Re: New: SQL (Count/Duplicate) Question

Ooh, boy!

select count(*) from (select field1 from Tim group by field1 having
count(*) > 1) as Timsub

At 03:18 PM 5/9/02 -0700, you wrote:
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>I have a table, that sometimes has duplicate values...  And I would like to
>create an SQL, that will return back to me a count(*) of the number of
>duplicates it found, so if my table has this in it...
>
>Table = Tim
>field1
>--------
>1
>2
>3
>3
>4
>4
>4
>5
>
>it would return back a count of  *2*  because there were 2 distinct groups
>that had duplicates   group (3 and 4).
>
>Is that easily done?
>
>Thanks, tim
>
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