>Hi Michael,
>
> I think you're after:
>
>SELECT SUM(IIF(x > 3,1,0)) AS counter FROM table1
>
>Gavin...

Or:

SELECT Count(*) AS COUNTER FROM Table1 WHERE x > 3

this is optimizable, or at least more likely to be optimizable if there's a tag based on x - the IIF() would be evaluated record by record in all probability.

>
>>I'm trying to increment a counter in a SQL statement based on a condition. I've seen the code before somewhere, but I can't find it. It's something like this:
>>
>>select max(iif(x>3,1,0),1) as counter ;
>> from table1
>>
>>
>>
>>This code isn't right, far from it, but there was someway to increment the "counter" that I can't remember. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?