Re: grouping query results

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:48:23 +0100 (CET), Joolz
<joolz(at)arbodienst-limburg(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> I have the feeling that this is a very common question, how do you
> people handle it? I looked at a lot of script sites, but no luck.

What I do is run a single query for all employees, then iterate over
the array in PHP for the counts.

The alternative of running several queries seems a bit heavy-handed to
me, but that is because I am always trying to make life easier for the
database server :-)

Note that many database libraries (PEAR::DB, ADOdb) also have
capabilities of returning counts of recordsets, so with two queries
you would be done. But I still like the first approach, as it is not
tied to the database or require external libraries to support.

-- Mitch