Re: count of occurrences

Adam wrote:
>I help run a job database and have a table of search records. I want
>a query that will return the top 10 jobs by search frequency. I'm
>familiar with ORDER BY and LIMIT, so I basically need this:
>
>Given a table search_records:
>job_num
>-------
>1
>2
>2
>3
>4
>4
>4

SELECT job_num, COUNT(*)
FROM search_records
GROUP BY job_num
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 10;

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