Bernie:
Try this:
Select distinct count (orderno) from mlitmin.
Jim
At 03:41 PM 9/5/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
> sel count(distinct(orderno)) from mlitmln
> gives error col count not found
>
> sel distinct(count(orderno)) from mlitmln
> ignores the distinct and just counts all the rows.
>
> so how can I count the number of orders in this table?
> (the same orderno can occur many times)
>
> Bernie Lis
> Megabytes, Inc.
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