Rick, I don't think it's possible to sum words and letters.
Paul. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:08 PM To: cf-newbie Subject: RE: Sum Thanks Paul, Will it also work on char fields? -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kukiel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February-24-09 2:00 PM To: cf-newbie Subject: RE: Sum As a new query against the database: <cfquery name="q" datasource="myDSN"> Select sum(invoiceamount) From invoices </cfquery> Or <cfquery name="q" dbtype="query"> Select sum(invoiceamount) From 123 </cfquery> Where 123 is the previous query. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:46 PM To: cf-newbie Subject: Sum It's a newbie question so I'm posting it here. I've looked through the documentation and can't find it. How do I sum a column from a query? Ex: <cfoutput query=123> #invoiceamount# </cfoutput> Is there a sum function like: #sum(invoiceamount)# or anything like that? Thanks, Rick Sanders Webenergy Canada: 902-431-7279 USA: 919-799-9076 Canada: www.webenergy.ca USA: www.webenergyusa.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/message.cfm/messageid:4397 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
