Thread: count different values in column?

Hello,
today I have a new question :)

I've a resulttable is generated by a couple of subselects and joins which
contains only one column.

Now I want to count the different values in the column.

Resulttable :  a
------
10
12
12
12
14
14
15

I need the value which is repeated most in the resulttable (in this example
12 ) !


Any suggestions ?


Thx
berger

  <p>Does the below solve your problem ? <br />  <p><tt>SELECT a  from  resulttable group by a order by count(a)  desc
limit1;</tt><br /><tt> a</tt><br /><tt>----</tt><br /><tt> 12</tt><br /><tt>(1 row)</tt><p>regds <br />mallah <br /> 
<br/>  <br />  <p>Thorsten Wenzlaff wrote: <blockquote type="CITE">Hello, <br />today I have a new question :) <p>I've
aresulttable is generated by a couple of subselects and joins which <br />contains only one column. <p>Now I want to
countthe different values in the column. <p>Resulttable : <br />   a <br />------ <br />10 <br />12 <br />12 <br />12
<br/>14 <br />14 <br />15 <p>I need the value which is repeated most in the resulttable (in this example <br />12 ) !
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