SQL - Count(*) not behaving in expected manner [duplicate] - sql

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I have the following code
SELECT C_Record.BunchOfColumns, Count(*) AS Degrees
FROM C_Record
WHERE (((C_Record.[C#])=[Enter Value])) //Parameter Input from User
GROUP BY C_Record.BunchofColumns;
My Degrees column never increments, it shows 1 always no matter how many rows are returned from the query. I am suspecting that I have not implemented my GROUP BY method properly. If I understand it correctly, all columns that are selected and are not part of the aggregate function (COUNT in my case) should be put together in GROUP BY. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance
Edit: What I am trying to achieve is to check how many rows have a particular value for a column, then select all other relevant columns and create a Index columns. For example if there are three rows that meet my requirement
Col1 Col2 Degrees
A X 1
B Y 2
C Z 3
and if only 2 rows meet my requirement then
Col1 Col2 Degrees
P X 1
Q Y 2
P.S - my C_Record.BunchofColumns consists of about 10 columns that I did not include for the sake of brevity.
P.P.S - If I try to skip out on any column it gives me the error You Tried to execute a query that does not include the specified expression <<column_name>> as part of an aggregate function

Answer 1

When you use Count() with a GROUP BY the count returned is the number of rows in each group. So to get a count greater than one you would have to have more than one row in your table that had exactly the same values. If you are selecting 10 different columns it seems likely that you have no two columns in the database that have exactly those 10 same values.
If you start with a selecting and grouping by a single column you will see count's of more than one.

Answer 2

That is not how GROUP BY works.
GROUP BY completely changes the meaning of your query. Each row of the result is an "aggregate grouping" of the original rows. Each aggregate grouping consists of all the rows with a particular combination of values for their GROUP BY columns. So if you GROUP BY ten columns, each grouping will consist of rows which are identical on all ten columns.
Once these groupings have been formed, you SELECT various aggregate values like count() or sum(), which provide you with information about the group as a whole. count(*) gives you the number of rows in the group, while count(column) gives you the number of rows in which column is non-NULL. You can also select any of the columns which appear in the GROUP BY clause, because those columns are identical across the whole group.
You are getting a count(*) of one because each of your groups only contains a single row. This is probably because you are grouping by ten columns, and there are no two rows which are identical for all ten columns.
If you just want a count of how many rows satisfy some query, and you don't want this aggregation at all, you write it like this:
SELECT count(*)
FROM something
WHERE something
-- no GROUP BY
;
That will form a single aggregate group of your whole query, and count the rows.
If you want something else, you will need to further explain what you're trying to do.