Posted by MS on 10/10/27 11:17

Try

GROUP BY ord
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/select.html

SELECT *,count(ord) AS CountOrd FROM tbl_name
GROUP BY ord

CountOrd would then contain the total counts of the variables within ord
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"Brian" <not@given.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
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> I'm running a query in a PHP script. At the moment I have having to run a
> while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {...
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> As it loops though is has to add up a number of columns, is there a
quicker
> sql statement then doing this the following
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> if ($ch == 'n') {
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> $notrecognisedcount = $myrow[ord];
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> }
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> if ($ch == 'u') {
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> $discontinuedcount = $myrow[ord];
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> }
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> if ( ($ch != 'n') && ($ch != 'u') ) {
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> $validorderscount = $myrow[ord];
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> $delivered = $myrow[del];
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> }
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> Brian
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