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ppataki
04-29-2009, 02:56 AM
Dear All,

I have a query that should count unique values only but it does not work:

SELECT Count(*) AS Expr1
FROM [SELECT DISTINCT T1.[field1] FROM [table1] AS T1]. AS T1;

if I replace field1 and table1 with my table and field I get an
invalid bracketing error message

Could you please advise?
Many thanks ;)

Brianwarnock
04-29-2009, 04:11 AM
SELECT Count(*) AS Expr1
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT T1.[field1] FROM [table1] AS T1) AS T1;

Brian

ppataki
04-29-2009, 04:26 AM
Thank you very much it works fine!! :)