Thanks for your help, just what I needed.

I will play around but if you have a chance and know how, how would I order
the results by count? (ie. highest counts first..)

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Knox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:09 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: What would be an efficient way to accomplish this ( Statistic
s/Trends in a table?) Thanks!

Paul

How about 
select FIRST_NAME, count(*)
from a table
group by  FIRSTNAME
having count(FIRST_NAME) > 1



Mike

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