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Question:
I need to know how to order by the count of the selected field. For example:

Select xxx count(xxx)from prod-tableorder by xxx
I'd like to order/rank field xxx highest to lowest.
Answer: 
You want to write:
select xxx,count(*)from prod-tablegroup by xxxorder by count(*)






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