Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/09/06 01:06

Laphan (info@SpamMeNot.co.uk) writes:
> This works in a fashion, but I need to sort of query the stocktransactions
> table again to get the sum of the st.QUANTITY table for
> st.TRANSACTIONTYPE=1
> so that I can have an extra select field of Sum(st.QUANTITY) AS 'Qty
> Ordered', ie transactions with transactiontype of 1 are sales orders and
> type 8 are invoices.

It sounds like you could just add one column to your SELECT list:

SUM(CASE st.TRANSACTIONTYPE WHEN 1 THEN st.QUANTITY ELSE 0 END)
AS "Qty Ordered"

By the way, use of single quotes to delimit column aliases is deprected
in SQL 2005.



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