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How about:
select parentid, count(*) as number_of_children from childtable group by parentid order by parentid;
If there are parent records that have no children then these will be omitted. The query above totally ignores the parent table (which you may not want it to do).
John Sidney-Woollett
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to count and display the number of children of a parent in a generic query?
parent table: id child table: id, parent_id
Example output of the query:
parentid number_of_children parent1 2 parent2 6 parent3 0
Groeten,
Joost Kraaijeveld
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