Re: SQL GROUP BY and COUNT -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SQL GROUP BY and COUNT
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:39:09 -0500
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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/02/2017
03:36:27 PM:

It's working as advertised. Count (expression) includes only the not

null

values. If you want a record count you must use count (*).

Well, that was a simple answer. I've used both before but did not
really know the difference between those usages. Thanks for the
education.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

Follow-Ups:

RE: SQL GROUP BY and COUNT , Birgitta Hauser

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