On 11/12/02 5:36 PM, "Alan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You can't count the join?
> Alan
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Does anybody have a SQL string to count the rows in two different
>> tables and
>> give you a total number of rows? I have been trying to find an
>> answer for a
>> couple of days and seems like a simple string.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Rick

I guess he wants something like:

SELECT SUM(COUNT(t1.*) , COUNT(t2.*)) FROM table1 t1, table2;

Which obviously doesn't work. Maybe once we have subselects we can do it in
one query:
/h


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