Re: Best way to sort?

From: Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:41:55 +0000
Subject: Re: Best way to sort?
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Brian Dunning wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a complex SQL query or a PHP array sorting thing, but what's the best way to take this data: Tom Greg Brian Tom Brian Tom And return the following results, sorted by number of records: Tom - 3 Brian - 2 Greg - 1 Any thoughts?
I'm not a SQL expert, but try : select field, count(field) from TableName group by field having count(*) > 1

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