I use following query.

SELECT employees.empno, employees.name, approvals.contractno, assignments.acontract,assignments.aposit, assignments.astrdate, assignments.aenddate FROM (employees INNER JOIN approvals ON employees.empno=approvals.empno) INNER JOIN assignments ON employees.empno=assignments.empno

data retrieve from sql server tables like this.

empno name aposit contractno acontract
------------------------------------------------------
1234 Martin Engineer 2016 229
7890 Jones Ass Engr 2002 221
1234 Martin Engineer 2016 222
1590 Peter Sr.Engr 894 982
1234 Martin Engineer 2010 985
1590 Peter Sr.Engr 229 2016
1234 Martin Engineer 2016 3010
1590 Peter Sr.Engr 229 2016
7890 Jones Ass Engr 2002 229
4567 George Engineer 2015 222
7800 Mathew Sureyor 2017 225
...........
and so on.......


contractno means approvals.contractno
acontract means assignments.acontract

some employee are working four contracts, some are three and some are two and remaining employees working only one contract.

How can data can retreive from the above query that it count the employee that it working four contract, three contracts,
two contract and one contract etc.
data retrieve like this.

empno..name....aposit...contractno..acontract...co unt(acontract)
----------------------------------------------------------
1234...Martin...Engineer....2016....229........... ...4
1234...Martin...Engineer....2016....222
1234...Martin...Engineer....2010....985
1234...Martin...Engineer....2016....3010
1590...Peter....Sr.Engr.....894.....982........... ...3
1590...Peter....Sr.Engr.....229.....2016
1590...Peter....Sr.Engr.....229.....2016
7890...Jones....Ass Engr....2002....221..............2
7890...Jones....Ass Engr....2002....229
4567...George...Engineer....2015....222........... ...1
7800...Mathew...Sureyor.....2017....225........... ...1
...........
and so on........

How can use count clause in above query and display data like as above order ?
first display which employee working on highest number of contract ie four and so on..

regards.

Mateen

Try the following:

SELECT employees.empno, employees.name, approvals.contractno, assignments.acontract,assignments.aposit, assignments.astrdate, assignments.aenddate, COUNT (employees.empno) AS ContractsWorkingOn

FROM (employees INNER JOIN approvals ON employees.empno=approvals.empno) INNER JOIN assignments ON employees.empno=assignments.empno

GROUP BY employees.empno, employees.name, approvals.contractno, assignments.acontract,assignments.aposit, assignments.astrdate, assignments.aenddate

ORDER BY ContractsWorkingOn

thanks for your respose.

I try your query but it only display one (1) in each row.
it not count(acontract)
I use count(assignments.acontract) instead of count(employees.empno)
but it display one in each row.

problem is solve now. someone inform me the query like this.

SELECT * FROM (SELECT E.empno, E.name, A.contractno,asg.acontract,asg.aposit,asg.astrdate , asg.aenddate,
(SELECT Count(acontract) FROM assignments Where empno = E.EmpNo) as Projects
FROM (employees E INNER JOIN approvals A on E.empno=A.empno) INNER JOIN assignments ASG ON E.empno=ASG.empno ) A
ORDER BY Projects DESC

regards

Mateen