>I am trying to put the value of an sql count(*) operation into a variable rather then a table, can this be done?
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>I've tried "SELECT count(*) FROM m:4vs WHERE date_l_in =today to y1" but I'm not getting a figure when I know it's >1.
You can put result into an array
SELECT count(*) ;
FROM m4vs ;
WHERE date_l_in = today ;
INTO ARRAY laVal
? laVal[1]
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