Sergey,
Thank you very much for your help. Your suggestion works. I just need to figure out why.
>Make 0 constant the same size/format as the fields.
>nvl(SUM(CHILD1.NUM_FIELD1),000000000000.00) AS TOT_NUM1, ;
>nvl(SUM(CHILD2.NUM_FIELD2*CHILD2.NUM_FIELD3),000000000000.00) as TOT_NUM2, ;
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