Question

OK I might be asking a stupid question, but I’m banging my head over this..

Say I have a table like so:

FullName | DownloadDate
-------- | -----------------------
Jack     | 2012-03-21 00:00:00.000
Joe      | 2012-03-21 00:00:00.000
John     | 2012-03-22 00:00:00.000

I want to return the number of downloads by date so the resulting table is:

DownloadDate            | TotalDownloaded
------------------------| ---------------
2012-03-21 00:00:00.000 | 2
2012-03-22 00:00:00.000 | 1

How can I achieve this?

Also, you can assume that in my date column in the original data, I will always have a time of ’00:00:00.000′.

Answer 1

try this:

SELECT DownloadDate, Count(DownloadDate) as TotalDownloaded
FROM yourtable
GROUP BY DownloadDate