Table 1:
ID (unqiue), Name, Address
Table 2:
RecordId, ID (key of table 1), Child name
In one query, I want to retrieve all rows of Table 1 with one additional column which will be the count of all record in table 2 from ID (that is number of children for each ID in table 1). Can't figure out how to format a query to retrieve this data.
Simply Join and apply count
select T1.*, COUNT(T2.RECORDID)AS T2COUNT from Table1 T1
INNER JOIN TABLE2 T2 ON T1.ID= T2.ID
--LEFT JOIN TABLE2 T2 ON T1.ID= T2.ID --if you need 0 child records (from commets by @Cha)
GROUP BY T1.ID , T1.Name, T1.Address
The correct way of doing this will be with a OUTER JOIN:
SELECT a.ID, a.Name, a.Address, b.cnt
FROM Table1 a
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT ID, count(*) cnt from Table2 GROUP BY ID) b
ON a.ID = b.ID
The incorrect way will be with a help of a correlated sub-query:
SELECT a.ID, a.Name, a.Address,
(SELECT count(*) FROM Table2 b WHERE b.ID = a.ID) as cnt
FROM Table1 a
Here is a discussion about correlated subqueries vs OUTER JOINs, if you are interested
ID, Name, Address like you did works in this particular case until you start adding more tables. You add another table to your query and suddenly realise that you need to add more columns to the GROUP BY clause. In my opinion it is excessiveGroup by table1 fields and count total records in table2: here T1 alias of table1 and T2 alias of table2.
select T1.ID, T1.Name, T1.Address, count(T2.ID) as total_records
from table1 as T1
left outer join table2 as T2 on T2.ID=T1.ID
group by T1.ID, T1.Name, T1.Address
