如何创建MYSQL查询来获得特定的结果(从一列中计算所有唯一值)

How to create MYSQL query to get specific results (count all unique values from one column)

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| id | name |
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| 1  |  a   |
| 2  |  a   |
| 3  |  a   |
| 4  |  b   |
| 5  |  b   |
| 6  |  c   |
| 7  |  d   |
| 8  |  d   |

我想创建一个查询(在PHP)，以获得这样的结果(在HTML中):

<p>name: a (number of letters: 3)</p>
<p>name: b (number of letters: 2)</p>
<p>name: c (number of letters: 1)</p>
<p>name: d (number of letters: 2)</p>

SELECT count(name),
       name 
  FROM MyTable 
  GROUP BY name 
  ORDER BY name ASC;

我假定您的表名为MyTable，请相应地交换。