SQL GROUP BY with more than one field to make sub groups in Mysql table

We know by using count command and group by command we can find out the total records in a particular group of data. Now we will try to apply group by command including two different fields and we will break the groups and get total records for each sub-group also. This way we will get total of each subgroup also. This can be further improved by adding SQL HAVING command with the group by command.

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For this example you can download the query file to create the table with some data inside it. Inside this table there are records of documents saying details of the records. The records belongs to one category( management or Computers) and then belong to one type ( Book, CD or report )
Here is the full table with all the rows. On this we will apply the group by query

d_id	name	type	category	price	stock
1	Book1	Book	Management	220	10
2	Book2	CD	Management	120	8
3	Book3	Report	Management	25	4
4	Book4	Book	Management	55	8
5	Document1	Book	Management	15	23
6	Document2	CD	Computers	80	45
7	Document3	Report	Computers	55	65
8	Book5	Report	Management	80	10
9	Document4	CD	Management	72	5
10	Book 8	Book	Computers	88	6
11	Book 9	CD	Computers	100	5
12	Document5	Report	Computers	85	8
13	Book 10	Book	Computers	150	5

Here is the SQL group by command applied on the above table.

SELECT category,type, COUNT(*) as total 
FROM `documents` GROUP BY category,type

This will display the total records in each group and sub group. Like this

category	type	total
Computers	Book	2
Computers	CD	2
Computers	Report	2
Management	Book	3
Management	CD	2
Management	Report	2

Download the SQL group by query file to create the table with data
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Floris	13-09-2011
Hi, I hope somebody can help. I have done a simmilar thing as the above. I used it to find duplicates based on several collumns by adding count* > 1. But now i want to show rows that are in these groups. How can I do that?

khan150	21-09-2011
Floris, suppose you are trying to find dup records in the table above. This should help SELECT d_id, count(d_id) as numofoccurrence FROM documents GROUP BY d_id HAVING count(d_id) > 1 this will display the d_id of the record and number of times its repeating. if you want to see the entire record, add more columns after select and group by respectively

Ambas	02-03-2013
if can want to ask, i have 2 tables, in the have the same name of field and how i can call form text data to the combobox with php? thanks.

smo123	11-04-2013
Along with table name you can call the columns like this. select table1.name1, table2.name1 from table1, table2 where table1.id=table2.id Here both tables have same column name name1 and id

Vineet	11-08-2014
This is very helpful information to read in short time. Thanks to author.

SQL GROUP BY Command for more than one field with sub grouping

Subhendu Mohapatra