From: Dimitri <dimitri@france.Sun.COM>
To: Jackson, DeJuan <djackson@cpsgroup.com>
Cc: pat@patoche.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] problem with join & count
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:14:19 +0000
Message-ID: <36BA1BBB.323A76EB@france.sun.com> (raw)
References: <F10BB1FAF801D111829B0060971D839F6463F6@cpsmail>
Jackson, DeJuan wrote:
>
> try:
> SELECT t1.name, count(t2.tag)
> FROM t1, t2
> WHERE t1.number = t2.number
> GROUP BY t1.number, t1.name
______________^
your query will never work :)), you have to miss t1.number...
Best regards!
(dim)
>
> -DEJ
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pat@patoche.org [mailto:pat@patoche.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 2:39 PM
> > To: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
> > Subject: [SQL] problem with join & count
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't succeed to build an SQL to do the task i describe below.
> > If someone can helps, thanks in advance.
> >
> > I have two tables
> >
> > number | name
> > --------------
> > 1 | toto
> > 2 | titi
> > 3 | tutu
> >
> > (here the number is a primary key)
> >
> > and
> >
> > number | tag
> > ---------------
> > 1 | alpha
> > 1 | beta
> > 2 | gamma
> > 3 | zeta
> > 3 | epsilon
> >
> > the number in the left column is the same of the number in
> > the first table,
> > but can appear in that second table many times.
> >
> > i need an sql query that will return:
> >
> > name | how_often
> > -------------------
> > toto | 2
> > titi | 1
> > tutu | 2
> >
> > that is, the result table should contain all names present in
> > the first table
> > and then the number of times the number associated with the
> > name appears in
> > the second table.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > /\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\
> > Patrick M. pat@patoche.org http://www.patoche.org/
> >
> >
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Dimitri KRAVTCHUK (dim) Sun Microsystems
Benchmark Engineer France
dimitri@France.Sun.COM
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