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19Jon
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Posted - 2013-09-12 : 14:21:00
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Hi there I am very new to SQL and would appreciate any help. I have created a view using unique names and corresponding IDs from a previously built table. I built the view by right clicking on view and selecting create view instead of using build new query. My question is... what does "select queries that count the number of records will produce unique lists" mean? I was asked to make sure of this and I cannot figure what is meant by it. Can anyone help? Thank you.example of of view. NameA 111111NameA 111111NameB 222222NameD 444444 |
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James K
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2013-09-12 : 14:26:34
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quote: Originally posted by 19Jon Hi there I am very new to SQL and would appreciate any help. I have created a view using unique names and corresponding IDs from a previously built table. I built the view by right clicking on view and selecting create view instead of using build new query. My question is... what does "select queries that count the number of records will produce unique lists" mean? I was asked to make sure of this and I cannot figure what is meant by it. Can anyone help? Thank you.example of of view. NameA 111111NameA 111111NameB 222222NameD 444444
That question is hard to answer without a context. What are you trying to calculate or produce via the view?Usually views are built on top of one or more tables. So your view would select data, perhaps a subset of the data, from those tables thus making it easy and secure for an end user to use that view rather than have to go to the tables to get the data.Can you post some sample data in your source tables and your desired output? That would help someone who can respond provide more useful answers. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2013-09-12 : 15:51:20
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i think what they meant was like if you want unique records based on group of columns, writing a select query that returns count of records for each column group will make sure you get unique list of column valuesie likeSELECT Col1,Col2,COUNT(*) AS CntFROM TableGROUP BY Col1,Col2 will give you unqiue records per each value combination of Col1 and Col2------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs |
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