>I have a table named planning in which I query a set of records into a cursor. Each record has whats known as a mainkey. There can be more than one record with the same mainkey. I would like to count the number of mainkeys in the table. For example, here is my query:L
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>SELECT planning.mainkey, planning.planextra1, planning.ok, planning.okdate ;
>FROM planning ;
>WHERE planning.ok<>.t. ;
>INTO CURSOR crsresult
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>A typical list of record would be:
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>MAINKEY TYPE DATE
>JT001 Trouser 19/11/04
>JT002 Skirt 20/11/04
>JT001 Trouser 21/11/04
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>Therefore I would like to count the number of different mainkeys. In this example the result would be 2. As there is only JT001 & JT002.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Neil

try
SELECT sum(1),mainkey FROM planning where planning.ok <> .t. GROUP BY mainkey

Actually that not what you want is it ? (Says nick editing his reply)

Nick Mason