COUNT of values in a column

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COUNT of values in a column

inevercheckthis2002

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April 7, 2014 at 10:06 am

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Create table:
CREATE TABLE visited
(
page nvarchar(80),
username nvarchar(80),
);
Insert values:
INSERT INTO visited
VALUES
(N'Home', N'Kim'),
(N'Contact', N'Kim'),
(N'Products', N'Kim'),
(N'Home', N'Joe'),
(N'Contact', N'Joe'),
(N'Home', N'Pam'),
(N'Home', N'Sam'),
(N'Contact', N'Sam'),
(N'Products', N'Sam'),
(N'Home', N'Ray'),
(N'Products', N'Ray),
(N'Home', N'Kim'),
(N'Home', N'Pam'),
(N'Home', N'Sam')
;
(Actually, this did not work, I had to insert each row one at a time. I'd like to know why..)
Table:
SELECT * FROM VISITED
page,username
Home,Kim
Contact,Kim
Products,Kim
Home,Joe
Contact,Joe
Home,Pam
Home,Sam
Contact,Sam
Products,Sam
Home,Ray
Products,Ray
Home,Kim
Home,Pam
Home,Sam
(14 row(s) affected)
What I am wanting:
page, count
Contact, 3
Home, 5
Products, 3
I can get each count, if I know the page, but I won't always know which pages to count.
SELECT count (*)
from
(
SELECT DISTINCT page, username
from visited
where (page = N'Contact')
GROUP BY page, username
) a
3
(1 row(s) affected)

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287024 More actions · Answer 1

Your insert failed because in the line below, you're missing a quote after Ray:

(N'Products', N'Ray),

To get the count of each row:

select page, COUNT(*) row_count

from visited

group by page;

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 2

You might be overcomplicating yourself. Grouping by page will give you one row per page value. Using COUNT(DISTINCT column) will count for each unique value.

You'll end up with a code as simple as this:

SELECT page,

COUNT(DISTINCT username) usercount

FROM visited

GROUP BY page

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182881 More actions · Answer 3

inevercheckthis2002 (4/7/2014)
Insert values:
INSERT INTO visited
VALUES
(N'Home', N'Kim'),
(N'Contact', N'Kim'),
(N'Products', N'Kim'),
(N'Home', N'Joe'),
(N'Contact', N'Joe'),
(N'Home', N'Pam'),
(N'Home', N'Sam'),
(N'Contact', N'Sam'),
(N'Products', N'Sam'),
(N'Home', N'Ray'),
(N'Products', N'Ray),
(N'Home', N'Kim'),
(N'Home', N'Pam'),
(N'Home', N'Sam')
;
(Actually, this did not work, I had to insert each row one at a time. I'd like to know why..)
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Just missing an apostrophe

(N'Products', N'Ray),

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