How to return distinct values and their count?

Question

What I'm trying to do is (hopefully) simple, but I just don't quite have the right syntax. I'd like to return all distinct values in a table with a count of how many records for each value.

So, in PHP, I've got:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT tagName FROM tagTable");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    echo("<p>" . $row['tagName']) . "</p>");
}

This works well. The distinct values are returned! But now how do I get each distinct value's count to display as well? I would want something to the effect of:

echo("<p>" . $row['tagName']) . $tagCountGoesHere . "</p>");

Answer 1

您应该能够使用GROUP BY子句获取它：

SELECT tagName, count(tagName) AS tagCount FROM tagTable GROUP BY tagName

Answer 2

SELECT tagName, count(*) as TagCount 
FROM tagTable 
group by tagname

Answer 3

SELECT DISTINCT tagName, COUNT(*) FROM tagTable GROUP BY tagName