hi all! i have a question regardin subselects or subqueries in the SELECT statement
i searched the manual yesterday but did not find any answer to this in my SELECT statement i would like to do a subselect like this SELECT t1.field1, t1.field2, (SELECT count(t2.field1) FROM table2 t2 WHERE t2.foreignKeyID = t1.primaryKeyID) FROM table1 WHERE... does anyone know if this is possible? also..i tried to rewrite my query and use a left JOIN to accomplish what i wanted (what i really want is to count the number of topics in a forum to display in my list of available forums) so..i rewrote it like this SELECT forum.forumName, COUNT(topics.topicID) AS nrOfTopcs FROM forum LEFT JOIN topics ON topics.forumID = forum.forumID this worked..but the nrOfTopics counted WRONG!!?? on one of the listed forums i always got a topiccount of 1 more than there was topics..but the others where correct does not COUNT work the same way in mySQL and MS SQL?? any help is much appreciated /regards Rudde -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
