详细解读MySQL中COUNT函数的用法_MySQL

要了解COUNT函数考虑的EMPLOYEE_TBL的的表具有以下记录：

mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl;
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
| id  | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
|  1 | John | 2007-01-24 |        250 |
|  2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 |        220 |
|  3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 |        170 |
|  3 | Jack | 2007-04-06 |        100 |
|  4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 |        220 |
|  5 | Zara | 2007-06-06 |        300 |
|  5 | Zara | 2007-02-06 |        350 |
+------+------+------------+--------------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

现在根据上面的表，要算在此表中的行数，那么可以做如下的假设：

mysql>SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employee_tbl ;
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
|    7 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

同样地，想数一数的话就可以计算一下如下记录为Zara的数量：

mysql>SELECT COUNT(*) FROM employee_tbl
  -> WHERE name="Zara";
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
|    2 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.04 sec)

注意: 所有的SQL查询是区分大小写的，所以它并没有任何区别，如果你给ZARA或Zara在where条件中。