I haven't tested this; I'm not an SQL guru.  I just
like a challenge :-)

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE team = "support" GROUP BY name;

Lezz Giles

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: surely an easy quick one


> Hello again :o)
>
> This is surely an easy quick one but my brain wont work!
>
> I have a table (ref, name, team, seminar_ref) like:
>
>     1    bill    support    100
>     2    bill    support    101
>     3    bill    support    102
>     4    ben  development  201
>     5    ben  development  103
>     6    ben  development  204
>     7    bob  support     104
>     8    bob  support    102
>     9    bob  support    107
>     7    pat   support     102
>     8    pat   support     202
>     9    pat   support     105
>
> I need to get a count of how many individual people are in the table, that
> belong to a certain group. So if I wanted to find all individual people in
> support the answer in this case it would be 3 (bill, bob and pat). I dont
> need their names, just the count.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jamie.
>
>
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