mysql counting occurances in a table

[sevak316]

Hi,

Here is a table that I am working with:

PERSON | HAS
--------------------------------------------------------
John | Laptop
John | Cell Phone
John | PS3
Sally | Cell Phone
Sally | Laptop
Jane | Laptop


I want my query to return the set of people who own all 3 items (Laptop, Cell Phone, PS3)....

So in this example above, the only name that should come up is "John"

One catch, this has to be dynamic, so future items can be added to the list. Basically, it's suppose to count all items in the list and see if a person owns all of them.

Please help.

[RedSon]

Check out the count() function.

[sevak316]

SELECT person
FROM my_table
GROUP BY person
HAVING Count( person ) = Count( has )

this is what i have right now and no luck.

[RedSon]

try something like :

count (has) from my_table where person = john.

[SLauren]

You can try something like:

SELECT person FROM my_table GROUP BY person HAVING COUNT(has) = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT has) FROM my_table);

Hope this could help.

Thanks,
Lauren