MySQL 9.0 发行说明
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是多少?”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进行各种人口普查操作。
计算您拥有的动物总数与““pet
表中有多少行?”相同,因为每只宠物有一条记录。COUNT(*)
统计行数,因此计算动物数量的查询如下所示
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pet; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 9 | +----------+
之前,您检索了拥有宠物的人的姓名。如果您想了解每个主人有多少只宠物,可以使用 COUNT()
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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 owner
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数据非常有用。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
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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,无需检索整个表。例如,之前的查询(仅对狗和猫执行)如下所示
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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,如果您只想了解已知性别的动物的每种性别的动物数量
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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,您还命名要选择的列,则应该存在一个命名这些相同列的 GROUP BY
子句。否则,将发生以下情况
如果启用了
ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY
SQL 模式,则会发生错误Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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单个组来处理查询,但为每个命名列选择的值是不确定的。服务器可以自由选择任何行中的值Press CTRL+C to copymysql> 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)
另请参阅 第 14.19.3 节,“MySQL 对 GROUP BY 的处理”。有关 COUNT(
行为和相关优化的信息,请参阅 第 14.19.1 节,“聚合函数说明”。expr
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