Re: MySQL COUNT Won't Work
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:10:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL COUNT Won't Work | ||
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On Friday 16 February 2001 18:27, Jeff Oien wrote:
> I'm totally stuck on this code. I get the error
> "Couldn't execute query." so I know where it's
> failing but can't figure out what's wrong. I have
> a database with 'title' as one of the fields. Based
> on code in PHP Fast and Easy.
> $sql = "SELECT COUNT (title) FROM music";
I found that often MySQL doesn't like if there's a space between the
function name and the opening bracket, i.e. try writing "COUNT(title)"
instead of "COUNT (title)".
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