数据库通常用于回答以下问题:“某种类型的数据在表中出现的频率如何?”例如,您可能想知道您有多少只宠物,或者每个主人有多少只宠物,或者您可能想对您的动物执行各种类型的普查操作。
计算您拥有的动物总数与“宠物表中有多少行?”是同一个问题。因为每只宠物有一个记录。 COUNT(*) 计算行数,因此计算动物数量的查询如下所示:
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pet;
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 9 |
+----------+
之前,您检索了拥有宠物的人的姓名。如果你想知道每个主人有多少只宠物,你可以使用 COUNT():
mysql> SELECT owner, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY owner;
+--------+----------+
| owner | COUNT(*) |
+--------+----------+
| Benny | 2 |
| Diane | 2 |
| Gwen | 3 |
| Harold | 2 |
+--------+----------+
前面的查询使用 GROUP BY 对每个所有者的所有记录进行分组。将 COUNT() 与 GROUP BY 结合使用对于在各种分组下表征您的数据很有用。以下示例显示了执行动物普查操作的不同方法。
每个物种的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT species, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY species;
+---------+----------+
| species | COUNT(*) |
+---------+----------+
| bird | 2 |
| cat | 2 |
| dog | 3 |
| hamster | 1 |
| snake | 1 |
+---------+----------+
每种性别的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY sex;
+------+----------+
| sex | COUNT(*) |
+------+----------+
| NULL | 1 |
| f | 4 |
| m | 4 |
+------+----------+
(在此输出中,NULL 表示性别未知。)
每个物种和性别组合的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT species, sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY species, sex;
+---------+------+----------+
| species | sex | COUNT(*) |
+---------+------+----------+
| bird | NULL | 1 |
| bird | f | 1 |
| cat | f | 1 |
| cat | m | 1 |
| dog | f | 1 |
| dog | m | 2 |
| hamster | f | 1 |
| snake | m | 1 |
+---------+------+----------+
使用 COUNT() 时不需要检索整个表。例如,上一个查询,当只对狗和猫执行时,看起来像这样:
mysql> SELECT species, sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet
WHERE species = 'dog' OR species = 'cat'
GROUP BY species, sex;
+---------+------+----------+
| species | sex | COUNT(*) |
+---------+------+----------+
| cat | f | 1 |
| cat | m | 1 |
| dog | f | 1 |
| dog | m | 2 |
+---------+------+----------+
或者,如果您只想要已知性别的动物的每种性别的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT species, sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet
WHERE sex IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY species, sex;
+---------+------+----------+
| species | sex | COUNT(*) |
+---------+------+----------+
| bird | f | 1 |
| cat | f | 1 |
| cat | m | 1 |
| dog | f | 1 |
| dog | m | 2 |
| hamster | f | 1 |
| snake | m | 1 |
+---------+------+----------+
如果除了 COUNT() 值之外还命名要选择的列,则应该存在一个 GROUP BY 子句来命名这些相同的列。否则,会出现以下情况:
- 如果启用了 ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL 模式,则会出现错误: ```sql mysql> SET sql_mode = ‘ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY’; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> SELECT owner, COUNT(*) FROM pet; ERROR 1140 (42000): In aggregated query without GROUP BY, expression
1 of SELECT list contains nonaggregated column ‘menagerie.pet.owner’;
this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
- 如果未启用 ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY,则通过将所有行视为一个组来处理查询,但为每个命名列选择的值是不确定的。服务器可以自由地从任何行中选择值:
```sql
mysql> SET sql_mode = '';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> SELECT owner, COUNT(*) FROM pet;
+--------+----------+
| owner | COUNT(*) |
+--------+----------+
| Harold | 8 |
+--------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)