Do not select grouped items in MySQL

Question

Supposing that I have the following SQL query:

SELECT items, COUNT(customers)
FROM sales
GROUP BY items
HAVING COUNT(customers) > 1;

Is there somehow to do this operation and query only the item column?

I don't want to include the count of customers in my result, and I can't use as an aggregation for WHERE

SELECT items
FROM sales
WHERE COUNT(customers) > 1;

Of course that this query above will throw me an error, because I'm using an aggregation inside WHERE and that's not possible.

Answer 1

You can just remove the COUNT() :

SELECT items
FROM sales
GROUP BY items
HAVING COUNT(customers) > 1;