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I want to display cities.city_name and next to it [properties.count(id_city)]

How do I make a query that still returns zero if no records are found instead of NULL , so that I get results like this:

London [123]
New York [0]
Berlin [11]
where "New York" is [0], not NULL and not 1?
select cities.city_name, count(properties.id_city)
  from cities left join properties on cities.id_city = properties.id_city
  group by 1
                select cities.city_name, count(*)   from cities left join properties on cities.id_city = properties.id_city   group by 1
– Preston
                Oct 6, 2009 at 23:45
                I've changed the query - take a look. Instead of count(*) you should use count(column from left joined table)
– ChssPly76
                Oct 7, 2009 at 0:06
I think the following will do it for you, though I haven't tested it. The trick is to get the property counts in one table, and then to left join that table to the cities table, converting NULLs to 0s using the IFNULL function.
SELECT city_name, IFNULL(property_count, 0)
FROM cities
LEFT JOIN
   (SELECT id_city, count(*) as property_count
    FROM properties
    GROUP BY id_city) city_properties
   USING (id_city);
SELECT cities.*, COUNT(properties.id_city) as num
FROM cities
LEFT JOIN properties on cities.id_city=properties.id_city
GROUP BY cities.id_city
should return a 0 count where you want it, although I'm not 100% certain it works that way in MySQL.
        
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