Check the docs to see when count distinct() was added.
It is not in my 3.22.24, but is in my 3.23
Web Depressed wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Woh ! This is very strange. Any ideas ?
>
> mysql> SELECT * FROM Table2;
> +------------+-------------+-----------+
> | date | no_of_items | table1_id |
> +------------+-------------+-----------+
> | 2001-02-04 | 3 | 1 |
> | 2001-02-05 | 2 | 1 |
> | 2001-02-06 | 2 | 1 |
> | 2001-02-04 | 2 | 2 |
> | 2001-02-06 | 1 | 2 |
> +------------+-------------+-----------+
> 5 rows in set (0.04 sec)
>
> mysql> SELECT COUNT(date) FROM Table2;
> +-------------+
> | COUNT(date) |
> +-------------+
> | 5 |
> +-------------+
> 1 row in set (0.02 sec)
>
> mysql> SELECT DISTINCT date FROM Table2;
> +------------+
> | date |
> +------------+
> | 2001-02-04 |
> | 2001-02-05 |
> | 2001-02-06 |
> +------------+
> 3 rows in set (0.03 sec)
>
> mysql> SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT date) FROM Table2;
> ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near
> 'DISTINCT date) FROM Table2' at line 1
> mysql> SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT date) FROM Table2;
> ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near
> '(DISTINCT date) FROM Table2' at line 1
> mysql> SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT 'date') FROM Table2;
> ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near
> 'DISTINCT 'date') FROM Table2' at line 1
>
> FYI:
> ./mysql Ver 9.38 Distrib 3.22.32, for sun-solaris2.7
> (sparc)
>
> Kind Regards,
> -- Frank
>
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