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I have 2 tables and am trying to do one query to save myself some work. 

Table 1: id, category id, colour
Table 2: category id, category name

I want to join them so that I get id, category id, category name, colour

Then I want to limit it so that no "red" items are selected (WHERE colour != "red") Then I want to count the number of records in each category (COUNT(id) GROUP BY (category id).

I have been trying:

SELECT COUNT(table1.id), table1.category_id, table2.category_name 
FROM table1 
INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.category_id=table2.category_id 
WHERE table1.colour != "red"

But it just doesn't work. I've tried lots of variations and just get no results when I try the above query.

Nenad Zivkovic
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You have to use GROUP BY so you will have multiple records returned,

SELECT  COUNT(*) TotalCount, 
        b.category_id, 
        b.category_name 
FROM    table1 a
        INNER JOIN table2 b
            ON a.category_id = b.category_id 
WHERE   a.colour <> 'red'
GROUP   BY b.category_id, b.category_name
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SELECT COUNT(*), table1.category_id, table2.category_name 
FROM table1 
INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.category_id=table2.category_id 
WHERE table1.colour <> 'red'
GROUP BY table1.category_id, table2.category_name
Nenad Zivkovic
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I have used sub-query and it worked great!

SELECT *,(SELECT count(*) FROM $this->tbl_news WHERE
$this->tbl_news.cat_id=$this->tbl_categories.cat_id) as total_news FROM
$this->tbl_categories
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