so itemCould will always be >0