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I have a table called patients with patientsid and doctorid in it. I am trying to run a query using distinct count to find how many different doctors have patients assigned to them.

There are 5 doctors total. 2 doctors have 2 patients each, 2 have 1 patient each , and 1 has none. Every way I have tried the answer comes up as 6 because the doctors with 2 patients are being counted twice. The answer should be 4.

I believe I am using the distinct command in the wrong place.

Any help would be appreciated.
May 22 '07 #1
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I have a table called patients with patientsid and doctorid in it. I am trying to run a query using distinct count to find how many different doctors have patients assigned to them.

There are 5 doctors total. 2 doctors have 2 patients each, 2 have 1 patient each , and 1 has none. Every way I have tried the answer comes up as 6 because the doctors with 2 patients are being counted twice. The answer should be 4.

I believe I am using the distinct command in the wrong place.

Any help would be appreciated.
You need to post your query, but try distinct this way:
Select Distinct doctorid, patientid, ...................
May 22 '07 #2

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