SQL Count rows and display in order

Question

Let's say i have a table named animals with with columns named "id" and "name" and "type". The last column is filled with cow, chicken, horse, pig, elephant, hippo etc.

What i want is a query that counts the number of types and displays them in order like this...

chicken 45
cows 40
horse 5
etc...

Now i only want to show the 10 with the highest amount. I use this query...

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM animals ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{

echo "<tr><td>" . $row['type']. "</td><td align=\"right\"></td></tr>";
}

The code above shows only the types like

horse
chicken
chicken
cow
chicken
cow
cow
horse
etc...

I don't know how to use the counter and sort in highest value.

Answer 1

请尝试以下查询：

Select type, count(type) as type_count FROM animals GROUP BY type ORDER BY type_count desc LIMIT 0, 10

Answer 2

try this :

select name, count(name) as total from animals
 group by name order by total desc limit 10

Answer 3

Try:

select 
    top 10 type, Count(*) 
from 
    animals 
group by 
    type 
order by 
    count(*) desc,type