Can someone help me?
I'm trying to get a record for a table with the least amount of calls. I'm using this code in SQL but it is not working:

select MIN(vchNumberCalls)as 'Number of Calls', vchSpecialistName
from tblConsumerSpecialists
When I run this code it returns the correct number, but I need the Name that goes along with that number.

select MIN(vchNumberCalls)as 'Number of Calls'
from tblConsumerSpecialists


Alexander Nelson
Programmer

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Alexander Nelson
Programmer

What is the relationship between Numberofcalls and vchSpecialistName?

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It's a phone rotation list is certain people are getting more calls than others. So everytimes someone gets a call it will add one to number of calls, and when they hit next it will run the query again to pull the next person with the least number of calls to received the next call an so on and so forth.

Alexander Nelson
Programmer

If number of calls is unique i would do something like

SELECT name from table where numberCalls = min(vchnumbercalls)

again though, I assume that number of calls is a unique number else you will return multiple names here.

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So, if a ConsumerSpecialist gets a few long duration calls, that ConsumerSpecialist will get the next call as opposed to a ConsumerSpecialist who gets a lot of short duration calls.


Rand

This is the error I get when I do that:
"An aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless it is in a subquery contained in a HAVING clause or a select list, and the column being aggregated is an outer reference."

Alexander Nelson
Programmer

Due dilligence. Anyway: What you would do is declare a variable in SQL = to the value of min(vchnumbercalls) then you would call your select statement and base your where clause off of your varaible.



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Your 'vch' prefix doesn't indicate the calls column is a varchar, does it?

Assuming not, use a subquery. Try:
but as was pointed out earlier, this could return more than one row if the same minimum value was present in more then one row of the table.

You can't avoid that unless you can define what conditions distigush one row with the same number of calls from another with that same value.

Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com

Thanks Jeff, But for some reason I'm getting this error:
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'FROM'. I don't know why it is throwing this error.

Alexander Nelson
Programmer

Thanks Jeff I figured it out.
SELECT vchNumberCalls as 'Number of Calls', vchSpecialistName
FROM tblConsumerSpecialists
WHERE vchNumberCalls = ((SELECT MIN(vchNumberCalls)
                            FROM tblConsumerSpecialists))

Alexander Nelson
Programmer