count top 10 most occuring values in a column in mysql

Question

I have a column in mysql table that has the the data type INT(11).

How can I search to get the top 10 most occurring values in this column?

Answer 1

Try:

SELECT ColName, Count(1) AS occurances
    FROM
        table
    GROUP BY
        ColName
    ORDER BY
        occurances DESC
    LIMIT
        10