How do i find the total number of records created on a given day using T-SQL?
Question
I need to find out the total number of records that were created on a given day.
e.g.
ID CreatedDate
1 17/07/2009
2 12/07/2009
3 17/07/2009
4 05/07/2009
5 12/07/2009
6 17/07/2009
Output:
3 Records were created on 17/07/2009
2 Records were created on 12/07/2009
1 Record was created on 05/07/2009
EDIT
Upon testing the second suggestion made by Chris Roberts of including the formatting in the SQL i get this error:
Syntax error converting the varchar value ' Records were created on ' to a column of data type int.
Does anyone know how to rework the solution so that it works?
Solution
You should be able to get the data you're after with the following SQL...
SELECT COUNT(ID), CreatedDate
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY CreatedDate
Or - if you want to do the formatting in the SQL, too...
SELECT CONVERT(varchar, COUNT(ID)) + ' Records were created on ' + CONVERT(varchar, CreatedDate)
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY CreatedDate
Good luck!
OTHER TIPS
Is the column actually a timestamp? In which case you will need to apply a function to remove the time component, e.g.:
SELECT COUNT(*), date(CreatedDate) FROM MyTable GROUP BY date(CreatedDate)
I don't know what the function is in T-SQL, it's date() in MySQL and trunc() in Oracle. You may even have to do a to_string and remove the end of the string and group by that if you lack this.
Hope this helps.
select count(*), CreatedDate from table group by CreatedDate order by count(*) DESC