Yes, it is correct, I need to show the percentage of sales over the
total of all customers.

Sales field is the total for one customer.

At the end, I want to show:

Customer Id
Customer Sales
% of Customer Sales / Total Sales for all customers

Thank you

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Nick" <nick@...> wrote:
>
> > select CustomerId, Sales, (select sum(Sales) from Customers)
> > as Total from Customers
>
> Are you sure this is correct, as written you would list each record
and show
> the same total on each record
>
> select a.CustomerId, a.Sales, sum(b.Sales) as Total from Customers a
inner
> join customers b on a.custid = b.custid
>
> Will list each sale for the customer and show the total for the
customer on
> each line as well
>
>
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> Nick
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of kokok_kokok
> > Sent: 13 July 2006 13:34
> > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [firebird-support] Optimizing a subquery
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> > I need to do:
> >
> > select CustomerId, Sales, (select sum(Sales) from Customers)
> > as Total from Customers
> >
> > It works fine, but for each row, Firebird executes the
> > subquery "select sum(Sales) from Customers".
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> > Is there a way to optimize the plan?
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> > Thank you
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