How to total on distinct?

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How to total on distinct?

Frank Cazabon

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March 12, 2013 at 12:21 pm

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Hi,
I have to create a report like this:
Deposit ID | Deposit Amount | Receipt # | Receipt Amount
1 | 1000 | 1 | 500
| | 2 | 500
2 | 2000 | 3 | 1500
| | 4 | 500
------------------------------------------------------------
Total | 3000 | 1 | 3000
I've pulled all the data into one dataset and have the layout and totalling of the Receipt Amount fine.
My problem is that the total Deposit Amount is way over because it occurs once in each row, even though I am only displaying it once for each row. Is there a way that I can get this totalled properly?

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 1

i might be reading it wrong, but i think you just want to use either a CTE or a subquery, so you can further group your data;

something like this, maybe?

SELECT

[Deposit ID],

SUM([Deposit Amount]) AS TotalDeposits,

SUM([Receipt Amount]) AS TotalReceipts

FROM (SELECT

DISTINCT

[Deposit ID],

[Deposit Amount],

[Receipt #],

[Receipt Amount]

FROM MyTable) MyAlias

GROUP BY [Deposit ID]

Lowell

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Steven Willis SSCrazy Eights Points: 9893 More actions · Answer 2

Frank Cazabon (3/12/2013)
Hi,
I have to create a report like this:
Deposit ID | Deposit Amount | Receipt # | Receipt Amount
1 | 1000 | 1 | 500
| | 2 | 500
2 | 2000 | 3 | 1500
| | 4 | 500
------------------------------------------------------------
Total | 3000 | 1 | 3000
I've pulled all the data into one dataset and have the layout and totalling of the Receipt Amount fine.
My problem is that the total Deposit Amount is way over because it occurs once in each row, even though I am only displaying it once for each row. Is there a way that I can get this totalled properly?

Try getting your totals like this:

SELECT

SUM(DepositAmount) OVER (PARTITION BY DepositID) AS TotalDeposits

,SUM(ReceiptAmount) OVER (PARTITION BY ReceiptID) AS TotalReceipts

Frank Cazabon Hall of Fame Points: 3467 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks Steven & Lowell, that helped. I didn't quite use your queries but I adjusted my query (stored procedure actually) to do the totalling for me.