Count function

[Hansen]

I am trying to display a count in my HTML table of the number of rows from my recordset. As it is now, I always get a count of 1 no matter what is pulled into the Recordset using this statement:

<% Response.write("Search for BTS ID: " & strUid & " resulted in " & rstSearch.Fields("cnt").Value & " Tickets") %>

cnt is defined in my SQL statement like this:

strSQL = "SELECT Count(TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER) as cnt, TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER, ...........
.........
........
Set rstSearch = db1.Execute(strSQL)


Any thoughts?

[chazzy]

please, show us the entire sql command. it will all depend on your group by clauses obviously.

[Hansen]

strSQL = "SELECT Count(TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER) as cnt, TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER, TABLE_GBST_ELM.TITLE as sev, TABLE_CONDITION.TITLE as cond, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_COMMON_NAME, " _
& "TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_REP_ELM_ID, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_REP_ELM_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_BTS_NAME, " _
& "TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_INV_ELM_NAME, TABLE_EMPLOYEE.LAST_NAME, TABLE_EMPLOYEE.FIRST_NAME " _
& "FROM TABLE_CASE, TABLE_CONDITION, TABLE_GBST_ELM, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT, TABLE_USER, TABLE_EMPLOYEE " _
& "WHERE TABLE_CASE.CASE_STATE2CONDITION = TABLE_CONDITION.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_CASE.RESPSVRTY2GBST_ELM = TABLE_GBST_ELM.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.INVLVD_ELEMENT2CASE = TABLE_CASE.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_CASE.CASE_OWNER2USER = TABLE_USER.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_EMPLOYEE.EMPLOYEE2USER = TABLE_USER.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_CONDITION.TITLE >= 'Open' " _
& "AND TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_BTS_NAME = '" & strUid & "' " _
& "Group by TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER, TABLE_GBST_ELM.TITLE, TABLE_CONDITION.TITLE, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_COMMON_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_REP_ELM_ID, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_REP_ELM_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_BTS_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_INV_ELM_NAME, TABLE_EMPLOYEE.LAST_NAME, TABLE_EMPLOYEE.FIRST_NAME " _
& "order by x_rep_elm_id "
Set rstSearch = db1.Execute(strSQL)

[chazzy]

hmmm

Just a hunch, but is TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER a primary key? What's the table structure look like?

[Hansen]

it is one of the Keys. The structure of the DB is really large (over 100 tables)

[chazzy]

that's small.

what do you mean "one of the keys". is this a unique key? if so, then it will always return 1. count(unique_id) from table group by unique_id is always 1, by definition.

[Hansen]

if we use a distinct, then yes it will be unique

[Hansen]

I should also mention that I can do a simple progression on it with:

x = (x+1)

to count through as the RS runs, but for what i'm trying to display on screen I think that using the SQL Count would be best.

[chazzy]

then it sounds like it is a primary key. your query is coming back correct, but maybe you could explain further what you mean by "if we use a distinct" distinct is a keyword for a query, not a table. i'm talking about the table structure. if the structure for the table TABLE_CASE says that id_number is a primary key, count has to be 1.

[Hansen]

in Table_Case, ID_Number is the unique value.

Sorry, I was confusing with another issue.

If I use a basic x = (x+1) I can get a correct count from the recordset but I believe it will be better to have the SQL query return the count rather than using this method.

[chazzy]

so you want to count the number of rows in the result set above? oh ok then!

strSql = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS CNT FROM TABLE_CASE, TABLE_CONDITION, TABLE_GBST_ELM, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT, TABLE_USER, TABLE_EMPLOYEE " _
& "WHERE TABLE_CASE.CASE_STATE2CONDITION = TABLE_CONDITION.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_CASE.RESPSVRTY2GBST_ELM = TABLE_GBST_ELM.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.INVLVD_ELEMENT2CASE = TABLE_CASE.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_CASE.CASE_OWNER2USER = TABLE_USER.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_EMPLOYEE.EMPLOYEE2USER = TABLE_USER.OBJID " _
& "AND TABLE_CONDITION.TITLE >= 'Open' " _
& "AND TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_BTS_NAME = '" & strUid & "' " _
& "Group by TABLE_CASE.ID_NUMBER, TABLE_GBST_ELM.TITLE, TABLE_CONDITION.TITLE, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_COMMON_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_REP_ELM_ID, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_REP_ELM_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_BTS_NAME, TABLE_SPCS_INVOLVED_ELEMENT.X_INV_ELM_NAME, TABLE_EMPLOYEE.LAST_NAME, TABLE_EMPLOYEE.FIRST_NAME " _
& "order by x_rep_elm_id "
Set rstSearch = db1.Execute(strSQL)

Basically, to get the # of items in the result set, you use the same tables/where conditions and just count the returns as I did above.

[Hansen]

I see, so select all instead of what I was doing with the ID_NUMBER. worked like a champ, thank you very much.