Counting total number of items in each category

Hello everyone,

I have 2 tables. One with a list of countries and another with a list of users. The users table stores the Country they are from as well as other info.

Eg the structure is a little bit like this...

Countries:

--

CountryId

CountryName

Users:

UserId

UserName

CountryId

So, the question is how to a list all my countries with total users in each. Eg, so the results are something like this......

CountryName TotalUsers

United Kingdom 334

United States 1212

France 433

Spain 0

Any help woulld be great as I have been fumbling with this all morning. Im not 100% with SQL yet!!

Cheer

Stephen

here You go...

Code Snippet

Create Table #countries (

[CountryId] int ,

[CountryName] Varchar(100)

);

Insert Into #countries Values('1','USA');

Insert Into #countries Values('2','UK');

Insert Into #countries Values('3','IN');

Create Table #users (

[UserId] int ,

[UserName] Varchar(100) ,

[CountryId] int

);

Insert Into #users Values('1','John','1');

Insert Into #users Values('2','Dale','1');

Insert Into #users Values('3','Thome','2');

--With ZERO COUNT

Select

[CountryName],

Count([UserId])

from

#countries C

left Outer Join #users U on C.[CountryId] = U.[CountryId]

Group By

[CountryName]

--Without ZERO COUNT

Select

[CountryName],

Count([UserId])

from

#countries C

Inner Join #users U on C.[CountryId] = U.[CountryId]

Group By

[CountryName]

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Super! Many thanks and thank you for replying so quickly.

Makes sense now - easier than what I was trying to do!!!