Re: Do I need to use GROUP BY to do this?

2008-06-24 Thread Ian Simpson
Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Do I need to use GROUP BY to do this? To: Grant Giddens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 11:02 AM I happen to have worked on a similar query

Do I need to use GROUP BY to do this?

2008-06-18 Thread Grant Giddens
Hi, nbsp; I have a table where I keep sales transactions, so I'm trying to do a query that will count the number of transactions per day. My test data looks like: -- -- Table structure for table `sales_activity` -- CREATE TABLE `sales_activity` ( nbsp; `sales_id` int(11) NOT NULL

Re: Do I need to use GROUP BY to do this?

2008-06-18 Thread Sebastian Mendel
Re: Do I need to use GROUP BY to do this? yes Grant Giddens schrieb: Hi, nbsp; I have a table where I keep sales transactions, so I'm trying to do a query that will count the number of transactions per day. My test data looks like: What type of query do I need to get that information

Re: Do I need to use GROUP BY to do this?

2008-06-18 Thread Ian Simpson
I happen to have worked on a similar query this morning, so it's in my mind :) SELECT SUBSTRING(sales_date,1,10), COUNT(sales_id) FROM sales_activity WHERE sales_type = 1 GROUP BY SUBSTRING(sales_date,1,10); should do the trick. On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:21 -0700, Grant Giddens wrote: Hi,