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Finding duplicates database entries


majocmatt

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This might not belong here but most of you all work with mysql too...

I have a voting system where people type their vote in a textbox, not from a radio group. This is because there can be so many answers. I'm currently creating a spellcheck script that will eliminate wrongly typed names, or at least try. My problem is however, tallying up the votes.

DB Schema (id,vote,ip,date) - the vote field will be a name of a person.

Let's say there are three entries of the name Naked Cowboy in the database, and lets say he has the most votes. How would my query find that he is indeed the most voted on. In other words, how does one construct a query to tally up duplicates of the name field?

Thanks.
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