How to calculate the number of immediate children for each node in an adjacency list

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Published on 2010-06-15T03:10:06Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 3:12 UTC
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I have hierarchical data that I represent using the adjacency list model.

TABLE
    ID
    parentID
    title

I am wondering, what is the simplest way to SELECT the number of immediate children for each node? If possible, I'd like to do this in a single select, yielding a resultset like so...

RESULTS...
ID     title     childCount
1      test1     10
2      test2     2
3      test3     0
etc...

Thanks for your advice!

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