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Your second query should work with Phoenix 4.3 or later.
>

Thanks, unfortunately at the moment I’m stuck with Phoenix 4.2.

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I will investigate the problem with the first one and get back to you.
>

Appreciate this.

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On Jun 23, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Maryann Xue 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Sorry, I missed the first line. Your second query should work with Phoenix 4.3 
or later.


I will investigate the problem with the first one and get back to you.


Thanks,
Maryann

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Michael McAllister 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi

(This questions relates to Phoenix 4.2 on HDP 2.2)

I have a situation where I want to count the distinct combination of a couple 
of columns.

When I try the following:-

select count(distinct a.col1, b.col2)
from table tab1 a
inner join tab2 b on b.joincol = a.joincol
where a.col3 = ‘some condition’
and b.col4 = ‘some other condition';

I get the following error:-

Error: ERROR 605 (42P00): Syntax error. Unknown function: "DISTINCT_COUNT". 
(state=42P00,code=605)

Playing around with this it looks like count(distinct) works with a single 
column, but not more.

So I try this:-

SELECT count(*)
FROM
  (SELECT a.col1,
          b.col2
   FROM TABLE tab1 a
   INNER JOIN tab2 b ON b.joincol = a.joincol
   WHERE a.col3 = ‘SOME condition’
     AND b.col4 = ‘SOME other condition'
   GROUP BY a.col1,
            b.col2) ;

I get the following error:-

Error: Complex nested queries not supported. (state=,code=0)

So, my question … is there any way to get what I’m looking for?

Regards,

Mike



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