Help with simple code

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August 18th, 2004, 02:03 PM

nutpuk

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Help with simple code

Hi I really need your help and really there simple questions but i cabt get the answers.

Ive made a database in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for a car dealer and I need help.

The first is that I need a select statement to find the most common model of car. I have a table named car and one of the field is called model. I need the code to find the most common model of car?? any ideas

Select (something dont know wat) model
From Car

Any Ideas

August 19th, 2004, 02:01 AM

brightlight

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Hi,

I'm not very sure, whether the query can retrieve only the most commonly used car but the following will retrieve all the models with their count and the top most will be most commonly used car.

Quote:

SELECT model, COUNT(model) AS Expr1
FROM car
GROUP BY model
ORDER BY COUNT(model) DESC

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