Hello all,

I am trying to get a total number of rows returned form a query.

SELECT count(this) from table group by this

Currently it is returning x rows with a count of each of the group by.

I need the count of the rows returned!

Any way to do this?



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Dev wrote:


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* Dev <dev (AT) umpa-us (DOT) com> [2004-10-14 16:54:56 -0400]:

Remove the 'group by' clause -- you don't need it.

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How about ...

select count(distinct this) from table

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SELECT COUNT(*) from mytable

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Thank you all who helped me out on this..
I had tried the distinct but not inside the count.
I was using the group by because this could have multiple returns but after
adding the distinct to inside the count it worked like a charm!!!

Thanks to everyone who helped out on this one!


At 05:01 PM 10/14/2004, Dev wrote:


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