Sorry, but that's how I was normally trained to use SQL and to name
variables.  I know netiquette, it's just how I was trained on the system.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Pipes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:35 AM
To: John Meyer
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: Doing a join

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:13 -0600, John Meyer wrote:
> I have two tables:
> 
> 
> MEMBERS:
> MEM_ID
> ...
> 
> GROUPS:
> GRO_ID:
> ...
> 
> And one joiner
> 
> MEM_GRO:
> MEM_ID, GRO_ID
> 
> 
> I want to print out a list like this
> 
> GROUP_NAME, NUMBER_OF_MEMBERS
> 
> Even when the number of members is 0, how do I do that?

SELECT G.NAME AS GROUP_NAME , COUNT(*) AS NUMBER_OF_MEMBERS FROM GROUPS G
LEFT JOIN MEM_GRO AS M ON G.GRO_ID = M.GRO_ID GROUP BY G.GRO_ID;

By the way, when you use ALLCAPS for everything, it makes it very difficult
to pick out SQL keywords, and MAKES IT SEEM LIKE YOU ARE SHOUTING.

-jay




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