Here's the answer to the question for anyone who is curious.
<cfquery name="get_top_products_counts" datasource="#session.dsn#">
SELECT TOP 3 COUNT(ID_PRODUCT) as thecount, ID_PRODUCT
FROM ORDER_LINEITEMS
GROUP BY ID_PRODUCT
</cfquery>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Warrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:07 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: selecting top n records
I need to select the top selling products from a table of lineitems. Top
selling products would be those whose ID_PRODUCT shows up the most in the
ORDERS_LINEITEMS table.
Any clues from the SQL gurus out there?
---mark
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