On 09-Jul-01 Daren Cotter wrote:
> I have two fields, sex, and age, which are both ENUM types. I'm building
> some statistical reports, using stuff like:
>
> DISTINCT(sex) ... GROUP BY sex ...
> and
> DISTINCT(age) ... GROUP BY age ...
>
> Now I want a report that shows me a breakdown by both categories, sex and
> age...so I can see not just how many m/f and 16-18 yr-olds, 19-24 yr-olds,
> etc, but how many of each sex in each age group. I've tried:
>
> DISTINCT(sex, age) ... GROUP BY sex, age
>
> But that doesn't work. Can someone help me out? Can I do this in one Query?
>
distinct(term) ... group by (term)
will always return one of each term, prolly not what you want.
Select sex,age,count(*) as cnt from da_table GROUP BY sex, age;
Regards,
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