Subject | Doubt Regarding Sum() Function |
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Author | Vishal Tiwari |
Post date | 2010-09-15T04:01:07Z |
Hi All,
I am putting my doubt again, sorry for that.
I have a table as follows:
Table Name : Book_Master
Book_Name Book_Price
ABC 1250.00
LMN 5698.00
PQR 1524.00
Table Name : Book_Details
YearMonth Sold_On_Date Book_Name Copy_Sold
200904 01/04/2009 ABC 565
200904 05/04/2009 PQR 986
200904 05/04/2009 LMN 120
200904 11/04/2009 ABC 565
200904 25/04/2009 PQR 986
200904 15/04/2009 LMN 120
SQL:
Select BM.Book_Name, Sum(Book_Price) As Book_Price, Sum(COPY_SOLD) As COPY_SOLD
from Book_Master BM Join Book_Details BD On BM.Book_Name = BD.Book_Name
Where BD.YearMonth = '200904' Group By BM.Book_Name
I get the out put as:
Book_Name Book_Price Copy_Sold
ABC 2500.00 1130
LMN 11396.00 240
PQR 3048.00 1972
But Required result is as follows:
Book_Name Book_Price Copy_Sold
ABC 1250.00 1130
LMN 5698.00 240
PQR 1524.00 1972
I thought that "Book_Price" column value will be displayed as it is available in the "Book_Master" table and the records will be displayed only for those books which are having entries in "Book_Details" too.
But it is comming as Book_Price * No. of records exist in Book_Detauils table.
If I would like to use the Sum() function for Book_Price too then how should I use, one way is Sum(Distinct(EM.Book_Price)) but in future in some cases where I need to have multiple records in two different table I may wish to get sum of perticular column from one table and some of perticular column from other table using join, then that time I would get wrong result.
Here I would like to ask one question is there other way to achieve this or I have missed out something in above sql.
Thanks in advance.
With Best Regards.
Vishal
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I am putting my doubt again, sorry for that.
I have a table as follows:
Table Name : Book_Master
Book_Name Book_Price
ABC 1250.00
LMN 5698.00
PQR 1524.00
Table Name : Book_Details
YearMonth Sold_On_Date Book_Name Copy_Sold
200904 01/04/2009 ABC 565
200904 05/04/2009 PQR 986
200904 05/04/2009 LMN 120
200904 11/04/2009 ABC 565
200904 25/04/2009 PQR 986
200904 15/04/2009 LMN 120
SQL:
Select BM.Book_Name, Sum(Book_Price) As Book_Price, Sum(COPY_SOLD) As COPY_SOLD
from Book_Master BM Join Book_Details BD On BM.Book_Name = BD.Book_Name
Where BD.YearMonth = '200904' Group By BM.Book_Name
I get the out put as:
Book_Name Book_Price Copy_Sold
ABC 2500.00 1130
LMN 11396.00 240
PQR 3048.00 1972
But Required result is as follows:
Book_Name Book_Price Copy_Sold
ABC 1250.00 1130
LMN 5698.00 240
PQR 1524.00 1972
I thought that "Book_Price" column value will be displayed as it is available in the "Book_Master" table and the records will be displayed only for those books which are having entries in "Book_Details" too.
But it is comming as Book_Price * No. of records exist in Book_Detauils table.
If I would like to use the Sum() function for Book_Price too then how should I use, one way is Sum(Distinct(EM.Book_Price)) but in future in some cases where I need to have multiple records in two different table I may wish to get sum of perticular column from one table and some of perticular column from other table using join, then that time I would get wrong result.
Here I would like to ask one question is there other way to achieve this or I have missed out something in above sql.
Thanks in advance.
With Best Regards.
Vishal
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