* Mike Podlesny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19.01.01 17:25:
> I have a table called RATING and two fields one called POSITIVE and the
> other called NEGATIVE.  I need to write an SQL statement for my mySQL
> database that will return the value of the total of POSITIVEs minues the
> total of the NEGATIVEs.

Err, how about

select sum(positive-negative) from rating;

?


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Tomi Junnila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.badzilla.net/~topeju/
Electronics and Information Technology,
University of Turku, Finland

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