What do these symbols do???

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What do these symbols do???

djustice 20821

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February 8, 2012 at 7:10 am

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I have worked with SQL for a few years now, but have never seen the + - symbols used like they are in the script below. I am trying to figure out what this piece of code means. It is part of a much larger view. Can anyone tell me what the +/- is doing here?
Thanks
[Code = "sql"]ReplenishmentPosition = dbo.fnIMRoundQtyPhysCount(
(SELECT COALESCE (SUM(m.QtyOnHand), 0)
FROM timWhseBinInvt m
JOIN timWhseBin n ON m.WhseBinKey = n.WhseBinKey
WHERE n.WhseKey = a.WhseKey AND m.ItemKey = a.ItemKey)
- a.QtyOnSO
- a.QtyReqForTrnsfr
- a.QtyReqForWO
+ a.QtyOnPO
+ a.QtyOnTrnsfr
+ a.QtyOnWO
+ COALESCE((SELECT SUM(n.PendQtyIncrease - n.PendQtyDecrease)
FROM timWhseBin m
INNER JOIN timWhseBinInvt n ON m.WhseBinKey = n.WhseBinKey
WHERE m.WhseKey = a.WhseKey AND n.ItemKey = a.ItemKey),0)
, b.ItemKey, b.StockUnitMeasKey)[/code]

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 1

Adding and subtracting values. The various fields apparently return numeric types and are been added and subtracted to get a total.

Maybe it would be more understandable as such:

(SELECT COALESCE (SUM(m.QtyOnHand), 0)

FROM timWhseBinInvt m

JOIN timWhseBin n ON m.WhseBinKey = n.WhseBinKey

WHERE n.WhseKey = a.WhseKey AND m.ItemKey = a.ItemKey) - a.QtyOnSO - a.QtyReqForTrnsfr - a.QtyReqForWO + a.QtyOnPO + a.QtyOnTrnsfr + a.QtyOnWO + COALESCE((SELECT SUM(n.PendQtyIncrease - n.PendQtyDecrease)

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 2

What they are meant for: substracting and summing values.

It's hard to see without the entire SQL statement present, but the select statements return numerical values.

edit: apparently Gail can type faster than I can 🙂

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HowardW One Orange Chip Points: 29109 More actions · Answer 3

It's pretty bad looking code, but it's straight forward. It's adding and substracting numerical values.

E.g. the first select statement is returning a scalar value (a number), to which the other columns specified are being added and substracted and then a function is being applied to the result of this.

The most straight forward example would be:

SELECT 1+2-1

Edit: Apparently Koen and Gail can both type faster than I can

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 4

HowardW (2/8/2012)
The most straight forward example would be:
SELECT 1+2-1

That really is straight forward 😀

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djustice 20821 Old Hand Points: 326 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks everyone. I should have figured that out, I have just never seen it coded out in that way.

Thanks again!