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ChetShah
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Posted - 10/06/2005 :  07:15:58  Show Profile
Hi,

I'm not sure how to get this to work , i have a query that returns the following results:

ClaimRef
-----------
ADKIN00010
ADKIN00012
ADKIN00014
ADKIN00015
ADKIN00016
ADKIN00017
ADKIN00018
ADKIN00019
ADKIN00020

I want a write a count query which will return count of ADKIN = 9 ??

Chet

madhivanan
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India
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Posted - 10/06/2005 :  07:19:46  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message
Try this

Select count(*) from yourTable where ClaimRef like 'ADKIN%'

Madhivanan

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Kristen
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United Kingdom
22191 Posts
Posted - 10/06/2005 :  07:20:19  Show Profile
One of these perhaps?

SELECT LEFT(ClaimRef, 5), COUNT(*)
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY LEFT(ClaimRef, 5)

or

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM MyTable
WHERE ClaimRef LIKE 'ADKIN[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'

Kristen
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ChetShah
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Posted - 10/06/2005 :  08:06:32  Show Profile
Thanks Kirsten

your queries work fine

Chet
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