SQL Query To Obtain Value that Occurs more than once

Question

I need to query my database to show the records inside my table where lastname occurs more than three times. Example: in my Students Table, there are 3 people with Lastname 'Smith', 4 with 'Johnson', and 1 with 'Potter'. My query should show the records of those with the lastnames Smith, and Johnson since these values occur more than or equal to 3 times.

Can anyone point me to this? I was thinking of using COUNT() but I can't seem to think how to apply it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6095567/sql-query-to-obtain-value-that-occurs-more-than-once

Answer 1

For SQL Server 2005+

;WITH T AS
(
SELECT *, 
       COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY Lastname) as Cnt
FROM Students
)
SELECT * /*TODO: Add column list. Don't use "*"                   */
FROM T
WHERE Cnt >= 3