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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/10/06 00:29
Jens (Jens@sqlserver2005.de) writes:
> Try this one here:
>
> Select
> header_id,
> header_desc,
> SUM(CASE Line_type WHEN 2 THEN costs else 0 END),
> SUM(CASE Line_type WHEN 10 THEN Totals else 0 END)
> FROM headers
> INNER JOIN
> line
> ON line.header_id = header.header_id
Better:
SELECT h.header_id, h.header_desc,
SUM(CASE Line_type WHEN 2 THEN costs else 0 END),
SUM(CASE Line_type WHEN 10 THEN Totals else 0 END)
FROM headers h
JOIN line ON l.header_id = h.header_id
GROUP BY h.header_id, h.header_desc
Particularly that GROUP BY clause is quite important...
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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