I'm going to be a fly in the ointment.
What if jake has a dynamic ip? 

query a query? select unique commentNameIP
then select count(unique commentName)

Forgive my i don't have my sql book in front of me. I sure there is a
more efficient way.


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:49:11 -0600, Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm dinking around on a day off afternoon, and hit a mental block. I
> know this shouldn't be this tough...
> 
> I have a single table for comments on my blog. It has:
> 
> commentID - unique ID of the entry
> commentName - name of the person commenting
> commentEntryIDFK - the FK to the entry ID that this comment belongs to
> commentNameIP - IP address of the person commenting
> 
> All I want to do is run and output a query that finds who the top
> posters are by counting all the same names that also have the same IP.
> For instance if there are two "Jake" named people, but they have
> different IPs, they would not be counted as one person.
> 
> But basically I want to find out who the top 10 commenters are.
> 
> ------
> 
> On another front, in a similar fashion, is there a way to count a text
> field in the DB to find the largest entries by characters?
> 
> Thanks!
> Jake
> 
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