Generating Derived Table

Hi,
I've just created in BO Designer 6.5 a derived table for the calculation of an aggregate function.
The table is structured in the following way (for example):
SELECT SUM(ColumnCount) AS Sum_Distinct_NDG
FROM (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT cod_sample) AS ColumnCount
FROM table.sample) DTBL
In the derived table I have only one numeric column, and I can not put it in join with my fact table (table.sample).
I thought topopulate the derived table also with an "alias" of the "table.sample.cod_sample" to put them in join, am I right? Anyway... I don't know how to do it.
Can anybody help me to go on?
Thanks in advance
Riccardo

Hi riccardo,
assuming you have a table A with a column A1 and you want to count the distinct entries in this column. Your sql statement will look like this:
select count(distinct A.A1) from A
Assuming that the column A1 contains the following data:
A1
1
1
2
2
3
Your sql statement return only one row with just one column:
select count(distinct A.A1) from A
3
In your example you try then to build the sum of a table with a single line:
select sum(B.alias1) from ( select count(distinct A.A1) as alias1 from A ) B
which does not make really sense.
Generally it does not make sense to apply two aggregation operators on the same database field at once.
What is your high level requirement here? In order to count the distinct entries the distinct count operator should be enough.
Regards,
Stratos

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