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I have a list of contacts - i need to sort them by city - however i need the city with the most contacts listed first . any help would be great - thank you
Jul 20 '07 #1
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MMcCarthy
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I have a list of contacts - i need to sort them by city - however i need the city with the most contacts listed first . any help would be great - thank you
Without knowing the structure of your tables I can only guess at the basic query you will need. Something like...

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  1. SELECT ContactName, City
  2. FROM Contacts
  3. ORDER BY Count([ContactID]) DESC
  4.  
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