@Yegon you are on point. This problem simply requires a join statement. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I once did this: <div><br></div><div>mysql&gt; select* from (select &#39;child&#39;, count(idchild)num_rows from child) c join (select &#39;parent&#39;, count(idparent)num_rows from parent) p;</div>
<div><br></div><div>And the output was:</div><div><br></div><div><div>+-------+---------------+------------+-----------------------+</div><div>| child | num_rows | parent   | num_rows        |</div><div>+-------+----------------+-----------+-----------------------+</div>
<div>| child |            41 | parent   |       41              |</div><div>+-------+---------------+------------+------------------------+</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Victor Yegon <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:viktayeg@gmail.com" target="_blank">viktayeg@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey you should do select statement to join the four tables <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Nd&#39;wex Common <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:flexycat@gmail.com" target="_blank">flexycat@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Hi,<br><br>I have some tables as follows<br><br><b>products</b><br>id<br>name<br>categoryid<br>
manufacturer<br><br><b>clients</b><br>
id<br>name<br>address<br><br><b>category</b><br>id<br>title<br>active<br><br><b>client_product</b><br>
id<br>clientid<br>productid<br>quantity<br>date<br><br>from the above structures a report is to be generated as follows<br><br>date | product1 | product2 | product3 | ---- | product x<br><br>under each product are the quantities acquired. each client may have different products.<br>


<br>question is how do i extract the data in the above format using possibly a single query?<br><br>thank you in advance<br><br>
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