What are you trying to summarise exactly? As far as I can see you are trying to count the number of records available the table. At a guess I would say that's not the summation you are looking for.
In answer to your second question :
Code:
SELECT table1.column1
, table2.column1
, table3.column1
FROM table1
JOIN table2 ON table1.column3=table2.column3
JOIN table3 ON table2.column2=table3.column2
WHERE <...>