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Complex COUNT query
Posted by: Ashley Blurton
Date: February 20, 2009 09:43AM

I'm currently building a search for an application I am making. And because the tables are linked together a lot I can't seem to find out how to get how many results would be found.

What I want to do is search the table for entries that have no associated entries. In this it's blog posts, with no comments linked to them. I have found out how to get the entries themselves, but not how many without just grabbing the results without a limit and just counting the rows returned.

Here's my query for selecting the results:

SELECT b.*, COUNT(c.id) as count FROM blogs as b
LEFT JOIN comments as c ON (c.blog_id = b.id)
GROUP BY b.id
HAVING count = 0;

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