Depending on the database, you could do this: 
SELECT word, occurrences FROM statistic ORDER BY occurrences DESC LIMI
+T 200

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Also, most databases will provide some amount of mathematical functioning for you and, in some cases, it can be much more efficient. Just make sure you comment the heck out of the SQL.

And, the last problem is: 

$dbtags{$word} = $occurrences;

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My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: Building a tag cloud from a database by dragonchild
in thread Building a tag cloud from a database by Quicksilver

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