MySQL 8.3 Release Notes
数据库经常被用来回答问题:“某种类型的数据在表中出现了多少次?”例如,你可能想知道你有多少宠物,每个主人有多少宠物,或者你想对动物进行各种人口普查操作。
计算你拥有的总宠物数量与““宠物表中有多少行?””相同,因为每只宠物有一条记录。COUNT(*)
计数表中的行数,因此查询宠物数量的语句如下所示:
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pet;
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 9 |
+----------+
早些时候,你检索了宠物主人的人名。你可以使用 COUNT()
来查找每个主人拥有的宠物数量:
mysql> SELECT owner, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY owner;
+--------+----------+
| owner | COUNT(*) |
+--------+----------+
| Benny | 2 |
| Diane | 2 |
| Gwen | 3 |
| Harold | 2 |
+--------+----------+
前面的查询使用 GROUP BY
将每个 owner
的所有记录分组。使用 COUNT()
与 GROUP BY
结合可以对数据进行各种分组分析。
每种物种的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT species, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY species;
+---------+----------+
| species | COUNT(*) |
+---------+----------+
| bird | 2 |
| cat | 2 |
| dog | 3 |
| hamster | 1 |
| snake | 1 |
+---------+----------+
每种性别的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY sex;
+------+----------+
| sex | COUNT(*) |
+------+----------+
| NULL | 1 |
| f | 4 |
| m | 4 |
+------+----------+
(在这个输出中,NULL
表示性别未知。)
每种物种和性别的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT species, sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet GROUP BY species, sex;
+---------+------+----------+
| species | sex | COUNT(*) |
+---------+------+----------+
| bird | NULL | 1 |
| bird | f | 1 |
| cat | f | 1 |
| cat | m | 1 |
| dog | f | 1 |
| dog | m | 2 |
| hamster | f | 1 |
| snake | m | 1 |
+---------+------+----------+
你不需要检索整个表来使用 COUNT()
。例如,前面的查询,只对狗和猫进行操作,语句如下所示:
mysql> SELECT species, sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet
WHERE species = 'dog' OR species = 'cat'
GROUP BY species, sex;
+---------+------+----------+
| species | sex | COUNT(*) |
+---------+------+----------+
| cat | f | 1 |
| cat | m | 1 |
| dog | f | 1 |
| dog | m | 2 |
+---------+------+----------+
或者,如果你想知道性别已知的动物数量:
mysql> SELECT species, sex, COUNT(*) FROM pet
WHERE sex IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY species, sex;
+---------+------+----------+
| species | sex | COUNT(*) |
+---------+------+----------+
| bird | f | 1 |
| cat | f | 1 |
| cat | m | 1 |
| dog | f | 1 |
| dog | m | 2 |
| hamster | f | 1 |
| snake | m | 1 |
+---------+------+----------+
如果你在选择的列中除了 COUNT()
值外,还选择了其他列,那么 GROUP BY
子句应该包含这些列。否则,将发生以下情况:
-
如果启用了
ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY
SQL 模式,将发生错误:mysql> SET sql_mode = 'ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> SELECT owner, COUNT(*) FROM pet; ERROR 1140 (42000): In aggregated query without GROUP BY, expression #1 of SELECT list contains nonaggregated column 'menagerie.pet.owner'; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
-
如果未启用
ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY
,查询将被处理为将所有行作为一个组,但选择的列值将是非确定性的。服务器可以从任何行中选择值:mysql> SET sql_mode = ''; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> SELECT owner, COUNT(*) FROM pet; +--------+----------+ | owner | COUNT(*) | +--------+----------+ | Harold | 8 | +--------+----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
另见 第 14.19.3 节,“MySQL Handling of GROUP BY”。见 第 14.19.1 节,“Aggregate Function Descriptions” 了解 COUNT(
行为和相关优化。expr
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