chris smith-9 wrote: > > Doing this is actually rather easy. > > Replace this: > > SELECT e.id, e.title, e.subheading, eta.start_timestamp, > eta.end_timestamp, e.zip, e.bold, e.outline, e.color, e.subheading, > COUNT(esa.id) AS subcat_count > > With: > > SELECT COUNT(e.id) AS count > > > Or am I completely missing the point? > I've tried that. It doesn't work for two reasons: 1) the ORDER BY subcat_count in the original query would cause an error in the SQL 2) removing that ORDER BY clause to make valid SQL still results in a set of rows - one for each of the original rows - rather than a single COUNT value for the entire query. The values for COUNT range from 1 to 4 depending on how many subcategory ASSOC records (esa) are connected to a particular e.id. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/urgent%3A-Trying-to-get-COUNT-for-fairly-elaborate-query-tf2449123.html#a6826826 Sent from the Php - Database mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php