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HQL: How to count green eye kittens?

 
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Hi all
I would like to count the green eye kittens,
This HQL fetch query works fine:


but when i add the count(*)


I got this Exception (MSSQL):

Column 'cat.kittens' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in an aggregate function and there is no GROUP BY clause.



What am I doing wrong?
Thank you!
 
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COUNT is an aggregate function. What column do you want to count the elements of?

You probably want to do:



Remember, COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX are alle aggregate functions and always need a GROUP BY to do their operation on.

Karsten
 
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Thank you Karsten

When running the query with the Group By clause this is the error I get:


I also tried
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Can you post us the entire SQL which was generated, so that we can take a look at it?
 
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Once I removed the "fetch" keyword from the query it miraculously work...
 
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