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Why is my sum function not working properly?

I am trying to do a simple sum on the "Booking_Factor" column(int) and it is not summing at all as if nothing , the values are the same, any idea? Thank You.

SELECT distinct 

      RES.Description,
      Available_Date,
      --LOC.Scheduling_Location_ID,
      --DEPT.Description,
      --Day_Type_ID,
      --Available_Time_Block_ID,
      --Available_Time_Block_TS,
      Start_Time,
      End_Time,
      Usual_Appt_Duration,
      SUM(Booking_Factor)AS Capacity
      
     -- AVAILBLOCK.Activity_Type_ID,
     -- ELIG.Appointment_Category_ID AS Elig_Appointment_Category_ID,
     --INELIG.Appointment_Category_ID AS Inelig_Appointment_Category_ID 
   
FROM PM.Available_Days AVAILDAY WITH (NOLOCK)
      LEFT JOIN PM.Available_Time_Blocks AVAILBLOCK WITH (NOLOCK) ON AVAILBLOCK.Available_Day_ID = AVAILDAY.Available_Day_ID
      --LEFT JOIN PM.Scheduling_Locations LOC WITH (NOLOCK) ON LOC.Scheduling_Location_ID = AVAILDAY.Scheduling_Location_ID
      --LEFT JOIN PM.Scheduling_Departments DEPT ON DEPT.Scheduling_Department_ID = AVAILDAY.Scheduling_Department_ID
      LEFT JOIN PM.Resources RES WITH (NOLOCK) ON RES.Resource_ID = AVAILDAY.Resource_ID
      --LEFT JOIN PM.Activity_Elig_Appt_Categs ELIG WITH (NOLOCK) ON ELIG.Activity_Type_ID = AVAILBLOCK.Activity_Type_ID
      --LEFT JOIN PM.Activity_Inelig_Appt_Categs INELIG WITH (NOLOCK) ON INELIG.Activity_Type_ID = AVAILBLOCK.Activity_Type_ID


WHERE AVAILDAY.Available_Date = '2017-03-09'
AND RES.Description = 'REYNOLDS, EUGENE II'


group by
 RES.Description,
 Available_Date,
 Start_Time,
 End_Time,
 Usual_Appt_Duration

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Jim Horn

>and it is not summing at all as if nothing
Define in simple English what you wish to sum Booking_Factor by. RES.Description? Available_Date_ID?

Then eyeballeth all of the columns in your GROUP BY clause, especially Start_Time and End_Time. Are they unique? If yes, that kinda defeats the purpose of doing the SUM, and you'll have to remove those columns and possibly others to get the correct sum amount.

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ozzy t

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Thank You for clarifying ! Really helped me out.

Vitor Montalvão

It's working as you expected?

ozzy t

ASKER

yes! the following is what worked:

SELECT 

      RES.Description,
      Available_Date,
      --LOC.Scheduling_Location_ID,
      --DEPT.Description,
      --Day_Type_ID,
      --Available_Time_Block_ID,
      --Available_Time_Block_TS,
      --Start_Time ,
      --End_Time,
      --Usual_Appt_Duration,
      sum( Booking_Factor)as capacity
     -- AVAILBLOCK.Activity_Type_ID,
     -- ELIG.Appointment_Category_ID AS Elig_Appointment_Category_ID,
     --INELIG.Appointment_Category_ID AS Inelig_Appointment_Category_ID 
   
FROM PM.Available_Days AVAILDAY 
      LEFT JOIN PM.Available_Time_Blocks AVAILBLOCK  ON AVAILBLOCK.Available_Day_ID = AVAILDAY.Available_Day_ID
      LEFT JOIN PM.Scheduling_Locations LOC WITH (NOLOCK) ON LOC.Scheduling_Location_ID = AVAILDAY.Scheduling_Location_ID
      LEFT JOIN PM.Scheduling_Departments DEPT ON DEPT.Scheduling_Department_ID = AVAILDAY.Scheduling_Department_ID
      LEFT JOIN PM.Resources RES  ON RES.Resource_ID = AVAILDAY.Resource_ID
      LEFT JOIN PM.Activity_Elig_Appt_Categs ELIG WITH (NOLOCK) ON ELIG.Activity_Type_ID = AVAILBLOCK.Activity_Type_ID
      LEFT JOIN PM.Activity_Inelig_Appt_Categs INELIG WITH (NOLOCK) ON INELIG.Activity_Type_ID = AVAILBLOCK.Activity_Type_ID


WHERE AVAILDAY.Available_Date = '2017-03-08'
AND RES.Description = 'example MD, Name'


group by
RES.Description,
 Available_Date

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Vitor Montalvão

Good.
Can you close this question?
Cheers

Vitor Montalvão

Recommendation to close this question by accepting the above comment as solution.