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Counting child rows?

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FruitBatInShades
Yak Posting Veteran

51 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 05:03:12

I am trying to count child rows but cannot get it to work. The count keeps returning 1. I tried counting SiteFolders.Path and Pages.Directory. Can some one explain what I may be doing wrong?

SELECT     SiteFolders.Path, Pages.PageName, Pages.UniqueID, COUNT(SiteFolders.Path) AS ChildCount
FROM         SiteFolders LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      Pages ON SiteFolders.Path = Pages.Directory
GROUP BY SiteFolders.Path, Pages.PageName, Pages.UniqueID
ORDER BY SiteFolders.Path

	
content	contact_us	34	1
content	ThankYou	56	1
content	Events	61	1
content	PastEvents	62	1
content	ViewEvents	63	1
content	Directory	65	1
content\child1	shjsdhjsd	66	1
content\child1\baby1	uysuysd	67	1
content\child1\baby1	kjs943jhi	69	1
content\child2	lka87sd	68	1
content\child2	oks8sd98oi	72	1

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 05:19:26

Read this article and try if you can apply this to your problem...

http://vyaskn.tripod.com/hierarchies_in_sql_server_databases.htm

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 06:06:13

Try to count the OUTER table instead.

SELECT		SiteFolders.Path,
		Pages.PageName,
		Pages.UniqueID,
		COUNT(Pages.UniqueID) AS ChildCount
FROM		SiteFolders
LEFT JOIN	Pages ON Pages.Directory = SiteFolders.Path
GROUP BY	SiteFolders.Path,
		Pages.PageName,
		Pages.UniqueID
ORDER BY	SiteFolders.Path

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FruitBatInShades
Yak Posting Veteran

51 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 06:35:05

@Peso: It doesn't work either way :(
@visakh16: I can't change the database structure

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-30 : 07:34:34

Follow the advises in this blog post to get fast and accurate answers.
Until you do, all we can do is guessing...
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspx

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