[AccessD] Count multiple columns

Wouldn't a sum do that?

Andy


On 04 December 2012 at 14:09 jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> I am doing counts for a set of columns. The values in the column are either 1
> or 0 signifying true
> or false. If I just do a count() as xyz all the columns give a count equal to
> the total number of
> records. I need to do a count of a value of 1.
>
> I discovered that if I change one of the 0 values to a NULL then the record
> with Null does not get
> counted. Thus I could go through the table updating each field which uses this
> method = null where
> '0'.
>
> Obviously this is a lot of work I would like to avoid. However it might be
> faster(?) to do the count?
>
> My preference however is to somehow tell the count() of each column to only
> count values of '1'.
>
> Is this possible in TSQL?
>
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