At 9:57 PM -0400 9/4/01, Lance Rochelle wrote:
>SQL question which I am new to.
>How would I count the number of times a specific entry is in field. For
>instance I have a table that has the following two fields
>number hostname
>1 10.1.1.1
>2 10.1.1.2
>3 10.1.1.3
>4 10.1.1.1
>
>and I want the query to return something like the following
>
>2 10.1.1.1
>1 10.1.1.2
>1 10.1.1.3
>
>
>What I may be asking may need to have an external program but I figure it
>might be able to be done inside one SQL statement.
SELECT COUNT(*), hostname FROM tbl_name GROUP BY hostname
>
>Lance Rochelle
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