Jeff Lanzarotta wrote:

Sam Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:46:34AM -0700, 
Jeff Lanzarotta wrote:

Hello,

I have a table that looks something like this:

SKU   Dept   Col1   Col2  Col3
-------   ------   -------   -------  ------
1        1        1        2       3
2        1        2        3       4
3        2        1        0       1
4        2        0        1       2
5        2        4        1       3
6        3        1        2       3

I am having a problem trying to get the Is there a query that can do
something like this:

select sku, dept, (col1 + col2) * col3) from table group by dept


What are you expecting the group by to do here?  It may be helpful if
you show what you expect the output to be.

> Okay, actually the query is something like:
>
> select dept, (col1 + col2) * col3) from table group by dept
>
> So, the output would look something like:
>
> Dept    Total
> ------     -------
> 1         26
> 2         18
> 3         9
>

Please don't top-post.

The problem may have been that you were selecting SKU (at least, in the first example). But, as you're aggregating the columns, this is impossible.

SELECT Dept, SUM((Col1 + Col2) * col3) AS total
FROM foo
GROUP BY Dept
ORDER BY Dept;

 dept | total
------+-------
    1 |    29
    2 |    18
    3 |     9


(your example had an arithmetic error)

brian

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