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From Dani Castaños
Subject Results per letter query
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Msg-id 467A406A.3060907@androme.es
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Responses Re: Results per letter query  ("A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>)
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Hi!

I'm trying to build a query to get if there is an occurrence for a field 
for each alphabetical letter.
My first thought to know it was to do something like:

SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'A%' ) 
LIMIT 1;
SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'B%' ) 
LIMIT 1;
SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'C%' ) 
LIMIT 1;
...
and so on...

Is there any way to do it in only one query??

Thank you in advance!


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