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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:36:08+00:00

Let’s say I have a Sales table, that contains columns ProductID, Date, … some

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Let’s say I have a Sales table, that contains columns ProductID, Date, … some other data. If I want to find how many products were sold in a given year, what query would I use?

I had something like:

SELECT YEAR(Date) AS Year, COUNT(ProductID) FROM Sales GROUP BY Year ORDER BY Year;

but that isn’t correct. Essentially I want a resultset like this:

| Year | ProductsSold
| 2000 | 57306
| 2001 | 39683
| 2002 | 30693
| 2003 | 63966

I know I need a GROUP BY but I just can’t think of how to get this right.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This answer shows keywords escaped using SQL Server syntax, since you used a keyword for your column name and alias.

    You probably meant to group by the YEAR function applied to the Date column (i.e., YEAR([Date])) rather than its Year alias:

    SELECT YEAR([Date]) AS [Year], COUNT(ProductID) AS ProductsSold
FROM Sales 
GROUP BY YEAR([Date]) 
ORDER BY [Year];

    The reason why you can’t use the Year alias is the order in which a SELECT statement is evaluated.

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