Hi there everyone! Im new here but I have a quick question. I am not familiar with much SQL, and I am trying to start learning access and then get into using mysql. Anyways my problem is that I am making a 2 tabled database, one that holds patient information, while another one holds records of patient appointments. My one issue I am running into, is that I want to count how many total appointments a patient has ever had by counting how many date values there are.

Appointment rows all have date, physician, patient, and work tele. Each row consists of a new appointment ( not having a drop down list associated with all dates of the patient. A little "find how many times X's name comes up on the appointment side would work in the same way, so either or is fine by me. Can anyone help? I apologize I realize it is a dumb question ><

Welcome to the Access forum.

I suggest you don't try summing the appointments by counting the date values. You'll get '1' for an answer every time, because the patient only has one appointment on any date. What you want to do is count how many times the patient name appears in the appointment file. That will give you what you're looking for.

Good luck,

Sam

You can retrieve this kind of information from a query (change the names to match those in your database):

thanks alot guys! I usually just need a little push before I can get started in learning something like this.

You're welcome!