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:4:219584 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
