On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get a SELECT statement in the following general form to work: > > SELECT CASE WHEN <condition> THEN <calculation> ELSE <calculation> END AS > CalcA, sum(CalcA) AS CalcATotal .... > > I get an error "no such column" referring to CalcA when used in the sum > function. I'm trying to get total of all the values of CalcA across all the > selected rows. Is there a way to do this? >
Try SELECT sum(CalcA) AS CalcATotal FROM ( SELECT CASE WHEN <condition> THEN <calculation> ELSE <calculation> END AS CalcA FROM table WHERE ... ) > Pete Haworth > > > > > > > > > http://www.mollysrevenge.com > http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge > http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband > > > > > > > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
