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> appologies (and feeling really silly right now)
> this trivial question was not meant for this group.
> I was just looking for a quick and lazy answer from a work
> mate whos an informix 4gl answer so I could quickly test something.
>
> On Tuesday 28 January 2003 3:16 pm, Tam McLaughlin wrote:
> > i am trying something in mysql but can't remember any sql.
> > Say i have a field called name in table 1 and i want to select the
> > name and the number of times that name appears in the table,
> > how would i do it?
> > If u can tell me, i can find the equiv syntax in mysql
> > thanks.
No exactly sure if you;re after the number of times the value "name" appears in the name of a field or whether a field name has a value "whatever" x number of times
Assuming the latter
select count(*) as 'no_of_times'
from table1
where name = 'whatever'
last one can be
where name like '%whatever%' if you want to find the value anywhere in the string
cds
