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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:43:26 -0800
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From: ltiu <ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: Select count(name) from table group by name where count(name)
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Thanks.

On Thursday 29 August 2002 16:47, you wrote:
> You use "having count(name)=1" instead of "where count(name)=1".
>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:39 PM
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> 1
>
>
> Hello guys,
>
> I am baffled by this problem.
>
> I need to fish out the person's name from a list but I only want the
> name of the person that occurs once in the list - minus those names that
> occurs more than once.
>
> Now, I know about "distinct" and "unique", but this is not what I want.
> All I want is to be able to fish out the names of the people who have
> only one and exactly only one entry in the list. I do not want the names
> of those people who have more than one entry in the list.
>
> Could one of you do me a huge favor give me some hints as to how to
> contruct the select statement for this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ltiu
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