How to implement tag counting

Question

I have my tags desinged like this in my database:

Table: Item 
Columns: ItemID, Title, Content 

Table: Tag 
Columns: TagID, Title 

Table: ItemTag 
Columns: Ite         


        

Answer 1

select t.Title, count(it.TagID) as TagCount
from Tag t
  inner join ItemTag it on t.TagID = it.TagID
  inner join Item i on it.ItemID = i.ItemID
where i.ItemID = @currentItemID -- optional, if you only want current page
group by t.Title