Hello,
I was wondering if there was an easy way for me to calculate the mode
for a field of values in one query. I have one field of values say
Names and all I want it to return is one record of the most common
name in my Names field. I tried a count function subquery within a max
function but it returns an error that I cannot aggregate functions...
*shrugs* I am quite a newbie at this so please forgive my ignorance.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
-mp
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I think you are after something like this if I understand you correctly
SELECT TOP 1 YourTable.YourN ameField, Count(YourTable .YourNameField) AS
CountOfYourName Field
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY YourTable.YourN ameField;
"mp141" <mp**@141xm.com > wrote in message
news:e9******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com... Hello,
I was wondering if there was an easy way for me to calculate the mode
for a field of values in one query. I have one field of values say
Names and all I want it to return is one record of the most common
name in my Names field. I tried a count function subquery within a max
function but it returns an error that I cannot aggregate functions...
*shrugs* I am quite a newbie at this so please forgive my ignorance.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
-mp
"mp141" <mp**@141xm.com > wrote in message
news:e9******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com... Hello,
I was wondering if there was an easy way for me to calculate the mode
for a field of values in one query. I have one field of values say
Names and all I want it to return is one record of the most common
name in my Names field. I tried a count function subquery within a max
function but it returns an error that I cannot aggregate functions...
*shrugs* I am quite a newbie at this so please forgive my ignorance.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
-mp
for a table called 'names', having a column called 'name', (consider
changing that - it's a reserved word), you can do this
select top 1 [name], count(*) as freq
from names
group by [name]
order by count(*) desc
"mp141" <mp**@141xm.com > wrote in message
news:e9******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com... Hello,
I was wondering if there was an easy way for me to calculate the mode
for a field of values in one query. I have one field of values say
Names and all I want it to return is one record of the most common
name in my Names field. I tried a count function subquery within a max
function but it returns an error that I cannot aggregate functions...
*shrugs* I am quite a newbie at this so please forgive my ignorance.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
-mp
What happens if two names, say Alan and Bob both appear 5 times? Which
would you select? The query below would select only Alan's record because
his name comes first alphabetically:
SELECT TOP 1
ConName, Count(*) AS Mode
FROM tblContacts
GROUP BY ConName
ORDER BY Count(*) DESC , ConName ASC
Thank you Phil but I don't think that solved my problem. It is giving me
some arbitrary value (at least it looks arbitrary to me). Maybe I should
elaborate: I have a field that looks like this
Answer
1
2
3
4
2
2
Would I would like the query to do is return the mode, in this case "2".
Sounds easy but it's got me completely frazzled!
Thanks again!
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Does this fit the bill?
SELECT TOP 1 Questionaire.An swer
FROM Questionaire
GROUP BY Questionaire.Qu estionNumber, Questionaire.An swer
ORDER BY Count(Questiona ire.Answer) DESC;
"M Pan" <mp**@141xm.com > wrote in message
news:41******** **************@ news.newsgroups .ws... Thank you Phil but I don't think that solved my problem. It is giving me
some arbitrary value (at least it looks arbitrary to me). Maybe I should
elaborate: I have a field that looks like this
Answer
1
2
3
4
2
2
Would I would like the query to do is return the mode, in this case "2".
Sounds easy but it's got me completely frazzled!
Thanks again!
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