Count function TO DISPLAY REPEATS

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SQL-Server-2008

I have the following table

RECIPE NAME INGREDIENT
GOBIMANCHURI ONION
GOBIMANCHURI ONION
GOBIMANCHURI OIL
POORI POTATO
POORI POTATO
POORI WHEAT
PONGAL RICE

I WANT TO WRITE A QUERY SO THAT IT SHOULD DISPLAY ALL THE RECIPE NAME FOR WHICH THE SAME INGREDIENT HAS REPEATED MORE THAN ONCE. IN MY ABOVE EXAMPLE I WANT TO DISPLAY GOBIMANCHURI AS WELL AS POORI ALONG WITH THE INGREDIENT NAME. HOW CAN I DO THIS?

Posted 27-Nov-13 1:10am

kparun86

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Maciej Los 27-Nov-13 7:29am

Do not SHOUT!!! Using only capitals is treated as a SHOUT!

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Solution 1

Group by name and ingredient and then filter on count.

Something like this might do the trick for you:

SQL

select recipe_name, ingredient from
(
    select recipe_name, ingredient, count(*) as [count] from recipe group by recipe_name, ingredient
) as source
where [count] > 1

Hope this helps,
Fredrik

Posted 27-Nov-13 1:18am

Fredrik Bornander

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-27T01:33:00

Solution 2

Use DISTINCT clause, which specifies that only unique rows can appear in the result set.

If you would like to count recipes, please try this:

SQL

SELECT RecipeName, Ingredient, Count(RecipeName) AS CountOfRecipes
FROM RecipeTable
GROUP BY RecipeName, Ingredient

Posted 27-Nov-13 1:33am

Maciej Los

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kparun86 28-Nov-13 2:08am

Thanks Solution 2 is working.

Maciej Los 28-Nov-13 2:13am

Thank you ;)