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macsterling
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2010-04-11 : 10:20:41
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| Is there a way to sort of combine the count and distinct functions? If I have a column with different single letters in the alphabet. I want to know how many different letters are represented (not how many of each). If there are 20 A's and 32 B's and 12 D'sthe answer is 3. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2010-04-11 : 11:53:27
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| [code]SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT yourlettercol) FROM Table[/code]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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