Showing posts with label resolve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resolve. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

listing only owners with more than one car query help

Hi, here is the problem I have to resolve, I'll try to be very clear about the situation (using MS Access):

- I have 2 tables (well, I have more but only two are relevant to the query) one table stores owner information (owner #, name, surname, phone number...) and the other stores car info (car #, brand, type, color and owner #)

- I want to make a query that gives me the owner info but only for owners that have MORE than one car (ie 2 or more). I tried many approaches but without any success, so far..

- It doesn't matter if I get the same user information 2,3,4 times, I will take the query and build a report with it, and I'll group the cars by users.

Any ideas for me? This really bothers me because I really don't have a clue and I'm sure I missed something easy... :(I'd use:SELECT ownerID
FROM cars
GROUP BY ownerID
HAVING 1 < Count(*);

-PatP|||Thanks, Pat, this correctly lists people with more than one car :) But if I want to da a report with the car info for each car that each owner of more than 1 car (err.. I wanna do a report with the user info + the car info in a report, grouped by the user), I must have the info of each car also.. Your query works like I want, but only list the users and I can't add car info on one line for each car.. Well, I know that sounded pretty bad.. Any idea?

Thanks for the quick answer there, Pat!|||Picky, picky, picky! Ok, at least the logic is good. Now let's try:SELECT *
FROM cars AS a
WHERE 1 < (SELECT Count(*)
FROM cars AS z
WHERE z.ownerID = a.ownerID);...and see if that am more gooder yet even. (How many ways can I butcher the English language... Is there a finite limit?)

-PatP|||All I want to say is: "Thanks alot, this is exactly what I wanted.. I'll be trying to add informations about the owners from the owner's table now.. But this is exactly what I meant!

Thanks for this, Pat, you are a real pal!|||No problemo! Always glad to "stir the pot" any way I can.

-PatPsql