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    slg9303 is offline Novice
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    In one-to-many relationship, count unique combinations of "many" records related to each "one"


    There is a "Project" and a "Measure" table. One or more measures may be related to each project. I want to know all the unique combination of measures related to projects, and how many projects have that unique combination. Then I want to be able to sort the combinations from most to least common.

    So, let's say there are six possible measures: A, B, C, D, E, and F. One project may have just measure "A". Another project may have measure "A" and "C". Another project may have measure "B", "D", and "F". I'd like to know all the combinations of measures that exist for the projects. So, for example, there are 10 projects that have the combination "A", "D", and "F". There are five projects that have "C" and "F".

    I have a feeling a nested query may be the solution. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

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    CJ_London is offline VIP
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    you will need to get your data into the form

    project...measures
    1...........A
    2...........AC
    3...........BDF

    on which you can do a simple group by and count

    how you get the data into that form - perhaps use the concatrelated function, or perhaps a crosstab query to get you

    project..measureA..measureB..measureC....
    1..........1
    2..........1..............................1
    3.........................1....................... .......

    and then another query to concat the measure columns together, substituting 1 for A, B, C etc depending on the column or replace the nulls with 0 so you get

    project...measures
    1...........100000
    2...........101000
    3...........010101

    whichever way you go, it is important that the order of measures is consistent

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    slg9303 is offline Novice
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    Thank you this was very helpful!

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