Getting the number of rows with a GROUP BY query

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There is a nice solution in MySQL.

Add the keyword SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS right after the keyword SELECT :

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS t3.id, a,bunch,of,other,stuff FROM t1, t2, t3 
WHERE (associate t1,t2, and t3 with each other) 
GROUP BY t3.id 
LIMIT 10,20

After that, run another query with the function FOUND_ROWS() :

SELECT FOUND_ROWS();

It should return the number of rows without the LIMIT clause.

Checkout this page for more information : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-functions.html#function_found-rows

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