SELECT information from another query SQL - sql

Question

I am trying to select information from an already run query using SQL. I don't have the rights to create a view which I am aware would solve my problem. I have run the below (obfuscated) query which is throwing a number of errors:
SELECT
distinct(countValue),
count(countValue)
FROM
(
SELECT customer_identifier, count(distinct(2nd_customer_identifier)) AS countValue FROM table GROUP BY customer_identifier;
)
GROUP BY
distinct(countValue)
The subquery (below) is attempting to get a count of the unique payees for every customer:
SELECT
customer_identifier,
count(distinct(2nd_customer_identifier)) AS countValue
FROM table
GROUP BY aid
and the main query using that is attempting to get the counted values from the above table and count how many times each one occurs.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Can you logically replace it with the following? This will tell you how many multiple-payer situations you have.
SELECT
CountValue,
count(countValue) TotalRecords
FROM
(
SELECT
customer_identifier,
count(distinct([2nd_customer_identifier])) AS countValue
FROM table
GROUP BY customer_identifier
) a
GROUP BY countValue ;
Output will tell you something along the lines of:
There were 25 one-payer accounts
There were 17 two-payer accounts
There were 9 three-payer accounts
Etc.
If that's not what you want, please edit your question to describe the output you are after.