Help with Stored Procedure

• ChrisM@home

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  January 3, 2012 at 9:31 am

  #1427806

  Look up GROUP BY in books on line (BOL).

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• Sean Lange

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  January 3, 2012 at 9:31 am

  #1427808

  Count() and Group By

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• Johan Bijnens

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  January 3, 2012 at 12:16 pm

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  and please keep your datetime column in datetime datatype as long as you can !!

  select dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, thedatetimecolumn), 0) BeginOfMonth

  , theuser

  , count(*) nVisits

  from ...

  where ...

  group by dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, thedatetimecolumn), 0) -- produces 1/thismonth/thisyear

  , ...

  order by ....

  ref: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/lynnpettis/archive/2009/03/25/some-common-date-routines.aspx By Lynn Pettis

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