Hi,
Assume the name of the column is 'price' and the name of the table is
'table', you could use
SELECT SUM(price) FROM table;
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Micke wrote:
> Does anyone know how to write a query to get out the sum of a whole
> table
> column?
>
> ex. I'm playing around with a database where customers can buy stuff.
> I have a table where I save all the invoices, but now I want to write
> a query that sums upp all the prices in the price column in that
> table.
>
> Is this possible? And if, how???
>
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