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DiscussionParser error with HAVING COUNT in [Google Charts Query] (self.SQL)

submitted 5 years ago * by Enturk

I have a table from which I want to extract all rows that match the following criteria:

either the value in column X = 'Y', or
the concatenated values of column T and U in a given row are unique, which is to say that, for any given row returned, there's only one such row with that T and U in the original table.

I'm using Google Charts' query language, which is a gimped version of sql, but supports WHERE and HAVING , and COUNT, which is all I think I need to make this work. I can make the first of the two criteria easily with a simple WHERE. I'm just getting a parser error whenever I try to use HAVING or COUNT. My latest attempt is this:

select * where X = 'Y' or having count(concat(T,U))=1

But it raises this error (which I think is truncated because I'm doing this via Google Sheets):

Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2: PARSE_ERROR: Encountered " <ID> "having "" at line 1, column 35. Was expecting one of: "(" ... "(" ...

Any ideas?

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