You need to group by forum_id...

On 2/19/09 11:09 AM, "Artem Kuchin" <mat...@itlegion.ru> wrote:

> I have two simple tables. One - list of forums, second - list of
> messages and i want to
> get the list of forums with number of messages in each.
> 
> Here is the query:
> 
> SELECT forums.id , COUNT( forum_msg.id ) AS cnt
> FROM forums
> LEFT JOIN forum_msg ON forums.id = forum_msg.forum_id
> ORDER BY forums.sorder ASC
> 
> The problem is that if  a forum does not have any messages then the line
> with such forums.id does not appear at all.
> 
> If i delete COUNT( forum_msg.id ) AS cnt from Select  - i get all forums,
> as expected. If  i leave the count() as shown - i get only forums with
> messages
> in the result. As far as i can remember it was not like this before. I
> am running
> 5.1.3
> 
> --
> Artem Kuchin

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