Question

Suppose I have a table, like so:

UserID    Meh    Meh //meh is some column
````````````````````
01        ...    ...
01        ...    ...
03        ...    ...
05        ...    ...
05        ...    ...
01        ...    ...
03        ...    ...

So I want to count how many times each userid appears in this table. I am doing this now:

select UserId from NinjaTable group by UserId 

but its giving me something that I dont know or understand.
I want the result to be like so:

UserID    Frequency
```````````````````
01        3
03        2
05        2

Answer 1

you are almost there.

You are grouping correctly, just add the count to select clause.

select UserId, COUNT(*) from NinjaTable group by UserId order by COUNT(*) desc

that should do it really.

edit: thanks to @abe for pointing the order.