Within the context of our technical work, we sometimes just need a simple number to guide us along to help answer our questions.
For example, we may be curious about the number of records that were created per day. Or, perhaps we want to know how many were modified, etc. Filters and reports within Sugar can help us get some answers, but we can also do some nifty things by way of SQL queries.
Let us take a look at the following query:
select distinct(date(date_entered)), count(*) from opportunities
where deleted = '0'
group by date(date_entered);
The above will generate output similar to the following:
select distinct(date(date_modified)), count(*) from opportunities
where deleted = '0'
group by date(date_modified);
May this help simplify your work.