MySQL inner join a count from another table

Question

I am trying to do a SELECT query in MySQL which will also do a count in another table and join the answer into my initial table

Table people

id | name | hair_color | job_id

Table job

id | job_name

SELECT * 
FROM job j
INNER JOIN (SELECT COUNT(job_id) AS totals
           FROM people p
           WHERE p.job_id='1')
     ON j.count = totals
WHERE id = '1'
ORDER BY id ASC

So I am trying to get the above query to Select from my job table by the id and also do a count in the people table and add the column count to my job result.

Answer 1

You don't have to make the count in the subquery : you can directly select count and then group by. Moreover, you don't have to manually precise the people job_id : a JOIN is made directly between two tables fields (minimum).

SELECT j.id, j.job_name, count(p.id) as nb_people
  FROM job j
       INNER JOIN people p ON p.job_id = j.id
 WHERE j.id = '1'
GROUP BY j.id, j.job_name
ORDER BY id ASC

Have a look at MySQL aggregate functions documentation : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/group-by-functions.html

And maybe another look on JOIN documentation : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/join.html