Re: Alphabetic Pager Class

["chris smith" <dmagick(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 6/21/07, Dani Castaños <dcastanos(at)androme(dot)es> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to build an alphabetic pager class. For instance, an address
> book ordered by the Last Name where only results begining with A are
> shown, and A - B - C - D - ... links below to change the letter which
> i'm filtering for.
> The point is I don't want to have enabled those links wich have no
> occurrences in them. So, I'm wondering which is the best way to do the
> query.
>
> My first thought to know how many results are there for each, is to do
> something like:
> SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'A%' );
> SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'B%' );
> SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'C%' );

select count(*), upper(substr(field, 1, 1)) from table group by
upper(substr(field, 1, 1));

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