Count function show zero when no record for an institution

I've got two databases. One is a master listing of colleges, and the other is
a listing of federal lawsuits since calendar year 2000. I'm using the count
function to add up the number of lawsuits filed against each college, but
some colleges have no federal lawsuits. Accordingly, the count function
skips them altogether in the query instead of returning a zero. How can I
make a zero value appear in the query when I run it?

Use an OUTER JOIN between the tables so it selects all records from the
Colleges table, & only related records from the lawsuits table. I think this
should give you the required result...



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James Goodman
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I've got two databases. One is a master listing of colleges, and the other
is
a listing of federal lawsuits since calendar year 2000. I'm using the
count
function to add up the number of lawsuits filed against each college, but
some colleges have no federal lawsuits. Accordingly, the count function
skips them altogether in the query instead of returning a zero. How can I
make a zero value appear in the query when I run it?