Mysql query: combine two queries - sql

Question

Below is an over-simplified version of table I'm using:
fruits
+-------+---------+
| id | type |
+-------+---------+
| 1 | apple |
| 2 | orange |
| 3 | banana |
| 4 | apple |
| 5 | apple |
| 6 | apple |
| 7 | orange |
| 8 | apple |
| 9 | apple |
| 10 | banana |
+-------+---------+
Following are the two queries of interest:
SELECT * FROM fruits WHERE type='apple' LIMIT 2;
SELECT COUNT(*) AS total FROM fruits WHERE type='apple'; // output 6
I want to combine these two queries so that the results looks like this:
+-------+---------+---------+
| id | type | total |
+-------+---------+---------+
| 1 | apple | 6 |
| 4 | apple | 6 |
+-------+---------+---------+
The output has to be limited to 2 records but it should also contain the total number of records of the type apple.
How can this be done with 1 query?

Answer 1

SELECT *, (SELECT COUNT(*) AS total FROM fruits WHERE type='apple') AS Total
FROM fruits WHERE type='apple' LIMIT 2;
Depending on how MySQL interprets it, it may cache the inner query so that it doesn't have to reevaluate it for every record.
Another way to do it is with a nested query and a join (this would be useful it you need more than one fruit type, for example):
SELECT fruits.*, counts.total
FROM fruits
INNER JOIN (SELECT type, COUNT(*) AS total FROM fruits GROUP BY type) counts ON (fruits.type = counts.type)
WHERE fruits.type='apple'
LIMIT 2;

Answer 2

You should use SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS for that.
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM fruits WHERE type='apple' LIMIT 2;
will return the IDs of your apples, and remember how much it would have returned without the LIMIT clause
SELECT FOUND_ROWS();
will return how many apples would have been found, without the limit statement.