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Reporting the content of a memo field when a GROUPING is involved

  • October 13, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    #227844

    My query does a count and also needs to show content of a memo

    eg:

    SELECT ID, COUNT(Txt1) AS Txt1, Txt2, Memo1

    FROM myTable

    GROUP BY ID, Txt2

    HAVING (ID = 999)

    This results in : ....'Column Memo1 is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause'

    How do I get around this? Thanks,

    Geoff

  • October 13, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    #1236573

    you have to convert the field to a datatype that is allowed to be grouped, like a varchar()

    SELECT ID, COUNT(Txt1) AS Txt1, Txt2, CONVERT(varchar(2000),Memo1)

    FROM myTable

    GROUP BY ID, Txt2, CONVERT(varchar(2000),Memo1)

    HAVING (ID = 999)

    Lowell

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  • October 13, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    #1236575

    Thanks. Exactly what I needed!

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