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My table has following fields and records

Billno Amount
1 200
1 200
2 300
2 300

i want to get sum of Amount in distinct(Billno),In this example My required answer is 500, but I didn't know how to do it,Please somebody help for this proble

Thanks in Advance

Posted 10-Dec-11 1:11am

devausha

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Amir Mahfoozi 10-Dec-11 11:56am

Hi Devausha, What prevented you from accepting my solution as an answer ? :)

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Solution 3

Select distict billno,sum(amount)as amount from table_name OR

select billno,sum(amount)as amount from table_name group by billno

Posted 10-Dec-11 1:31am

ramarasan manickam

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Amir Mahfoozi 10-Dec-11 8:10am

Please test your queries before sending as solution :)

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Amir Mahfoozi · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-10T01:19:00

Solution 1

Here is one solution :

SQL

select SUM(amount) sum from(
select distinct billno, amount from bill) as distincted

Hope it helps.

Posted 10-Dec-11 1:19am

Amir Mahfoozi

Pravinjas · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-10T01:27:00

Solution 2

SELECT SUM (DISTINCT Amount) FROM tablename

Posted 10-Dec-11 1:27am

Pravinjas

Updated 14-Dec-11 0:21am

v3

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Amir Mahfoozi 10-Dec-11 8:10am

You query result is 3 :)

Pravinjas 14-Dec-11 6:23am

Now it will give correct result...

Amir Mahfoozi 14-Dec-11 6:35am

+5 yes it is.

Eduard Lu · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-10T05:20:00

Solution 4

Try this up!

SQL

SELECT SUM(Amount) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT BillNo FROM [TableName]

Regards,
Eduard

Posted 10-Dec-11 5:20am

Eduard Lu

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Amir Mahfoozi 10-Dec-11 12:36pm

Your subquery doesn't have any Amount field to be summed up.