Hi,
At 01:52 pm 2/03/2001, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Richard Vibert wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I having trouble working out how to get a result set similar to the
> > following where I select from a table with Date & Sales column.
> >
> > My specific question is can I have a column that accumulates values, if so
> > could I have some guidance on how to express this in a select statement
> please.
> >
> >
> > +----------+-----------+-----------+
> > | Month | Sales | Cum Sales |
> > +----------+-----------+-----------+
> > | Jan | 1000 | 1000 |
> > | Feb | 1500 | 2500 |
> > | Mar | 1200 | 3700 |
> > | April | 1400 | 5100 |
> > +----------+-----------+-----------+
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Richard
>
>I assume the query should be like:
>
>select MONTHNAME(date_col) as Month,count(sales_amount) as
>Sales,sum(sales_amount) as Cum_sales from lala_table group by
>MONTHNAME(date_col);
>
>regards,
>thalis
Thanks for your reply.
This is not quite what I'm after. Count(sales) gives me the number of sales
transactions.
The first two cols I write as monthname(date_col) as Month, sum(sales) as Sales
It's the next column that's got me. That needs to be a "Running total" if
you like.
Richard
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