Displaying all article categories

//$result = dbquery("SELECT article_cat_id, article_cat_name, article_cat_description FROM ".DB_ARTICLE_CATS." WHERE ".groupaccess('article_cat_access')." ORDER BY article_cat_name");

   // NEW QUERY
   $result = dbquery(
      "SELECT ac.article_cat_id, ac.article_cat_name, ac.article_cat_description, COUNT(a.article_cat) AS article_count FROM ".DB_ARTICLES." a
      LEFT JOIN ".DB_ARTICLE_CATS." ac ON a.article_cat=ac.article_cat_id
      WHERE ".groupaccess('ac.article_cat_access')."
      GROUP BY ac.article_cat_id
      ORDER BY ac.article_cat_name"
   );