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Posted - 2001-03-28 : 17:28:14
Julian writes "I have a table of customer visits, something like:

PK_VisitID - varchar(10)
FK_CustomerID - varchar(10)
Date - datetime

What I need is a query that will count the number of visits per day, for the past 30 days. The tricky part (for me at least) is how to include days where no visits occur. If this doesn't make sense, I need something like:

Date: 1/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 5
Date: 2/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 6
Date: 3/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 0
Date: 4/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 2
Date: 5/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 0
etc

I can already easily produce the following result:

Date: 1/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 5
Date: 2/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 6
Date: 4/1/01 | NumOfVisits: 2
etc

Any ideas?

Regards
Julian"
   

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