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Re: Syntax of case statement using a count function

At 10:09 09/04/2001, Bill Erhardt wrote:
>Does anyone out there know how to structure a SQL case statement to do a
>count(*) function?  For example, I've built SQL select statements that will
>cross foot a file and sum the quantity, and sales from individual records
>into monthly buckets but how can I count the number of occurrences using the
>case structure?

How about something like this?

Sum(Case when month = 1 then 1 else 0 end),
Sum(Case when month = 2 then 1 else 0 end),
etc...

hth
Pete
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/

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