select top 5 count(ProductID) as topfiveproducts, productID
  from orders
  order by topfiveproducts desc   ( <-- I don't remember if you can sort on 
an alias created from aggregate function )

  I also don't think that you would need a distinct clause.

At 12:02 PM 11/28/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>This is probably really simple, but I just can't seem to get it!
>
>To simplify, I have an orders table, with a primary key "OrderID", and a
>foreign key "ProductID". I want to get the top five most ordered
>products. I thought maybe using a COUNT with DISTINCT, and restricting
>the rows returned, but how do I ORDER BY?
>
>Any help on how to approach this will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>K.
>
>
>
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