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How to count one to many relationships

ReporterTbl has a one to many relationship with AttachmentTbl.

In ReporterTbl, I have an ID (101) and I can have AttachmentTbl more than one Attachments related with ReporterTbl.Id

SELECT     
ISNULL(ReporterTbl.Id, 0) AS Id, 
CONVERT(char(10), ReporterTbl.StartDate, 101) AS StartDate, 
ISNULL(ReporterTbl.PriorityId, 0) AS PriorityId, 
ISNULL(dbo.ReporterTbl.PriorityDesc, '') AS PriorityDesc, 
 (select       
   ReporterTbl.Id, 
   COUNT(dbo.AttachmentTbl.Id) AS attachment_Id
FROM         
dbo.AttachmentTbl RIGHT OUTER JOIN
ReporterTbl ON dbo.AttachmentTbl.Id = ReporterTbl.Id
GROUP BY ReporterTbl.Id) AS IsAttachment
)

Basically, what I am trying to know is given ReporterTbl.ID, how many Attachments do I have?

Table structure:

 ReporterTbl

    Id int   {**PrimaryKey**}
    StartDate datetime
    PriorityId int
    PriorityDesc varchar(500

    AttachmentTbl:

    AttachmentId indentity
    Id {**FK to ReproterTbl**}
    Filename
    Content
    ...

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Answer

select r.id, count(a.id) as Count
from ReporterTbl r
left outer join AttachmentTbl a on r.id = a.id
group by r.id

Note: It is important that we are using count(a.id), and not count(*). This is because count will ignore null values when we count the results of an expression. If instead we use count(*), SQL will count the resulting rows, so any rows from ReporterTbl that don’t have a matching row in AttachmentTbl would return a count of 1 because we still return the row due to the left join.

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