Question

I am trying to use the below query in a stored procedure to get everything from Promotion table and count(*) from Merchant_Views table. But i get the error “Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘from’.”. This is in SQl Server 2005. I am wonddering how this can be solved. What am i doing wrong. Thanks for all the help!

SELECT *, (count(*) from Merchant_Views) FROM dbo.Promotion
INNER JOIN dbo.Merchant_Location ON dbo.Promotion.LocationID = dbo.Merchant_Location.LocationID
INNER JOIN dbo.Merchant_Views MV ON MV.LocationID = dbo.Promotion.LocationID
and dbo.Merchant_Views.ClickDate >= dbo.Promotion.startDate 
and dbo.Merchant_Views.ClickDate <=  dbo.Promotion.expireDate
and dbo.Merchant_Views.Status <> 'printed' 
WHERE dbo.Promotion.MerchantID=@MerchantID AND PostType=@PostType

Thank you!!

Answer 1

You are just missing a SELECT before COUNT(*)

SELECT *, ViewCnt
FROM dbo.Promotion p
     INNER JOIN dbo.Merchant_Location ml ON p.LocationID = ml.LocationID
     INNER JOIN dbo.Merchant_Views mv ON mv.LocationID = p.LocationID
     INNER JOIN 
     (SELECT p.ID, COUNT(*) AS ViewCnt
      FROM dbo.Promotion p
           INNER JOIN dbo.Merchant_Views mv ON mv.LocationID = p.LocationID
      GROUP BY p.Id) t ON t.ID = p.ID
WHERE p.MerchantID= @MerchantID AND PostType=@PostType
  AND MV.ClickDate >= p.startDate 
  AND MV.ClickDate <=  p.expireDate
  AND MV.Status <> 'printed'