Re: need some more select help

Hello,

As the error indicates, you must give an alias for subquery

select a,count(1) FROM (select a from X UNION select a from Y ) as 
your_alias_name group by a;


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From: "A B" 
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Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 01:53 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] need some more select help


> I'm trying to
>
> select a,count(1) FROM (select a from X UNION select a from Y ) group by 
> a;
>
> but it complains and says that the subquery must have an alias and I
> have not figured it out how to add that.
>
> Btw. is there any other way of doing what I'm doing above?
>
> It's basically    select a,count(1) from X group by a     +  select
> a,count(1) from Y  group by a  where  "+" means they should be summed
> on the "a" field.
>
> I tried
> select a,sum(b)   from ( select a,count(1) as b from X group by a
> union select a,count(1) as b from Y group by a) group by a
>
> but that gave also an error asking for an alias for the subquery.
>
> How can I solv this problem?
>
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