Dear all, I got a small portion of code which I cannot understand what it does, SET DELETED ON SET SAFETY OFF select ins_id, count(sampnum); <--------- from spitem; where end_ass <> 2; into table q_anasum; group by ins_id; order by ins_id Can anyone help me figure out what the function (count()) do here? Does it output a number or something? Any help appreciated, thanks in advance. Best regards, Ron.