You can use it in the order by clause, he just needs to group all the columns in his query with GROUP BY.
Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 . http://www.pacificfox.com - Web Design and Development > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 10:30 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Now more query problems... boo hoo > > > You can't use COUNT in the ORDER BY clause. (Please someone > back me up here else I'm off to spend some time with Book Online!). > > Ade > > -----Original Message----- > From: Saturday (Stuart Kidd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September 2005 13:20 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Now more query problems... boo hoo > > > Jumping from one query problem to another... just when it was > safe to to run a query another problem leapt out of the dungeons. > > I would like to only pull the top 8 authors who have the most > articles (articleID) > > I have specified only to get the 8 maxrows but the problem > i'm having is when i try to add to the ORDER BY COUNT(articleID) DESC > > My error is: > > [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Column > 'tbl_020authorDetails.authorID' is invalid in the select list > because it is not contained in an aggregate function and > there is no GROUP BY clause. > > It can be seen at: http://www.020.com/testsql.cfm > > > <cfquery name="GetAuthors" datasource="user020" maxrows="8"> > SELECT > tbl_020authorDetails.authorID, > tbl_020authorDetails.authorFirstName, > tbl_020authorDetails.authorSurname, > tbl_020authorDetails.authorPhotograph, > tbl_020authorDetails.authorAboutMe, > tbl_020articleDetails.articleID, > tbl_020articleDetails.articleTitle > FROM tbl_020articleDetails > INNER JOIN tbl_020authorDetails ON > tbl_020articleDetails.authorID = tbl_020authorDetails.authorID > WHERE tbl_020authorDetails.authorPhotograph <> '' AND > tbl_020articleDetails.articleSubTypeID <> 55 > ORDER BY tbl_020authorDetails.authorID, COUNT(articleID) > DESC </cfquery> > > <cfoutput query="GetAuthors" group="authorID"> > <p><strong>#authorFirstName#</strong></p> > > <p>my articles:</p> > <cfoutput>#articleTitle#<br /></cfoutput> > </cfoutput> > > Any help would be great. > > Thanks, > > Stuart > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219588 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
