Row by Row Arithmetic

  • Dear Experts,

    I have an interesting problem here.

    I have a two values on a row. Say value A = 5000 and Value B = 20000. Value A changes from row to row but Value B is constant. I would like to deduct Value A from B such that Value B keeps decreasing cummulatively with each row. Such as on Row 1 the Variance would be 15,000 from 20000-5000

    On Row 2 where Value A is 3000, I would like to have 15000 - 3000 = 12000 and so on. How can I achieve this programmatically ?

  • Did you have a look at Jeffs great article : "Solving the "Running Total" & "Ordinal Rank" Problems (Rewritten)" http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/68467/

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  • The pseudo cursor method would surely work..

    you could also try looping over the table based on the row_number() function and store the previous derived value in a temp variable A.

    You can use the value of A in the next row value..

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