Question

There is a table in my database duplicate_id which contains multiple ids and also contains many duplicate ids in it. What I have been trying to do is to sort top five ids which are being repeated the most in the table duplicate_id. Kindly let me know how can i do that

Table Structure: ID | Message

Expected output:

ID    |   Number of repeats

201             8

212             7

205             5

209             3

229             2

Answer 1

SELECT ID, COUNT(*) AS `Number of repeats`
FROM duplicate_id
GROUP BY ID
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 5