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Totaling/Grouping in SQL query

My data returned looks like this:

Description      StatuteReference        Page Sort Order GLAccountId      Total
ClientX       4875      1      1215            10        3752.84
ClientX       4875      1      1215            11        3425.84
ClientX       4875      1      1215            12        2134.84

How would I change my query to have these merged into a single record and have a "total" on the Total column above?

Thanks.

SELECT
  str.Description, str.StatuteReference, str.Page, str.SortOrder
,STRA.SourceCodeId
,GLT.GLAccountId, GLT.Amount
FROM
  rp.StateRemittance as STR
  
  INNER JOIN rp.StateRemittanceAccount STRA on str.StateRemittanceId = STRA.StateRemittanceId

INNER JOIN
  (SELECT 
     GlAccountId, PostingDate, Amount
   FROM
     ac.GLTransaction
   GROUP BY 
     GlAccountId, PostingDate, Amount) GLT
ON
  STRA.GLAccountId = GLT.GLAccountId

WHERE GLT.PostingDate BETWEEN '3/01/2010' AND '3/31/2010'

ORDER BY SortOrder ASC

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Daniel Wilson

What kind of a "merge" do you want? The real question is, what do you want done with the data that are different -- that is the GLAccountID field?

If you want to pick the minimum or the maximum, a SUM operation becomes easy.

Or are you looking to have each GLAccountID in its own column? That gets into PIVOT operations ...

ApexCo

ASKER

I'm looking to really group this by the Description field. All of the clients needs to have their totals summed up.

Even if the GLAccount Id is different. Still possible to do?

Daniel Wilson

OK, then we'll just grab the minimum GLAccountID and sum the Total, grouping by Description.

Please try:

SELECT
  str.Description, min(str.StatuteReference) as StatuteReference, min(str.Page) as Page, str.SortOrder
,STRA.SourceCodeId
,min(GLT.GLAccountId) as GLAccountID, Sum(GLT.Amount) as Total
FROM
  rp.StateRemittance as STR
  
  INNER JOIN rp.StateRemittanceAccount STRA on str.StateRemittanceId = STRA.StateRemittanceId

INNER JOIN
  (SELECT 
     GlAccountId, PostingDate, Amount
   FROM
     ac.GLTransaction
   GROUP BY 
     GlAccountId, PostingDate, Amount) GLT
ON
  STRA.GLAccountId = GLT.GLAccountId

WHERE GLT.PostingDate BETWEEN '3/01/2010' AND '3/31/2010'
Group By str.Description, str.SortOrder ,STRA.SourceCodeId
ORDER BY SortOrder ASC

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ApexCo

ASKER

That's a definite improvement.

However, the "Total" column has the same value for every record.

Daniel Wilson

I expected only a single record to be returned in place of the 3 you posted.

Would you post the result of my query?

ApexCo

ASKER

Description StatuteReference Page SortOrder SourceCodeId Total
Victim Rights-Juvenile 08-418;41-191-08 1 32 1114 4895.58

Description StatuteReference Page SortOrder SourceCodeId Total
JCEF-Time Payment 12-113G;12-116B 1 60 309 4895.58

Description StatuteReference Page SortOrder SourceCodeId Total
JCEF-Probation Surcharge 12-114.01 1 65 375 4895.58

Those are 3 different records from the result set. You can see everything looks good, except the total.

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ApexCo

ASKER

Thanks for the help, you put me on the right path.
Final result:

SELECT str.DESCRIPTION, 
       MIN(str.statutereference) AS statutereference, 
       MIN(str.page)             AS page, 
       str.sortorder, 
       SUM(glt.amount)           AS total 
FROM   rp.stateremittance AS str 
       INNER JOIN rp.stateremittanceaccount stra 
         ON str.stateremittanceid = stra.stateremittanceid 
       INNER JOIN ac.gltransaction glt 
         ON stra.glaccountid = glt.glaccountid 
            AND stra.sourcecodeid = glt.sourcecodeid 
WHERE  glt.postingdate BETWEEN '1/01/2010' AND '1/31/2010' 
GROUP  BY str.DESCRIPTION, 
          str.sortorder 
ORDER  BY sortorder ASC

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